Monthly Archives: December 2009

Dear Facebook: Leave Me Alone

By Iris | Published: Thursday, December 10th, 2009
My friends know that I have a complicated relationship with Facebook. Simply put: I hate it, but I can’t leave. The interface never made sense to me, the multiple audiences made participation hard for me, the quizzes cluttered everything up, college friends flaunted their perfect lives in my face (without meaning to, but it still [...]
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Communities of Inquiry

By Iris | Published: Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
I spent the last two afternoons in a workshop for professors who are thinking of teaching Carleton’s new first year seminars next year, so I’m now well steeped in thoughts about first year students. And the more I think about it, the more I think that my main goal for first year students is for [...]
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What is Information Literacy Anyway?

By Iris | Published: Monday, December 7th, 2009
Tomorrow I’m supposed to stand up in front of a group of faculty, all of whom are considering teaching one of the college’s new curriculum-wide freshman seminars next year, all of which must include some explicit practice developing information literacy. My task: explain information literacy to them in 10 easy minutes so that they can [...]
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