OCLS Day 3

This day was necessarily short because the conference ended at noon. Ronda and I met for breakfast and then went to two sessions in the Topaz Room. The first was from Mona Florea about her use of WebCT, Wiki Spaces and ePortfolios in teaching information literacy. This detailed her work at the Three Rivers Community College in Connecticut. She developed a library module to be used in teaching nursing students online. She also used blogs as a tool inside of WebCT. She also used wikis to help guide the students through group projects.

The second session was by Susan Shepley from the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology. She described how librarians were added to teams of instructional designers and technologists developing coursework for their Virtual Campus. This helped to develop a stronger relationship between the librarians and their instructional development colleagues. I then had to go back and get ready for checkout since the hotel would only grant me one extra hour. Since my flight wasn't until 5, I had several hours to make up for the pictures that I hadn't taken of Salt Lake City. While the downtown area was surrounded by spectactular mountains, it was hard to get a picture because of the buildings. I walked East for many blocks and found out that I couldn't get far enough on foot to get a really good shot.





Then I found an ad for the Roof restaurant, on the 10th floor of an office building next to the Temple. When I got there, I found out that the restaurant was only open for dinner, so I went to the Red Rock brew pub for lunch. Then I found out from the concierge that I could go to the Roof anyway and take pictures. This turned out to be true. By now I had walked for about 10 miles, so I was ready to go back and get to the airport. It turned out that the best pictures of the mountains were taken at the airport itself. I had about a half hour, so I tried the wi-fi and found out that I'd have to pay $6 for the privilege, so I passed on that. The one hour flight to Phoenix to visit my parents for the weekend was easy to take. You can go home again, but it's weird. Phoenix has changed a lot since I moved East in 1990. I'd go through intersections and remember the terrible accidents I'd seen there in the 1960's and 1970's. Still, it was good to reconnect with my family and re-discover real Mexican food.