learning something new and sharing as I go
The screenshot below was taken from this article about Floyd Landis on 5/20/10. In the article, Landis admits to illegal use of steroids and blood doping, after denying it for the past 4 years. In the article, Landis also states that Lance Armstrong and other teammates were guilty of cheating as well. ... Continue Reading →
I've been doing an evaluation exercise with many of my English 151 classes for the last couple of years. It works pretty well, and I've had several instructors request that I repeat it again for their future classes. Many of my colleagues have been asked about this exercise, so I thought I would... Continue Reading →
Because it's growing by leaps and bounds, that's why! "The number of unique viewers of online video increased 5.2% year-over-year according to The Nielsen Company, from 137.4 million unique viewers in January 2009 to 142.7 million in January 2010." I'd like to think that a few of my videos that I created in the... Continue Reading →
This is a video that I put together last week to address a complaint that a faculty member had with her students' research. The students were finding one particular resource and overusing and over-citing it in their projects. To address her concern, I put together this video and posted it all over my Business Blog,... Continue Reading →
Over the past couple of months I have received numerous calls about the Biz Wiki. The callers, emailers, and IMers all have something in common: they all own a business or work at a business whose name or contact information is incorrect on the Biz Wiki. I even got a call... Continue Reading →
Last night I got an IM question from a student while staffing our IM reference service. She was in the stacks, but "was totally overwhelmed" with how many books we had and was very confused about how to actually find a book. Since four floors separated us, I decided to send her my... Continue Reading →
This week I had the pleasure of finishing Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow on my PSP. I've had the game about a month, and with off-and-on play times, I was able to finish it relatively quickly. It generally takes me forever to finish games, but the game had a pretty good story that... Continue Reading →
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