Now You Can Tweet Me…

As part of my job, I get to try new things. And I needed to try something new while at CIL. Last year it was this blog. This year. A Twitter feed and possible Facebooking.

So, I now announce…….. My Twitter Feed. You will find it at http://twitter.com/baldgeekinmd

Yes, I was inspired by Common Craft Show’s Twitter in Plain English as mentioned a previous post.

Twitter via Common Craft Show.

Maybe I will try twitter now…

 

1 Degree From 2008 LJ Mover and Shaker

Congratulations to 2008 Library Journal Mover and Shaker Jamie Watson!

So, sometimes you miss the things right under your nose. I read the listing of winner sobriquets in Library Journal and completely missed this spark plug that has an office down the hall to the right of my own.

To a very deserving colleague, well deserved Jamie!

A Great Training Idiom

I am striving to be the Guide on the Side instead of the Sage on the Stage.

adapted from Alison King, College Teaching, Vol. 41, 1993

Check out The Chronicles’ New Look!

In honor of this blog’s first anniversary in April ( and as a fan of HGTV’s home makeover/improvement shows,) I have decided to revamp the look of this blog.

This is the first of a few changes to come to this in the near future.

Tell me what you think of the changes to the masthead, look and sidebar. You like?

E-Books, Kindle and E-readers, Oh My!

This post is for my co-worker J, who is mulling over the purchase of some sort of electronic book reader. For those of you who are not unfamiliar with the new generation of electronic book readers or need a handy-dandy look at them, check out this presentation by the Traveling Librarian. He also has a very cool blog. He is in the middle of leading a 23/Learning 2.0 project.

In addition, here is link to his presentation about the Sony E-Book reader

The slide show is hosted on a place called SlideShare. You can upload or tag uploaded presentations and keep them in one spot. I have a slide space that is in beta testing at the moment.

Later this week, I will put up an update about the Kindle. I will say that it has both things I love and things I would change in a heartbeat.