Teaching

Teaching Statement
Vision Statement
Diversity Statement
Sample Lesson Plan

Introduction to Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications
April 2021

The homepage of the Introduction to Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications OER, by Allison Kittinger and Jennifer Solomon, contains light text on a dark background, a public domain license, and an image with a cat lying on top of a book that has fallen out out of a bag on the floor.
A screenshot of the Introduction to Bibliodiversity in Scholarly Communications OER
  • Description: A grant-funded open educational resource about bibliodiversity developed for the Scholarly Communication Notebook
  • Role: Creator (Co-Creator: Jennifer Solomon)
  • Skills used: Lesson planning, Pressbooks
  • Lessons learned: This project gave me experience in collaborating to create instructional materials as well as user-centered design thinking.

Scholarly Information Costs
April 2021

The homepage of the Scholarly Information Costs OER is divided into the sections Paywalls & Publishers with an image of a brick wall, Library Subscriptions with an an image of a bookshelf, and Paywall Hacks with an abstract watercolor image.
Screenshot of the Scholarly Information Costs open educational resource
  • Description: An open educational resource developed in INLS 783: Library Instruction introducing undergraduate students to the scholarly publishing industry
  • Role: Creator
  • Skills used: Google Sites
  • Lessons learned: This project led me to explore the potential of Google Sites more deeply and expand my vocabulary of asynchronous online activities.

Summer Session Library Instruction
June 2020

A screenshot of the Introduction to UNC University Libraries video, with its thumbnail of various UNC libraries, as part of the Summer Session Library Instruction series.
A screenshot of the Introduction to UNC University Libraries video
  • Description: An online video series to support virtual summer session library instruction at the UNC-Chapel Hill Undergraduate Library
  • Role: Creator
  • Skills used: Instruction, PowerPoint, YouTube
  • Lessons learned: This project was my first experience with asynchronous teaching, and I learned a lot about best practices in that regard with guidance from my collaborators. I also learned about accessibility measures such as subtitling.

Open That Data! An Open Educational Resource
June 2020

The Open That Data! Homepage describing the goal of the site to demystify and promote the sharing of research data with black text on a white background.
A screenshot of the Open That Data! site
  • Description: An open educational resource developed in INLS 690: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Open Access to promote open data adoption in academia
  • Role: Creator
  • Skills used: Google Sites
  • Lessons learned: This is the first open educational resource I created, and it started to get me thinking about how to make OERs that are more interactive.