User:Researcherguy

Hello: I am an academic librarian. I'm looking forward to this course; although I may be unable to attend all sessions live.Researcherguy (talk) 16:35, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

Entered during class.Researcherguy (talk)

Profession
Academic librarian.

Intellectual Interests
I am interested in American social and cultural history and the evolution of reference sources. At present, as the books and courses listed below indicate, I am immersed in antebellum America. I am also interested in the way in which fiction enables readers, viewers, and listeners to experience the past. And I am committed to all legitimate ways in which learning can be offered freely -- with both style, ease, and refinement -- to everyone -- throughout the course of their lives.

Books Read Recently

 * 1) Northup, Solomon.  Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup: A Citizen of New York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841 and Rescued in 1853.  Originally published in 1853. Wikipedia entries: Solomon Northup and Twelve Years a Slave.
 * 2) Jacobs, Harriet A., edited by Lydia Maria Child.  Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Written by Herself.  Originally published in 1860.  Wikipedia entries: Harriet Ann Jacobs and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
 * 3) Brown, William Wells.  Clotel: or, The President's Daughter.  Originally published in 1853.  Wikipedia entries: William Wells Brown and Clotel: or, the President's Daughter.
 * 4) Horwitz, Tony.  Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War.  Vintage, 1999.  Wikipedia entries: Tony Horwitz and Confederates in the Attic.
 * 5) Howe, Katherine.  Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.  Voice, 2010.  Wikipedia entries: Katherine Howe and Physick Book of Deliverance Dane.
 * 6) Keane, Mary Beth.  Fever: A Novel.  Scribner, 2013.  Wikipedia entries: Mary Beth Keane and Typhoid Fever.
 * 7) Alison, Jane.  The Love-Artist.  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.  Wikipedia entries: Jane Alison and Virgil.

MOOCs: Completed or Enrolled

 * 1) Coursera: Age of Jefferson.  Peter S. Onuf.  University of Virginia and Monticello.
 * 2) Coursera: History of the Slave South.  Stephanie McCurry.  University of Pennsylvania.
 * 3) Coursera: Plagues, Witches and War: The Worlds of Historical Fiction.  Bruce Holsinger.  University of Virginia.

Other Relevant Online Courses

 * 1) Google: Power Searching. Dan Russell.  Google.

Wikipedia Articles Valuable for Teaching

 * Wikipedia:Training/For Educators
 * Featured Articles in Other Languages
 * Searching
 * Wikipedia (Overview)
 * Wikipedia Featured Lists
 * Portal: Contents/Portals
 * Wikipedia:Starting An Article
 * The Signpost (A newspaper by and for Wikipedians.)
 * Administration
 * Administrators
 * Wikiperdia:Wikipedians
 * Bureaucrats
 * Wikipedia:Popular Pages

Wikipedia Entries as Teaching Example

 * Contents
 * Wikipedia:Statistics
 * William McKinley
 * George Washington
 * Wikipedia:Portal:Medicine
 * Portal:Psychology
 * Portal:History
 * WikiProject: History
 * Portal:Contents/History and Events
 * Portal:Food
 * Outline of Food Preparation
 * Ukraine
 * 2014 Crimean Crisis
 * List of 19th-Century British Periodicals

Learning to Use and Build Wikipedia

 * Wikipedia: About
 * How Wikipedia Works
 * Wikipedia: The Missing Manual
 * Wikipedia: The Missing Manual/Appendixes/Reader's Guide to Wikipedia
 * Wikipedia: School of Open Course
 * Wikipedia Talk: WikiProject Open
 * Wikipedia:Tutorial (Editing)
 * Instructional Videos on Using Wikipedia
 * Piotrus/Wiki Course

Written Commentary on Wikipedia

 * Scholarly Authority in a Wikified World. William Cronon, former president of the American Historical Association (2/2012)
 * The Wikipedia, Possibilities and Opportunities. C. D'Aniello.

Video Commentary on Wikipedia

 * Wikiality. The Colbert Report.
 * Charlie Rose Interviews Jimmy Wales
 * Steven Colbert Interviews Jimmy Wales (7/2013)
 * Jimmy Wales at RSA Conference 2013

Articles Worked On
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:PrefixIndex/User:Researcherguy
 * Patrick Cleburne
 * Cornerstone Speech
 * Open Course Library