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Updated CV & My Dossier

StephensCV2012

Just updated my CV for my 2nd year retention, tenure & promotion dossier.

Curious about the dossier? I made a video!

TTW Chosen as One of Top 50 Ed Tech Blogs!

 

http://www.edtechmagazine.com/higher/article/2012/05/deans-list-50-must-read-higher-education-technology-blogs

Thanks EdTech and thanks to the fine folks that write with me here at TTW.

Happy 9th Birthday Tame the Web!

I missed it by two days, but I wanted to acknowledge that TTW turned 9 on Sunday. Here’s the first post – back in the OLD TTW archives in iBlog format (remember that?) I want to send a big shout out and thank you to everyone who [...]

Best wishes for 2012

Best wishes!, a photo by Rob Coers on Flickr.

From my friend and colleague Rob Coers comes this lovely image. To all TTW readers, peace, love and light for 2012.

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Happy Holidays from TTW!

TTW Nominated for Edublogs

I am honored that Tame the Web has been nominated for Best library / librarian blog 2011 at The Edublog Awards site. The other nominees are some stellar blogs within our field and I’m knocked out to be among them.

However – I must note that TTW is much more now than just me, it’s also [...]

New Position, New Endeavors

What challenge will you seek out today? How will you continue to learn? Maybe next to my “still learning” plaque, I’ll place a Post-it as another reminder: “Find your next challenge.”

Last Thursday I accepted an offer to join the full time faculty at San Jose State University School of Library & Information Science. [...]

Take Heart

Tony Tallent, Director of Literacy and Learning at the Richland County Public Library in Columbia, SC sends along a poem by bell hooks that speaks to me:

…take hold

take heart

and enter here

at this point

where truth

was once denied.

Thanks Tony!

Are you a cynic or a builder?

This seems so appropriate for this time of year:

http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/how-will-you-use-your-gifts-in-2011/

Jeff Bezos had some questions in a commencement speech given this year – they ring especially true to me:

How will you use your gifts? What choices will you make?

Will inertia be your guide, or will you follow your passions?

Will you follow dogma, [...]

Wishing Everyone Happy Holidays from TTW!