Azalea Storytelling Festival

      Storytellers Scheduled to Visit College

        

                The Azalea Storytelling Festival is bringing five dynamic storytellers to the Callaway Auditorium this weekend for performances on Friday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday at 10:00 a.m., 2:30 p.m., and 7:30 p.m.  and Sunday at 9:30 and 10:50 a.m.  Cultural Enrichment Credit will be given for attendance.

Syd Lieberman and Bil Lepp will be visiting Dr. Tures’s American Experience class and Kevin Kling will be visiting Dr. Scott’s English 1102 class on Friday to share stories and insight into writing and telling processes.  Other tellers at Callaway Auditorium for the weekend will be Andy Offutt Irwin and Barbara McBride-Smith with Carol Cain as Master of Ceremonies.

                Also, check out the library’s display on the main floor . . . there are books and cds by the weekend tellers available for checkout.

  

Library Technology Spotlight: Tegrity

Lewis Library has been using Tegrity to capture and deliver online video tutorials since fall 2011. More recently, librarian Dr. Arthur Robinson has used Tegrity to deliver online library instruction to English 1102 students this semester as an alternative to the face-to-face classroom experience. The library and the college are very excited about the opportunites for Tegrity to be used throughout campus. The library is currently inviting professors of LaGrange College who are interested in using Tegrity to try out the system. This Thursday, March 1st Rachel Evans will present for 15 minutes about Tegrity on behalf of the library at the faculty meeting, during which faculty can ask questions and get information about integrating Tegrity into their classroom experience.

So what is Tegrity?

Tegrity App for iPad

Tegrity is the name of a lecture-capture system which gives instructors the ability to record their classes live so that students can view them later. Classes may also be recorded ahead of time and used in place of a class meeting, or act as a supplement to the live class session. Tegrity includes the "Tegrity Recorder" which allows instructors to capture their full computer screen (including mouse movements, navigating web pages, powerpoints, playing movies/videos, and more). Instructors can also upload pre-recorded video or audio, and even edit video/audio recordings using Tegrity. Additionally, instructors can share the recordings with their class publicly (by embedding a video player onto a website, blog or wiki) or privately (by sharing a link, or creating individual log-in's for your students). 

Benefits for Students & Instructors:

Tegrity App for iPhone

Students have the ability to review class sessions as many times as they wish, or to access classes that they were absent from. Tegrity studies show that students improved when institutions adopted Tegrity. Tegrity allows instructors to divide their class up into "chapters", giving students easier access to specific parts of a lecture. With student log-ins, Tegrity allows students to take notes from within Tegrity, to "bookmark" specific sections, to email the instructor from within Tegrity, to download the class recordings (optional), to chat live with their instructor through Tegrity (optional), and of course to access the lecture as many times as needed 24/7. Tegrity even has an app for Android, iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch to make class recordings more accsible to students and instructors alike.

For More General Information:

• To learn more about tegrity, watch the official Tegrity Demo Video.
• To see examples of instructors at other institutions using Tegrity, visit the Tegrity Showcase page.
• For instructor testimonials, and a list of other institutions using Tegrity, visit the Tegrity Customers page.
• Have more questions about Tegrity? Visit the Tegrity FAQ's page to find the answers.

For More Information about Tegrity@LaGrange College:

• Visit the library's online guide for Tegrity, with help pages for instructors & students: http://lagrange.campusguides.com/tegrity
• Visit the Tegrity@Lagrange College log-in page:  http://lagrange.tegrity.com/
• Find out what technology in the library works best with Tegrity HERE.
• Intersted in using Tegrity? Make an appointment to learn today!

Terry Kay Visit

Well-known author Terry Kay (LC graduate, Class of 1959) visited Lewis Library’s Suber Archives on Wednesday to sign copies of his fourteen published titles that are in the collection.  Dr. Kay, with much laughter, also signed the library’s  copy of a privately printed compilation of poetry that he and two classmates, Lee Walburn and Blanche Flanders, sold on campus during their senior year. 

                 The library has copies of all Terry Kay’s books in the circulating collection for check-out and a copy of one of his titles, Taking Lottie Home, as an audiobook and another, To Dance With the White Dog, on DVD. 

Jacque Hornsby, Archives Assistant, and Terry Kay

23rd National African American Read-In

LaGrange College’s participation in the 23^rd National African American Read-In was a success! The read-in was held Monday, January 20, 2012 in the Dickson Assembly room. Students received cultural enrichment credit for attending. Due to the POWER of men’s basketball (Go, Panthers!), whose entire team was present for the read-in, the college tied our own record for the number of individual readers who participated: 33 persons, 21 of whom are students. The college, and event sponsor and organizer Dr. Laine Scott, would like to "Thank you all for your role in celebrating Black History Month at LaGrange College. You guys made cultural enrichment fun!" In case you’d like to explore some of the many works that were shared, below is a list of the African American writers whose talent was acknowledged at the read-in:

