User:Researcherguy
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Hello: I am an academic librarian. I'm looking forward to this course; although I may be unable to attend all sessions live.Researcherguy (talk) 16:35, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Entered during class.Researcherguy (talk)
Profession
[edit]Academic librarian.
Intellectual Interests
[edit]I am interested in American social and cultural history and the evolution of reference sources. At present, as the books and courses listed below indicate, I am immersed in antebellum America. I am also interested in the way in which fiction enables readers, viewers, and listeners to experience the past. And I am committed to all legitimate ways in which learning can be offered freely -- with both style, ease, and refinement -- to everyone -- throughout the course of their lives.
Books Read Recently
[edit]- Northup, Solomon. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup: A Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and Rescued in 1853. Originally published in 1853. Wikipedia entries: Solomon Northup and Twelve Years a Slave.
- Jacobs, Harriet A., edited by Lydia Maria Child. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself. Originally published in 1860. Wikipedia entries: Harriet Ann Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
- Brown, William Wells. Clotel: or, The President's Daughter. Originally published in 1853. Wikipedia entries: William Wells Brown and Clotel: or, the President's Daughter.
- Horwitz, Tony. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War. Vintage, 1999. Wikipedia entries: Tony Horwitz and Confederates in the Attic.
- Howe, Katherine. Physick Book of Deliverance Dane. Voice, 2010. Wikipedia entries: Katherine Howe and Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.
- Keane, Mary Beth. Fever: A Novel. Scribner, 2013. Wikipedia entries: Mary Beth Keane and Typhoid Fever.
- Alison, Jane. The Love-Artist. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001. Wikipedia entries: Jane Alison and Virgil.
MOOCs: Completed or Enrolled
[edit]- Coursera: Age of Jefferson. Peter S. Onuf. University of Virginia and Monticello.
- Coursera: History of the Slave South. Stephanie McCurry. University of Pennsylvania.
- Coursera: Plagues, Witches and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction. Bruce Holsinger. University of Virginia.
Other Relevant Online Courses
[edit]- Google: Power Searching. Dan Russell. Google.
Wikipedia Articles Valuable for Teaching
[edit]- Wikipedia:Training/For Educators
- Featured Articles in Other Languages
- Searching
- Wikipedia (Overview)
- Wikipedia Featured Lists
- Portal: Contents/Portals
- Wikipedia:Starting An Article
- The Signpost (A newspaper by and for Wikipedians.)
- Wikipedia:Administration
- Wikipedia:Administrators
- Wikiperdia:Wikipedians
- Wikipedia:Bureaucrats
- Wikipedia:Popular Pages
Wikipedia Entries as Teaching Example
[edit]- Contents
- Wikipedia:Statistics
- William McKinley
- George Washington
- Wikipedia:Portal:Medicine
- Portal:Psychology
- Portal:History
- WikiProject: History
- Portal:Contents/History and Events
- Portal:Food
- Outline of Food Preparation
- Ukraine
- 2014 Crimean Crisis
- List of 19th-Century British Periodicals
Learning to Use and Build Wikipedia
[edit]- Wikipedia: About
- How Wikipedia Works
- Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
- Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Appendixes/Reader's Guide to Wikipedia
- Wikipedia: School of Open Course
- Wikipedia Talk: WikiProject Open
- Wikipedia:Tutorial (Editing)
- Instructional Videos on Using Wikipedia
- Piotrus/Wiki Course
Written Commentary on Wikipedia
[edit]- Scholarly Authority in a Wikified World. William Cronon, former president of the American Historical Association (2/2012)
- The Wikipedia, Possibilities and Opportunities. C. D'Aniello.
Video Commentary on Wikipedia
[edit]- Wikiality. The Colbert Report.
- Charlie Rose Interviews Jimmy Wales
- Steven Colbert Interviews Jimmy Wales (7/2013)
- Jimmy Wales at RSA Conference 2013
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Articles Worked On
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