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    Self-Assessment – Getting Students To Practice A Critical Skill
    By Doug Johnson
    In Advocates, Digital, Library
    Posted July 21, 2020

    Self-Assessment – Getting Students To Practice A Critical Skill

    In addition to their regular projects, I often required the graduate students in my library management classes to create an assessment by which those projects could be evaluated – a [...]

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    Make Love Of Reading The First Objective
    By Doug Johnson
    In Advocates, Classroom, Library
    Posted July 21, 2020

    Make Love Of Reading The First Objective

    “The myths we allow ourselves to believe about reading will continue to shape the reading lives of those we teach. We have to stop ourselves from harming the reading experience. We have to [...]

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    Revisiting Plagiarism-Proofing Assignments
    By Doug Johnson
    In Classroom, Library, Library Transformation
    Posted February 27, 2020

    Revisiting Plagiarism-Proofing Assignments

    In his Assorted Stuff blog, my friend Tim Stahmer, looks at our old educational nemesis plagiarism and how technology is making it easier to use other’s work than one’s own to [...]

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    The Year-Round School
    By Doug Johnson
    In Advocates, Digital, Library
    Posted June 11, 2018

    The Year-Round School

    Tim Stahmer at Assorted Stuff has a dead-on post, It’s Closing Time, about stopping and starting “school” every summer. He shares my pet peeve about closing libraries [...]

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