Comments for (No Longer) Alone in a Library

Comment on The joy of learning to read by ben

ben — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:03:31 +0000

nice post!

Comment on A tribute to Grandfather Smith, Great-uncle Gene, and other heroes by Jon Mott

Jon Mott — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:49:42 +0000

Very touching post. Grandfathers are awesome. I loved the simple couplets he taught you that you still remember. I agree–this post is very much about teaching, teaching that lasts a long time. From the sounds of it, you learned those things from 20+ years ago. And I bet he didn’t use Blackboard or a blog or a wiki to teach you. There’s a lesson in that somewhere, methinks.

Comment on Completing the comment challenge by Sarah Stewart

Sarah Stewart — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:45:29 +0000

Well done on completing the challenge. I’m jealous - but am not too behind.

BTW, good luck with the move and job hunting.

Comment on Personal Branding — comment challenge 27 by Sarah Stewart

Sarah Stewart — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 10:41:21 +0000

Branding is a funny thing. When I google my name I get one mention on the first page. When I put ‘midwife’ with my name, I rule the waves. Its all relative really.

Comment on “School is profoundly broken”: Roger Schank’s visit to BYU by The End in Mind » Roger Schank and the Tyranny of Grades

The End in Mind » Roger Schank and the Tyranny of Grades — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:00:20 +0000

[...] take some time to digest. (Kimberly McCollum, one of my former graduate students, has provided an excellent summary of his talks on her [...]

Comment on “School is profoundly broken”: Roger Schank’s visit to BYU by Buzz in the Blogosphere - Week 3 — antonioviva.com

Buzz in the Blogosphere - Week 3 — antonioviva.com — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:24:16 +0000

[...] “School is profoundly broken”: Roger Schank’s visit to BYU He showed us a video clip of his 7 month old grandson learning to crawl. He said that it encapsulated everything we needed to know about learning. In the video, young Max was placed on a carpet (the traction on the carpet created an … (No Longer) Alone in a Library - http://kamccollum.wordpress.com [...]

Comment on Completing the comment challenge by Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:47:25 +0000

Congratulations on completing the Comment Challenge Kimberly

I’m glad you have gained confidence from the Challenge and “I’m no longer feel too scared or too shy to leave a comment on a post I find interested.” It definitely has been a great learning opportunity for all of us.

Comment on Transferring knowledge gained in the comment challenge to the classroom by Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:22:33 +0000

This is the one task that has totally stumped me and I haven’t been able to work out how to approach. Will be interesting to see how you rstudents go with the concept of a challenge. What I have noticed from this Challenge and the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog is that tasks work well for some people and not for others.

I like deadlines, goals and knowing I’m working towards a finish line that is achievable for me. So this works for me. Competitive sense of challenge also works well for some. Guessing at a few reasons why people might not like tasks but one of the main ones would be they don’t like to be constrained. However people who haven’t participated in the daily tasks have told me they have gained from the Challenge.

Comment on Personal Branding — comment challenge 27 by Luke Harvey-Palmer

Luke Harvey-Palmer — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:20:49 +0000

Great little challenge this one..effectively there are two ways to go about this. 1. Generate enough buzz about yourself (and have other people help also) so that you drive yourself to #1 on Google. 2. Consider a company, business or online name that says who you are, but is ‘more’ unique i.e. KimberleyMac or KMac etc etc I would give 1 a go (linkedIn, facebook, Digg, technorati etc are great places to generate some activity) and register your own name as a domain - if this fails…consider 2. Have fun and good luck (remember though Google ain’t as important as getting out there and getting some real face time!)

Comment on Personal Branding — comment challenge 27 by Sue Waters

Sue Waters — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 05:06:50 +0000

Funny aspect of Googling is you get different results depending on where you are googling from. In my case you were #1 when I did a google check — to your Diigo account then #6 was your Linkedin account. I don’t think it is your Facebook account.

My thoughts are stick with Kimberly McCollums and try to be consistent i.e. use it when commenting and setting up accounts.

If possible I would change your display name on your posts to Kimberly McCollums so that people immediately identify with who you are so you don’t get Kam confusion that you have had (You should be able to alter in your user options under nickname). Doing this over time should help the issue e.g. Sue Waters is a really common name but I’ve managed to make it work.