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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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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Posted on June 24, 2008 by Anne-Marie
I have definitely hit that “what am I forgetting before ALA” mode where it is not a matter of if I forget anything, but rather how important the thing I forget will turn out to be. I am deep in the throes of preparing to present this pre-conference workshop with these awesome people while [...]
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Posted on May 31, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So my Facebook friends, and my other friends, and the people in the cubicles next to me, and, well, anyone who has ever heard me speak knows that I’m not a big fan of the Blackboard learning management system. Despite having some good interactions over email with Karen Gage and the group of people [...]
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Posted on March 28, 2008 by Anne-Marie
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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Posted on March 7, 2008 by Anne-Marie
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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Posted on March 6, 2008 by Anne-Marie
I almost wrote about something else today, but I found out in time that something I thought was true was in fact false and therefore not worth writing about.
But there’s some really cool stuff going on in this Find the Lost Ring ARG that has my brain back at the question of what these storytelling/ [...]
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Posted on February 20, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So Princeton is hoping to send 10% of their incoming first-years to do a year of social service work in other countries before they ever enroll in classes. I saw a mention of this in Inside Higher Ed yesterday and I keep thinking about it. On the one hand, this seems like [...]
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Posted on February 11, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Not quite on the heels of why I don’t like Ebsco’s new visual search, parts one and two, there are suddenly all kinds of different ways to search for news and information to try. I’ll admit, I don’t totally get any of these yet. I’ve barely played with them, which is part of [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2008 by Anne-Marie
(Go here for part 1)
Because it isn’t any fun.
The old interface, with the circles and the squares, let you zip around and zoom in on an idea and then when that didn’t work, zoom out on the idea and try something new. I know that for some people, it didn’t work. For some [...]
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