methods behind the instructional madness: enhancing learning through mapping,...char booth
ACRL 2013 panel with Sean Stone and Natalie Tagge. Audio available at https://www.evernote.com/shard/s35/sh/e086204a-7928-4aac-b96f-a073277fe77a/eb7866b50131d7c23fd7553cc8f33a7c
Description: "Is library instruction madness making it difficult to take a step back and really assess your program’s effect on student learning? Find out how one library is using three interconnected pilots, instructor portfolios, curriculum mapping, and information literacy rubrics to provide a scalable structure to assess and enhance student learning. The presenters will outline the initiatives’ implementations at their library and offer best practices to inspire audience members to adopt one or more method locally."
Informing Innovation: Contextual Investigation for Effective Academic Technol...char booth
Keynote presentation at the 2013 AMICAL Conference at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.
Description: In this era of relentless change in higher education and information technology, it is essential to investigate local learning contexts to inform strategic programming and facilitate productive partnerships between libraries and academic institutions. From direct research into user needs and characteristics using environmental scanning, ethnography, and survey methodology to innovative tech-supported collaborations that inform library service models and pedagogy, this talk will explore established and emerging methods for developing an informed orientation to local communities of academic technology practice.
methods behind the instructional madness: enhancing learning through mapping,...char booth
ACRL 2013 panel with Sean Stone and Natalie Tagge. Audio available at https://www.evernote.com/shard/s35/sh/e086204a-7928-4aac-b96f-a073277fe77a/eb7866b50131d7c23fd7553cc8f33a7c
Description: "Is library instruction madness making it difficult to take a step back and really assess your program’s effect on student learning? Find out how one library is using three interconnected pilots, instructor portfolios, curriculum mapping, and information literacy rubrics to provide a scalable structure to assess and enhance student learning. The presenters will outline the initiatives’ implementations at their library and offer best practices to inspire audience members to adopt one or more method locally."
Informing Innovation: Contextual Investigation for Effective Academic Technol...char booth
Keynote presentation at the 2013 AMICAL Conference at John Cabot University in Rome, Italy.
Description: In this era of relentless change in higher education and information technology, it is essential to investigate local learning contexts to inform strategic programming and facilitate productive partnerships between libraries and academic institutions. From direct research into user needs and characteristics using environmental scanning, ethnography, and survey methodology to innovative tech-supported collaborations that inform library service models and pedagogy, this talk will explore established and emerging methods for developing an informed orientation to local communities of academic technology practice.
Creative Reflection: The Critical Practice of Stepping Backchar booth
Reflective practice is the process of actively observing, understanding, and shaping pedagogy. Its associated skills include developing individual insight into the impact and practice of education through critical analysis, instructional design, theoretical grounding, and dialogue with peer educators. Also integral is gathering insight into the learner experience through meaningful assessment. Less often discussed is the role of creativity, experimentation, learner engagement, and the disruption of ingrained teaching habits and/or narratives; this keynote will explore strategies for cultivating a more holistic reflective practice in service of enriching and diversifying one’s teaching.
Libraries, Information Equity, & Economic Justicechar booth
Academic libraries are cultural institutions with massive resource and operational footprints. By orienting our missions purposefully toward information and economic justice, we have the capacity to reshape the scholarly information landscape while positively impacting the ability of individual learners and researchers to traverse it. This briefing explores the capacity of libraries and allied institutions to leverage individual and collective action to reduce the inextricably linked information and economic inequalities our users face. The session will examine academic library practice through the lenses of information equity and economic justice, highlighting actions libraries and allied organizations can take in pursuit of increased resource parity and greater freedom from the entrenched information-for-profit systems that threaten our own budgets.
Allyship, community, and tools for change.char booth
Keynote at the 2017 Social Justice Summit at CSU San Marcos. For more information about the event, see https://www.csusm.edu/sjs/about/index.html.
Transcription available at http://www.infomational.com
For the Greater (Not) Good (Enough): Open Access and Information Privilegechar booth
Distinguished Seminar Series talk at OCLC Headquarters in Dublin, Ohio on 9 November 2017. Discusses the concept that open access has had a huge impact on publishing and scholarly communication, yet who you are, what you earn, and how you research still create serious barriers to information availability.
CSUSM Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Task Force: Report and Recommendations, 2017char booth
Download accessible PDF: http://bit.ly/csusmtranstf-report
In May of 2016, members of the California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) community issued an open letter to President Karen Haynes advocating for actions to encourage the inclusion of trans and gender non-conforming individuals at CSUSM. In November of 2016, President Haynes issued a call for participation in a Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Task Force (TGNCTF) “in an effort to ensure ongoing support for members of our Trans and Gender Non-Conforming community at Cal State San Marcos.” The TGNCTF was convened in December 2016 as advisory to the President, and by March 17th, 2017 was charged to “Review and make recommendations regarding protocols, programs and services for CSUSM Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Communities to include: Preferred Name Policy Implementation;; Restrooms;; Training;; Housing. Your participation and knowledge will greatly benefit the University and the goals we are working to achieve, which include providing an open, welcoming and safe environment all members of our community.”
