I regularly attend trainings, lectures, and conferences related to teaching and scholarly communications. Here are a few select highlights:
CITI Program
As an individual whose scholarship has not included social sciences research, it was very helpful to complete the CITI Program Research Ethics online course which supports my scholarly communications work.
Misinformation CCE course, Fall 2020
This semester long synchronous online course addressed misinformation. My final project was the creation of an activity with worksheet employing the QFT method to develop a research question. I also bring lateral searching techniques into many of my student information literacy workshops. CCE Certificate
Library Publishing Course, 21-22
Over the 21-22 academic year, I joined an international group of academic librarians in scholarly communications in working through the Library Publishing Coalition’s Library Publishing Curriculum. We met monthly to discuss the readings with rotating facilitators from within our group. I applied what I learned in advising a journal, Advances in Peer-Led Learning APLL (thank you letter) on how they could advance their journal’s best practices including licensing re. Creative Commons and license between author and journal. APLL is closely associated with City Tech as AE Dreyfuss is on its editorial board and City Tech faculty publish in APLL.
OER in-service training, Jan. 2021
Joining my colleagues in an immerse training on OER, I created a video for undergraduate researchers on how students are knowledge creators and how research is a scholarly conversation that students can be involved in.
Establishing a Scholarly Communication Baseline: Using Liaison Competencies to Design Scholarly Communication Boot Camp Training Sessions, Jan. 2019
I employed the presenters’ model in our library and provided a half-day training on open access for colleagues that included many hands-on exercises. teaching outline, talks, activities
Other improvement activities
Getting feedback from departmental colleagues
I have been asking colleagues to sit in on my faculty workshops to give feedback on the content, its ordering and pacing and so on.
Applying knowledge from scholarship to teaching
In my scholarship, I have addressed how how graduate students are taught about publishing. An example of how I applied this knowledge is reflected in Publishing Success workshop series. Before my first workshop, I would ask attendees to reflect on their knowledge of publishing and afterwards, I’d give an exercise of a preliminary literature review that included analyzing potential target journals as homework. I also created password-protected monthly reflection prompts on OpenLab that asked participants to goal set and account for their last month’s progress.
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