a space for grace

After reading about my classmates experience in  SL I felt a little nostalgic and decided to head back in. It’s funny, logging in after a long time and Althea, my avatar, is just waiting for me where I left her, although there was a new basket of fruit on the table which made me wonder […]

Back in September Nathan posed the question on his blog – Is Second Life Getting Any Better?  I confess, after doing a professional experience project last year on the possibilities for a Resource Rooom on BCIT Island, I have only visited the virtual world a handful of times – but because I did some presentations on […]

Yesterday I had the privilege of attending a webinar Informal Learning Spaces on Campus presented by David Zaiser. It was especially interesting because I had just recently watched Dr. M. Wesch’s inspiring podcast  The Future of Education. What the two presentations have in common is a focus on student-centred learning and the strong role collaboration has […]

 I have just had a great experience testing out Screenr – a free, screen capture Twitter app that allows you to add audio and create a short tutorial. I watched the 1 minute tutorial on their site and was able to proceed without any problems. Here is my demo masterpiece:   You can tweet your creation […]

Educause‘s applied research branch ECAR just released their 2009 Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology. This is a survey of over 30,000 undergraduates at over 100 institutions. The study has been done annually since 2004 so longitudinal comparisons are possible. Scanning the Key Findings and Road Map, I found the following information most interesting:   – […]

The idea of  Blog Action Day is to get as many bloggers focussed on one topic at the same time to generate excitement and publicity. This year’s topic is climate change. Using social media for positive change is so appealing. The ability of the medium to generate buzz and foster conversation shouldn’t be underestimated. I had never […]

I have to stop this, but I can’t help thinking… If your professional and personal identity are that different, which one is the real you? What’s to stop you from impersonating yourself online?

It’s so nice when you’re taking two courses and the topics your concentrating on happen to overlap. Collaboration is so relevant to libraries it was bound to happen. My other course is a Directed Studies on The Learning Commons in the Academic Library. Learning Commons are great examples of how an academic library can collaborate. […]

On professional versus personal identities online…. Is who we are professionally that different than who we are in our personal life? Do we need to maintain separate identities with strict boundaries for each? Did the separation of personal and professional arise as a result of industrialization? Did we become fractured people when we started maintaining […]

The phrase in the Albrechtslund article I found most intriguing was “construction of identity.” You can represent yourself as a close approximation of who you really are, or you can be who you always wanted to be. This does afford you some power, at the cost of privacy. It also allows you to manage your […]