Archive for January, 2010
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What water?
January 21, 2010 | Comments Off on What water?Tags: collaboration, college students, information literacy, instruction, instructional design, research, teachingby Sara Seely Recently I was lucky enough to come across the publication of a commencement speech given by David Foster Wallace in 2005 to a group of wide-eyed graduates from Kenyon College. While it’s difficult to sum up what one takes away from a four-year-degree, this particular rumination helps to qualify the value of…
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Vision and Visionaries: A Whole Bunch of Questions to Start off 2010 (As if you didn’t have enough of those already)
January 6, 2010 | 9 commentsby Kim Leeder During the last few frenzied weeks of the academic semester last month I came across an article I reviewed quickly and put aside, but which has lingered in the back of my mind despite the fact that I can’t seem to find it again. Essentially, as a I recall, the article addressed…