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Why use print in a digital world?
Because we have the ability to navigate paper resources wordlessly. We engage with them sensorily, using touch and even smell to sort and track them. By connecting with books in this way, we can rapidly reference multiple works. The brain makes geospatial connections with the printed volume regarding progress and the location of memorable passages…
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Wither the RSS? Not yet
Some of you may be wondering what I mean by that headline. Currently there are two choices when it comes to receiving subscribed content online, email and RSS. While most people are very familiar with email, fewer know about RSS. With its familiar interface and ubiquitous presence in my life, messages that arrive in my…
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New things for my Blog
I think this is my new favorite thing! I made it at tagxedo.com. A big thanks to Vicki Steiner, one of my instructors at San Jose State University for telling me about this site. I had to download MS Silverlight, but it was very easy. If you look at the top right hand side of…
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Strategies for Success in an Online Environment
Although particular personality types will find online learning and collaboration more comfortable and natural than others will, there are certain skills that can be developed which will increase the chances of success for distance learners and remote teams alike.
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Catching Hold of the Day
“A net for catching days… A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order—willed, faked, and so brought into being; it is a peace and a haven set into the wreck of time; it is a lifeboat on which you find yourself, decades later, still living.” – Annie Dillard Certain things, like calendars and…
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Libraries are like Farms
I wrote most of this last September while riding my bike through town. Yes, there is an empty college in my town. Here is a wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_College_of_New_England The property is being divided. This summer it was rented out as camp for Orthodox Jewish boys. At one point it probably could have been purchased, based on…
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Fall is coming…..
It was chilly last night, they are probably even redder today. Seems like only yesterday that the air was filled with the scent of apple blossoms.
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Small Town New England
As I may have mentioned before, I live in a really small town. Our center of town is tiny, a crossroads consisting of a library, a church, a post office and a few stores. It is quintessential New England town square bounded by war monuments and historical markers. White clapboard steeples, one on the church,…
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Call me picky…
…but aren’t shapes geometric by nature? Isn’t that what defines them as shapes, being geometric?