Csikszentmihalyi, M. (1990). Flow: The psychology of optimal experience. New York: Harper & Row. Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. – – - William Butler Yeats The Yeats quote is a … Continue reading
I just finished reading a complementary download (free for signing up to Michael Hyatt’s blog emails) of the book Creating Your Personal Life Plan: A Step-by-Step Guide for Designing the Life You’ve Always Wanted . I suppose I should preface … Continue reading
I just finished listening to Tony Danza read his new book: “I’d Like to Apologize to Every Teacher I Ever Had: My Year as a Rookie Teacher at Northeast High.” Tony, known by many from his TV sitcom days, originally … Continue reading
Bit Literacy is not a particularly new book (it is currently available free on Kindle and iBookstore!). It was, after all, published in 2007, but its tag line: Productivity in the Age of Information and Email Overload, still strikes a … Continue reading
Here at Kennesaw State, we in the Sturgis Library have just started a professional development reading group. Our first book was on neither librarianship nor education, nor even on leadership. It wasn’t one of the year’s hot new books, either. … Continue reading
Over the past week I have been listening to an audiobook as I have been out and about in my car. I particularly love audiobooks that are read by the authors who wrote them, and this was just such a … Continue reading