Category Archives: Reflections

Through the past, brightly. Part 2

Posted on March 8, 2013 by jjm38

This post continues Part 1 of my reflection on a recent shadowing experience at Carnegie Mellon University Libraries.The second half of my day was spent focusing on library services directed at the Colleges of Engineering and Computer Science. This was… Continue reading →

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Through the past, brightly. Part 1

Posted on February 20, 2013 by jjm38

12 years after being a student at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), I returned to visit as an academic librarian. While at CMU I studied Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), which is based in the venerable Hamerschlag Hall. On the early… Continue reading →

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reading Reflective Learning, Effective Teaching

Posted on May 16, 2012 by jjm38

I have decided to blog my activities and reflections while reading Char Booth’s Reflective Teaching, Effective Learning: Instructional Literacy for Library Educators. Partially to keep with the theme of the book and also so I don’t write in this… Continue reading →

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Reflections on Teaching with Technology

Posted on May 2, 2012 by jjm38

I have created an online teaching portfolio as part of the Penn State Teaching with Technology certificate program. In additional to serving as a record of my teaching, it also has example documents and learning objects I have created as… 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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Predicting the Winners of the 2014 Fields Medal

Posted on November 10, 2011 by jjm38

I am currently working on a research article on the Fields medal and Abel prize in mathematics. What is interesting is the large clusters of winners around certain factors such as nationality, alma mater, affiliation, and focus of study in… Continue reading →

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Library Instruction with 48 hours notice

Posted on September 9, 2011 by jjm38

So I had to negotiate an information literacy session with less than 2 days notice. Scheduling a room, getting the assignment and feedback from the instructor all at the last minute. I actually wound up getting a HEAP from the… Continue reading →

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Upward Bound Science – Reflection

Posted on June 21, 2011 by jjm38

Session went well, though did not seem to engage the students very much.Pros: Began with Lionsearch, ended with Lionsearch, was a solid message and saw over half of the students looking at their results as I wandered the rows.Asked a… 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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Citation tracking

Posted on July 20, 2009 by jjm38

I wanted to tweet about this but it started to get over 140 characters. Plus Twitter is about to get hammered by #LDSC09 soon.I have found 3 citations of the paper I wrote with Tom Conkling over a year ago… Continue reading →

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