Friday, October 21, 2011

MOOC/Librarian connection

I put together a MOOC/librarian concept map for a conference on professional development for academic librarians. My professional focus is information literacy instruction, which the map reflects. I'm mixing and matching ACRL and SCONUL views of info lit, so I apologize to any purists. I may be missing some important connections due to my focus. I would appreciate any comments, suggestions or input.

Friday, October 7, 2011

your images tell a story of anything at all.

How do my images tell a story of anything at all? This image says something about symbiosis, I suppose, or emergence. Or the problems of getting good focus on an iphone, for that matter. Taken as a whole, my photos might tell a tale of bizarre obsession.
I took a walk during a break at work a few years ago, and found this strange fungus growing out of the side of a tree, like a bark-born starfish fungus hatching to life, in a ritzy suburban area where expert lawncare appears mandatory, and mushrooms are probably a zoning violation. It occurred to me at the time that I had a camera in my phone that I never used, so I took a picture. I kept running into more interesting growths, and ended up with a Flickr-ful of them. I found a huge one in the cemetery, where the groundkeepers had carefully mowed around it, probably thinking a rock or headstone. It seems like I should do something with them, but I have no idea what...