http://blog.uta.edu/~frierson exploits in librarianship Mon, 03 Mar 2008 19:52:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It never fails to amaze me how interesting I find the psychological/cognitive science aspect of education.  I barely passed freshman psychology with a "D". Today, I stumbled upon this article on hyperlinks and how they effect learning.  As I read, I took notes in a new blog post - there's so ... http://blog.uta.edu/~frierson/2008/03/03/cognitive-science-is-fascinating/ When I worked at UM, my responsibilities included doing technology consultations at the Knowledge Navigation Center.  When I begin there, I used to dread faculty members or dissertation-writers with horribly messed up Word Documents.  Usually they'd come in with obscure publisher requirements or the Rackham Dissertation Formatting Guidelines - they'd ... http://blog.uta.edu/~frierson/2008/02/18/ms-word-for-dissertations-publications/ Part of my new job's responsibilities include liaisoning with the Political Science department here at UT Arlington. While so many people have gone head first into Politics 2.0, I'm somewhat of a newcomer. In the coming weeks, I'm going to start collecting YouTube videos, blog feeds, ... anything ... http://blog.uta.edu/~frierson/2008/02/13/politics-20/ I'm starting a Lesson Study group here at UT Arlington Library. UT Arlington is very, very different than the University of Michigan. Unlike UM, UTA only has 1 main library, 2 branch libraries, and 2 'electronic' libraries - essentially banks of computers with a librarian on hand to ... http://blog.uta.edu/~frierson/2008/02/12/lesson-study-in-smaller-libraries/ I recently watched an introductory lecture to a course offered at MIT called "How to Develop 'Breakthrough' Products and Services." It's offered through MIT's OpenCourseWare. The professor, Eric von Hippel, spoke about the origin of breakthrough ideas. They don't come from ideating sessions in darkened conference rooms; ... http://blog.uta.edu/~frierson/2008/02/11/from-innovation-to-implementation/