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Today’s Training: Gale Digital Scholar Lab  Today’s Reflection Question: How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use Gale Digital Scholar Lab? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and what parts of the tool do you want to explore more… Continue reading Training: Gale Digital Scholar Lab

Today’s Training: ArcGIS Online Link to my ArcGIS map created for training: https://arcg.is/1zqSDD0  Today’s Reflection Question (response at the bottom of the page) How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use ArcGIS Online? What did you find most interesting? What did you find most frustrating? What questions do you still have, and… Continue reading Training: ArcGIS Online

Today’s Training: Omeka I practiced adding items (image files) to my Omeka site and created an Exhibit showing image files and descriptions with metadata (following the Dublin Core standard). Today’s Reflection Question: How would you feel about helping someone else learn how to use Omeka? What did you find most interesting? What did you find… Continue reading Training Reflection: Omeka

Today’s Training: Microsoft Excel, with focus on the PivotChart tool Today’s Reflection Question: What types of visualizations were you able to generate in Excel using PivotChart? How could those visualizations shape or impact your understanding of the data? Did you generate any visualizations that were confusing or misleading? Alternatively, did you generate any visualizations that… Continue reading Training Reflection: Excel

The title of this post comes from an article by Martha Durrett, whose message captures the unique nature of the unexpected, variable nature of peer-mentoring – one important part of my work as a Vivero Fellow. According to the co-leads, the work as a Vivero fellow involves ‘learning how to do your job, on the… Continue reading “How To Do Your Job When You Don’t Know How to Do Your Job”