Thursday, November 21, 2013

What happens after you submit your portfolio?

For your portfolio, you get either a P or F score with no other feedback.
If you receive a P, which means you passed, Hurray!
Now, you just need to make sure you pass all your remaining classes.
About 2 months later, your transcript will reflect your graduation status.
About 3 months later, you will receive your diploma !


Sunday, October 6, 2013

Free online Webinar on October 8th: Giving Your First Conference Presentation

Our recent SLIS employer surveys show that they are expecting more communication and presentation skills from the SLIS graduates. Since online classes are not too ideal for building these skills, I encourage you to take any opportunities to practice. Below is a free Webinar given for first time conference presentation. It will help with any other type of public presentations even if you are not considering attending any conferences. And you may also learn a thing or two for your final presentation for this course.
Please join us for a free online professional development webinar!

Giving Your First Conference Presentation

TUESDAY OCTOBER 8th, 2013 - 7:00 to 8:00pmEST

Hosted by Jill Hurst-Wahl and Maurice Coleman

“Giving Your First Conference Presentation: What No One Tells You (or When PowerPoint and Good Intentions Meet Reality)”. Part of your professional development and support of the profession is giving presentations at conferences about your research or new initiatives. This professional presentation should help to propel your career, so how can you create and deliver content that will do just that?

REGISTER NOW for this webinar!



Jill Hurst-Wahl is an associate professor of practice in Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and the director of both its library and information science & LIS with school media specialization programs. She is a member of SLA’s Board of Directors and the USNY Technology Policy and Practices Council. As her schedule allows, she participates in the bimonthly library training podcast T is for Training (@tisfortraining).

Jill has been giving presentations for several decades, and in 2013 spoke at several state library association conferences, the Computers in Libraries Conference, and the Special Libraries Association Annual Conference. She is often asked for her advice on how to improve a formal or informal presentation.

You can find Jill on Twitter at @jill_hw and through her blog, Digitization 101.

Maurice Coleman is the author of Crash Course in Presentations, which will be released by ABC-Clio Publishing in 2014. He is the technical trainer at Harford County (MD) Public Library, host of the long running library training podcast T is for Training (@tisfortraining), and a member of the board of the American Library Association’s Learning RoundTable.

Maurice has over 20 years of experience training all ages how to sensibly use technology and computer hardware and software. He has presented at numerous conferences on topics such as digital personal branding, technology implementation, presentation and training skills, community development and effectively using social media.

For his work, Maurice was named a 2010 Library Journal Mover and Shaker, and received the Citizens for Maryland Libraries Davis McCarn Technology Award. You can find him on Twitter at @baldgeekinmd.

Thursday, August 8, 2013

portfolio: artifact excerpt

Q: Below is an excerpt from the new guideline... I am preparing my artifact list, and want to ensure I am doing it correctly... when they say they want a brief description for this list, do they want a very detailed explanation of what the papers were about, etc., or do they basically want a summary, as in "This is a term paper written for LIS600, titled such-and-such, and the grade received was such-and-such".  I'm not certain if they're looking for detail here, or just a basic inventory of what is included in the portfolio to keep track of the inclusions. 

Excerpt:  List of the course artifacts or other materials selected for inclusion in the portfolio. This summary list should include a brief description of each artifact provided, the course it came from, the course objectives associated with it, and the assessment (i.e., grade and/or feedback) provided by the instructor. (See the list of required artifacts for the core courses in the “Artifacts” section below.) List and describe any other supporting documents you have elected to include. 

A:  It should be brief. In addition to the basic info, write a few sentences of what is this artifact, for which you can look at the assignment instructions/descriptions.

Wednesday, August 7, 2013

More information for the newbies

  • Wonder when the semester starts, when you can drop a class without charge, etc.? Below is the academic calendar for fall 2013: http://www.uky.edu/registrar/content/fall-2013-semester-0     (It is not very easy to read, I know. You may want to create/print your own calendar and highlight the important dates.) I use http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/ to customize calendar for myself.
  • Once you are registered, either contact the instructors of the classes you are going to take or look at the online syllabus for information regarding textbook, etc.

Monday, July 8, 2013

Welcome new students!

I just found out that a good number of new students were assigned to me as advisees from Fall 2013. Welcome, new SLISers!

What you need to do right now is to fill out the the student course planning form passed by Anthony. If you want to discuss with me before you fill it up, which is highly recommended, feel free to drop me a line and we can make an arrangement for F2F or online session.

Note: Please be accurate on the Fall 2013 courses you want to take (you can clarify in the Notes area), since Anthony will register for your first semester. Afterwards, you always register for course by yourself. Also, once you filled up the form, click on the SAVE button before emailing it to me. 

Feel free to read some earlier posts regarding various aspects of SLIS. If you have any questions, post them in the comments.

Friday, April 5, 2013

The most important element in your portfolio: learning outcome essay.

Be sure to put enough time on this paper and polish it as much as you can since this will be the most important piece for grading. Explicitly mapping core competencies with your artifacts.

Save your artifacts!

Note: Be sure to keep copies of your essays and exam, with grades and instructor feedback, for inclusion in the portfolio required for graduation. Your exam results should be copied from BlackBoard by the end of each semester, as course shells are not accessible indefinitely.