misc-joy

Category: teaching

  • Literacy and the Blogging Landscape

    As a community college librarian, I’ve often experienced that it’s just go, go, go from day one of the semester. We do what we know because it’s easy and less time intensive.  Finding space for experimentation doesn’t always appear. Then, every once a while, something comes along where we can stop and consider the possibility. I’m at…

  • Where are we going with social software?

    On my drive from Ojai to Fresno last night I listened to the recent Library 2.0 Gang episode on Social Software in Libraries. A great conversation well worth the 45-minutes. Further, this week I’ve been setting up a WordPressMU and BuddyPress installation at classes | kenleyneufeld to be used for online instruction and my new…

  • Librarians Can Be So Strange

    via youtube.com After you watch the video, head over to the Library 101 site and read the essays and other ideas. Strange but GREAT and CREATIVE.

  • Building a Social Library

    Today I had the privilege to speak with 40 high school and community college librarians about building a social library. The event took place at the Powell Library at UCLA at the invitation of Esther Grassian. Though I created a Keynote Presentation (below) and demonstrated how one could use drop.io with groups, the majority of…

  • Are you an edupunk librarian?

    It’s risky business…talking about limited money/funding when you still have some money/funding. Some might suggest, based on this exploration, that if you can do without the money then we’ll take away what you have already. This discussion is more of an exploration in planning. Planning is important for leaders to consider, especially with the potential…

  • Video of Reference Desk Toolkit

    Recorded with my Flip MinoHD camera, but only captured first 23-minutes because I had recorded the first presenter. Reference Desk Toolkit from Kenley Neufeld on Vimeo.

  • Reference Desk Toolkit

    I’ve been invited to a presentation on reference desk tools at Mt. San Antonio College on Friday, April 17. The moderated panel presentation is sponsored by CARLDIG-South and I will be sharing the stage with Michelle Jacobs of UCLA and Amy Wallace of CSU Channel Islands. If I remember to video or audio my talk,…