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Labour Day feels more like New Years to me than January 1st so I need some resolutions!
We’re just a few days away from Labour Day. Thankfully, a holiday here in Canada! It also marks the start of the school year for most institutions of higher learning, including the one I work at. So, I find that it feels more like the beginning of the new year than January 1st has ever for me. I even find I do more social things on the Labour Day long weekend than I do for New Years Eve. Am I alone on this feeling?
I have some New Years resolutions for this year, how about you? Listed in no particular order:
- Find more ways to make my teaching more interactive and even less lecture-based (inspired by a comment made by a certain lovely French coworker).
- Continue with the gluten and lactose free diet because my health is the best it’s ever been and I’m no longer anemic for the first time in a decade. As part of that, experiment with a Raw Foodist lifestyle since it offers many ways to prepare good tasting food without gluten or dairy products.
- Adapt to the new bus route system to continue to be efficient in my time commuting.
- Read all of the books I’ve bought recently about librarianship.
- Finish my thesis.
- Create more online tutorials for my library.
- Try totally new ways to deliver information literacy to library patrons (I’ve already started this by making my very first posters about some of our databases. Never made posters about databases before.).
- Take professional risks.
- Apply to PhD programs (I go on prepaid leave Sept. ‘09 and hope to start my degree then).
- Think of new ways to integrate different cultural viewpoints into my work in library instruction, promotional materials, library displays, etc.
- Get more crafts done!
If you have advice on how to stick to them, I’d love to hear it!
Posted by Laurie on August 28th, 2008 under Laurie speaks!One Response to “Labour Day feels more like New Years to me than January 1st so I need some resolutions!”
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September 8th, 2008 at 1:06 pm
Why do you want to “Find more ways to make my teaching more interactive and even less lecture-based”? Do you believe interactive instruction is always better than lecture, or just for the material you are teaching? What about more print resources? There is something ironic about someone in a library (which have traditionally been storehouses of static information) pursuing increased interaction.