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	<title>Monica Bulger's thoughts about digital literacy</title>
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	<description>The Search Myth: Quality Information is Not a Click Away</description>
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		<title>Teaching &amp; Learning with Digital Tools in the Humanities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[During graduate school, I participated in an experimental seminar, “Literature+: Cross-Disciplinary Models of Literary Interpretation,” taught by Alan Liu. He asked students to form groups around topics of their choosing and perform analyses using digital tools on their materials. Most students shared similar research interests and organized their projects around a content-based theme. Our group [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monicabulger.com/2012/01/teaching-learning-with-digital-tools-in-the-humanities/</link>
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		<title>New technologies are promising, but what about the teachers?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is not going to promise dramatic learning gains from using a new technology. It&#8217;s not one of those stories where at first a teacher was skeptical, but in the end, the classroom was like a sports movie where the technology scored the winning homerun. I feel skeptical when I read those stories. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monicabulger.com/2011/09/why-teachers-matter-more-than-new-technologies/</link>
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		<title>Will de-funding unravel the academic integrity of universities?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, the New York Times reported that in 2007, Deutsche Bank entered into an agreement with two German universities, Humboldt University and the Technical University of Berlin, to fund a mathematical laboratory. The problematic parts were the &#8216;secret&#8217; terms: according to the article, the Deutsche Bank could not only influence the hiring process, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monicabulger.com/2011/07/will-de-funding-unravel-the-academic-integrity-of-universities/</link>
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		<title>The Human Element of Academic Presentations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How often have you walked out of a room and barely remembered anything from a lecture or presentation? It feels that often presentations focus on information transfer rather than connection. If much of what is communicated in academic presentations could easily be done asynchronously, academics are regularly missing an opportunity to connect with and engage [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monicabulger.com/2011/07/the-human-element-of-presentations/</link>
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		<title>Learning from Google&#8217;s Big Tent Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I attended Google&#8217;s Big Tent Event in Hertfordshire. As an academic, I&#8217;m used to attending conferences at universities or Hiltons, not countryside resorts with helicopter pads. The event was held in a grand tent that could easily hold 500 people. It was well-insulated from weather and noise, carpeted, with an extraordinary sound and projection [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monicabulger.com/2011/05/learning-from-googles-big-tent-event/</link>
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		<title>Social Dimensions of Humanities Research</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eleven years after Brown &#38; Duguid (2000) released their Social Life of Information, we find that even in humanities, a field that typically conjures an image of a lone scholar toiling in dusty archives, the process of research is very much a social endeavor. Last week, in collaboration with the Research Information Network, we released [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monicabulger.com/2011/04/social-life-of-humanities-research/</link>
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		<title>Presentation about presentations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I presented to our DPhil seminar about creating and delivering compelling presentations. In our discussion, we particularly focused on audience need, presenter goals, and developing a clear, coherent story. For more information, I recommend Nancy Duarte&#8217;s slide:ology and Garr Reynold&#8217;s Presentation Zen. Creating &#38; Delivering Compelling Academic Presentations View more presentations from Monica Bulger. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monicabulger.com/2010/11/presentation-about-presentations/</link>
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		<title>AOIR 2010 presentation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My dissertation research will be presented at AOIR&#8217;s annual conference this week in Gothenburg, Sweden. Below is the abstract and presentation. Abstract: In university settings, students are increasingly required to conduct online research to complete course-related assignments, yet often receive little instruction in the skills necessary to proficiently locate, evaluate, and use the information they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monicabulger.com/2010/10/aoir-2010-presentation/</link>
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		<title>Media literacy by mail</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Postal Service is sending around a brochure titled &#8220;Do you know the warning signs of fraud?&#8221; It is brief, but surprisingly helpful. Here are some of their tips: Warning Signs Sounds too good to be true Pressures you to act &#8220;right away&#8221; Requires an upfront investment Play It Safe Never click on a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monicabulger.com/2010/10/media-literacy-by-mail/</link>
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		<title>For Amazon, e-books outsell hardcovers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today, Jeff Bezos announced e-books are outselling hardcovers at Amazon. What does the success of e-books mean for reading? I&#8217;ve been talking to people who read their Kindles or iPads on train rides or plane flights &#8212; and this is by no means a scientific sample &#8212; and most express surprise at how much they [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://monicabulger.com/2010/07/for-amazon-e-books-outsell-hardcovers/</link>
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