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Trolley question blogjune 2014 #4
You are walking past a railway track and notice, to your horror, that five people are tied to the rails in the path of the oncoming rail trolley. You see that within reach is a lever that would divert...
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Fat man question blogjune #5
You are walking on a bridge above a railway track and notice, to your horror, that five people are tied to the rails in the path of the oncoming rail trolley. You see that in front of you is a man...
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Fat villain question blogjune #6
You are walking on a bridge above a railway track and notice, to your horror, that five people are tied to the rails in the path of the oncoming rail trolley. You see that in front of you is a man...
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Finding question blogjune #7
Where did I put them again ? Related posts: Fat man question blogjune #5 Fat villain question blogjune #6 Work day question blogjune 2014 #1
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Classic title question blogjune #8
Do androids dream of electric sheep? Related posts: Fat man question blogjune #5 Work day question blogjune 2014 #1 Fat villain question blogjune #6
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Customer service question #blogjune #9
I’ve been a loyal customer of bluehost.com for eight years now. If I renew my account hosting with them for one year, then it will cost me USD9.99 per month. For 3 years that would be USD6.99 per...
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I know that voice! question #blogjune #10
Did you know that Alan Rickman was both the voice of Marvin the Paranoid Android in the 2005 Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy movie, and also took on an American accent to play Tim Robbin’s financial...
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Maths acting and rock question blogjune #11
What do physicist Stephen Hawking and director of engineering at Google, Ray Kurzweil, have in common ? ˙ 2-2-4 ɟo sɹǝqɯnu ɥʇɐqqɐs-uoɔɐq-sopɹǝ ǝʌɐɥ ɥʇoq ʎǝɥʇ :ɹǝʍsuɐ For more (and the factette...
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Efficiency question blogjune #12
How can I meaningfully integrate lecture notes and readings into assessments so that there is an incentive for students to cover the material needed to become a successful professional ? Related posts:...
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Build-it-to-understand-it question blogjune #13
Given the cost of textbooks, would it be too costly or superfluous if I made students in my tech unit buy a Kano, assemble it and then do some of the coding exercises ? (Mine ships in the first lot,...
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Discussion question blogjune #14
I have long contended that a room full of books is simply a closet but an empty room with a librarian in it is a library Lankes, R. D. (2011). The atlas of new librarianship. Cambridge (Mass.);...
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Goosy, goaty, beany, corny question blogjune #15
A farmer has to cross a river. She has on her side a fox, a hen and a bucket of corn. She has a boat that will only take herself and one other item. If she leaves the fox with the hen, the fox will eat...
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Dell XPS1530 on the blink question #blogjune #16
Why when I push the power-on button does my Dell XPS 1530 display nothing on the screen, make a noise of the HDD going, have the caps lock and scroll lock lights on and the num lock flashing – and then...
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THATcamp question blogjune #17
When you see on a work colleague’s blog that the next THATcamp in Melbourne has as a theme “Pedagogy”, and then the next week your university seeks applications for funding for professional development...
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Instructions question blogjune #18
Will adding an instruction in my assessments to tell students that do not follow instructions that they need to follow instructions make them suddenly do so ? The dilemma of trying to give feedback...
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Self-reflexive question blogjune #19
What happened to today’s question ? Related posts: Fat villain question blogjune #6 Fat man question blogjune #5 Instructions question blogjune #18
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On Kate’s bandwagon.
Following Kate’s lead, here is what is happening for me: I’m reading – Portrait of a Marriage, Harold Nicholson; A Game of Thrones George R R Martin I’m watching – Mad Men. Waited for it to finish and...
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10 things we have stopped doing in libraries in the last 25 years
I have been working in libraries for about 28 years and been professionally qualified for about 25. Here are some things I have done in my career that we don’t do any more. 1. Found pictures of (insert...
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What if student effort, not institutional factors, determine the value of a...
Sometimes I am inspired by an article that states the obvious that, well, I need to have pointed out for me to see… college.library. (2012, February 7). Wendt WisCEL: students collaborating. Retrieved...
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So – some library things have not completely stopped…
I jumped the gun on Wednesday. I posted about 10 things we have stopped doing in libraries in the last 25 years. I think I should have called it 10 things we have (mostly) stopped doing in libraries in...
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