Immersion: What I’m reading

In my request for travel support to attend the Association of College & Research Libraries Immersion ’12 Teacher Track Program, I pledged to blog about my participation in Immersion. To read more about my Immersion experience, check out my posts tagged immersion or my Immersion tweets.


I shared this list of Immersion ’12 readings with the other librarians in my department and thought other instruction librarians might be interested in it, too:

Teacher and Program Track Readings

  • Bain, Ken. What the Best College Teachers Do, Chapter 5 “How Do They Conduct Class?”
  • Battersby, Mark “So, What’s a Learning Outcome Anyway?”
  • Bruce, Christine. “Seven Faces of Information Literacy in Higher Education”
  • Booth, Char. “Teaching Technologies.” Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy For Library Educators
  • Palmer, Parker. The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life. Chapter 1
  • Gilchrist, Deb. A Twenty Year Path: Learning about Assessment; Learning From Assessment. Communications In Information Literacy

Teacher Track Readings

  • Pink, Daniel H. A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future
  • Jacobson, Trudi and L. Xu. “Motivating Students in Credit-Based Information Literacy Courses: Theory and Practice”
  • Giustini, Dean. “Utilizing Learning Theories in the Digital Age: An Introduction for Health Librarians”

Program Track Readings

  • Barr, R.B. and J. Tagg. “From Teaching to Learning: A New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education”
  • Grassian, Esther and Joan Kaplowitz. “Managing through Communication, Collaboration, and Team Building”

Jigsaw Readings

  • Doyle, Christina. “Delphi Method as a Qualitative Assessment Tool for Development of Outcome Measures for Information Literacy”
  • Jacobs, Heidi. “Information Literacy and Reflective Pedagogical Praxis”
  • Mackey, Thomas P. and Trudi E. Jacobson. Reframing Information Literacy as a Metaliteracy. College & Research Libraries
  • McGuinness, Claire. “What Faculty Think – Exploring the Barriers to Information Literacy Development in Undergraduate Education”
  • Ward, Dane. “Re-Visioning Information Literacy for Lifelong Meaning”