For the past eight weeks I’ve been participating in a program called Gignite, a side-gig incubator founded by Olivia Barrow who wrote for the Dayton Business Journal for a few years and is now a writer and entrepreneur in Madison, WI. Here’s some of her description of Gignite from her website: There was a (very […]
New Website on Dayton History, Development
Another year, another new website for me. And I’m really excited that this one might turn into something bigger. I’ve been living and working here in Dayton, Ohio for nearly five years now, and it didn’t take long for me to become fascinated by the city and its history. I probably couldn’t have located Dayton […]
Recent Presentation Roundup: OER and Pathways
Two initiatives in higher education that I’ve been greatly involved with lately are Open Educational Resources (OER) and pathways (which falls under the office of completion here at Sinclair). OER usually means free, online textbooks, although they can also be other types of content and are sometimes discussed as part of a larger “textbook affordability” […]
Is it Better to Take Notes By Hand or Digitally? (And Why You Should Do Both)
Today we can take notes using tablet and stylus; we can lug laptops to meetings; we can snap pictures of slides and whiteboards; we can even employ voice assistants like Siri to take down notes for us. But despite these new conveniences, many argue that note-taking by hand has certain benefits that we lose when […]
What Was the First Social Media Platform? History of the Earliest Networking Sites
Social media has changed so much in recent years that the platforms we scroll on our phones today bear no resemblance whatsoever to the websites we may have accessed on desktop computers a couple of decades ago. But to gain a deeper understanding of how social media as a whole operates, it’s interesting to take […]
New Article on Mentoring in College & Research Libraries Journal
I’m pleased to say that I have an article in the latest issue of College & Research Libraries, a peer-reviewed journal publishing research on academic and research libraries. It’s been called “one of the most widely respected journals in librarianship.” The article is a project spearheaded by my former colleague and classmate Mandi Goodsett. We started […]