CILIP - I am a member and find their various publications interesting. I am chartering and have attended two chartership events which were motivating and helped to clarify the process. I see there are various special interest groups and there in I might try to participate more.
I have worked in regional NHS librarian groups, that is two SIGs: a group for trainers of users of online medical information, and a marketing group. Both have provided motivation, being a place where professional expertise is shared, and by joining in in group endeavors the milestones along the way are targets to achieve. Basically I have learned a lot through the SIGs and would recommend them. However taking on responsibilities needs to considered carefully, given how busy we information professionals can find ourselves.
I would definitely be interested in following interests such as research in ILS, and librarianship worldwide. I think it's a question of priorities and focus.
Thursday 28 July 2011
Thursday 21 July 2011
Thing 6 - online networks
Linkedin seems really useful, and after signing up to the CILIP and 23 things groups, it seems as if it might be useful tool for contacts in the future.
My Facebook account is not linked to work.
I have seen it work quite well for announcing events for organisations like the National Library of Scotland. So for organisations it could work quite well, getting in touch with people on social networks, but in a sensible way and without encroaching..
My Facebook account is not linked to work.
I have seen it work quite well for announcing events for organisations like the National Library of Scotland. So for organisations it could work quite well, getting in touch with people on social networks, but in a sensible way and without encroaching..
Sunday 17 July 2011
Thing 5 - reflective practice -
Opening salvo - I feel like putting the guns on the table -
It is undoubtedly a valuable practice, and that's where I lay the emphasis, as however much it is talked about, it's in the doing that the benefits are realized.
So as much as writing a commitment in a blog can purport to supporting real lived actions I hereby solemnly swear to follow it ... yes a rather preposterous tone indeed.
And it is good to see that humour and not-taking-oneself too seriously exists and is alive and well e.g. Natalyfay
A rifle through the links provided by cpd23 has got me setting my sights..
As for a structural device to write reflectively I would refer to Elaine Andrew's
Description - interpretation - Outcome
In Thoughts on learning processes and other musings there is a good description of Schon's reflection in action, reflection on action, as well as the interesting suggestion of using an alternative genre for reflective practice. An EXPLOSIVE idea!
'focussed stream of consciousness writing':- now there's an oxymoron I would be interested in implementing.
The round-up of reflective models(Greenway, Burton, kolb, Gibbs) is atomic, but usefully so. I thought that if you are trying to decide on what is worth reflecting upon, Burton's
What? So what? Now what
might be a useful shortcut to victory.
For the teaching/training aspect of my role (Assistant librarian in a health setting - an NHS hospital) Toby Adam's presentation brings lesson planning into the reflective cycle.
Reflective practice in Healthcare
It's a big time theme and I won't pretend to be knowledgeable about it but I can recommend (and as Sarah Stewart cites) Beverley Taylor's Reflective practice: a guide for nurses and midwives(2000), in particular for the practical exercises and the different types of reflection which are examined in some detail: - communicative(surrender or your dead), technical(we've got bigger, sleeker, sharper stones than you) & emancipatory (let's sign a peace accord and get back to living).
I hope my militaristic allusions upset no one. I was simply trying to make this writing more entertaining for myself.
Opening salvo - I feel like putting the guns on the table -
It is undoubtedly a valuable practice, and that's where I lay the emphasis, as however much it is talked about, it's in the doing that the benefits are realized.
So as much as writing a commitment in a blog can purport to supporting real lived actions I hereby solemnly swear to follow it ... yes a rather preposterous tone indeed.
And it is good to see that humour and not-taking-oneself too seriously exists and is alive and well e.g. Natalyfay
A rifle through the links provided by cpd23 has got me setting my sights..
As for a structural device to write reflectively I would refer to Elaine Andrew's
Description - interpretation - Outcome
In Thoughts on learning processes and other musings there is a good description of Schon's reflection in action, reflection on action, as well as the interesting suggestion of using an alternative genre for reflective practice. An EXPLOSIVE idea!
'focussed stream of consciousness writing':- now there's an oxymoron I would be interested in implementing.
The round-up of reflective models(Greenway, Burton, kolb, Gibbs) is atomic, but usefully so. I thought that if you are trying to decide on what is worth reflecting upon, Burton's
What? So what? Now what
might be a useful shortcut to victory.
For the teaching/training aspect of my role (Assistant librarian in a health setting - an NHS hospital) Toby Adam's presentation brings lesson planning into the reflective cycle.
