Berry Picker

This a list of previous websites or webpages that I've created which contain mostly links to my academic coursework. Having an easy online access to these personal papers helps me evaluate and integrate my thinking better. This personal online archive serves as some sort of externalized portion of my brain that I can look at objectively from the perspective of new knowledge, skills and experiences. Some days I wince at the sophomoric arguments in my previous papers but some days I see in them some nuggets that I can build on and integrate into my current work.

• Graduate coursework at the iSchool, University of Washington - a narrative portfolio of my practical, intellectual, technology, teaching and leadership experiences while enrolled in the masters degree program in library and information science (MLIS).
• Graduate (and some undergrad) coursework at the University of Arizona - a compilation of graduate papers in journalism, communication and sociology. Includes undergrad writings for a reporting class and artwork for a beginning class on figure drawing. Also includes articles that I wrote as a one-term columnist for The Arizona Daily Wildcat. I was originally in the masters program in journalism but left the program and tried to get into the graduate programs in communication and sociology.
• CIS coursework at the Portland Community College
• Conferences & workshops attended
• Cataloging portal - a portal to cataloging resources that I've used while doing independent contract cataloging work.
• PIM for Gecks - A blog on personal information management (PIM) that I started in January 2006 but stopped posting to in September 2007. The blog contains links to resources on PIM, an area of research and practice that I got interested in from the little work that I've done with/for Dr. William Jones of the University of Washington's Information School.