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Giving Thanks 2021: ShapingEDU Promoting Internet Access
When a few of us involved as volunteer community leaders in the ShapingEDU project (under the auspices of the University Technology Office at Arizona State University) asked ourselves in May 2020 what...
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Giving Thanks 2021: ShapingEDU and the Art of Gathering During (and After)...
Writing about ShapingEDU and Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering recently as part of this continuing series of blog posts has made me more grateful than ever for the people and communities that serve...
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Giving Thanks 2021: ShapingEDU, Saying “Yes,” and Documenting Pandemic...
One of the words that leaves me feeling happiest is “yes.” The power of the word “yes” first became obvious to me when I was listening to a (horrible) guest speaker in a graduate-level management...
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Fostering Creative Collaborations: CoSN and ShapingEDU
Participating in two recent highly-interactive and engaging CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) online summits woke me up a bit to the latest fruit coming off the tree of creative...
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Storytelling to Inspire Positive Action
Learning opportunities that turn in on themselves have always appealed to me. I jump at the chance, for example, to facilitate webinars about how to facilitate webinars. Or presentations on how to...
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CLA Conference 2022: Thanks for the Gifts
For three hours yesterday, I was shoulder to shoulder with a wonderful group of colleagues facilitating a highly-interactive advocacy workshop for people working with libraries and the communities...
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Creating, Collaborating, and Appreciating: Building Step by Step
Reading Oliver Burkeman’s wonderful Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals makes me realize how so many of the challenges we face in training-teaching-learning carry over into...
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Giving Thanks 2023: Maurice Coleman and T is for Training at 350
Maurice Coleman There are few more engaging online meeting places for trainer-teacher-learners working in or with libraries, library associations, and library consortia than Maurice Coleman’s fabulous...
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Giving Thanks 2023: Learning Through Mentoring—The Two-way Street
Anyone who has ever been involved in mentoring knows that it is a fabulously rewarding two-way street and an essential part of our training-teaching-learning landscape. Protégés working with...
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Strengthening Our Communities: Robert Fuller on the “Rankism” of Somebodies...
We spend quite a bit of time trying to strengthen our communities by discussing and attempting to address diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. We also, in our better moments, pursue the concept...
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