LearningTimes Library Online Conference: Innovations by Information Professionals

	Dr. Margit Misangyi Watts
	Associate Professor Director Freshman Seminars/Rainbow Advantage Program University of Hawaii at Manoa Dr. Margit Misangyi Watts is an associate professor as well as the Director of two freshmen programs at the University of Hawaii. She was a member of the ACRL ThinkTank III and was subsequently chosen to be a member of the Best Practices Project Team. Dr. Watts has developed learning communities and programs for first year students for the past twelve years. During this time she began collaborating with a librarian and has developed a model for teaching information literacy within the context of a first year course. Her newest publication, College: We Make the Road By Walking, is a textbook for such a course. Additionally, Dr. Watts heads a campus-wide initiative to mainstream distance learning strategies, has published articles in the field, and has written a monograph on distance education for the "New Directions for Teaching and Learning" series from Jossey-Bass. [ back ]