Curation Culture

I found an infographic on how professors use social media. Two points seem worth mentioning here: the social networking gap between students and professors is shrinking and professors in the humanities use social […]

We did it! We are at the end of the semester.  We are going to spend today’s class talking about what we’ve learned. More of the same: metacognition!  So, here are three questions to think about.

1.  What is […]

Class discussion a few weeks ago about what kinds of things we can do deliberately (or to different degrees) to take care of ourselves in our online ventures has had me thinking more about how I spend time online. […]

I love YouTube to the point that my browser lists it as the first choice no matter how I misspell it. (Its a little game I play with the internet.) So I gave it up for a week in what my roommate called a […]

Foursquare:  friendly competition, public stalking, and venue reviews all in the palm of your hand…

If you aren’t familiar with it, Foursquare is a social network where users accumulate points by […]

Here’s a link to a Google Document on citizen journalism that we can all shape today in class.

This is my first post. Why is this my first post? Every time that I sit in front of my laptop I open a new tab of Fanfiction. This addiction started innocently enough. I was in 9th grade and I had just finished […]

As a stage manager in the theatre department, I get emails and text messages ALL THE TIME. Which is fine, I don’t mind it, except when I’m trying to sleep. Now, when I’m in the middle of a production I know sleep […]

Almost there! We’ve got two more class meetings and one new discussion to have before we do our parting shots on Thursday, Dec. 6th.  This week, we’re talking about more broad concepts that connect our discussions […]

As some of you in this class may or may not know, I am the Information Literacy Librarian at the University of Montevallo.  That is, in addition to all of the “normal” librarian things I do, I spend a lot of time […]