The ZSR Library Blog
Update: The following discussion is available online. Join Tim Westergren on Tuesday, April 7th at 3pm in Library 204 for a lively discussion about Pandora, online music, and the evolution of digital technology in general, followed by an informal Q&A with the audience. Continue reading “Tim Westergren, CSO and Founder of Pandora to Speak at ZSR” ›
TED Talks are great. The Technology Education and Design conference occurs every year. This invite-only conference brings in world leaders in various areas, and gives them 18 minutes to present. 18 minutes is about perfect. It’s long enough that they can cover content with depth and content, but short enough that they don’t drag on... Continue reading “Wednesday Lunches with TED” ›
Creativity: Worlds in the Making will be held at Wake Forest from March 18-20, 2009. This national “Festival of the Imagination” will feature speakers such as: David Bornstein, Meredith Monk, David Edwards, Abigail Child, Josh Frieman and Emil Kang. This exhibit promotes the event and the artists involved. Organized by the Office of Entrepreneurship &... Continue reading “Creativity Symposium exhibit” ›
Students in Lauren Pressley and Kevin Gilbertson’s LIB100 class created exhibits as their final project. I worked briefly with the students to give them a few pointers and technical assistance. Hopefully, the exhibit cases on Reynolds 4 will be used by students for this purpose in the future. Continue reading “LIB100 Student exhibits” ›
RL&H has initiated a program for students to choose their room and meal plan electronically. The previous method was very analog and involved waiting in line. This exhibit is to promote the “You Choose” proram to students for spring selection. Continue reading “Resident Life & Housing “You Choose” exhibit” ›
A group of nine books appeared in my office this week. Across the top of these books is a sloppy puddle of dried Cookies and Cream ice cream. You can see the outline of an upturned container in the dried ice cream. So this seems to be either an intentional thing or negligence on the... Continue reading “Ice Cream Incident” ›
On Wednesday, February 25th the Wake Forest University Teaching and Learning Center sponsored a fair in Benson to provide an opportunity for members of the campus community to learn about the pedagogy, techniques, and tools currently in use by faculty. Lauren Pressley served as the representative from the ZSR Library and had an excellent display... Continue reading “Teaching and Learning Fair – Spring 2009” ›
Yesterday the Teaching and Learning Center hosted it’s annual Teaching and Learning Fair. The library had a booth, and as the library liaison, I chatted with attendees about some of the interesting and innovative ways that library staff teach their classes. Here are the slides that I used on the poster: Many visitors were really... Continue reading “Teaching and Learning Fair” ›
The topic for this Friday is Teaching Styles. Roz will be leading the session and will go over the results for a teaching perspectives inventory. Please bring the results to class. Continue reading “Announcement” ›
This is just a space in case you have questions or comments on the different learning styles/intelligences that we discussed! Continue reading “Day 5: Questions?” ›