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Two Articles I Think You Should Read: Personal Branding AND ...

Two Articles I Think You Should Read: Personal Branding AND ... | Professional development of Librarians | Scoop.it

You may think this a throw away post however, there is real food for thought here and we have all seen those librarians at conferences wearing the outlandish earings and colourful homemade frocks but perhaps there is another valid reason why??

A happier Ingrid made a better librarian. The pink hair and glitter shoes helped me get remembered at conferences, but being memorable only gets you so far. All these unicorn brooches and dinosaur earrings and ...

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Learning about Visual Thinking Strategies

Learning about Visual Thinking Strategies | Professional development of Librarians | Scoop.it

The NY Times is beginning a new feature called "What's Going on in this Picture?" This post introduces Visual Thinking Strategies (V.T.S.).

"How do you make sense of what you see when you look at an image, especially if that image comes with no caption, headline, links or other clues about its origins? What can constructing meaning from an image teach you?"

While V.T.S. uses works of visual art, the NT Times will be using photojournalism and hosting an online discussion. On Monday they will post an image "with no caption, no headline and no helpful link back to an article." The goal is to answer "What's going on in this picture?" based on what you "can gather from the image itself."
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Via Beth Dichter, Sam Gliksman, Anna Hu
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