One of the reuirements of my program is having GRE scores. I took it last in a steaming hot room at IU Bloomington in Summer 1986. I’m off to the Test center now for a four hour computer-based test. I hate math!
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Hello from Texas!! We are back! The cohort lost a member and gained a member over the summer. A picture will follow as soon as I can get one. This weekend is devoted to a class called “Seminar in Communication and Use of Information” taught by Dr. Linda Schamber. It is incredibly interesting, will be challenging but will give us a big push toward the final outcome of this process. More in a bit…
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In June, I attended the first weekend Institute for the UNT IMLS distance independent PhD program. We spent the weekend getting to know each other, the faculty and generally freaking because of how new this academic experience was to all of us. After that weekend, we were responsible for completing 3 courses for a total of 9 credit hours online. The ladies in the cohort are neat folks. I enjoyed every minute we spent together. We are diverse but I recognize the passion for library stuff in all of us. Statistics was a rollercoaster of ?I can?t do this.? To […]
My friend David just sent this as I finish up my first semester: I think this is very fitting for you: ‘Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.’ -Henry David Thoreau
I should have posted last week but travel to ALA and then zipping right up to Traverse City wore me out. I’m deep in statisctics and two other course via the Web for UNT so I’m taking a few days to focus on school. The readings have been fascinating so far: histories of info science, examinations of cryptography, etc. Stats… uhhh, don’t ask! Look for me in a few days! Rock On!
Each of us has an assignment to get ten people to take this survey so we can generate data for our stats work. Maybe a few of my blog visitors can assist me. http://rss.acs.unt.edu:8080/users/slis6940/survey/satisfy_life/ Please take just a few minutes to help me out! Thanks!
Sunday class time was 9am-3pm with time for a carried in lunch. we chatted a whole lot more about the whole experience and talked about future Institutes in Denton. We will spend weekends in Texas: August October December January 2005 will have fewer meetings and more online stuff. The last part of the day was spent with Dr. Richard herrington, who will be teaching our online class SLIS 6940 Seminar in Research and Research Methodology. The text is an InfoToday book (yeah!) Statistical Methods for the Information Professional: A Practical, Painless Approach to Understanding, Using, and Interpreting Statistics by Liwen […]
Day Two was spent in class with Dr. O’Connor. IMLS 6000, the introductory Info Science course, is an overview of the studylife of a doctoral student. We discussed the nature of information, definitions of what information is (and yes, a digital file of a Fleetwood Mac song is information…) and such topics as entropy. At noon time we headed to lunch at Johnny Corrino’s across the way from the Hampton. I had the BEST low carb salmon dish ever. The afternoon was spent discussiong various PPTs that Dr. O’Connor presented. It was also one of the times a few of […]