For about the last two years I’ve been working on a book about Dayton history, and that research inspired me to start my Dayton Vistas blog. I’m excited to say that my book Lost Dayton, published by The History Press, is now officially released! Here’s the blurb: Many of the places that helped make Dayton a center of […]
Upcoming Conference Presentation on Librarians and Student Success
I have an upcoming conference presentation about some of the work I’ve been doing with career exploration and development. This work is a big part of our college-wide push to improve student success and completion here at Sinclair. Our Career Communities are an attempt to “shrink the college” and allow students to solidify their career […]
Working on Dayton Vistas at the Gignite Side-Gig Incubator
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 […]