Posted in 3234, 3232, 3230, 3227, 3236, 3238, 3245, 3243, 3241, 3239, 3226, 3223, 2940, and, the, my, 2745, 2962, 3207, 2752, 2735, General on Feb 12th, 2008 Comments Off
I’m in the midst of A. S. Byatt’s Possession in my Intro. to Literary Studies class, working up to assignment one, which asks students to work with symbolism in Byatt’s romance. The idea of symbolism is quite complex (the etymology alone is intricate and fascinating). Students are accustomed to talking about imagery, themes, character, even […]
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Posted in 3204, 3203, 3202, 3205, 3206, 3209, 3208, 3207, 3201, 3200, teaching, the, blog, and, 2940, 3199, 3198, 2752, General on Feb 9th, 2008 Comments Off
There’s a lot I want to blog about, especially the fascinating distributed work on alterity, collective intelligence, and the individual being done by Alex Reid, Lanny Arvan, and Rafael Alvarado. Rafael and Lanny are working on Web 2.0 and teaching, with an eye on the way collectivism can turn either to thin gruel or to […]
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Posted in 3035, 3036, 3034, 3033, 3032, 3037, 3038, 3042, 3041, 3040, 3039, 3031, 3030, , 2940, lives, the, Education, 2828, 3025, 3029, 3028, 3027, 3026, General on Jan 23rd, 2008 Comments Off
Have I said yet how glad I am that Gene Roche (”Techfoot”) is blogging again? I really should pony up some tuition dollars–reading his stuff is like being in a great seminar….
Gene’s latest post comments on a very thoughtful and timely article by a former colleague. I’ll direct you to Gene’s post for all the […]
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Posted in 2940, 2941, 2942, 2939, 2938, 2003, great, General on Jan 12th, 2008 Comments Off
Since I took up this work in 2003, I’ve met some great, great people. One of them is Liz Kocevar-Weidinger, Instruction and Reference Services Librarian at Longwood University. Liz is a very creative and imaginative person who understands the power of metaphor and has an uncommonly interesting strategic sense of how libraries can become vital […]
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