tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34599568060544291532024-09-01T03:39:42.492-04:00Ilene Frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14220242531828905127noreply@blogger.comBlogger262125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3459956806054429153.post-60313250157079058172020-04-22T13:04:00.001-04:002020-04-22T13:04:09.228-04:00

I re-registered for LiDA103# with my work email. Now contemplating deleting the profile using my other email account - or maybe I can just leave it and get busy learning some of the course content???? #LiDA103

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I signed up for Open Education, Copyright and Open Licensing in a Digital World LiDA 103 and one exercise is "start a blog." I'm not much of a blogger, but realized that "retired librarian" still exists, so I'm going to use it. P. S. No longer retired! I'm just finished up year three at a full-time, tenure-earning librarian position at Hillsborough Community College - Florida (Florida - where

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I'm dreading the day they turn off "classic" Google calendar! I'm having great difficulty using the new "sleek design." On the iPhone, it takes a lot of manual dexterity to click to fill out the form to create an event - and an extra special amount of dexterity to use the scrolling wheel device to put in a start and an end time... I can barely manage it! So far all my attempts to manage input

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I went through FutureLearn's Psychosis and Schizophrenia two week course. Language is a stumbling block! Some said "I don't want to be labeled "a patient." Call someone "psychotic" and there's a stigma attached. There was a discussion of "service user" (This is the Brits). Some object to being labeled as a service user. This is the same discussion we have in libraries. Are they "users"? "

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Reading this article this morning https://www.edsurge.com/n/2015-05-26-how-minecraft-and-duct-tape-wallets-prepare-our-kids-for-jobs-that-don-t-exist-yet Duct tape wallets and Minecraft are in. Reading this article this morning https://www.edsurge.com/n/2015-05-28-why-elon-musk-s-secret-school-has-no-grade-levels Screw drivers are in. I've got a sense that crafts/tools that are considered

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I came across a couple of tweets from a librarian who had an uncomfortable interaction with a patron at a large academic library. The patron wondered why the library didn't have any books by Terry Pratchett. The patron asked if the librarian read Terry Pratchett. When the librarian said no, the patron said "tut-tut" (and probably a few more things - but it was a tweet, right?) The librarian's

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Designing for small mobile devices and tablets has taken over with a vengance. I'm confronted with sites where the top third or more of my desktop screen is taken up by a (often meaningless) image. I was just looking at a post on medium.com where my entire monitor is taken up by an image. I have scroll to see any text at all. And...the text runs down the middle of the screen. Navigation is...

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Alison Hicks wonders if LibGuides software is a tool of oppression. (See http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/libguides-pedagogy-to-oppress/ ) I don't get it. Would Nicole Pagosky's Ferguson Resources ( http://libguides.library.arizona.edu/ferguson ) be more social justice-y if it were on WordPress and not part of the Arizona University Libraries system of LibGuides? Why the emphasis on

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Redesigning the entry experience is about providing an inviting experience for clients entering a physical setting. http://www.freshtilledsoil.com/redesigning-the-entry-experience/ Can we apply this kind of design thinking to our students'entry experience into our online courses? Do our students find our course site "friendly, inviting and welcoming"? Or do our students experience the "deer in

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I had a good time paying attention to the #critlib session on microaggressions. Storify's here http://goo.gl/SR7Bg8 I do get that we tend to operate off of stereotypes in the worst possible ways, but could there be times when we simply should NOT be offended? I am now working with librarian who also has short gray hair and similarly-styled glasses. We're almost the same height and appear to be

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"Learn about the concepts of open educational resources, copyright and Creative Commons open licenses to achieve more sustainable education for all." http://wikieducator.org/course/OCL4Ed/Start_here/ I signed up to take a look and see some of the design changes that have been made. I plan on looking around more tomorrow. Also coming up soon: Coursera's Copyright for Educators and Librarians

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There are a lot of "I told you so's" aimed at Sebastian Thrun for his initial enthusiasm for MOOCs and his recent turn-around. Udacity is now going to target job-specific training. So... ok, we told you so - BUT I'm thinking about how he got to this "fail": He was willing to experiment and go way out on a limb in a very public way. He had the social capital to gather up venture capital and

