SLJ’s Top 10 Tech: 2012 | The Digital Shift
Trends include curation for discoverability, online open courses, flipping and makerspaces.
We practiced flipping in my Emerging and Innovative Technologies LIS class. Through flipping I have increased my ability in critical thinking, assessment and evaluation, but this method did make the class more burdensome on the students to generate discussion in class and complete required readings before class.
Information Space: Advice and Tips for Library School from a First Year MLIS Student.
HLWIKI Canada provides a Mentoring 2.0 summary (mentoring in web 2.0 context) and references for Library and Information Studies students.
From Will Unwound a post contrasting leadership skills versus managerial skills. I think I fall in the middle somewhere but I hope to migrate over to the leadership side as I gain more experience in managing people and projects!
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