I never thought I’d really have to update those screenshots

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Anne-Marie

Raise your hand if you thought that del.icio.us was never ever really going to change? Yeah, me too. No more weird URL — it’s at http://delicious.com So far, so good?  I’m going to miss the little star that says I have a new fan.  And some other things I haven’t discovered yet.  But after four [...]

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thinking about discourse when you don’t know what it looks like

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Anne-Marie

We have 3 online assignments that all beginning composition students complete before coming to the library for a library session.  They’re designed to encourage a broad exploration of a topic, to support a research process where students develop an argument/thesis out of their reading instead of doing that at the outset, and to encourage students [...]

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critically thinking about comment threads

Posted on July 25, 2008 by Anne-Marie

So this study, the one from Science suggesting that gender isn’t such a useful variable when trying to predict if an individual will be good or math at not – is all over my feeds and my del.icio.us network. And it’s got me thinking about critical thinking, perception, and the really big thing we’re trying [...]

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pointing out those giants, there with the shoulders

Posted on July 16, 2008 by Anne-Marie

So back in April, gg at Skulls in the Stars challenged science bloggers across the disciplines to read and research some classic article in their discipline, and then write a blog post about it.  The results are in, and they’re awesome.  Not just fascinating – this is a potential time suck (with none of the [...]

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liberation and library instruction – part 1 of ?

Posted on July 10, 2008 by Anne-Marie

I would really like to respond to this call for papers, and since abstracts aren’t due for several weeks I’m using it as  a reason to do some reading and re-reading.  Right now, it’s A Pedagogy for Liberation, a dialogue between Ira Shor and Paulo Freire.  This isn’t the most famous Freire, that’s undoubtedly Pedagogy [...]

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Why we should read it before we cite it — no, really!

Posted on July 8, 2008 by Anne-Marie

Last week, Female Science Professor wrote a lovely pair of posts about scholars and scholarship, what it feels like when your work has an impact on someone and what it feels like to meet the people who have influenced you in that particular undefinable way where it’s hard to even express what they’ve meant to [...]

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hey! look over there!

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Anne-Marie

So I wrote something today, but I didn’t write it here. I wrote it over here. And even better, Caleb and Rachel wrote stuff over there too. Stuff that I’m even more excited about than what I wrote. Go! Read!

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