Author Archives: Eileen Daly-Boas

We took our blog post and pasted it into Voyant, which is a tool to analyze your text.  I chose the word “philosophy” and here’s a screenshot of the dashboard. You can click on any word in the document and see where it shows up (middle panel), see its relative frequency (right panel), and seeContinue reading “Investigating Voyant”

We’re using Wordle as part of the digital academy, and here’s a Wordle of the above post! (Note: Wordle only works in Firefox)

Things I find interesting, and questions I have about digital media. Appropriately, I will count off the things I find interesting about digital media on my fingers, because I like bad puns involving digits. (photo credit: frankieleon. https://flic.kr/p/hSQ2a5 used under Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode ) A picture is worth… I find storytelling through pictures compelling,Continue reading “Digital media – The opportunities are endless…is that good?”

I had great fun at the TEDx Rochester event today. If you’ve never seen a TED talk, you should watch a few. Many are available on Netflix, but they’re also available online here: http://www.ted.com The talks today ranged from wind gardens in Kosovo to safe bike paths in Rochester. One thing I discovered is thatContinue reading “TEDx Rochester”

Listening is apparently an important skill to have. It’s not my strong point, but I’m sure I heard that somewhere. Just today though, I learned that I should at least listen to myself! A few weeks ago, I was interviewed by a library-school student about working in Reference. She wrote me to tell me thatContinue reading “Listening”