Teaching 454, Digitial Information Services & Providers for Simmons GSLIS. Still teaching Dialog. What a great class this is! See online materials (all still under construction, but essential built):
... all of the above created with Google Pages. Notes maintained online using Zoho planner. Sites remembered using del.icio.us tag 454.
I'm going to be blogging periodically (monthly or so) over at ACRLBlog. The topic will be about academic librarians and faculty blogs. I've been reading quite a few lately (see some of my favorites tagged with teaching at del.icio.us), and thought a lot about what Steven Bell posted on ACRLBlog last year about the carnival of the professoriate. I've got a lot of ideas for blog posts -- themes mostly, sort of a continuation of the carnival -- but I'm open to new ideas, too. Let me know your favorite faculty blogs or faculty blog topics. I'm especially interested in finding more LIS faculty (adjunct or not) who blog.
And I'm going to give a version of a terrific presentation I saw at ASIS&T on usability at the Connecticut Library Association meeting in April. Paul Marty did a "Live Usability Lab" session in which he had members of the audience actually participate in usability testing of institutional repository sites -- he showed rather than explained how valuable usability testing is. Steve Cauffman and I will do a similar presentation using iCONN's resources as a test environment.
I promise I'm still thinking about cog sci, too -- just that my head is full of LIS for the moment ...
For More Information
- Marty, Paul F. and Michael Twidale , "Usability@90mph: Presenting and Evaluating a New, High-Speed Method for Demonstrating User Testing in Front of an Audience." FirstMonday. July, 2005.
- Varnum, Ken. Notes from Live Usability Lab @ ASIS&T 2007 on his rss4lib blog (Oct. 2007):
- Introductory thoughts from the session, calling Marty's session "so simple it's genius"
- Notes from the session & each usability test (note: I was a volunteer for test #2)
1 comment:
For what it's worth, I follow CompSci faculty blogs pretty closely:
See Jane Compute
http://seejanecompute.blogspot.com
Knowing and Doing
http://www.cs.uni.edu/~wallingf/blog/index.html
Shtetl-Optimized http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/
Female CS Grad Student
http://thewayfaringstranger.blogspot.com/
My Biased Coin
http://mybiasedcoin.blogspot.com/
Computational Complexity
http://weblog.fortnow.com/
Plus, I think it's also really important to follow blogs of some practitioners:
Joel Spolsky
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/
Schneier on Security
http://www.schneier.com/blog/
Adventures in Applied Math
http://riebecca.blogspot.com/
Applied Abstractions
http://www.espen.com/weblog/
Coding Horror
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/
Plus, I think you could do a whole blog post on Scienceblogs.com. It's great because it covers some many different disciplines, including history & philosophy of science as well as having blogs from science journalists, students and other perspectives.
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