Reflective practice in Healthcare
It's a big time theme and I won't pretend to be knowledgeable about it but I can recommend (and as Sarah Stewart cites) Beverley Taylor's Reflective practice: a guide for nurses and midwives(2000), in particular for the practical exercises and the different types of reflection which are examined in some detail: - communicative(surrender or your dead), technical(we've got bigger, sleeker, sharper stones than you) & emancipatory (let's sign a peace accord and get back to living).
I hope my militaristic allusions upset no one. I was simply trying to make this writing more entertaining for myself.
Tuesday 5 July 2011
thing 4 twitter RSS pushnote
Twitter
I found it cool enough, but alas as with so much of the web, boredom is the danger. I used to just subscribe to one or two prolific monster tweeters. And be they as clear-noted and resilient as Hardy's Darkling Thrush one does tire in the absence of a plurality of birdsong.
Thanks to CPD23's recommendations, I have found more tweeters to follow, and so the plot thickens..
Yes Twitter is cool, especially the way you can recommend an article which many seem to insert with a shortened URL...
for example see @alanfricker recommending Steve Thornton's article on workplace research on the 8/7/11 at 15.53 >>>>that can't be a good way of recommending what somebody else recommended on twitter....how about a hyperlink?
goo.gl/wQUUW
RSS
Have used it a bit in theory....like set up Google reader, but that's not so accessible at work, so tends not to get looked at. Heard I. Kuhn recommend netvibes, perhaps that would display better and get around the IT restrictions at work
Feeds do provide access to info, but how to avoid death by mundane info sunami! Just have to stand up and surf I guess
Pushnote
Tried this and it's cool, a way to comment on sites and then push the comment onto your twitter or facebook page, and ever so simple...thanks CPD23!
Dropbox
Recommended by a librarian in manchester, basically you download it on to all your devices <<<-for me that's an iphone, twice resurrected macbook, unbelieveably slow yet reliable 10 year old dell laptop.... >>>
So you've got this folder with all your docs and and they are all up to date, no more toing and froing with darn usb stick...it's greaaaaat!
The chartership portfolio - no excuses now, it's in the saintly cloud!
I found it cool enough, but alas as with so much of the web, boredom is the danger. I used to just subscribe to one or two prolific monster tweeters. And be they as clear-noted and resilient as Hardy's Darkling Thrush one does tire in the absence of a plurality of birdsong.
Thanks to CPD23's recommendations, I have found more tweeters to follow, and so the plot thickens..
Yes Twitter is cool, especially the way you can recommend an article which many seem to insert with a shortened URL...
for example see @alanfricker recommending Steve Thornton's article on workplace research on the 8/7/11 at 15.53 >>>>that can't be a good way of recommending what somebody else recommended on twitter....how about a hyperlink?
goo.gl/wQUUW
RSS
Have used it a bit in theory....like set up Google reader, but that's not so accessible at work, so tends not to get looked at. Heard I. Kuhn recommend netvibes, perhaps that would display better and get around the IT restrictions at work
Feeds do provide access to info, but how to avoid death by mundane info sunami! Just have to stand up and surf I guess
Pushnote
Tried this and it's cool, a way to comment on sites and then push the comment onto your twitter or facebook page, and ever so simple...thanks CPD23!
Dropbox
Recommended by a librarian in manchester, basically you download it on to all your devices <<<-for me that's an iphone, twice resurrected macbook, unbelieveably slow yet reliable 10 year old dell laptop.... >>>
So you've got this folder with all your docs and and they are all up to date, no more toing and froing with darn usb stick...it's greaaaaat!
The chartership portfolio - no excuses now, it's in the saintly cloud!
Thing 3 marketing
Yes it's a great idea to personalise one's image or make it singular. After who want's to be a stereotype or use the template everyone else does, or maybe that's cool, same but different theme.
If this all sounds like teenage angst I best get to the point.
Yes it would be cool to personalise. How ? I would imagine by using cool graphics and becoming more web literate. Anyone have any ideas on how to be more graphically adept, as in what programs (preferably free) to try ones hand at?
More web literate - I mean just looking around and knowing what one likes, I guess that's different from like investigating the usability of web stuff.
Well I recommend stumbleupon as a great way to explore the web. You can specify your interests and receive weekly emails with links to related sites. It does really through up some interesting sites.
If this all sounds like teenage angst I best get to the point.
Yes it would be cool to personalise. How ? I would imagine by using cool graphics and becoming more web literate. Anyone have any ideas on how to be more graphically adept, as in what programs (preferably free) to try ones hand at?
More web literate - I mean just looking around and knowing what one likes, I guess that's different from like investigating the usability of web stuff.
Well I recommend stumbleupon as a great way to explore the web. You can specify your interests and receive weekly emails with links to related sites. It does really through up some interesting sites.
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