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I'm doing Design 1o1 (one-oh-one - not laugh out loud) through iversity.org One item on the suggested readings - Victor Papanek Design for the Real World - I'm reading the first edition which happened to be available in the academic library I frequent. They haven't thrown it out yet even though it's one of those academic libraries that seems bent on marginalizing the printed book. How

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I'm bound and determined to follow Bert Kimura's ETEC 642 course Facilitating E-Learning Communities (http://www.hawaii.edu/dl/courses/?action=course_info&crse_id=9764). The course website is at http://etec642summer.wordpress.com "Following" is the operative term. I'm already a week behind - for no particularly good reason. I think it might have to do with a character flaw - lack of discipline

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Wow, Google+ has me stymied! I can't get Hangouts to work on my desktop. I keep getting an installation error 1603 when it asks me to install the talk plugin. I thought I HAD a talk plug in! I've read up as much as possible. I see reports of problems like mine going back years - though I wasn't having any problem until a couple of days ago. Tried some of the suggestions: Uninstalled things,

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Micah Vandegrift has written a piece on the Digital Public Library of America - what it is - and what it isn't - and what it might become. See http://www.inthelibrarywiththedpipe.org/2013/dpla/ Micah discusses joining one of the early discussion lists concerning the DPLA. I was on the list for a while as well (dpla-discussion@eon.law.harvard.edu) and my impression was that a lot of

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How to create community with participants from 51 countries: Check out Oprah's Life Class web site. http://www.oprah.com/oprahs-lifeclass/oprahs-lifeclass.html Classes. Your homework. Check-in. (While registration is required to participate in discussions, there are no other entrance requirements.) Daily Life Work; Videos; Weekly Question (with a spot for responses); Webcasts. The website

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Report from the MOOC front: Ohio State's Writing II: Rhetorical Composing is starting on Coursera on April 22. The instructors are by Susan Delagrange, Cynthia Selfe, Kay Halasek, Ben McCorkle, and Scott Lloyd DeWitt. The instructors address the concept of "global Englishes" in their introductory material. I'm excited to see the instructors acknowledge that these courses have a global

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Last week I paid off the remainder of my Federal PLUS Loan for daughter number two. We had that average $25,000 in loans when she graduated five years ago. Done! I'm happy to that she and I are both out of debt (at least for the moment). I would love to chronicle how paying for her four years at Pratt Institute went down, but every tuition bill was confusing and every financial aid letter was

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I'm paying attention to the discussion fora on Duke's English Composition I course taught by Denise Comer and offered through Coursera. I'm looking for places that an embedded librarian might intervene. Why? I'm interested in the role that information literacy plays in MOOCs in general. More specifically I'm on board as staff librarian with writingcommons.org (http://writingcommons.org)which

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Every once in a while I try Spotify - but there's something disappointing about the experience for me. The screen is cluttered with too much extraneous information - and once again today, Spotify was busy advertising artists not currently of any interest to me. Grrr. It really doesn't have a clue what I listen to? So I switched over to Pandora and signed in - and it had already created a fado

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When considering interesting/novel/new forms of education - online learning, MOOCs, etc..... Steve Gilbert likes to ask if what we are proposing is only "good enough for other people's children?" Are we recommending modes of education that we'd want for our own children? Or is what we're recomming only a "good enough" option for students who can't manage to participate in that type education we

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Jon Stewart interviewed vets who can't get jobs due to the disconnect between military training and experience in the field and certification. http://goo.gl/TplRg There isn't some institution already getting going on this and offering prior learning assessment and setting up a learning plan to get these people jobs ASAP? I'm checking out the Hillsborough Community College (Tampa FL) web pages

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The TLTGroup of sMOOChers met online last Friday. The group's doing the Current/Future State of Higher Education MOOC(#cfhe12) together. Most of the group had just watched Siva Vaidhyanathan's presentation " Beyond MOOC Hyperbole: Why We Should Support MOOC Experimentation ... Critically and Carefully" CFHE12 is using GoToMeeting and we agreed that we don't like it. You can't see a list of

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I watched the tv show about the first graduating class of the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls on OWN network last night. Oprah is aiming to create a "new generation of dynamic women leaders." I poked around their web site this morning. The OWLAG says this about ICT: "We continually monitor ICT developments in education - seeking new ways of using connectivism as a learning theory

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