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 […]
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 […]
Why You Should be Careful Before Installing that WordPress Plugin
Plugins are small pieces of software that allow your WordPress website to do new things. Since the WordPress core is by design very lean, these third-party tools are required for bloggers to accomplish a variety of popular tasks. We often see blog posts that talk about the best WordPress plugins that you need to be […]
New Soccer Training eBook Complete and Up for Sale
I am happy to announce that my soccer training ebook that I have been working on for quite a while is finished and up for sale. It is titled The Individual Soccer Training System and is designed to allow soccer players to quickly hone their core technical skills and improve their soccer-specific fitness levels so they can achieve […]
Is the Internet of Things Secure? Can My Car Get Hacked?
Charlie Miller has been hacking computers and phones for over a decade. His ends aren’t nefarious, however: he’s a security researcher working to expose vulnerabilities that will ultimately make our systems safer. In order to raise public consciousness of the issues at stake, he’s been hoping to hack something less techy and abstract that would […]