TLA 2007 Conference Notes, Day 1: Contributed Paper on Information
TLA 2007 Conference Notes, Day 1: Contributed Paper on Information Literacy
Contributed Paper: Joel C. Battle, Information Literacy: Are We Meeting Students Needs?
- Are the skills [of information literacy] transferring when they go into the real world? The initial answer as the professor asked this question was no.
- His study was based on an information literacy course for education majors. The course was required; it will be no longer required, though he will try to argue for his campus, TWU, to keep it as a requirement.
- Information literacy provides skills that education majors need: information literacy skills, the skills to understand and teach information literacy to others, and the skills to work with librarians.
Book reference to check out: Information Literacy for Educators by Shinew and Walter. New York: Haworth, 2003.
(I am thinking as I listen to this paper, that for us in my setting, we can and should develop pre- and post-instruction surveys. However, we work in a situation that relies on one-shot sessions. This is different than having a course, but the idea still applies).
- The time has arrived that these skills are needed in order to solve the serious problems facing our world.
(Overall, an interesting paper, but I did not find anything earth-shattering so to speak. However, it gives me food for thought and makes me wonder if maybe we should consider having a course on IL in my campus).
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It s TV Turn Off Week and Sharon observes it with a week of evening activities for kids. Last night the school librarian invited everyone to come in PJ s and slippers for some stories (she wore her nightie too.) Tonight was Bingo night (I wasn t there, so no pictures, but the kids had fun) and more to come as the week goes on. The kids were a bit grouchy at first and I didn t quite realize how much extra work it would be for me to make sure they had something to do - during the after-school hour when they re plopped in front of Spongebob, I have time to tidy up, make dinner and blog a bit. But not this week - blogging and blog-visiting must happen late at night, like now!
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David Cameron Gikandi s article has been released, April 24, 2007.
Details
David Cameron Gikandi s article is reprinted here.
How You Can Get Anything You Want In Life In 68 Seconds
By David Cameron Gikandi
Let s keep this simple. As simple as can be. What do you
want?
More money? A new house? A nice luxury car? A holiday in
France? A new boyfriend or girlfriend? An athletic body?
Whatever it is, it is a physical result, is it not?
Physicality.
Why? For what feeling? So you can feel secure? Happy?
Fulfilled? Whatever the reason is, it so that you can feel
good, feel free, and experience satisfaction of some kind.
It is to enjoy your self one way or the other. Feeling.
So how do you get whatever it is that you want in your
life, easily? Here is the formula for all creation of one s
reality. And trust me; it is as easy as you make it to be.
If you complicate it, it gets complicated to that degree.
If you keep it as simple as it is, it becomes a seeming
miracle, simple yet profoundly powerful, a sign of mastery.
And now, the formula:
Step 1: Ask
How do you ask and who do you ask it to? You don t have to
address your asking to anything or anyone or any deity. The
asking is simply your desire and how you feel about it. It
is automatic and natural. All you have to do is to be clear
on what you want, as clear as you can be. Don t bother
about how you will achieve your desire - the way will show
up step by step automatically. Just be clear only on the
end result, not necessarily on the way to get there. What
is the end result you desire, exactly? Imagine it has
already happened.
Also, forget about what you don t want. Here is why:
whatever you are putting your attention on is what is being
asked for. Where your attention is indicates what it is you
are asking. How it is that you are feeling indicates what
it is that you are asking. Your attention and feeling will
show you, predictably, what it is you are creating in the
future and how it will feel like when you get it.
Step 2: The Universe Answers
At conception, we are all 90% water. You probably know how
to have sex. But do you know how to put together a baby
from water and all the other elements of nature? No! no
scientist in this world today can go grab some water and so
on, and put together babies. Yet we make them without
knowing how!
Here is the magic of the universe. The universe is always
expanding, always and in all ways. Eternity and infinity.
It expands as a function of answering all the desires of
all parts of it (even your individual cells ask through
their natural preferences for health, nutrition, bliss, and
so on).
Did you know that there are many Nobel Laureate quantum
physicists that have proven without doubt that the act of
observing is what creates that which is being observed? In
other words, without doubt, you see what you believe. You
create your reality. What you intend to observe is what the
universe creates in your experience.
This has been proven by quantum physicists many times over
the last few decades. If you would like to explore this in
more detail, have a look at the eBook A Happy Pocket Full
of Money from www.imagesofone.com.
Literally, scientifically, the universe creates your
desire. It handles the how . So the more you let go and
allow life to unfold as it does, the faster you let
creation happen for you. Let go of the how, so that you can
allow it to come to you in the fastest way possible,
including ways you would never have thought about. If you
insist on the how, you block other pathways and
possibilities. Also, let go of the need, of the anxiety,
insecurity, shame, guilt, or whatever, because these
feelings only create. Let go internally and externally.
