Out of sight, out of mind? prioritizing support of online learners
It’s been eighteen years and I can’t believe this is still an issue. In 2005, I started my first professional library job as a distance learning librarian. At the time,…
Making Customizable Interactive Tutorials with Google Forms
Please note that the copies of these tutorials have not been updated since 2020 and Google Forms has many new features that have come out since then. In September, I…
Is the Framework Elitist? Is ACRL?
Many of you who read my blog already know that I came to librarianship from social work, where I was a child and family psychotherapist. As a therapist, one of…
Are online MLIS degree-holders “less than?”
When I graduated from library school, I worried about anti-online-degree bias. I worried that people would think my degree was somehow "less than" because I'd done it fully online. I…
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Inspiring stuff to read, Take 1
Between work, my son and the class I'm teaching at SJSU (which is about to start), I rarely have time these days to blog. It's certainly not that I'm uninspired…
Rethinking online learning
This was another amazing semester teaching at San Jose State University. I had significantly more students in my class this semester than in the past (more than double), which at…
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Teaching Web 2.0 with Web 2.0
After a year off from teaching to take care of baby Reed, I'm getting back up on the horse. I'll be teaching a class on Web 2.0 and Social Networking…
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It’s not all about the tech – why 2.0 tech fails
Yesterday, I gave a talk for the ACRL Virtual Conference entitled Can't Get There From Here: Achieving Organization 2.0. If you're registered for the Virtual Conference or the regular ACRL…
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Online conferences – the future is now
I've been lucky to have had some recent involvement with two online conference models -- one that recently happened and one that will be happening soon. I'm really pleased to…
Separate but not equal?
When I read David King's post about Ask-a-Librarian services last week, I didn't have a strong emotional response to it. That was, until he wrote a follow up which brought…
Validation of my crackpot teaching ideas
Last week, my students in the Web 2.0 and Social Networking class I teach (at San Jose State) presented their fantastic proposals (via web conference) for implementing a specific social…
Teaching online with Drupal
In the Spring, I taught a class for San Jose State University on social software in libraries. Last week, I received both the student review of my teaching (which is…
Loex 2008 goes online!
I got this email about LOEX 2008 Encore from Catherine Pellegrino at Saint Mary's College and wanted to spread the word: The annual LOEX conference is trying something new as…
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ACRL’s FREE Webcast (for members)
I was thrilled to hear last week about ACRL's decision to start offering some free Webcasts for members. This is something that many people have suggested to ACRL in the…
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Getting out of a rut
Since our Coordinator of Public Services left, I've been the liaison to the social sciences along with being the liaison to the School of Graduate Studies (whose programs are all…
Flu trumps blogging (and pretty much everything else)
I probably owe a lot of people emails and I've been wanting to write up my tech trends and talk about some of the cool things I learned at the…
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Getting ready for Building the Social Library Online
Our classroom! Originally uploaded by librarianmer On Wednesday, the class I'm teaching for San Jose State University begins. It's the first for-credit graduate-level course I've ever taught, so I'm really…
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Want to teach some LIS students about social software?
Starting in January, I'll be teaching an online class on social software at San Jose State University. I am beyond excited about it! I'm really interested in having guest speakers…
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An alternative funding stream?
Jason Griffey the other day suggested alternatives to the traditional funding streams ALA has, and it got me thinking about how ALA could make money in the online medium. I…
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Online learning and its impact on public libraries
I've been wanting to comment on this thought-provoking post by Carleen at Woodsy + Wired (a pretty new blog) for a few weeks now and just haven't had the time.…
