In thinking about open source materials during this round of #digPINS, I also realize that sometimes it might also be easy to overlook many open sources that we use all the time. Take my own personal example of thinking about open source materials in geography. …
Month: July 2018
Do you OACA?
This is another week of illuminating information in DigPINS. As a teacher/scholar interested in up-to-date research and teaching resources, I have continuously benefited from open access (OA) resources. My participation in DigPINS, however, has provided me with new and important knowledge regarding OA material, as …
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Many university consortia are attempting bold new deals to breakdown the high costs associated with academic publishing and its current restrictions on open access. The new model driving these changes is known as “publish-and-read” and so far, there have been successes in establishing these sort …
How Much Should I Know Before I Put it Out There?!
Fun Story: In spring of 2015 I was approached by a publisher to write a book on career exploration. I was teaching a class, had developed a nice curriculum which seemed to resonate with a fair number of my students. And it was actually helping …
Teaching the Teachers
As SNC’s Director of Grant Development I often find myself in the position of teaching the teachers; that is, instructing our faculty (or staff) who are incredibly knowledgeable in their areas of expertise on my area of expertise: finding grant opportunities and developing and submitting …
Pedagogy Toolbox
I think STEM gets a bad reputation in terms of teaching and learning. Many envision a science lecture and immediately mental images are conjured of multiple choice scantrons, long lists of taxonomic groups, and probably a balding professor with white beard and tweed jacket droning …
Digital pedagogy outside the classroom
In my role, I teach students on a daily basis but not in a formal classroom setting. The work I do with leadership development, coaching, and advising students allows me to create informal learning experiences. This week of #digpins was more difficult for me to …
But I thought geography was just about maps?!
I get this comment all the time. The truth is, we use geography in our daily lives all of the time! Geography involves thinking spatially about a phenomenon. For example, we could talk about the spatial arrangement of our activity space: how we move to …
Hey! I want one of those: The Library’s role in OER
When participating in DigPins was originally pitched to me, I had some hesitations. See, I’m one of those librarians that has carefully guided their career to avoid the inside of a classroom—we exist mostly on the collection/tech side of libraries. Despite avoiding the classroom, I …
Reflections on Synchronicity and Week 3 DigPINS Sync Activities
We think of synchronicity as meeting or occurring at the same moment in time but what do we mean by “moment in time”? In its purest sense I think that many consider synchronous or simultaneous to mean something occurring in this one moment. But what …
