Category Archives: Penn State

Are we all mobile?

Posted on September 6, 2012 by jjm38

Recently I explored the policies of PSU for the details on employer provided mobile phones, including smartphones with data. Two of the key criteria jumped out at me as a librarian:Employee supports…programs, services or systems that necessitate frequent and immediate… Continue reading →

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Reframing Academic Leadership (first 100 pages)

Posted on February 22, 2012 by jjm38

These are some thoughts about a book I am reading for the Penn State Library Leaders group. The book Reframing Academic Leadership by Bolman and Gallos is relatively short and focuses on the dissection of higher education leadership using a… Continue reading →

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Notes on Library Instruction

Posted on December 6, 2011 by jjm38

These are a few notes I had taken on teaching information literacy…Student Learning Outcomes are the first step to an information literacy program- create learning outcomes for a class- create a cycle of teaching an assessmentTeach a concept early then… Continue reading →

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Teaching Growth (actually just productivity)

Posted on November 15, 2011 by jjm38

I was updated our digital dossier program with my instructional statistics, when I noticed a nice pattern. Growth… {“dataSourceUrl”:”//docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?key=0Ai_LJ8fvp-P-dGZ5TllacHRoNDRLZGstXzQxRWJFcnc&transpose=1&headers=1&range=A1%3AD6&gid=0&pub=1″,”options”:{“vAxes”:[{“title”:null,”minValue”:null,”viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”viewWindow”:{“min”:null,”max”:null},”maxValue”:null},{“viewWindowMode”:”pretty”,”viewWindow”:{}}],”hAxis”:{“maxAlternations”:1},”hasLabelsColumn”:true,”isStacked”:false,”width”:600,”height”:371},”state”:{},”chartType”:”ColumnChart”,”chartName”:”Chart 2″}… Continue reading →

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Teaching and Learning with Technology

Posted on July 16, 2010 by jjm38

It seems fitting that I post a year later inspired by the same event as last year: LDSC10 (Learning Design Summer Camp) here at Penn State. I wanted to capture some of the big ideas that intrigued me at the… Continue reading →

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Creator of Mathematics System for the Blind Speaks at Penn State

Posted on October 27, 2008 by jjm38

It was impressive to hear from Dr. Abraham Nemeth, the historic mathematics professor who developed the standard system of Braille used for math in the sciences. Recording of the lecture available online. He worked on Computer Science projects at Penn… Continue reading →

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Blog post just for Ellysa

Posted on April 1, 2008 by jjm38

This post is just to see if it shows up in Google Reader during Ellysa Cahoy’s presentation on readers. Also, Lawrence Lessig loves AMVs, which you can all watch now… Continue reading →

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Gaming Books: They’re Everywhere!

Posted on March 17, 2008 by jjm38

We have a good number of books on Computer and Video Games from design to programming to marketing. But there are all over the place, and I don’t just me at the College Campus libraries though their collections often hold… Continue reading →

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2 Quick Questions

Posted on February 19, 2008 by jjm38

1) Does anyone read my blog? 2) Do you know of any universities that have tenure track librarians and also a library school with tenured faculty? How similar are they and how do they interact? Those I have talked to… Continue reading →

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Google’s Peter Norvig on “Throwing more data at the problem”

Posted on February 7, 2008 by jjm38

I attended one talk during the 2008 IST Graduate Symposium this year and it was the opening keynote from Google’s Dr. Peter Norvig, director of research. I was hoping to hear more about the new Google Research project that would… Continue reading →

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