Tag Archives: teaching
Accessibility, Joy and Inclusion: My Librarian Philosophy
This entry is something I wrote for an amazing job agency that is helping me explore jobs in the independent school world. They asked me to write a statement about my educational philosophy and this was the end result. I’m … Continue reading
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In which life gets away from me
I last wrote a post here in February which is longer than I wanted it to be, but my job search has been full of ups and downs. At the moment I have many ideas for a post about e-books … Continue reading
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Roleplaying and Research-the joy of finding details
A few nights ago I was talking with a number of friends online and one of them used a spelling of Yankee that I wasn’t familiar with, Yankies and I went and looked it up to learn about the etymology. … Continue reading
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But its not accurate! The joys of anachronism in historical shows and fiction.
I was recently introduced to an amazing show on CBBC called Leonardo! by a friend of mine who wrote a fantastic post about it, which I highly recommend though it is full of spoilers. Reading her post got me thinking … Continue reading
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Ann Arbor Book Festival Manga Mania-Ideas to Realization
The Ann Arbor Book Festival is a wonderful event full of numerous types of programming from writers’ workshops to a vendors’ fair and events for children. Since I first moved to Ann Arbor, I’ve heard of this festival but until … Continue reading
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Last Class Reflection-Librarians Always Educate
At the end of the semester, we looked back over what we’ve done and how it all connects. I think that this course, Professional Practice has been one of the most immediately useful of all my SI courses. Today at … Continue reading
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Reading Reflection-Constantly Learning
There wasn’t class last week so I didn’t have a class reflection. Instead I participated in a couple more webinars and found them all fascinating. This project really brought out the best in all of the groups. For this last … Continue reading
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Reflections on Twitter and the Webinar
Class this week was rather short so we could have time to work on our webinars. We talked some more about Twitter and the pros and cons of it. I really enjoyed hearing all the perspectives on it from people … Continue reading
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Class Reflection-Digital Books and Embedded Librarians
Class this week started with a wonderful talk by Paul Courant, who helps to run the Michigan Library. His talk about how complicated the world of ebooks is was really good to hear and understand all the different players. I … Continue reading
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Reading Reflection-Webinars
I watched an archived Webinar on a campaign created by OCLC and the Gates Foundation called Geek the Library, which was fascinating. I was really struck by how difficult it is to make a webinar more than just a recording … Continue reading
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