(via Mercedes Rutherford-Patten, Cal Poly – San Luis Obispo)
Registration for the 2024 California Conference on Library Instruction is now open. The Conference will take place on Friday, May 31, at the University of San Francisco’s Fromm Hall in San Francisco, CA. The theme of this year’s meeting is “Play & Playfulness in Library Instruction”. Please see below for more information, including the link to registration.
Conference Schedule
Keynote—mattie brice
Workshops
- “Level up your instruction: Designing playful learning experiences with games-based learning and gamification”
- “Board Games in Your Library: How to Create Polished Tabletop Games to Use in the Classroom for Years to Come -embracing the chaos: improvisation and movement in information literacy instruction”
Lightning Talks
- “Faking Breaking News: Teaching Media Literacy Through Play -Everybody knows this train is the worst! Using a funny skit to crack open questions of credibility”
- “Bingo! Playful Design in Business Research Instruction”
- “The Power of Imagination: Enhancing First-Year Students’ Engagement and Learning During Library Instruction Sessions”
- “The Amazing MakerSpace Race: An Active-Learning Library Orientation for New STEM Students”
Sessions
- “Dress Up Your Boss in Silly Costumes: Best Practices for Library-Faculty Professional Development”
- “Volunteering to Learn: Harnessing Fun to Motivate Students”
- “There and Back Again: A Playful Journey into Generative AI for Library Instruction”
- “The Playful Path to Information Literacy: Empowering ELL Students through Interactive Instruction”
- “Playing to Learn in Higher Education: Thinking outside of the pizza box”
The deadline to register is Friday, May 17. Please register here. For more information on the Conference itself, please go here.