Right now I should be grading or preparing for classes, but honestly I’m three blog posts behind where I wanted to be by now (I haven’t forgotten my WisCon promise to make a post about tabletop roleplaying games) and fighting a pretty nasty headache. So what if I take a…
(A continuation from here.) So, the solution? First, retool online courses: convince your video software provider to offer real-time streaming (ideally with a text chat function, though that could be obtained elsewhere and kludged in), or move to a different vendor. I understand that this removes some of the benefit…
Now, folks, I’m pretty clearly in the technophile camp in most discussions. I still hold the (naive?) belief that it’s possible to write an interface that library users could actually use to harvest articles, or at least citations, from all of a library’s various books and databases, without needing librarians’…
I’ve been meaning to give an updated run-down of the classes I’m taking and my general opinions of them, but school and life and bronchitis (yeah, again, but I’m on the mend) got in the way, like they do. To make it up to you–and because I am waiting for…
So, I picked my classes: LIS 2002: Retrieving Information (required core course, blended format)LIS 2405: Intro to Cataloging and Classification (online only course)LIS 2690: Information Visualization (blended format)LIS 2879: Academic Librarianship (blended format) You’ll notice two things about them. One, it’s a pretty fun and interesting set of things to…
I’ve been meaning to post a “State of the Schooling” kind of thing for quite a while, as the six week mark of the semester neared and then swooped past–it’s funny how “six weeks” still has meaning to me, nearly ten years removed from high school as I am. Having…
