Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
-- Gertrude Stein (February 3, 1874 – July 27, 1946)
For some one who was born in 19th century, Gertrude Stein's insight on the interruption of information in daily life is even more valid in 21st century.
Today we live in a world with Internet that connected lot of information for our access and with social media that demand our personal time.
Social medias turn our life to fragmented pieces. Time unit in our work is smaller and our work is like a fabric for small patch work.
You need focus to piece information together to create meaning which is long lasting and valuable. A life patch work needs a focus theme, unique design and perseverance in the stitching process.
If you are just doing lot of connection without focus, all the e-stitching will be similar to the building of sand castle. The beautiful things you build and all the unique features you painfully designed will be nice for the eyes, yet it is not long lasting. New trends, will come and it will be like tide that wipes the sand castle away and leave no trace of of it.
Do you like to have to take more time, do more thought processing and create a meaningful patch work to warm your heart and soul, and make it a heirloom piece for the next generation!
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
By teaching that we teach ourselves
It is by teaching that we teach ourselves,
by relating that we observe,
by affirming that we examine,
by showing that we look,
by writing that we think.
--- Henri Frederic Amiel
Being a Librarian in the first part of my career, I had been asked by many friends and library users the following question:
"You must be reading a lot, hence acquire a lot of knowledge, right?"
I think my ex-library colleague from NIE gave a very good answer in the form of "counter questioning":
"Do you think being a staff at a bank, counting a lot of money every day, makes the banking staff a rich person?"
I think librarian touches a lot of books in the process of work and read a lot of book cover, book spine, call number and contents pages etc...
Being a librarian in the pass few decades, and now a library trainer and assessor, I may have easy assess to books in many libraries and searched and found useful information in many databases.
Yet all the books and information were irrelevant until I have a need to match the knowledge for some internal or external needs.
In very small way, I read to acquire some information and knowledge to fill my personal quest.
In most of my working hours, I was not acquire in-depth knowledge, but fight against time to fulfil daunting tasks of find information on behalf of library users. I learn to acquire the key to information and knowledge. I hold the key, yet the treasure in the room is not in my possession.
Hence, I search the OPAC, online databases, academic journals and indexes in the book more often and do it much better than general public.
Being a librarian, the job is to acquire the searching skills and browse many unwanted inform before we find the right one we need for our users.
In the process, we enrich our knowledge of "access to information" and very likely, we can and may deploy it if we have the time for the "knowledge tour" and become knowledgeable in a field of study!
If we are able to do it better than other, we are given the opportunity to teach, hence, "it is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think."
Cheers!
Dexterine Ho
by relating that we observe,
by affirming that we examine,
by showing that we look,
by writing that we think.
--- Henri Frederic Amiel
Being a Librarian in the first part of my career, I had been asked by many friends and library users the following question:
"You must be reading a lot, hence acquire a lot of knowledge, right?"
I think my ex-library colleague from NIE gave a very good answer in the form of "counter questioning":
"Do you think being a staff at a bank, counting a lot of money every day, makes the banking staff a rich person?"
I think librarian touches a lot of books in the process of work and read a lot of book cover, book spine, call number and contents pages etc...
Being a librarian in the pass few decades, and now a library trainer and assessor, I may have easy assess to books in many libraries and searched and found useful information in many databases.
Yet all the books and information were irrelevant until I have a need to match the knowledge for some internal or external needs.
In very small way, I read to acquire some information and knowledge to fill my personal quest.
In most of my working hours, I was not acquire in-depth knowledge, but fight against time to fulfil daunting tasks of find information on behalf of library users. I learn to acquire the key to information and knowledge. I hold the key, yet the treasure in the room is not in my possession.
Hence, I search the OPAC, online databases, academic journals and indexes in the book more often and do it much better than general public.
Being a librarian, the job is to acquire the searching skills and browse many unwanted inform before we find the right one we need for our users.
In the process, we enrich our knowledge of "access to information" and very likely, we can and may deploy it if we have the time for the "knowledge tour" and become knowledgeable in a field of study!
If we are able to do it better than other, we are given the opportunity to teach, hence, "it is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think."
Cheers!
Dexterine Ho
Friday, November 27, 2009
Graphic Organizers
When I teach mind mapping using the Software "Inspirations", Graphic Organizers http://www.graphic.org/goindex.html is a site that I use to explain and expand the concept of mind map.
The Graphic organizer, a mind mapping software similar to "Inspirations" illustrates concept mapping, and mind mapping with good examples.
Some resources you might find useful for teaching mind mapping and concept mapping can be found on the "References and Links" page at"
http://www.graphic.org/links.html
You can use the rich resources to help motivate the students to organize their thoughts. After they understand the use of mind map, they can apply and it to increase recall and assist understanding.
Teaching mind mapping this way can create interest and combat boredom!
The Graphic organizer, a mind mapping software similar to "Inspirations" illustrates concept mapping, and mind mapping with good examples.
Some resources you might find useful for teaching mind mapping and concept mapping can be found on the "References and Links" page at"
http://www.graphic.org/links.html
You can use the rich resources to help motivate the students to organize their thoughts. After they understand the use of mind map, they can apply and it to increase recall and assist understanding.
Teaching mind mapping this way can create interest and combat boredom!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Information
Information is our most precious resource, limited only by the constraints of human intelligence, innovation and imagination.
However, like most resources, it is not shared equally.
I would like to see full and free sharing of information and knowledge, across all sectors and borders, guided by the shared values and unversal language of human rights.
-- Mary Robinson, Former president of Ireland
Being a former librarian, and now teaching the information studies courses, I understand that it is a long to go for any one who works in the library and information field to achieve the goal of Mary Robinson.
Nevertheless, I think with our (anyone who possess valuable information and knowledge) collective efforts, we can close the gap and make free sharing of information and knowledge, across all sectors and borders possible!
Dexterine Ho
However, like most resources, it is not shared equally.
I would like to see full and free sharing of information and knowledge, across all sectors and borders, guided by the shared values and unversal language of human rights.
-- Mary Robinson, Former president of Ireland
Being a former librarian, and now teaching the information studies courses, I understand that it is a long to go for any one who works in the library and information field to achieve the goal of Mary Robinson.
Nevertheless, I think with our (anyone who possess valuable information and knowledge) collective efforts, we can close the gap and make free sharing of information and knowledge, across all sectors and borders possible!
Dexterine Ho
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