The Hangout Factor
Last Friday, August 7, 2015, Sha Towers and I presented our poster “The ‘Hangout Factor’ in Library Liaison Work: An Exploration” at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative 2015 Conference. You can find our poster here. We got some great feedback from the conference attendees, which was nice to hear, since we’ve been kicking around this...
Coming up – academic identity presentation
On Saturday, April 11, 2015, two colleagues and I will be presenting on “Everything you need to know about your academic identity” at the Women in the Academy conference at Baylor. We’ve got a research guide to go along with the talk currently in the works and hopefully it’s going to be a helpful, practical...
Curating conversations on the web
I’ve been investigating ways to curate conversations that take place on the web, via social media and in other places. I’m doing so at this point mainly to be able to display some of the great conversations that happened in the two New Media Studies first year seminars (#nmsf09 and #nms_f10) where I was the...
Wired Campus Article
I’m very excited to be the subject of an article by Jeff Young in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog called “Embedded Librarian on Twitter Served as Information Concierge for Class.” The experience I had being the “Twitter-based librarian” to Dr. Gardner Campbell’s New Media Studies classes is really the highlight of my...
Blogging
Written for the first session of Baylor’s New Media Faculty Development Seminar, January 26, 2011 Blogging is one of the most important aspects of Baylor’s New Media Faculty Development Seminar. The syllabus states: “Understanding new media is almost impossible for those who aren’t actively involved in the experience of new media; for deep understanding, actually...