Primary vs. Secondary Sources in Presentation and Teaching
Michael Gallagher I get asked this question a lot in my work at a large non-profit academic database: what is the difference between a primary and secondary source? As we move towards…
teaching
Teaching as all-encompassing activity: (a)synchronous and omnipresent
“The next generation is responsible for its own soul; a man of genius is responsible to his peers, not to a studio full of uneducated and undisciplined coxcombs.” T.S. Eliot…
Training/Teaching/Presenting Mantra
I have been doing quite a bit of presentations/webinars lately on a variety of topics revolving around electronic resources/digital collections/primary and secondary source materials/information literacy and other online tools of…
Prezi, Kimya Dawson, and a Long Goodbye to Powerpoint
A friend tipped me to Prezi, a new presentation tool that has severed the last feeble connection I had to Powerpoint. I have been experimenting a bit in recent years…
Vue: Tools for teachers
I stumbled across a project called Vue recently through a friend’s Twitter feed and am intrigued by it. According to its website: “The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open…