Step 3: Receive
This is the final step and the one that most people seem to
mess up. You must receive. Reception is very much like the
way a radio receives its channels. It tunes into the
channel. The radio must match itself to the broadcast
frequency for you to receive any music from it.
In the same way, you must match yourself to that which you
asked for so that you may see it appear in your life and
experience it. This is the key. And there are two parts to
it:
First and most importantly, match your feelings. How would
it feel to have that which you asked for? Feel that now.
How would it feel to drive that amazing car or have that
amazing partner or that amazing business? Feel that now.
Feel good. When you feel fear, anxiety, despair, and so on,
you are not in alignment.
Secondly, act on inspiration and coincidences . You will
notice opportunities cropping up in your days. Take them.
If you meet someone who somehow mentions something to do
with what you are seeking, follow that clue. If you feel
the urge to make a phone call or visit a place, do that. It
may take one step or a thousand, and you won t always know
how far down the road you have come, but you are guaranteed
to get there if you keep taking one step at a time.
So what is the 68 seconds all about? Well, we now know that
if you hold a thought for 68 seconds, it begins to
materialize into form. It is that simple.
The materials of Abraham by Jerry and Ester Hicks also
expand on this simple formula, for those of you who wish to
investigate it further. The eBook A Happy Pocket Full of
Money from www.imagesofone.com goes into the actual way
that the universe goes about creating your reality and more.
Life is a miracle. When you are not experiencing miracles,
you are probably struggling up the hard way to get things
done. Share this knowledge with others and talk about it;
grow it within your friends. As you do, test it. Test it
over and over again in all areas of your life, perhaps with
the small things first. And as you do, you will notice more
evidence of it, and as you practice you will become better
at using it and creating a life of miracles as the norm.
Forward this article to as many people as you can, then
invite them to a discussion. The fastest way to grow in
this wisdom is to create your own mastermind of miracles!
Author Bio
David Cameron Gikandi is the author of wealth and self development books such as A Happy Pocket Full of Money, showing many how to create the lives of their dreams and beyond. Download free trial eBooks and software, plus free email courses from http://www.imagesofone.com/?c=a
*SINewswatch would like to thank David Cameron Gikandi for granting permission to reprint this article.
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This is in response to a message left in the comments section of my last post regarding a conversation that spilled over from another site. It might not be of interest to everyone but I wanted to put my message here because it s too long to just put in the comment box.
Hello Donna,
I am absolutely willing to accept your apology. Everyone gets angry and says things they may later regret. Lord knows I have and continue to do so much more than I d like to. I am very glad that your conscience led you to write to me again because I always prefer dialogues over monologues.
I think you should follow your conscience in regards to whether you should go and post on the abortionclinicdays site again. The thoughts that you expressed here definitely show a side of you that I think would have added to the conversation sparked by that post.
I know you might find this hard to believe but I actually do understand this feeling of being at a loss as to how to behave about the abortion issue. I come from an ultra-conservative religious background and for most of my life, I was as anti-abortion as one can get. I had absolutely no problem with the idea of throwing women in jail for having abortions. Frankly, I didn t even care to hear about why some women believed that having an abortion was the best decision that they could and did make given their circumstances. To me, it was morally wrong no matter what and that was all I felt I needed to understand.
What first started to change my views was going to college and finding out that the abortion issue isn t nearly as uncomplicated as I thought. During my freshman year, I remember the group NOW came to my campus and I angrily confronted them and told them things that would make the stuff you said on the other website seem like a slap on the hand. I was really proud of myself until I learned a few things.
I found out that one in three pregnancies end in miscarriage and if society attempted to save every single pregnancy that occurs, we wouldn t have enough healthcare workers or researchers to deal with all of the other medical issues that people have to deal with. Now, since I have Lupus”which never gets the amount of funding that it should given its prevalence”this really concerned me.
Then there was the issue regarding all of the things that can end a pregnancy. For instance, regular use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs is known to increase medical abortion (the technical term for a miscarriage) risk. In other words, using ibuprofen or aspirin can bring about the same results (a medical abortion) that RU-486, the so-called abortion pill , induces.
That makes for a very complicated situation for women like us who have Systemic Lupus. I don t know about you but at certain points in my life, I have relied on the over-the-counter drugs like ibuprofen to use as stop-gap medications so that the doctors didn t have to increase my Prednisone dosage. As you know, the doctors try to keep steroid doses as low as possible because of the long-term damage associated with them.
Also, the use of birth control pills is contra-indicated for a lot of women with Lupus because the hormones in the pill are known to exacerbate disease symptoms, so many lupies like us don t take them. As a matter of fact, birth control pills are also contra-indicated for a lot of other women like, for instance, those who smoke.
Now, when you add all of these facts together you get a situation where there are many, many women of child-bearing age just like me who
1. Aren t on birth control and are, therefore, more likely to get pregnant.
and
2. Regularly use medications (e.g. Motrin, Bayer) that can cause the termination of pregnancies.
which means they can either get their Fallopian tubes tied so that they have virtually no chance of getting pregnant or they can live with the knowledge that they are basically inducing their own medical abortions if they happen to get pregnant while experiencing the normal ups and downs with lupus that make many of us regular anti-inflammatory users.
