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Reflections on Online Learning vs. Classroom Learning

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

This is the final blog post for LIBR559m so I thought I would use the opportunity to post some thoughts about online courses vs. courses based in the classroom. This can be considered feedback for @giustini but, the thoughts are really just reflective of my own experience. Overall I thought the pedagogical concept behind the […]

The Public Library in Virtual Worlds

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Our final module for LIBR559m is about “Immersion” and social media. There are many examples of online applications that require you to immerse yourself in, what is an attempt at, an alternative reality, but the most well know example is Second Life. Like most of these worlds Second Life is a graphically rendered alternative society. […]

The Quest for Algorithmic Curation: blekko and Thoora

Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

I recently made a comment on the libr559m discussion board about how I preferred “human aggregation” over algorithmically generated content that you find on most aggregator websites. I listed Arts & Letters Daily and Longreads.com as two good examples of websites providing content that has been aggregated by a human (or humans) as opposed to […]

Successful Collaboration: Trust is the main ingredient

Saturday, July 30th, 2011

I was recently involved in a group project with @_iGeekGirl_ , @Lynn_Pyke and @ladylibrifrom for LIBR559M. In the end, I thought our group was a great example of successful collaboration. Everyone took on a task and completed it by the deadline. There was also a lot of positive communication. My Gmail ‘conversations’ show that 7o […]

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