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Comment on Word of the day: Advertorial by Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:44:58 +0000

Thanks for the clarification – tthat’s useful to know. I was wondering if people would feel like the only way to be truly safe would be to take total control – a reaction I’ve seen before but that isn’t an option for many because of barriers like lack of time or skills. This story has me thinking a lot about the kinds of systems or conditions that need to exist for people to voluntarily participate in a knowledge-sharing or producing network — peer review itself is one such system and while many feel used by it, they do it anyway. What I am getting from the “why I left” stories is a strong sense of betrayal – that people thought they were a part of something and discovered they weren’t, at least not in the way they thought they were. Interesting.

Comment on Word of the day: Advertorial by Ira Flatow

Ira Flatow — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 13:29:34 +0000

Just to keep you up to date, NPR does not edit our website. We are independent producers, not on the staff of NPR. Therefore “oversight of NPR” does not really exist on the website.

My offer to host science bloggers on our web site, http://www.sciencefriday.com still stands and we are updating the as we have received numerous requests from refugee bloggers for a home.

We are happy to supply one.

Comment on scholarly reading on the iPad – one month in by Nick

Nick — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:21:49 +0000

D’oh. Linky: http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/06/ibooks-to-gain-pdf-reading-and-note-taking-this-month.ars

Comment on scholarly reading on the iPad – one month in by Nick

Nick — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:21:25 +0000

It looks like the iPad will be getting native .PDF reading and annotation soon. That may smooth things out.

Comment on Google Scholar search alerts by Donna

Donna — Mon, 24 May 2010 00:51:07 +0000

Thanks, I too had made the same assumption.

Would love to see a post about collaborative teaching philosophies too. :)

Comment on comics & copyright, but not comics-specific by ⌘f | reading list

⌘f | reading list — Thu, 20 May 2010 06:05:20 +0000

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Comment on Google Scholar search alerts by kate

kate — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:44:12 +0000

huh, I also assumed that was an “email this to me” button. it hasn’t been there for months though, I’m sure of it. maybe a week or two.

Comment on When do you decide to bail on a book? by eemoore80

eemoore80 — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:07:40 +0000

great question!! i realized i was punishing myself for yeeeears–because i’m somewhat of a defeatist and figure: “if i’m not into this, i’m the idiot” (that could be the case).

but it wasn’t until the last year that i realized i haven’t read for *pleasure* for a long time. even though training yourself to accept new ideas is painful and will eventually payoff in a new kind of awareness and ability, i guess i hadn’t read a work of fiction or poetry in quite some time. i didn’t know *how* to read for pleasure anymore.

then i read “dewey, the small town library cat” and everything changed. i was hooked immediately. it has taken me awhile to trust myself enough to put a book down. 6 months after dewey, i read “all families are psychotic” (d. coupland) and now i’m changing my life with “doppelganster”

happily reading for pleasure for the first time in years,
~erin

Comment on teaching, reflection and hegemony by Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:16:27 +0000

Hi Nancy – nice to meet you! I’m not sure where the suggestion that librarians should find answers is coming from, but I am going to guess that it is in the “the answer must be there somewhere piece?” If that’s correct, then I think my response would be that Brookfield is talking here about teachers trying to solve their *own* practice problems, not that teachers are trying to solve problems for students. I think the desire to teach learning skills is common to both information literacy librarians and classroom teachers (Brookfield’s audience) and that’s where I see the connection happening.

(the “we shouldn’t find answers” is a great example of a paradigmatic assumption in librarianship – thanks!)

I think if we believed that the view through the students’ lens was always more correct than that of any other lens, then that would be a great example of a hegemonic assumption – but I don’t think that’s what the author is talking about? I think he’s talking about adding another point of view – and in this section I’m summarizing several chapters into a couple of sentences so any lack of clarity is mine, not his – in most cases by asking the students directly what they think?

Thanks!

amd

Comment on teaching, reflection and hegemony by caleb

caleb — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 18:22:04 +0000

just fyi I recently filled out a conference presentation proposal that discussed how I would engage the audience. i thought it was an odd thing to ask on the form, but now i understand.