In response to this charge, the TGNCTF is pleased to provide an overview of the current status of policies, procedures, and actions relevant to trans and gender non-conforming communities at CSUSM, and to provide recommendations to further improve the environment and experience of our trans students, staff, and faculty. We do so from a variety of perspectives, including those of trans- identified and trans-allied task force (TF) members, trans and allied communities at CSUSM, and stakeholders critical to the implementation of these recommendations. Careful consideration was given to federal and state law, as well as best practice guidance from organizations dedicated to trans advocacy.
Task Force Membership
Char Booth - Associate Dean, University Library (Chair)
Zev Anbar - Student
Bridget Blanshan - Associate Vice President and Title IX Coordinator Wesley Dayhoff - Student
Jessica Dockstader - Student
Anne Rene Elsbree - Professor, School of Education
Lisa McLean - Director, Labor & Employee Relations, Human Resources
Lisa Medina, Registrar - Enrollment Management Services
Deborah Morton - Assistant Professor, Public Health
Steve Ramirez - Interim Director, Planning, Design and Construction
Betsy Read - Professor, Biology
Jay Robertson-Howell - Psychologist, Student Health & Counseling Services
Questions about this report or its recommendations can be submitted to transtf@csusm.edu.
To cite this report, use:
CSUSM Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Task Force. (2017). "Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Task Force Report and Recommendations." California State University San Marcos. San Marcos, CA.
Reframing Our Narratives: Advocacy and Action in Critical Timeschar booth
Advocacy and outreach are essential tools for creating and sustaining successful libraries, and in increasingly resource-strapped environments it is vital for libraries and librarians to effectively communicate our value. Advocacy is a process of identifying and shaping narratives that matter (and make sense) to our user communities, while outreach helps these ideas connect with stakeholders. When we “reframe” our outreach and advocacy narratives we acknowledge that libraries are dynamic, but that our core values of justice, access, and an informed and supported user population remain constant. Making this case can provide the foundation for creative advocacy strategies that help us build strong and lasting institutions.
Keynote for SCIL event at UC Irvine - EXPERI(M)ENT(I)AL: Developing Process-oriented, User-focused Methodologies in the Library. See http://guides.lib.uci.edu/experi-m-ent-i-al/home
Strategic Cartography: Identifying IL Intersections Across the Curriculumchar booth
Presentation at ACRL 2015 in Portland, OR.
Abstract: Curriculum mapping builds insight into the sequence of requirements and competencies a learner negotiates while on an academic path. When combined with data visualization, visual curriculum mapping (VCM) provides a holistic view of an entire educational community, highlighting pivotal points at which to introduce information literacy instruction, resources, and research support. This paper presents findings of a large-scale consortial VCM project in 2013-14, exploring anticipated and unanticipated outcomes and offering strategies applicable to other institutions.
Strategies for Holistic Assessment of Student IL Learningchar booth
Breakout presentation given at the 2014 WASC Core Competencies Retreat on Information Literacy and Critical Thinking in Oakland, CA.
Program information: http://www.wascsenior.org/content/retreat-core-competencies-critical-thinking-and-information-literacy
Thinking about Teaching: Mindfulness and Metacognition as Pedagogychar booth
In meditation and psychology, “mindfulness” promotes reflective self-awareness, whereas in educational theory metacognition encourages “thinking about thinking” to enhance critical reflection, engagement, and information retention. This interactive presentation investigates mindful and metacognitive approaches to teaching and learning. Learn ideas for incorporating related strategies into the physical/digital classroom.
Creative Reflection: The Critical Practice of Stepping Backchar booth
Reflective practice is the process of actively observing, understanding, and shaping pedagogy. Its associated skills include developing individual insight into the impact and practice of education through critical analysis, instructional design, theoretical grounding, and dialogue with peer educators. Also integral is gathering insight into the learner experience through meaningful assessment. Less often discussed is the role of creativity, experimentation, learner engagement, and the disruption of ingrained teaching habits and/or narratives; this keynote will explore strategies for cultivating a more holistic reflective practice in service of enriching and diversifying one’s teaching.
Libraries, Information Equity, & Economic Justicechar booth
Academic libraries are cultural institutions with massive resource and operational footprints. By orienting our missions purposefully toward information and economic justice, we have the capacity to reshape the scholarly information landscape while positively impacting the ability of individual learners and researchers to traverse it. This briefing explores the capacity of libraries and allied institutions to leverage individual and collective action to reduce the inextricably linked information and economic inequalities our users face. The session will examine academic library practice through the lenses of information equity and economic justice, highlighting actions libraries and allied organizations can take in pursuit of increased resource parity and greater freedom from the entrenched information-for-profit systems that threaten our own budgets.
Allyship, community, and tools for change.char booth
Keynote at the 2017 Social Justice Summit at CSU San Marcos. For more information about the event, see https://www.csusm.edu/sjs/about/index.html.
