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From a few weeks back
This is one of the headlines that prompted me to archive and document what is happening: Also today the New Hampshire Governor has closed the schools until April 3rd.
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The Shutdown is Starting
I had thought about starting this sooner, but better now than never. This is my account of the Covid-19 virus shutdown that is taking place. I’ve been really busy, possibly too busy, to write this down until now, but here we are at home for the foreseeable future. I’ve spent the past three or four…
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Search History
One of the core competencies that a librarian must possess is an understanding of how people search. For me this is difficult since I have often played the role of placer versus seeker. While I have not logged many hours at the reference desk, I have helped faculty, staff, and students navigate sophisticated, complex computer…
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Boston University
My week was pretty good. I am getting used to my new commute. It’s long, but not that bad because I am on the same bus for most of it. I think I am going to like working at BU. I ran into a friend who works at the law library and a new colleague asked me…
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A Reader in Taiwan
Someone in Taiwan downloaded my presentation Migrating to the Open: Moving Scholarly Journals to the IR. I hope they liked it. I have to wonder why they were looking for this. Are they publishing a new journal? Looks like a pretty happening place:
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On Censorship
“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.” Joseph Brodsky Censorship seeks to maintain social control by depriving people of information that challenges the status quo. Brodsky would know, having first been committed to a mental hospital then sent to a work camp before the Soviet Union expelled him…
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Context, Culture & the Classroom
I was introduced to several new constructs this semester including Blooms Taxonomy, Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Assessment, and Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions. The latter I discovered doing a deep dive on Chapter 13 of Grassian and Kaplowitz, (2009, p. 251-6). I thought that the authors’ discussion of high context cultures vs. low context ones was very…
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Topic Three Readings
I have not employed any formal instructional design in anything that I have ever attempted to teach, except for ideas that I read/heard about. I am familiar with the concept of SMART goals and learning objectives and I think having the terms from Bloom’s Taxonomy to wrap around objectives would be useful for creating a…