30.Jan.2012 Alternative Science Careers: A Response
Background: I was contacted by a student from an US university working on a project that looked at alternative science careers. The student included a list of headings that formed the basis for this post. It’s a bit of a rush job, so please excuse the poor grammar and odd wording. If you have anything [...]
14.Dec.2011 End of Year Update
There’s only really one update to speak of, but I didn’t want to title this post ‘guess what guys, I was selected to be an ALA Emerging Leader for 2012′. There’s only one update, you see, because this fall semester really kicked my butt. For the first time since I’ve started, I really felt like [...]
14.Jul.2011 “Explaining Science” – A presentation at the Western Conference on Science Education
I had a brief, but enjoyable, visit to the Western Conference on Science Education at UWO (July 6-8, 2011). I attended on the Thursday to share with educators in attendance some of the things we’re experimenting with in the Science Literacy component of iSci. The format was interesting – speakers were paired up by topic [...]
28.Jun.2011 Mind Mapping with Popplet
I was recently invited to guest lecture in an LIS class, speaking to and leading discussion around embedded librarianship and thinking beyond information literacy. For this latter topic, I had this notion that it would be interesting to get students to brainstorm broadly about what other literacies there might be, and what being literate in [...]
11.May.2011 No, no, thank you.
I listen to a lot of podcasts. Many of them are interview based: Spark, On the Media, The Sound of Young America, etc. Invariably, at the end of the interview, the host says, “Thanks for being on this show” in some form. Now, pay attention to what the interviewee says in response. It’s almost never [...]
04.Apr.2011 Andrew Colgoni – Candidate, Non-Teaching Staff, Board of Governors
I’m running for the Board of Governors at McMaster University. It ought to be a pretty good race, because there’s eight of us on the ballot, all from different parts of the university. My motivation for running is twofold: 1) I think there should be representation from the library in university governance, since we cater [...]
03.Apr.2011 Three Models of Embedded Librarianship at ACRL 2011
On Thursday March 31st, Krista Godfrey, Karen Nicholson and I participated in a panel presentation on three models of embedded librarianship at ACRL 2011. In an unusual twist, we had no convener to introduce us, so we ran the show ourselves. We were playing to packed house, probably due to a combination of talking about a hot topic, and [...]
09.Mar.2011 Teaching undergrads how to read scientific journal articles
By one of those funny coincidences, a day after we spent a science literacy class in iSci discussing some of the nuances of reading a scientific paper, Rob Weir’s ‘It’s not Harry Potter‘ appears in Inside Higher Ed detailing the same thing. In the program, students are thrown into the deep-end of information research very [...]
14.Feb.2011 I prefer Ninja Librarianship, myself
Over at Confessions of a Science Librarian, John Dupuis dropped the gauntlet for all of us in academic librarianship content to go to the same library conferences and read the same library literature. He’s onto something – there’s much that can be learned from discovering where your faculty are reading/going and finding them there. This [...]
07.Feb.2011 What I learned from Super Conference 2011
This won’t be a post about the wonderful sessions I attended at the OLA Superconference 2011, because I didn’t really attend any. I couldn’t find the time! Rather, this will be some reflections on being a presenter, twice. Try something different. For one of my presentations (on active learning classrooms), my co-presenter and I used [...]