Age check - does this look familiar?
At first, I thought this was a sign of how ubiquitous 80’s movies are on TNT and TBS - that even the poster could be used to market to these kids today who seem to love the 80’s beyond all reason…
(and I mean ALL reason. The 80’s were [...]
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Lately I’ve noticed a number of different conversations I’ve been having coalescing around the question of evaluation - how can students evaluate the information they find. Some of the conversations have been versions of your normal standard “information on the web can be bad” and aren’t very interesting, but more of them have been [...]
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Last year, Rachel and I reported on a survey we did the year before that looked at how librarians feel about different social software applications like blogs, wikis and the like (is that right? I think so - it’s a really long time ago now). We mainly found out that we [...]
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The word “follow” suddenly looks really strange to me.
A few quick follow-ups from last week’s posts:
The Ryerson student who was threatened with expulsion for administering a study group in Facebook will not be expelled. There will be some fallout from this episode that sticks with him, but he was not found guilty of 147 counts [...]
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I gave a short presentation on assessment at the 7th Biennial Conference on University Education in Natural Resources on Saturday. I don’t usually get the chance to attend specific discipline-focused conferences like this, even those about the scholarship of teaching and learning, and if UENR hadn’t been hosted by the OSU Colleges of Agricultural [...]
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Library Journal’s list of Movers and Shakers is up for this year, and as usual - I am really excited that some people whose work inspires me almost daily have been recognized in this way — yay for Caleb & Darci !
Thinking about people who push my thinking, get me excited about new ideas, get [...]
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Well, maybe. I don’t think we know for sure how all of those things are in here…
Anyway, I was talking yesterday with a group of colleagues from my library and across my campus about the potential for ARG-type things on a college campus such as, say, OSU. And one thing we kept [...]
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This just makes me feel icky:
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2804/blackboard-gets-into-video-surveillance
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Do academic librarians have a love-hate relationship with academic writing? I mean, we spend a lot of time explaining how to find scholarly articles to our students, and hopefully we also get to spend some time telling them why they should want to? But that doesn’t always translate into “scholarly writing YAY” when it comes [...]
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Two things this morning - both touching on issues of digital learning, learning communities, learning socially and the big question - is higher ed closing students off from the kinds of tools and skills they’ll need to be lifelong learners?
Writer Response Theory provides this exercise to help students find their Social Bookmarking Soulmates. Basically the [...]
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