Neuroscience
I've been so busy filling up my spring dance card that I haven't been blogging. Here's what I'm up to, if you want to follow along at home.
Teaching 454, Digitial Information Services & Providers for Simmons GSLIS. Still teaching Dialog. What a great class this is! See online materials (all still under construction, but essential built):
I'm going to be blogging periodically (monthly or so) over at ACRLBlog. The topic will be about academic librarians and faculty blogs. I've been reading quite a few lately (see some of my favorites tagged with teaching at del.icio.us), and thought a lot about what Steven Bell posted on ACRLBlog last year about the carnival of the professoriate. I've got a lot of ideas for blog posts -- themes mostly, sort of a continuation of the carnival -- but I'm open to new ideas, too. Let me know your favorite faculty blogs or faculty blog topics. I'm especially interested in finding more LIS faculty (adjunct or not) who blog.
And I'm going to give a version of a terrific presentation I saw at ASIS&T on usability at the Connecticut Library Association meeting in April. Paul Marty did a "Live Usability Lab" session in which he had members of the audience actually participate in usability testing of institutional repository sites -- he showed rather than explained how valuable usability testing is. Steve Cauffman and I will do a similar presentation using iCONN's resources as a test environment.
I promise I'm still thinking about cog sci, too -- just that my head is full of LIS for the moment ...
For More Information
- Extra-curricular Librarian
I will be speaking at the Spring 2008 meeting of PVAAL, the Pioneer Valley Association of Academic Librarians, on March 27, 2008. My topic is "The Adjunct Life and other LIS Extra-curricular Activities," and at the talk, I will reflect on my five years...
- Another Reason I Blog
This blog was originally intended to provide a spot to put articles, links, etc. I found that would interest "my" faculty & staff at Hampshire College's School of Cognitive Science. I became more and more interested in the interdisciplinary topic...
- Usability: Worth The Effort?
Today I'm speaking at Simmons GSLIS West about usability. You can see the useful links I've gathered over the years on my Simmons wiki, which lists my favorite usability articles. It's also got a copy of my PowerPoint presentation, in case...
- Congratulations Leslie!
One of my former students has just published an article that may interest my readers: Leslie Porter: Library applications of business usability testing strategies Library Hi Tech, Volume 25 Issue 1 (2007): pp. 126-135. (a subscription is required for...
- Usability Talk
I'm going to do a short presentation on usability for Simmons GSLIS (West) on March 24. I'll talk about good usability principles and show some examples from some recent testing I helped do at work. If you're part of the GSLIS community, I...
Neuroscience
Thinking About Teaching, and Other Things
I've been so busy filling up my spring dance card that I haven't been blogging. Here's what I'm up to, if you want to follow along at home.
Teaching 454, Digitial Information Services & Providers for Simmons GSLIS. Still teaching Dialog. What a great class this is! See online materials (all still under construction, but essential built):
- Course Outline
- Source List
- Reading List
I'm going to be blogging periodically (monthly or so) over at ACRLBlog. The topic will be about academic librarians and faculty blogs. I've been reading quite a few lately (see some of my favorites tagged with teaching at del.icio.us), and thought a lot about what Steven Bell posted on ACRLBlog last year about the carnival of the professoriate. I've got a lot of ideas for blog posts -- themes mostly, sort of a continuation of the carnival -- but I'm open to new ideas, too. Let me know your favorite faculty blogs or faculty blog topics. I'm especially interested in finding more LIS faculty (adjunct or not) who blog.
And I'm going to give a version of a terrific presentation I saw at ASIS&T on usability at the Connecticut Library Association meeting in April. Paul Marty did a "Live Usability Lab" session in which he had members of the audience actually participate in usability testing of institutional repository sites -- he showed rather than explained how valuable usability testing is. Steve Cauffman and I will do a similar presentation using iCONN's resources as a test environment.
I promise I'm still thinking about cog sci, too -- just that my head is full of LIS for the moment ...
For More Information
- Marty, Paul F. and Michael Twidale , "Usability@90mph: Presenting and Evaluating a New, High-Speed Method for Demonstrating User Testing in Front of an Audience." FirstMonday. July, 2005.
- Varnum, Ken. Notes from Live Usability Lab @ ASIS&T 2007 on his rss4lib blog (Oct. 2007):
- Introductory thoughts from the session, calling Marty's session "so simple it's genius"
- Notes from the session & each usability test (note: I was a volunteer for test #2)
- Extra-curricular Librarian
I will be speaking at the Spring 2008 meeting of PVAAL, the Pioneer Valley Association of Academic Librarians, on March 27, 2008. My topic is "The Adjunct Life and other LIS Extra-curricular Activities," and at the talk, I will reflect on my five years...
- Another Reason I Blog
This blog was originally intended to provide a spot to put articles, links, etc. I found that would interest "my" faculty & staff at Hampshire College's School of Cognitive Science. I became more and more interested in the interdisciplinary topic...
- Usability: Worth The Effort?
Today I'm speaking at Simmons GSLIS West about usability. You can see the useful links I've gathered over the years on my Simmons wiki, which lists my favorite usability articles. It's also got a copy of my PowerPoint presentation, in case...
- Congratulations Leslie!
One of my former students has just published an article that may interest my readers: Leslie Porter: Library applications of business usability testing strategies Library Hi Tech, Volume 25 Issue 1 (2007): pp. 126-135. (a subscription is required for...
- Usability Talk
I'm going to do a short presentation on usability for Simmons GSLIS (West) on March 24. I'll talk about good usability principles and show some examples from some recent testing I helped do at work. If you're part of the GSLIS community, I...