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Short and Sweet: Use Google Well

May 13, 2019

Using Google to identify images. … More Short and Sweet: Use Google Well

Completionists Can Be Really Annoying

August 8, 2017

As a perfectionist, I annoy the completionists around me who just want to get the task done. Over the years, I’ve learned to give up some of my tendencies. I know I’m far from, uh, perfect. This morning I approached my office to find the work table outside the front of it missing. That might … More Completionists Can Be Really Annoying

Gender Tendencies

July 27, 2017

I developed insomnia 4:00 one morning and never did fall back asleep. After an hour lying there, I decided to go for a run. This was actually a perfect plan because I was due for a one and hadn’t gotten one in the night before as I’d hoped. It was a little after 6 a.m. … More Gender Tendencies

Dualism and Gradations

July 21, 2017

• Cognitive development of the college student • [4 MIN READ] A few years ago I read an article about the cognitive development of the college student. It stood out to me because it described how students enter their undergraduate years with a dualistic view of the world. Through their 4 years of college, they … More Dualism and Gradations

Expecting Native Pronunciation of Names

June 20, 2017

I wrote once before about my practice of teaching people to pronounce my name the native Chinese way: Wäng. Lately I’ve spent more time and taken more opportunities to urge other people to teach Americans to say their names in authentically native ways. Sometimes those people are Chinese, but not always. Recently, I went to … More Expecting Native Pronunciation of Names

A Random Act of Recollection

June 5, 2016

How context shapes recollection and what that says about information literacy instruction. … More A Random Act of Recollection