I realized that if taking a pill that induces miscarriage (e.g. RU-486) is just another form of having an abortion, then I might be guilty of having had one too. However, I know that I didn t consider myself a murderer; I was just trying to do what it took to stay alive. At that point, it dawned on me that many of the women who have had abortions were just trying to do the same thing”stay alive”and who was I to condemn someone for that?
Once I stopped condemning women who have had abortions, I allowed myself to see them as real people”not some kind despicable creature who just has no sense of decency or compassion. When I started voicing my new views to some of those around me, I found out something that really surprised me: There were quite a few women in my congregation that had an abortion at some point in their lives. It wasn t anything that they could discuss openly because they would have been virtually expelled from our denomination had they done so. These were women I had known for decades. They certainly weren t the amoral, promiscuous women that I associated with those who d had abortions.
To be honest, it was pretty common amongst the evangelicals that I worshipped with to perpetuate the idea that godly women just didn t have abortions. The difference between the stereotypes I d learned and what I saw when I stopped condemning people really confused me. Being the evangelical Christian that I was brought up to be, I turned to the Bible because I was sure that the truth would be there and that this would help me sort things out. Well, when I started this goal to find out exactly what the Bible said it turned out to be a lot different from the attitude that many of my very judgmental fellow worshippers seemed to think. When I looked in the Bible it showed that only God can determine what s in someone s heart because, as imperfect humans, we are all incapable of truly understanding what is someone s just deserts but we do know that He can. I also remembered being a kid and being taught that simple lesson that God is Love . If all of that was true, then it just might be that His love is big enough to include everyone and I do mean everyone“women who went to church three times a week like me, women who had abortions, women who had unprotected sex, women who were sick but still wanted to have babies in the future, etc. Really, all we can do in this life is speculate about who is going where to spend the rest of eternity. Heck, some people even say our pets will be with us and, frankly, I hope they re right. I haven t found anything in the Bible that says they will but I also haven t seen anything that says they won t so I m gonna to stay hopeful on that point.
As Christians, we were also taught that all of us have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God which means that those who haven t had abortions are no worthy (of the benefit of Jesus sacrifice) than those who have had one. The book of Isaiah says that, to God, even all our good deeds are like filthy rags . If that s true, then I really don t have any business looking down on others no matter what they ve done in their lifetime. Besides, I ve read my Bible from cover to cover 20+ times and of all the people that Jesus condemned, ne er a one of them were those who d had an abortion, had sex outside of marriage, or even murdered someone. So, there just isn t any Biblical precedent for those who would call themselves Christians treating the abortion issue as many do. The final nail in the coffin for me was when I was reading my Bible, not even looking for anything about the abortion issue and I found Romans 6:23. It said:
For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
That really convicted my heart because I thought about what it DIDN T say. It didn t say that some sins are worse than others. I didn t say that some people deserve to die and others don t. It says that all sinners”everyone on earth who has ever existed, with the exception of Jesus”are worthy of death. That definitely includes me. At the same time, there is the possibility eternal life and it s a gift from God. It stood out to me that it was a gift because I know, as a human being, I can give a gift to someone if I choose to and there doesn t even have to be a real reason for me to do it. I don t have to justify my choice to give someone a gift. Now, if I don t have to explain to someone why I decide to give somebody a gift, God sure doesn t have to explain to me why He might choose to give His gift of eternal life to whomever He wants to.
As for me, if I die and find myself staring in the face of God, I m sure not going to complain even if He decided that having had an abortion isn t enough reason to turn His back on someone. After all of the times I ve put my foot in my mouth and said or done things that I knew I had no business doing, I ll just count myself as blessed to be numbered amongst those He saw some good in.
I know that you might not understand why I m saying all of this but I really wanted you to see why I am passionate about supporting all women. Just like you, it all boils down to my beliefs. My hope is that if you can look at this issue and see that those who disagree with you aren t doing so because they don t care about life or they don t hold any heartfelt religious or spiritual beliefs, then it will maybe make it a bit easier for you to deal with them because you ll see them as people just like you who are doing the best they can in a world where we often don t have good choices, only bad and worse ones. As a woman who has SLE and has had her life impacted by cancer, I m sure you ve been in that situation before so, in my heart, I want to believe that you are kind enough to try and show sympathy for others in the same way as we want sympathy shown for us.
I m in the middle of a flare-up right now and I m totally with you on the idea about not fighting anymore. Just trying to get the insurance company to pay my parents what they owe is taxing enough for me today. I will be praying for good health for you and your loved ones and I sure would appreciate any prayers for us down here in Louisiana. We need as many as we can get.
P.S. I hope you ll come back to my site and visit and comment again. I really mean that.
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