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Assessing Affective Characteristics in Schools
Another book summary in partial fulfillment of my independent reading assignment for graduate school. Brief Review I was assigned to read Assessing Affective Characteristics in Schools by Lorin Anderson and Sid Bourke. I found the text to be less technical than Summated … Continue reading
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A Whole New Mind
Image via Wikipedia Another of the books that I finished toward the end of last year was A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future byDaniel Pink. The central argument of A Whole New Mind was that our … Continue reading
The Long Tail
Image via Wikipedia It’s Friday night and my poor, sick husband fell asleep before 9:00 PM. Not wanting to waste time, but also not wanting to violate my long-standing (dating back to high school) personal rule of no homework (or … Continue reading
The Social Life of Information
Image by pumicehead via Flickr I recently read the The Social Life of Information by Brown and Duguid. Compared to the technology-related books that I have read lately, Brown and Duguid are less enthusiastic about the promised blessings of technology. … Continue reading
Learning Networks
During the winter semester of this year, I took a course on distance education and discovered Learning Networks: A Field Guide to Teaching and Learning On-Line by by Linda Harasim, Starr Roxanne Hiltz, Lucio Teles, and Murray Turoff. I finally … Continue reading
Envisioning Information
Image via Wikipedia I was hoping to get my hands on a copy of The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within, Second Edition because I wanted to read his perspective on presentations before designing a lesson on teaching … Continue reading
Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking
When I was traveling to and from Asia, I had a lot of time on planes and trains and I used most of that time to read. I’ve already posted reviews of some of the other books that I read … Continue reading
The networked nature of information
Sometimes I follow The Learning Circuits blog and its monthly “Big Question”. This month’s questions were borrowed from the Work Literacy blog, which I’ve also been following lately. The questions that Tony Karrer asked on The Learning Circuits blog are … Continue reading
My potential influence
During the first few weeks of the 2008 CASTLE book club, participants like myself were challenged to reflect on whether or not we had an influence strategy and if not, what we could do to develop an influence strategy. Most … Continue reading
(No Longer) Alone in a Library 