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Why would anyone pay $1500 to learn how to write notes?
Part one In 2018, musician and writer Claire L. Evans spoke at the XOXO Festival sharing some of the stories that she tells more fully in her book, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. It was from this presentation that I first learned about the Microcosm system – a…
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Noting well
Scribble, scribble, scribble (Eh! Mr Gibbon?) Last week I read an article that made me very uncomfortable. I had been diagnosed by the author and was found to be diseased. The Twittering Machine is powered by an insight at once obvious and underexplored: we have, in the world of the social industry, become “scripturient—possessed by…
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Blogging is dead… here are some tips to manage your online working environment
Blogging is dead. Blogging as an ecosystem of blogrolls, blog rings, blog planets, RSS readers, and writers who link and respond to each other… it is long gone. Most people don’t even know that this network once existed, once thrived, and then was lost. That being said, I still believe blogging is good. Blogging can…
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Could you make history?
It started out with a dab. My son let me know that he dabs on the haters. I retorted that the dab is old news. It’s sooooo old… wait, how old is it now? I looked up the origins of the dab. And then I made a version of Timeline of dance moves using index…
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The Provenance of Facts
Brian Feldman has a newsletter called BNet and on May 30th, he published an insightful and whimsical take on facts and Wikipedia called mysteries of the scatman. The essay is an excellent reminder that if a fact without proper provenance makes it way into Wikipedia and is then published in a reputable source, it is…
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The future of Big Te(a)ch
Last week, my place of work announced that the university campus was going to be primarily online for the upcoming fall semester. From my understanding, the qualifier of primarily is being used because there are some professional programs that have compulsory in-person components such as in clinical nursing. Replicating hands-on or lab components of classes…
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It’s time to cut the CRAAP
I do not have a good understanding of what academic librarians are currently teaching students in regards to evaluating information they find on the Internet. Rather than read the literature, I searched for the word CRAAP in my custom Google Search Engine for Ontario Academic Libraries. I found that many libraries – including my own…
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The Librarian as DJ
On Saturday night I had a Zoom call with a friend of mine from high school. My friend prefaced our chat with a warning that she was going to keep the conversation short because video calls are exhausting. I heartily agreed. During this call, my daughter and her son would grace our screens and through…
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Personality Testing using H5P
We don’t all play games the same way. One useful means by which we can categorize types of players by their style of play is through the use of Bartle Types, named after Richard Bartle who formed the characterizations from observing participants playing MUDs: So, labelling the four player types abstracted, we get: achievers, explorers,…
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Make good choices
I’ve decided to assign all the game-related posts here with the label of ludo. The word ludo is likely related to the words, luden and lusory that you can learn more about from my first-games related post in this series. Ludo is the name the Danes call the game that Canadians would call Sorry… unless…
Librarian of Things
Mita Williams. Her blog.