Each holiday season, INFIDEOS, my YouTube channel of educational videos, gives a gift to Information Science. This season’s treat arrives a little late but is nonetheless from the heart. As explained in a short video announcement, the 2026 present is: Encouragement!
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Pedagogy Patchwork, a new 14-episode video series, has just been published at the YouTube channel, INFIDEOS. It contains a collection of creative classroom strategies for educators in Library and Information Science.
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In mid-December of each year, my YouTube channel, INFIDEOS, gives a gift to its subscribers and viewers. These multimedia creations are freely available to everyone in Information Science and are especially suited for students of the field.
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The 12th episode in the What Makes This Paper Great? video series features “Surfacing the ‘Silent Foundation’: Which Information Behaviour Theories are Relevant to Public Library Reference Service?” by Amy VanScoy, Africa S. Hands, Katarina Švab, and Tanja Merčun. The paper was presented at the 2024 Information Seeking in Context conference in Aalborg, Denmark. A new 12-minute video at INFIDEOS takes viewers through the highlights of the paper. For fun, an opinionated but cuddly group of Library and Information Science (LIS) students join the virtual conversation.
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A new video series at INFIDEOS, Information Science Workout, invites people to learn major concepts of Information Science through their bodies. This approach resonates with embodied cognition and multimodal pedagogy, two movements that recognize the important role the body plays in making sense of the world. As the Introduction to the Series declares, “Your body can be your teacher.”
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All educators occasionally wrestle with the matter of travel or other interruptions during the academic semester that take them away from the classroom. This posting offers a turnkey way for information science teachers to productively fill the gap: Hold an Information Science Video Festival!
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The new 12-episode video series at INFIDEOS, Visual Research Methods, is designed for anyone who may wish to incorporate images, such as photographs or drawings, into a research project.
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AI (Artificial Intelligence) is coming at humanity fast and furious. Shalini Urs discusses the new epoch of AI with one of the fathers of the Internet, Vint Cerf.
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The MBTI personality and psychology theory-informed test has become a well-used source in professional development to provide ways for employees, employers, or hopeful candidates to determine how a person will behave, react, act, and conduct business.
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At my YouTube channel, INFIDEOS, I recently published a video series, Writing-Up Research as Thematic Narrative. It contains 14 short episodes on authoring qualitative or ethnographic research. The series addresses the complexity of social scientific narratives, which are multi-perspective and multivocal. While all the examples of writing in the collection are drawn from Information Science, these fundamental techniques easily transfer to other disciplines.
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