Do androids dream of electric sheep?
Author: Kathryn Greenhill
Finding question blogjune #7
UncategorizedWhere did I put them again ?
Fat villain question blogjune #6
UncategorizedYou are walking on a bridge above a railway track and notice, to your horror, that five people are tied to the rails in the path of the oncoming rail trolley. You see that in front of you is a man teetering on the edge of the bridge, a man so large and fat that his sheer bulk would stop the trolley in its tracks and save the five people currently in the path. This man is the man who tied the people to the tracks.
Do you push the fat man off the bridge ?
See also:
Fat man question blogjune #5
UncategorizedYou are walking on a bridge above a railway track and notice, to your horror, that five people are tied to the rails in the path of the oncoming rail trolley. You see that in front of you is a man teetering on the edge of the bridge, a man so large and fat that his sheer bulk would stop the trolley in its tracks and save the five people currently in the path.
Do you push the fat man off the bridge ?
See also: Trolley question blogjune 2014 #4
Trolley question blogjune 2014 #4
UncategorizedYou are walking past a railway track and notice, to your horror, that five people are tied to the rails in the path of the oncoming rail trolley. You see that within reach is a lever that would divert the trolley from the track with the five people, on to a track that has – oh my! – just one person tied to it.
Do you pull the lever ?
Pink and black and white question blogjune 2014 #3
UncategorizedWhich one was Pinky and which one was Perky ?
Compass question blogjune 2014 #2
UncategorizedWhat would Ranganathan do ?
Thanks to Aaron Schmidt
Work day question blogjune 2014 #1
UncategorizedWhy would I not love my work when my Thursday afternoon looked like this?
June 2014 as questions
UncategorizedI am dusting off this blog to take part in blogjune . Australian and New Zealand library bloggers are committing to write a post each day in June. It has been an annual event since 2010.
If you blog, or if you have been considering blogging, try popping over to Con’s blog and registering using this form. Giving it a go is fun and the consequences for not completing a post each day are … umm …. nothing. It’s worth a try.
I am not sure I will be able to manage to write a fully-fleshed blog post each day, so I am going to attempt a question each day. I am good at questions. Answers, not so much …
Why questions?
I’m full of questions.
I think my job as an educator is not to give answers, but to help my students learn how to ask useful questions – about the discipline, to solve daily problems in the workplace, to make the world a little bit better, for enjoyment, to stimulate their minds and hearts and those of people around them …
Asking the right question at the right time of the right person is one of the hardest skills to learn. The best questions have years of experience and thought and research around them, and can be deceptively simple. Often the most powerful question to ask is “why not ?”.
So, I’m having a go at blogjune.
Why not?
Digitisation is the death of history debate: storify
UncategorizedHere is a record of the tweets, and a couple of pics, from tonight’s “Digitisation is the death of history” debate from Curtin University tonight. If the embedded widget looks a bit funny, you can see the whole thing at Storify.
The “ayes” had it this evening, with the affirmative team being declared the winners. The event was well attended and there was – as described by one of my work colleagues – “a lot of inter-silo discussion happening”. The speakers were all excellent. They knew their material inside out, were well-prepared, entertaining and pitched at exactly the right tone and level of discussion.
There is already talk of a re-match next year. The topic? Unknown as yet … although it would be kind of interesting to debate about whether “Convergence in the GLAM sector is a myth” .. Hmmmmmm.