As someone with a lot to do at work (tickets! meetings! reports! documentation! workshops! community-building!), I often consider how I can optimize my work time. Like a good scientist, I try lots of approaches and some of my experiments are more successful than others.  This post describes three “success stories” — using a simple technology, […]

One of our most common roles as a facilitator is as “teacher” to the researchers whose work we facilitate. It’s a role that not only requires a good set of communication skills, but also a knowledge of what our learners (researchers) already know, what they need to know, and what learning steps are necessary along […]