From the monthly archives: January 2010
This chapter explores using encyclopedias as reference sources. When I was in fifth grade, the elementary school principal gave our family the 1976 World Book Encyclopedias. I used them for looking up Aristotle and Plato for sixth grade papers. Other times I would just flip through the pages, consuming knowledge on whatever I alighted [...]
This time we’re covering the curriculum and the principal. In summary: as school librarian you need to integrate yourself fully within the school environment since you have a unique view of the entire curriculum. You then need to convince the principal of this. :-)
Chapters two and three in First, Break all the Rules is about how a manager looks for the right person to do the job. A person is defined by their talent. More about this can be found in my notes.
So the big news out of my camp is that I was awarded a graduate assistantship (GA). There are a lot of duties involved and I report directly to my department’s director which is a huge honor. She’s been very understanding of my shyness! I’m a regular blabber mouth when I get comfortable, but so [...]
I just read about this incredibly traumatic experience known as birth rape. Specifically it’s where a woman is held down and forced to have vaginal exams or other actions performed on her while she’s in labor. These range from dozens of hands going to the birth canal to being cut upon without permission (or [...]
I live-blogged President Obama’s State of the Union Address (video or transcript) in a casual way with my friend. However, here were my main favorite and surprising points:
Ending “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Bringing home the troops from Iraq by the end of August Ending tax breaks to companies that send our [...]
Below is a selection from my final paper as a Multimedia undergrad with the full-text available here.
Of all our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language. ~Walt Disney
Over the last thirteen years, the American animation landscape has been in an upheaval divided between two very different [...]
Today’s lesson was about the different materials we use in reference.
…can be found here.
They’re shorter today because we did a lot of activities. I have LOTS of notes for that stuff, but I’m not sure how understandable they are to an outsider.
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I snuck in some time between homework and attending class to practice using the tablet.
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