To celebrate Open Education Week 2022, San Mateo County (Calif.) Community College District and the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME) are hosting a Zoom-based conversation about Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) opportunities for Career and Technical Education.
You can join the Zoom meeting here: https://smccd.zoom.us/j/84255431012.
Continue Reading →I attended #OpenEd21, the online Open Education Conference, from October 18 – 22, 2021. There were many outstanding sessions at the conference. Fortunately, many of the presentations were recorded and made publicly available. I highlight a few of the sessions I attended below.
I recommend scanning the presentation titles on the conference schedule for those that appear interesting and relevant to you. At the page for each presentation, I recommend also following the link to its topic (such as Open Education 101) for more sessions that were on the same topic.
Introduction to OER
Next week is Open Education Week 2022!
Here are a few links to get you started thinking about Open Educational Resources (OER):
Meanwhile, Durham Tech has earmarked $40,000 from HEERF to support adoption and implementation of OER in the classroom. I am chairing the OER Task Force, which is responsible for allocating those funds. We believe that OER’s proven effectiveness in helping students successfully complete their coursework is one of the reasons expanding OER at Durham Tech is a key component of the Strategic Plan.
Subscribe to the Library blog for more OER posts during Open Education Week 2022!
Have you read a book that changed your perspective and that you think would be valuable for your peers or colleagues to read?
Let us know by filling out our form: You Should Read This Book! [the form]
Answers will be shared anonymously in a future blog post and will be used for consideration in an upcoming library group read initiative.
There is a new art gallery on campus! Learn all about it from Liz McFarlane, Director of Development for the Durham Tech Foundation. Who is the gallery named for? How was it created? Who gets to decide what art goes into it? Find out all this and more!
Learn more about our new Recording Room and our Tech Tools on our website. Use the ‘Reserve Our Recording Room’ form to reserve the Recording Room up to six weeks in advance.
Liz read Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret by Catherine Coleman Flowers (available through interlibrary loan), A Year in Provence by Peter Mayle (available through interlibrary loan), and My Name is Anton.
Check out our Black History Month collection in the Dogwood Digital Library. E-books and Audiobooks for everyone!
Find the 2022 Read Great Things Challenge on the Library Blog (and don’t forget to subscribe).
Follow the library on Facebook and Instagram. Contact me, Courtney Bippley, at bippleyc@durhamtech.edu. Contact the Durham Tech Library at library@durhamtech.edu.
Music for this podcast was made by Robert Isaacs.
Emotional intelligence is HARD, but being able to identify where your emotions are coming from and actually having the language to identify those emotions (and the differences between them) can help.
This book was read via audiobook by Meredith Lewis, the (mostly) Orange County Campus Librarian.
Title: Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Author and Narrator: Brené Brown
Genre: Psychology, Social Science, Self-Help/Awareness/Mindfulness
Read Great Things 2022 Categories: A happy or hopeful book; Blast from the past: A book that will help you with your self-care (2021), A social science book (2019)
Why did you choose to read this book?
Quite simply, I needed an audiobook to listen to while I was doing some work with my hands.
I’m not always great with audiobooks; I get confused listening to high fantasy without being able to see some of the words, and with other genres, I tend to just zone out depending on the narrator. I’ve used familiar audiobooks to fall asleep so often that sometimes they just make me sleepy.
I picked this book up (digitally) because I know a lot about Brené Brown but hadn’t actually read anything by her before. I only read about one self-help-y book a year (strangely, around this same time each year– last time it was Wintering by Katherine May, also partially by audiobook). I’ll be honest: I didn’t expect to listen to more than an hour or so–it was just meant to be noise company–but Brown’s engaging narration style (it’s like a very long podcast) and the actual content of the book kept me interested. I’m very interested in emotion science and emotional intelligence since it has so much to do with how we navigate the world and how we react to conflicts or stress.
Continue Reading →Having a hard time choosing what books to read during Black History Month? We’ve got your back!
We created a Black History Month collection in our Dogwood Digital Library for you to browse through. We have new and popular titles like Will by Will Smith, The 1619 Project by Nikole Hannah-Jones, and The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee. Use your Durham Tech username and password to log in and check out books!
Continue Reading →Check out what’s new on the shelf at the Orange County Campus Library!
We’ve got history, a little mystery, some memoir, cookbooks, and jellyfish!
And more!
Continue Reading →Need a quiet space to attend a webinar? Or record a lesson? Or present at a conference? Or go to a meeting?
Have we got the space for you!
Introducing the [long talked about and now finally mostly finished] Main Campus Library RECORDING ROOM!
I know you’ve been missing the library podcast. But the good news is that we’re back! Ready fill your ears with library content in 2022.
Learn about comics and graphic novels from English instructor Patrick Morris. He joined us to answer explain what the difference between comics and graphic novels is. And, makes recommendations to people who haven’t read any before. He has passion and knowledge to share!
Learn more about our new Recording Room and our Tech Tools on our website. Use the ‘Reserve Our Recording Room’ form to reserve the Recording Room up to six weeks in advance.
Patrick Morris read Y: The Last Man (available through interlibrary loan) and The Nickel Boys (available at the Main Campus Library and as an audiobook in the Dogwood Digital Library). We also discussed Ms. Marvel and Hyperbole and a Half. Find them through the library!
Find the 2022 Read Great Things Challenge on the Library Blog (and don’t forget to subscribe).
Follow the library on Facebook and Instagram. Contact me, Courtney Bippley, at bippleyc@durhamtech.edu. Contact the Durham Tech Library at library@durhamtech.edu.
Music for this podcast was made by Robert Isaacs.