I've been looking not only at the blogs of other people doing 23 Things, but the blogs of other librarians in my area. It seems like most librarians are employed and blogging about how things fit in to their jobs in the libraries they work in. My problem is that I am between jobs. I was a school librarian, but I have been laid off. Now I'd like to go into academics, archives or a public library. Unfortunately with a school librarian certificate and no experience anywhere else, making that change seems to be kind of difficult.
Anyway, learning more is always worthwhile and it has been interesting to see how people work different new things into their current practices.
Dedicated to lifelong learning. Based in Houston, Texas.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Thing 1 - Starting Over
Blame it on the Holidays. I got completely sidetracked in November and then started taking an actual face to face class in database searching which was really difficult, but fantastic.
I'm also about three poems shy of a poetry book that I've been working on forever, and I'm working on a dissertation proposal, I think. I'm not certain that's what it's going to be. It may end up being a blog or a book.
In any case, it is about overhauling - completely overhauling, not simply reforming public education PK-12. I'm not ready to take on the higher educational system yet. But, I do think I have seen an amazing amount of dysfunction in elementary and secondary education. Unfortunately, until and unless some common sense is imposed on the system, or built into a new version of it, it will simply continue to get worse.
In the meantime, I'm trying to learn as many things as I can that are relevant to library services of any kind, K-12, Academic, Public, Archival, etc. I have always wanted to be a librarian and I will be one wherever I can. So, I'm committed to learning as learning as many things as I can about as many areas of librarianship as possible.
Besides. I just like learning new stuff.
Blame it on the Holidays. I got completely sidetracked in November and then started taking an actual face to face class in database searching which was really difficult, but fantastic.
I'm also about three poems shy of a poetry book that I've been working on forever, and I'm working on a dissertation proposal, I think. I'm not certain that's what it's going to be. It may end up being a blog or a book.
In any case, it is about overhauling - completely overhauling, not simply reforming public education PK-12. I'm not ready to take on the higher educational system yet. But, I do think I have seen an amazing amount of dysfunction in elementary and secondary education. Unfortunately, until and unless some common sense is imposed on the system, or built into a new version of it, it will simply continue to get worse.
In the meantime, I'm trying to learn as many things as I can that are relevant to library services of any kind, K-12, Academic, Public, Archival, etc. I have always wanted to be a librarian and I will be one wherever I can. So, I'm committed to learning as learning as many things as I can about as many areas of librarianship as possible.
Besides. I just like learning new stuff.
Monday, November 28, 2011
November has been busy! - Thing 2 continued.
I'm finally back to 23 things. I've been looking at other 23 Things blogs, some from this version of 23 Things using the diigo links and some from the original 23 Things Blog and some randomly from the web. I've started a blogroll of them here.
From today's reading, I think my next two steps will be to create and play with accounts on Flickr and Diigo. I have a Del.ici.ous account, but I've never used it for anything other than saving and organizing my personal bookmarks. I really haven't used the social function, and since the ownership has changed and my professional focus has changed, I think this is a good time to try a completely new site.
I have used Picasa Web with yearbook students, but found it cumbersome. I'm looking forward to trying out Flickr to see if it is less RAM usage intensive.
From today's reading, I think my next two steps will be to create and play with accounts on Flickr and Diigo. I have a Del.ici.ous account, but I've never used it for anything other than saving and organizing my personal bookmarks. I really haven't used the social function, and since the ownership has changed and my professional focus has changed, I think this is a good time to try a completely new site.
I have used Picasa Web with yearbook students, but found it cumbersome. I'm looking forward to trying out Flickr to see if it is less RAM usage intensive.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
23 Things via linked in
I'm starting this blog with 23 things, this time via the 23 Things group in Linked in. But, I will also be posting other things I learn them. Many will be related to libraries and teaching. Some may be related to living, time-management or other things I find interesting.
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