Some Thoughts on Teaching

In my recent application to the ACRL Immersion Program, I was asked to describe my “approach to teaching, what and who has influenced [my] teaching, and [my] teaching aspirations/goals,” along with why I decided to apply for Immersion. Here’s what I had to say. My teaching approach is grounded in universal design for learning: instruction [...]

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Museum Accessibility: How & Why

Welcome Alabama Museums Association Annual Meeting attendees! Thanks for visiting my website. The resources referenced in our presentation, Museum Accessibility: How & Why, are listed below. They are also available via the Diigo collaborative bookmarking site: mbfortson’s ama12 Bookmarks on Diigo. You can find a copy of the presentation slides here: Museum Accessibility: How & [...]

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Emerging Technology as Assistive Technology: The iPad, Accessibility, and Libraries

Welcome MSU Libraries Emerging Technologies Summit attendees! Thanks for visiting my website. The resources referenced in my presentation, Emerging Technology as Assistive Technology: The iPad, Accessibility, and Libraries, are listed below. They are also available via the Diigo collaborative bookmarking site: mbfortson’s MSULibCon11 Bookmarks on Diigo. You can find a copy of the presentation slides [...]

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MSU Mentions

Last weekend,  in an attempt to recover deleted website content, I did some Google cache searching and stumbled across this: Wolverton, Robert, and Karen Davidson. “E-Resource Round Up.” Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship. 23.1 (2011): 68-95. The article includes a write-up of my 2010 Mississippi State University Libraries Emerging Technologies Summit presentation. While I can’t post the [...]

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