CURIOSITIES: VOYAGES BEYOND THE STACKS. This “unbook club” experience is a 4-week commitment, involving roughly an hour of meeting time and an hour of prep. Prep in this case is a blast! It’s listening to podcasts, reading essays or short stories, or watching short films. Each 4-week session revolves around a single topic. YOU are invited to participate. Your STUDENTS are invited to participate.
Participate how?
- Register for a session and the line-up of fascinating resources will show up in your inbox.
- Read/watch/listen to the resources for week one and show up for the discussion (face-to-face or online options offered). You’ll be hooked!
- Encourage participating students to reflect and ✅ an experiential learning activity is complete! For your planning ease, here’s a template for written student reflection.
- Level up! Co-facilitate one or more sessions. Yep, this opportunity is available to you or your students. Talk about a real-world audience for research, curation and synthesis of information and public speaking! Consider this as a presentation option, a way to fulfill an honors contract or an experiential learning opportunity.
What’s up next?
Thursday, 11/17: Get the flavor of Curiosities by attending a night of short films, curated by the participants and facilitators of the current Curiosities series, Curiosities Shorts Fest! This night of short films, pizza, and popcorn will provide a sense of what Curiosities has to offer. All are welcome – free films, free pizza, free snacks. (Please share with your students!)
Stay tuned for upcoming series:
Winter: International Affairs Forum Collaboration, focus on Climate Change Solutions & Adaptations, co-facilitated by Alex Tank and Nicco Pandolfi (Jan 19-Feb 9)
Spring I: Stories of Science, co-facilitated with Nicole Speelman & Kristen Salathiel (Feb 2-23)
Spring II: Touring the Senses, a multisensory extravaganza with an all-star guest line-up (Mar 2-23)
Library events can serve as extensions to the learning that takes place in the classroom, be experiential in nature, result in high levels of engagement, and require research and critical thinking that closely mimics the research and planning of professionals in a variety of disciplines. Call your liaison librarian for a strategy meeting today!
Kerry,
This is an interesting concept, but I have a few questions. You say; “This “unbook club” experience is a 4-week commitment, involving roughly an hour of meeting time and an hour of prep. Prep in this case is a blast! It’s listening to podcasts, reading essays or short stories, or watching short films. Each 4-week session revolves around a single topic. YOU are invited to participate. Your STUDENTS are invited to participate.”
I would need more specifics on the time commitment. An hour of prep and an hour of meeting time. Should I assume that is for each week? Will the weekly meetings be available online?
Thanks,
Rob
Rob, Good questions!
The previous Curiosities series have been entirely online. The Winter/Spring line-up includes some remote and some face-to-face options. The IAF collab is likely to take place on Zoom, Stories of Science is undecided and Exploring the Senses is face-to-face in various locations on the NMC campus.
In terms of the time commitment. Imagine a book club with a one-hour, hard-stop meeting time. The prep involves however much time you have to put into it, though we try hard to keep the resource consumption time to roughly an hour. You may get an article, a 20-minute podcast, and a 10-minutes video for a single week. If you have the hour or so to put into consuming all 3, that’s awesome. If you have time for the 10-minute YouTube video that week, then so be it! The discussions are designed to be accessible, even if you had a crazed week and couldn’t prepare at all. During weeks where I have participated underprepared, the conversation was still rich and I went back and did the reading because I was even more curious after the zoom-discussion.
Give me a call if you have more questions! Kerrey