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The Worth of a Book
The price of e-books has been in the news quite a lot due to the Department of Justice suit and has created a huge amount of amazing posts. To begin with, I’m going to link a few of the posts … 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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Reflection-Twitter and the power of background networking
I started on Twitter last year thanks to 624, where we looked at blogs and Twitter feeds. Since then its always on for me either in the corner of my browser or in a tab when I’m not on my … 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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Class Reflection-One Shots and Horseless’ Carriages
This class was a fascinating mix of things as it felt more like we had at least three different classes in one. The first one was about how to run a One-Shot Workshop that I found so helpful. I like … Continue reading
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Class Reflection on Transfer and Blogging
I found this week’s class kept moving from various things so its harder for me to easily look back on it. Part of this was due to the fact that we kept breaking into smaller groups to discuss things like … Continue reading
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Transferring Knowledge-How do you do it?
The first reading for this week is from How People Learn and is chapter three: Learning and Transfer. I’m curious about the order we’re reading the chapters in because it seems as if transfer should be thought about before assessment. … Continue reading
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Learning Environments and Assessment
This week’s reading is chapter 6 of How People Learn called The Design of Learning Environments, which begins with a brief history of how education has changed in the United States from rote copying to critical thinking. I’ve always found … Continue reading
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Information Literacy Class Thoughts
I was really disappointed to not be able to make to this class because I found it so fascinating to look at all the different articles my cohort had found and what people think about when that phrase comes into … Continue reading
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Youth Librarians and Information Literacy
Information Literacy is an incredibly important topic at the moment as new tools like iPads allow more ways for learning to move into the classroom and libraries. The important part is figuring out what’s happening with that conversation. So for … Continue reading
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