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A Place To Practice Lifelong Learning


The classroom is a wonderful environment. I truly enjoy teaching students in the classroom and I loved taking classes. That is the principal place we think of where learning takes place. But the sort of learning that takes place there is facilitated. It is instructor directed and mediated. As educators though, both professors and librarians, [...]

Fun, Thoughtful Technology In The Classroom


My colleague Sarah and I presented again this week at a VLA conference on using technology in the classroom to engage students. It was a great conference and I love getting together with other librarians from around the state. People are doing such interesting things, and I always come back with ideas. Our presentation was [...]

Mobile Devices in Higher Education


Bryan Alexander, a Senior Fellow for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), sums up very well in the video below a lot of the debates and issues that are going on around the use of mobile devices. These are a few that jumped out at me: Developing for mobile devices With the introduction of [...]