CogSci Librarian

Can’t protest? Not a protestor-type? Protesting & want to do more? Wired magazine has a list of suggestions. Including protest ART! Can’t Go Out and Protest? Here’s How to Help From Home...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2020/06/how-to-help-without-protesting.html

I discovered that Dropbox has a scanning feature. This would be a great option for a student who needs to copy or scan something in the library but doesn't want to bother (or pay) for our equipme...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/11/dropbox-as-phone-scanner.html

I created this infographic to help teach students some of the fun tips -n- tricks to searching Google. I developed it for a presentation by my colleague, Livis Freeman. He's going to ask his stud...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/11/search-tips-infographic.html

Check out some of my recent photos on Flickr , or follow me on Instagram ... or follow Stephanie's Vision on Facebook .

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/10/photos-and-more-photos.html

Credible or click-bait? News literacy? Checking facts? "Fake News"? which is, at best, just false or at worst a lie. How can you tell what's credible and what isn't? This needs to be taught, ef...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/03/news-in-post-truth-era.html

I'm switched up my teaching and am using a flipped classroom model to teach four sections of Advertising and Public Relations Research at UNC's School of Media & Journalism. Their class task is...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/01/flipping-information-literacy-classroom.html

I'm so glad to report that there is a good cognitive science podcast in the U.S.: Hidden Brain , hosted by NPR reporter Shankar Vedantam and available on NPR and wherever podcasts can be found. ...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2017/01/great-cogsci-podcast-called-hiddenbrain.html

I'm revising my instructional methods yet again this semester: I'm asking students to answer questions in advance of our time together. These questions typically relate to the assignment or mimic...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2016/09/teaching-topics.html

Information Now: A Graphic Guide to Student Research  by Matt Upson, C. Michael Hall, and Kevin Cannon is a terrific addition to the tools I use to teach students how to do online research. ...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2016/06/information-now-graphic-textbook-for.html

I've been busy taking photographs lately, so am spending less time immersed in cognitive science. Check out some of my photos on Flickr  or Instagram (same photos, different platform)

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2016/05/more-photos.html

I've been very involved in the North Carolina Library Association 61st Biennial Conference , and I've been able to collaborate with my colleagues and students at UNC's School of Media & Journali...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/10/make-it-matter-ncla15.html

The Associated Press has just uploaded "one million minutes of historical footage" to YouTube! It's an impressive collection.  Check it out on YouTube , or read their July 2015 press release A...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/08/ap-videos-free-online.html

As I was perusing the gorgeous displays at the Durham Farmer's Market today, I lingered at Piedmont Biofarm ... and discovered some fresh edamame. I've made it before, but this time I decided...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/08/fresh-cooked-edamame.html

My new favorite podcast is from online news outlet ProPublica . The official blurb about it is: The ProPublica Podcast is a weekly program featuring interviews with reporters about the la...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/06/podcast-from-propublica-or-how-news.html

I worked with 2015 PR major, Michelle Park, to promote the Park Library to students in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Our goal was to persuade students that talking to me could ...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/05/pr-collaborations-with-students.html

@teodor_thecat icons are essential. There are some great free ones on iconarchive , and there are some additional free ones on the iconka website  (here are the Cat Power icons ). You can also p...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/05/because-cats-are-essential-to-any.html

I'm building a collection of stylebooks for newspaper and other news outlets. The collection primarily includes titles from various newspapers in the United States, such as the the "AJC (Atlanta...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/05/collecting-news-style-guides-need.html

My SILS grad assistant and I presented some interesting research at the Librarians' Association at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill conference on March 13, 2015. Check out our...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/03/LAUNC-CH-15.html

The recent snow was a great opportunity to take bird photos - from the comfort of my own living room (and occasionally on the deck). This is my favorite from the 1400+ photos I took during the ...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2015/02/birds-in-snow-in-north-carolina.html

We adopted kittens Webster and Lucinda (not biological siblings, but fostered together) in August: he was about 4 months old and she was a month older. They were darling kittens and really got ...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/12/webster-superman-brown-we-hardly-knew-ye.html

Many of my research colleagues do content analysis on newspapers, and there's a new tool which may provide useful to them. Let's explore Voyant Tools, a "web-based reading and analysis environme...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/07/text-visualization-content-analysis.html

I truly enjoyed Catherine Anderson's Seeing with Quiet Eyes class at the John C. Campbell Folk School last week. I learned a lot and took some great photos. I bought an Easy-Macro  iPhone ...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/07/photo-apps-folkschool-phun-with-iphone.html

I will be learning to see with quiet eyes next week at the John Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC. I can't wait to spend a whole week immersed in photography -- all day, every day. I hope ...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/06/photo-camp-at-folkschool.html

I made two delicious dishes this weekend: Mark Bittman's Beet Roesti with Rosemary (from How to Cook Everything) Bittman blogged this recipe in the New York Times back in 2008: Beet Rosti W...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/06/late-spring-cooking.html

We adopted Darnarian from the MSPCA back in December, 2006 (see his welcome post ). He had a wonderful life with us, but he recently developed Feline Infectious Peritonitis, or FIP, or as I cal...

http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2014/05/darnarian-potamus-brown-rip.html