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Here’s a great example of way that an academic blog post, written for a general audience, can be a crucial supplement or starting point for a student trying to decipher the peer-reviewed literature. From Momma Data – Blame Mom for High School Beer Binges: The Power of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy This post: describes the study [...]
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Kate and I had an article published in Reference Services Review at the end of last year, and we just got a copy to put in our institutional repository. “I don’t think it’s harder, just that it’s different”: Librarians’ attitudes about instruction in the virtual reference environment This article was based on some work we [...]
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So the thing about DIY tutorials is that even though the technology bar required to build them is pretty low, there are some back-end logistical issues that have to be navigated. When I decided I wanted to try these with some of my distance learning classes, I had to figure out how to create a [...]
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Nicholas and I presented this afternoon at Online NW. Presentation materials are available here, on Nicholas’ blog. Good times! We used Prezi to create the presentation. This is what it looked like, all together, when it was done. I know that some people I know have found it difficult to get used to, but I [...]
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How do people prepare presentations without one of these?
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Remember all of those fashion-centric shows on networks like MTV in the 1990′s? This is a bit of one, covering a famous runway show by John Galliano — scratched together with almost no support, held in a socialite’s house, with models who worked for free. I’ve been looking for coverage of this show for forever [...]
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“Every university or public library centers in its reference room. This is the room for the first task of research, the bringing of books together. Among the thousands of books on the shelves, perhaps a score are needed for the particular topic. Which are these? Perhaps half of them require but a few minutes and [...]
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