Teaching in Higher Ed

Academic personal knowledge management workflow

with Crystal Renfro

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Librarians can be such a wonderful resource to us as faculty. Today's guests are Georgia Tech Academic Librarians: Mary Axford and Crystal Renfro. They  have been a tremendous help to me – and I've never even met them in person. Call it a testament to the power of academic personal knowledge management…

Episode 9: Academic personal knowledge management

These are the notes from our dialog together about academic personal knowledge management for academic researchers and librarians.

Podcast notes

Guests

Crystal Renfro

Mary Axford

The comments made by Crystal and Mary during the podcast are their own opinions and do not represent those of Georgia Tech.

Academic personal knowledge management

Our recent PKM discoveries

PKM Foundations

  • Compares it to a Trapper Keeper folder; Ways of organizing information (Crystal)
  • First discovery of PKM was from a colleague at Georgia Tech, Elizabeth Shields (Mary)
  • Loves using Evernote: Helped her accomplish a move a few years back in a very short time (Mary)

Academic databases and PKM

How the databases have kept up, as well as how the researchers have kept up with the new features (Crystal)

It's very individual. What works for one person may not work for someone else.

Be sure that you don't let the ‘doing the tool' well become more the goal versus achieving your purpose with the tool. (Crystal)

Recommendations

ProfHacker  |  GradHacker  |  Catherine Pope's The Digital Researcher  (Mary)

Tweet about the random sandwich generator from Dan Szymborski (Bonni)

ScoopIt : Robin Good's Scoop.it sites on content curation (Crystal)

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Workflow show – Personal knowledge management tools

with Dave Stachowiak

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Enough with the hypothetical. Now we share what tools we use in our personal knowledge management systems.

Podcast notes

This episode walks through each of the phases of a personal knowledge management system and the tools we each use for each step.

Discipline of finding information, making meaning of it, and sharing it with others.

 

 

pkmtools

Personal knowledge management definition

“Discipline of seeking from diverse sources of knowledge, actively making sense through action and experimentation and sharing through narration of your work and learning out loud.” – Harold Jarche

Key posts on PKM from Harold Jarche

Bonni's online PKM modules

Framework

Bonni and Dave describe what tools we use in each of the stages of personal knowledge management.

Seek – capture

Feedly

Newsify

Mr. Reader

Unread

Podcasts

Follow Dave on Twitter

Follow Bonni on Twitter

Subscribe to Bonni's Twitter lists

RSS

NextDraft: The day's most fascinating news

Audible

Drafts

Sense – curate

Dave's Pinboard

Bonni's Delicious

Evernote

Share – create

WordPress.com – free blog, good place to get started, but for most customization, you will want a self-hosted WordPress site

20 minute tutorial by Michael Hyatt on how to start your own self-hosted WordPress blog / website

Twitter

LinkedIn

Facebook

Recommendations

TextExpander (Dave)

Breevy (Bonni)

Feedback

On this episode: https://teachinginhighered.com/8

Comments, questions, or feedback:  https://teachinginhighered.com/feedback

Personal knowledge mastery

with Dave Stachowiak

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Personal knowledge management and mastery. How to capture information, curate it, and create new knowledge from it. It can be so challenging to keep up with everything we have on our plates, let alone to what's happening in the world and in areas that are most important to us.

Podcast notes

Guest: Dave Stachowiak

This episode introduces the terms personal knowledge mastery and management.

Discipline of finding information, making meaning of it, and sharing it with others.

pkmtools

Personal mastery

“Personal mastery is a discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.” -Peter Senge

Personal knowledge management

Harold Jarche's PKM resources

Harold Jarche's introductory video

Personal knowledge mastery

Skills for 2020

KickStarter campaigns

StorkStand

Potato salad

Framework

Seek – capture

Sense – curate

Share – create

Definition

“Discipline of seeking from diverse sources of knowledge, actively making sense through action and experimentation and sharing through narration of your work and learning out loud.” – Harold Jarche

Key posts on PKM from Harold Jarche

Bonni's online PKM modules: 

1. Introduction to PKM

2. PKM demo (the actual tools I use in my PKM process)

3. PKM for academics

Recommendations

Practical Typography by Butterick (Dave)

Dave Pell's NextDraft – The day's most fascinating news (Bonni)

Feedback

On this episode: https://teachinginhighered.com/7

Comments, questions, or feedback:  https://teachinginhighered.com/feedback

Eight seconds that will transform your teaching

with Dave Stachowiak

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How can we use silence to condition our students to answer the questions we pose?

Podcast notes: Eight seconds of silence that will transform your teaching

It is counter-intuitive. We want students to engage with us, so we pose questions. Then, they just look at us, or down at their desks, with a pained or bored expression. We decide this whole question-asking thing is for the birds… or, at least, for a different kind of class/discipline than the one in which we teach.

Guest: Dave Stachowiak

How we condition ourselves not to ask questions and condition our students not to answer them.

We try to get our students to engage by asking a question. They stare back at us, blankly. It's awkward.

Thinking in terms of what to cover in class, versus where the needs actually are.

What has to happen before a student will answer a question.

  1. Process what's been asked.
  2. See if they can formulate an answer to the question.
  3. Formulate an answer in their head (how they will convey their answer).
  4. Decide if it is safe to answer.
  5. Raise their hand, or speak (depending on the cultural rules in the classroom).

The 8 second rule takes this time I to account. It used the power of silence to pressure students to take to risk of engaging.

EdTech Finds

Broadening the definition of EdTech for the purpose of sharing a couple things that have captured our attention:

Evernote water bottle (Bonni) After recording the show, I saw that not only is this a great water bottle, but it is also associated with a great cause: WaterAid.

Turning off email on phone (Dave); Essentialism book

What this Trader Joe’s sign teaches us about professional development

with Dave Stachowiak

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Overcome the excuses we make that stop us from pursuing more professional development opportunities in this episode of Teaching in Higher Ed.

There's a sign posted in our local (and beloved) grocery store: Trader Joe's. “Please do not use this machine if you have not been trained,” it reads. The machine in question is a drink dispenser. As absurd as this is, in some cases, there's more training required to dispense raspberry lemonade than there is to teach a college class.

traderjoesdrink

 

Guest: Dave Stachowiak

There are abundant resources out there for professional development, but we can sometimes be held back by our own excuses.

Professional development excuses and opportunities

Here are the most common excuses for not pursuing more training on how to teach and how to overcome each of them:

Not enough time

      1. Adam Grant's Give and Take
      2. Essentialism by Greg McKeown
  • When you're waiting (Pocket)

Too hard to keep up

  • Subscribing to blogs (feedly)
  • Twitter
  • Bonni's professional development Twitter lists:
    1. Teaching in Higher Ed
    2. EdTech
    3. Teaching and learning centers
    4. ProfHacker

My discipline is unique

Nothing I've tried before works

  • Filming or recording yourself teaching

My university doesn't dedicate resources for professional development

EdTech tools

JotPro stylus (Dave)

iAnnotate (Bonni)