Transcription available at http://www.infomational.com
For the Greater (Not) Good (Enough): Open Access and Information Privilegechar booth
Distinguished Seminar Series talk at OCLC Headquarters in Dublin, Ohio on 9 November 2017. Discusses the concept that open access has had a huge impact on publishing and scholarly communication, yet who you are, what you earn, and how you research still create serious barriers to information availability.
CSUSM Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Task Force: Report and Recommendations, 2017char booth
Download accessible PDF: http://bit.ly/csusmtranstf-report
In May of 2016, members of the California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) community issued an open letter to President Karen Haynes advocating for actions to encourage the inclusion of trans and gender non-conforming individuals at CSUSM. In November of 2016, President Haynes issued a call for participation in a Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Task Force (TGNCTF) “in an effort to ensure ongoing support for members of our Trans and Gender Non-Conforming community at Cal State San Marcos.” The TGNCTF was convened in December 2016 as advisory to the President, and by March 17th, 2017 was charged to “Review and make recommendations regarding protocols, programs and services for CSUSM Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Communities to include: Preferred Name Policy Implementation;; Restrooms;; Training;; Housing. Your participation and knowledge will greatly benefit the University and the goals we are working to achieve, which include providing an open, welcoming and safe environment all members of our community.”
In response to this charge, the TGNCTF is pleased to provide an overview of the current status of policies, procedures, and actions relevant to trans and gender non-conforming communities at CSUSM, and to provide recommendations to further improve the environment and experience of our trans students, staff, and faculty. We do so from a variety of perspectives, including those of trans- identified and trans-allied task force (TF) members, trans and allied communities at CSUSM, and stakeholders critical to the implementation of these recommendations. Careful consideration was given to federal and state law, as well as best practice guidance from organizations dedicated to trans advocacy.
Task Force Membership
Char Booth - Associate Dean, University Library (Chair)
Zev Anbar - Student
Bridget Blanshan - Associate Vice President and Title IX Coordinator Wesley Dayhoff - Student
Jessica Dockstader - Student
Anne Rene Elsbree - Professor, School of Education
Lisa McLean - Director, Labor & Employee Relations, Human Resources
Lisa Medina, Registrar - Enrollment Management Services
Deborah Morton - Assistant Professor, Public Health
Steve Ramirez - Interim Director, Planning, Design and Construction
Betsy Read - Professor, Biology
Jay Robertson-Howell - Psychologist, Student Health & Counseling Services
Questions about this report or its recommendations can be submitted to transtf@csusm.edu.
To cite this report, use:
CSUSM Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Task Force. (2017). "Trans & Gender Non-Conforming Task Force Report and Recommendations." California State University San Marcos. San Marcos, CA.
Reframing Our Narratives: Advocacy and Action in Critical Timeschar booth
Advocacy and outreach are essential tools for creating and sustaining successful libraries, and in increasingly resource-strapped environments it is vital for libraries and librarians to effectively communicate our value. Advocacy is a process of identifying and shaping narratives that matter (and make sense) to our user communities, while outreach helps these ideas connect with stakeholders. When we “reframe” our outreach and advocacy narratives we acknowledge that libraries are dynamic, but that our core values of justice, access, and an informed and supported user population remain constant. Making this case can provide the foundation for creative advocacy strategies that help us build strong and lasting institutions.
Keynote for SCIL event at UC Irvine - EXPERI(M)ENT(I)AL: Developing Process-oriented, User-focused Methodologies in the Library. See http://guides.lib.uci.edu/experi-m-ent-i-al/home
Strategic Cartography: Identifying IL Intersections Across the Curriculumchar booth
Presentation at ACRL 2015 in Portland, OR.
Abstract: Curriculum mapping builds insight into the sequence of requirements and competencies a learner negotiates while on an academic path. When combined with data visualization, visual curriculum mapping (VCM) provides a holistic view of an entire educational community, highlighting pivotal points at which to introduce information literacy instruction, resources, and research support. This paper presents findings of a large-scale consortial VCM project in 2013-14, exploring anticipated and unanticipated outcomes and offering strategies applicable to other institutions.
Strategies for Holistic Assessment of Student IL Learningchar booth
Breakout presentation given at the 2014 WASC Core Competencies Retreat on Information Literacy and Critical Thinking in Oakland, CA.
Program information: http://www.wascsenior.org/content/retreat-core-competencies-critical-thinking-and-information-literacy
Thinking about Teaching: Mindfulness and Metacognition as Pedagogychar booth
In meditation and psychology, “mindfulness” promotes reflective self-awareness, whereas in educational theory metacognition encourages “thinking about thinking” to enhance critical reflection, engagement, and information retention. This interactive presentation investigates mindful and metacognitive approaches to teaching and learning. Learn ideas for incorporating related strategies into the physical/digital classroom.
Welcome to the Program Your Destiny course. In this course, we will be learning the technology of personal transformation, neuroassociative conditioning (NAC) as pioneered by Tony Robbins. NAC is used to deprogram negative neuroassociations that are causing approach avoidance and instead reprogram yourself with positive neuroassociations that lead to being approach automatic. In doing so, you change your destiny, moving towards unlocking the hypersocial self within, the true self free from fear and operating from a place of personal power and love.