Four librarians used the campus film studio's teleprompter and green screen to create Google-style instructional videos—short, sweet tutorials under one minute each.
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After 3 weeks of design iterations, my RefWorks flyer is ready for campus-wide distribution—including 4 workshops scheduled at different times to accommodate all schedules.
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Leading my library's e-book project, I created a CUNY Academic Commons group and used my beloved whiteboard to storyboard a stop-motion promo video about heavy textbooks vs e-readers.
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Becoming RefWorks Administrator with only 3.8% faculty adoption, I'm planning workshops that start by auto-generating bibliographies from 50+ citations to show the tool's magic immediately.
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I finally get it—dressing professionally isn't vanity but necessity when you're younger than students, helping them identify you as staff who can actually help with research questions.
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Student feedback revealed they want more videos in my library workshops because 'they seem to catch my attention'—proving The Simpsons clips work better than I expected!
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Teaching terrifies me—my heart races facing all those blinking eyeballs—but students love my Simpsons clips for demonstrating critical thinking concepts in library instruction.
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Early morning rides through empty Staten Island parks, a 40-mile Five Boro tour, and a 55-mile century on the horizon. I'm finally taking cycling seriously.
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Google Maps just added biking directions—great news, except it wants me to cross the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, which cyclists aren't allowed on. High hopes, beta bugs and all.
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I drove 65 miles to Rockland County to buy a 1995 Schwinn, and I don't regret it. Now I'm outfitting it to replace my car for short errands around Staten...
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