Category Archives: ideas

The Awesomeness of Archives and Mashups

zomg. You have to click through and look at these pictures. Please come back, though. I’ll wait.
Okay, did you see them? Weren’t they awesome?!
Seeing these pictures made me think about mashups again. I often talk about mashups in my lib100 classes. They’re a good tool for helping people think about how technology changes things [...]

The Last Weeks (Days?)

I’m due any day now. (Yay!!) And I’m working up until the end. I assumed I’d be in a panic, finishing things up at the very last minutes, hoping that the pregnancy would run late. But as it turns out, I was able to pull together the big projects by the beginning of the possible [...]

The Future of Course Materials

Yesterday I attended a Symposium on the Future of Course Materials held at my University. It’s the sort of thing I’d be really interested in regardless (I have been for over a year), but I was able to attend as a member of the Strategic Planning Committee on Innovation in Technology and Information.
And I had [...]

10 Reflective Steps for Improving Training

I was wrong! I forgot I was scheduled to post over on ALA Learning this week, so here’s one more link to content from elsewhere on the web. If you’re interested in what I’m talking about over there, here’s the abbreviated version:
….Before diving into those [summer] projects [like having a baby!], I like to take [...]

Notes on Plagiarism Tutorials

I’m about to get started on a new tutorial project, and wanted to get a lay of the land.  This one will be a lot different from the Toolkit, since the topic is plagiarism and can’t be covered in 2-3 minutes. And what better way to do that then to ask your Twitter friends what [...]