Sudden Thoughts And Second Thoughts
Even Lightning Gets More Time
I like lightning talks. I have given four of them now. It’s a challenge to come up with a sensible presentation that still manages a good learning experience while hopefully entertaining the crowd. All have been in the 5 minute range. That’s precious little time to say anything of much substance [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 27th, 2010 under sudden thoughts.
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Is There A “Rescue Plan” At Your Library
There are two kinds of academic librarians. The ones who immediately knew what this post is about, and those who have no clue. Until a short while ago, I’d have put myself in the latter group. That was before I attended this conference session on the topic of staff development. The speakers demonstrated a method [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 23rd, 2010 under Public Services.
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Is A Response Even Worth Our Time
A Facebook friend messaged me to say “ACRLog needs to take this on”, in reference to this comment associated with a Slate piece on why tenure should be abolished. Andrew Sullivan who blogs for The Atlantic shared a few paragraphs from the Slate piece with his readers. It generated a fair number of comments in [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 18th, 2010 under Idiocy.
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Scenes From A Conference
Scenes from a Conference – Part 1
Speaker: I hate PowerPoint. That’s why I’m using Prezi for my presentation today. Who (asks audience) uses Prezi? (a few hands go up).
Speaker: Yeah! (fist pump) Prezi is so cool.
Speaker’s first slide: Two bullet points. Speaker proceeds to talk over first slide for five minutes with no additional Prezi [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 16th, 2010 under Professional Development.
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Learning From The Alumni
I came across an interesting piece of news about how some IHEs are just asking their alumni questions – and listening to the answers. The calls are not about hitting the alums up for contributions. The folks in charge of alumni offices are realizing that they need to learn much more about their instituiton’s graduates. [...]
Posted by StevenB on August 10th, 2010 under Administration/Leadership, Assessment.
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