• Library,  Teaching

    Curriculum goals

    Today I was asked to lead on a data management curriculum initiative. This was something that I had intended to do already, but this was also a goal of our data management group. I will be officially in charge of getting it completed. I have a few reservations on creating a curriculum by committee. Mostly it has to do with making the overall product bland. What I am thinking of now, is that it would be a good time to get in touch with a few of my former instructors for some advice and insider tips. I had been meaning to but didn’t know how to approach it. There’s a…

  • learning,  Library

    Bipolar results

    Today was good and disappointing. I picked up an extra class to cover for a colleague. It went well and I felt prepared enough for such short term notice. I’m grateful that I spent the time earier these months to create templates that look good and are easy to swap out information. I usually have a trio: my outline, the class worksheet, and the evaluation. This class was a small group of visiting nursing students, so I found I had to scale back. Better to be over prepared than under. The second class was the disappointment. I spent a week creatig the curriculum for an introductory Pubmed class. The activities…