A Wandering Eyre

I am traveling this week in California, teaching two more classes for Infopeople. For the first time, in a long time, I am traveling sans camera, so I will rely on my pregnancy swiss cheese memory to relate my travels to you. Tuesday, I was in Saratoga, a quaint, little place nestled in the trees [...]

A mundane update about me, because really, it is all about me, you know. I had a fun weekend filled with tree trimming and house light hanging. Mr. Rochester could really care less about either, but I adore them so that he perches on the ladder while I hand him gutter clips and the next [...]

I have had a filtering post bubbling about for awhile. I think this may be a week for griping about idiotic technology choices. Filtering and firewalls will come later. Today, I present to you, ignoring half of the argument in favor of making yourself appear right. It’s called balance; let’s find some. One of my [...]

Today, I saw Dr. Wesch’s new offering about students in a couple different places. I have to say that the man is a genius. This should be required watching for anyone who teaches. It is funny because watching the video made me think of all the lecture halls I sat in while attending college. I [...]

Even though we are a University library, we have high school groups come in every once in awhile to do research. We usually give them a 50 minute introduction to our resources and then they have a few hours to do their research. I love working with these groups. Last Monday, I had a group [...]

Story published with permission. Yesterday evening, two of my colleagues taught a class for some upper level students. It was Robin’s first time to teach and she was nervous, but she had an experienced teacher and librarian, Nancy, co-teaching with her. The class went very well, the students were engaged, and the professor was pleased [...]

From the same wonderful guys that brought you RSS in Plain English, they have a new video, Wikis in Plain English. I can not wait to use these in a class. I think they will be perfect for the tech training program I want to build for MPOW. –Jane, loves the simplicity

Audience Right Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre. CIL 2007 Meredith and I delivered ponies with monocles to a large room of people. It was different presenting to a room filled with people I respect and love. Different in a nerve racking fun way. The talk went very well and we had a lot of great [...]

Learning about L2 Originally uploaded by Wandering Eyre. This is the picture of the audience of the preconference I gave today at TLA. It went off without too many hitches and we had some great discussion in the morning about Web 2.0 tools, privacy, and trust. Librarians always have a lot to say. I was [...]

John Bylberg made a good point when he said the other day: I’ve often thought (and I’m sure I’m not alone) that the future of libraries rest in the hands of our children’s librarians. It’s actually quite poignant how that army of burden has been routed to a group of librarians who probably never considered [...]