Monthly Archives: January 2015

Flipped Off

Posted on January 31, 2015 by L. M. Bernhardt

While the so-called flipped classroom may be all the rage right now*, I want to take a minute to talk about flipping the instructors and the designers of instruction. When I talk about flipped instructors**, what I mean is this: instructors who … Continue reading →

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Logic and Classification (crossposted)

Posted on January 23, 2015 by L. M. Bernhardt

[Originally posted on my MLIS blog] Two things occur to me as I begin my first week’s work in LIBR 202: 1. A little while ago, I wrote a little post on my complete failure to catalog my own massive … Continue reading →

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Both Sides Now: 7 Deadly Sins of Canvas Course Setup

Posted on January 23, 2015 by L. M. Bernhardt

One of the things I find most fascinating about both taking and teaching classes in the same learning management system (hereafter LMS), albeit for different schools and disciplines, is the opportunity to experience the effects of different instructional designs from the … Continue reading →

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Soupin’ It Up

Posted on January 21, 2015 by L. M. Bernhardt

In my ongoing quest to mess about with food until I find something I like to eat, I have once again returned to the lab in order to cook up a new monster: a vegetable soup with some pasta in … Continue reading →

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Light and Sound

Posted on January 18, 2015 by L. M. Bernhardt

I’m really a terrible photographer. I have no idea what I’m doing. If you want to have a long, thoughtful conversation with someone about lenses, I am not your huckleberry. I found a digital camera that lets me do what I … Continue reading →

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Making Joyful Noises

Posted on January 17, 2015 by L. M. Bernhardt

The Cherokee Jazz & Blues Festival is a fun way to fight the winter doldrums in snowy northwest IA, and I go whenever I can (heck, I was even a part of a band that played on the pub crawl, … Continue reading →

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Breathing Together

Posted on January 15, 2015 by L. M. Bernhardt

Take a moment and go watch this video of a Japanese women’s karate team doing a team kata at a competition. It’s been going ’round the interwebz for a bit, but I only happened to come across it this week, … Continue reading →

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In Which I Am Suddenly Afflicted With Craftiness

Posted on January 13, 2015 by L. M. Bernhardt

I have always been more than a bit of a magpie, forever jabbering and bouncing around from one shiny new thing to the next. Not an especially trend-conscious magpie, to be sure — if I’m going after a shiny new … Continue reading →

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Getting My Wordsworth On

Posted on January 12, 2015 by L. M. Bernhardt

The Library of Congress Flickr Stream never disappoints, and often truly delights. Today, let’s look at some recently posted images of Tintern Abbey, and come over all poetic-like. These photochrom prints are beautiful — the result of coloring black and white … Continue reading →

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Closed Systems in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction (AKA Why Bro Country SUCKS)

Posted on January 10, 2015 by L. M. Bernhardt

OK, kids, let’s talk for a minute about that mash-up of bro country hits going around on the ol’ interwebs right now. Just so we’re all caught up, here it is, in all of its revealing and horrifying glory:   … Continue reading →

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