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News & commentary on AMICAL’s projects and activities
Jeff Gima · 12 October 2015
AMICAL 2016 at The American University of Rome
Technologists, librarians and faculty at AMICAL institutions: this is your conference.
This is where you can work together with peers from other international American universities on the use of information and technology in teaching. This is where your institution’s IT…
Jeff Gima · 17 August 2015
Governance documents & Coordinating Committee elections
I have two important bits of news to share on AMICAL governance.
New Operational Guidelines
First, AMICAL’s voting members have just approved a substantially revised version of our Operational Guidelines. The revised Operational Guidelines aim to streamline our…
Jeff Gima · 28 July 2015
New website
I have an update to share with you regarding AMICAL’s web site — but I know it’s the middle of summer, and you’re reading this from your beach chair with eyes half-closed, so I’ll keep it short.
Over the last few years, the internet termites have been slowly eating…
Nancy Fried Foster · 22 July 2015
Revisiting the AMICAL Conference
This was the fifth time I had attended the AMICAL Conference in the last seven years and it was every bit as enjoyable as all the others. I had always hoped to visit the American University in Bulgaria and was glad I had the chance to see the library and campus—a lovely…
Ivana Stevanovic · 7 July 2015
CATs: An assessment tool among others
This AMICAL 2015 workshop was on what CATs (Classroom Assessment Techniques) are and what they assess. Five exercises helped participants in getting better insight about how a particular CAT is used in the classroom. Examples and experiences were aimed at faculty,…
Lori Townsend · 22 June 2015
Connecting the dots: Curiosity. Motivation. Affect.
I had such a lovely time at the 2015 conference — THANK YOU all for inviting me and taking such awesome care of me. AMICAL really knows how to put on a conference (and how to party)! And Bulgaria is a gorgeous place to do so. I came away with so many nice connections,…
Dimitris Tzouris · 10 June 2015
How attendees saw and shared AMICAL 2015
AMICAL conferences are always a great opportunity to learn new things, connect with old colleagues and meet new ones. And they are always fun! This year we managed to share more of that special AMICAL juice and spill it all over social media!
Here’s a collection of…
Anne-Marie Deitering · 9 June 2015
Thoughts: A reflection on AMICAL 2015
I am back in Oregon now and my email inbox is under control after a week in Bulgaria at the AMICAL conference. When Dimitris asked if I would write a little piece for this blog about the experience I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to say thank you to AMICAL, its…
Moqueet Afzaal · 4 June 2015
Information literacy, learning models and instructional technologies (Report)
This session comprised of three presentations on learning models of information literacy and instructional technology. The session included three presentations:
Cognitive apprenticeship: a model for information literacy instruction in a virtual reference environment, by…
Margaret Kneller · 3 June 2015
Learning how to do research in a community of scholarship (Report)
Nancy Fried Foster spoke of her research of the practices of people who do research, in a university environment. Her research is within the overall scope of helping students become Information Literate (IL). (She stated that due to the newness of the research results, some…