Thinking about the tension that will drive my article:
One of the things Gorman complains about is that we want everything fast. But scholarly research takes time. Yet in a recent article in TechTrends about blogs, they suggest that using RSS and new technologies can make searching easier. But I have to [...]

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I’m trying a blog experiment to see how well this technology helps me write a paper. For now, I’m in the formulating mode, collecting articles, quotes, and ideas that may or may not make it into the final paper. Here’s the first one from Michael Gorman, the infamous president of the ALA who [...]

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I have a paper to write for my online teaching and learning class and am particularly interested in the use of weblogs. But I can’t figure out the angle. When you type weblogs into ERIC (http://eric.ed.gov), you get 16 results ranging from articles in practitioners journals to a long presentation from AERA to [...]

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So how did I miss Web 2.0? I’ve seen bits and pieces (Library Thing counts, right?) but didn’t quite get the whole concept. Then, this evening, as I looked for something completely different, I ended up at elearningpost.com and couldn’t resist the Web 2.0 link. It went out to listible.com, and I [...]

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All of a sudden my tag cloud isn’t working and it occured to me that I just don’t blog enough. And probably don’t tag enough either. Too busy…although this would be a good venue to try out the short papers for my instructional strategies class.
Yup…I was right…I blogged and tagged and the cloud [...]

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