Aaron Power	“Won’t You Celebrate with Me?”	Lucille Clifton
Blake Craft	“The Treehouse”	James A. Emanuel
Blake Craft	“Coal”	Audre Lorde
Blake Craft	“Geometry”	Rita Dove
Britt Gaylor	[quotations]	Martin Luther King, Jr.
Catrell Maclin	“Incident”	Countee Cullen
Charlene Baxter	“My Mother’s Generation”	Alice Walker
Coach Kendal Wallace	[various quotations]	Ali, Hendrix, Malcolm X
Coach Kendal Wallace	“Impossible Is Nothing”	Muhammad Ali
Coach Kendal Wallace	“Run’s House”	Run DMC
Coach Kendal Wallace	[quotation]	Malcolm X
Coach Kendal Wallace	“Light”	Malcolm X
Daron Lewis	“I, Too”	Langston Hughes
Daron Lewis	“I Continue to Dream”	Langston Hughes
Denzel Robinson	“Life Is Fine”	Langston Hughes
Denzel Robinson	“Michael Jackson”	James A. Emanuel
Dr. Arthur Robinson	“Outcast”	Claude McKay
Dr. Christiane Price	“Tableau” and “Reconnaissance”	Arna Bontemps
Dr. Christiane Price	“We Wear the Mask”	Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dr. Christiane Price	“Democracy”	Langston Hughes
Dr. David Garrison	“Leadbelly Gives an Autograph”	Amiri Baraka
Dr. John Tures	“As I Grew Older”	Langston Hughes
Dr. John Williams	excerpt from Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom	August Wilson
Dr. Laine Scott	“Vive Noir!”	Mari Evans
Dr. Laine Scott	“One Thing I Dont Need”	Ntozake Shange
Dustin Baxter	“Walkers with the Dawn”	Langston Hughes
Dustin Baxter	[various quotations]	Michael Jordan
Dustin Baxter	[various quotations]	Muhammad Ali
Grant Evans	“For Poets”	Al Young
Hafner Buchanan	“Gwendolyn Brooks”	Haki Madhubuti
Hafner Buchanan	“Possibilities: Remembering Malcolm X”	Haki Madhubuti
Hafner Buchanan	“The Things in Black Men’s Closets”	E. Ethelbert Miller
Jerod Howard	“Mother to Son”	Langston Hughes
Jerod Howard	“We Real Cool”	Gwendolyn Brooks
Jerod Howard	“Acceptance”	Langston Hughes
Jerod Howard	“Diary”	Wale
Joey Anderkavich	“Dreams”	Langston Hughes
Kenrick Hutson	“Life Every Voice and Sing”	James W. Johnson
Kyron Anderson	“A Song in the Front Yard”	Gwendolyn Brooks
Kyron Anderson	“Beautiful Black Men”	Nikki Giovanni
Marcia Brown	“Heart to Heart”	Rita Dove
Marcia Brown	“Flirtation”	Rita Dove
Marcus Vaughn	“On Being Brought from Africa to America”	Phillis Wheatley
Marcus Vaughn	“Balances”	Nikki Giovanni
Marcus Vaughn	“Ruff Riders Anthem”	DMX
Mark Torre	“No Images”	William Cuney
Mark Torre	“Black Boys Play the Classics”	Toi Derricotte
Megan McDonald	excerpt from Their Eyes Were Watching God	Zora Neale Hurston
Megan McDonald	“Bitter Fruit of the Tree”	Sterling Brown
Megan McDonald	“I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”	Maya Angelou
Michael Thomas	“Mother to Son”	Langston Hughes
Nicholas Mitchell	“A Dream Deferred”	Langston Hughes
Nicholas Mitchell	“Dualism”	Ralph Ellison
Rachel Evans	“Before You Know You Owned It”	Alice Walker
Robin Dillon	“Georgia Dusk”	Langston Hughes
Rodarius Houston	“A Choice”	Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ross O’Hara	“Theology”	Paul Laurence Dunbar
Sanders Dorough	“I Dream a World”	Langston Hughes
Sanders Dorough	“Alameda Street”	Douglas Kearney
Shanise Fisher	“When Black People Are”	A. B. Spellman
Shanise Fisher	“Madam and Her Madam”	Langston Hughes

*Image courtesy of Kville Library Blog.

Blog post authored by Rachel Evans.

Recent Event: Generations in the Workplace

Tuesday, February 7, 2012 former LaGrange College counselor and LPC Kenneth Hoats visited the library. Mr. Hoats spoke to students in the Lewis Library Auditorium from 4 to 5 pm. Students who attended recieved cultural enrichment credit for the event, which consisted of an hour-long presentation called "Managing the Generations at Work", or Generations in the Workplace. The presentation gave an overview of the four generations in the workplace today, including (1) Veterans/Traditionalists, (2) Baby-Boomers, (3) Generation X, and (4) Generation Y/The Millenials.

Speaker Kenneth Hoats presenting "Generations in the Workplace"

Mr. Hoats did an excellent job of presenting this material, opening up the floor for discussion and keeping a lively spirit while speaking. His energetic presence made for an interesting take on the material covered, and the accompanying slides helped to deliver a wealth of information despite the brief 1-hour time frame. Hoats, who regularly presents this particular presentation to companies and businesses with employees representing all four generations, gave some good advice and practical tips to the students on how to work with and deal with peers, fellow employees and future employers of varying generations. The presentation, although presented to students, was applicable to all generations, and gave all in attendance (both young and old) a new perspective on working with people of all ages.

If you would like to contact Mr. Hoats about similar presentations or his professional work as a counselor, please email him, or call him: 706-881-0401. If you missed out on this event, you can still review the presentation material, thanks to the presentation slides (provided with permission from Hoats) below: