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\"Cataloging<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the compliments that students regularly give me is that I use current examples in my classes.<\/p>\n

Generally speaking, they quickly follow the compliment with an example of another professor who shows dated videos in his class with regularity. I suspect that when others get it wrong, I get to look that much better than I actually am…<\/p>\n

\"kodak\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Of course, I always remember the time I showed a video in class about Kodak's<\/a> marketing approach and one of my beloved students texted me from the back of the room.<\/p>\n

He shared that on that very day, Kodak had filed for bankruptcy<\/a>. We got to have a good laugh about it and fortunately, the event didn't take a toll on my credibility with him.<\/p>\n

How I use my Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system to catalog course resources<\/h2>\n

I have a defined personal knowledge management system (PKM) that I've been using for years now<\/a>. It helps me not have to think very hard to bring current examples into a class. I'm also fortunate to have many current and former students who know I have an interest in a particular topic or company and who will send articles and videos my way.<\/p>\n

Here are a few other ways I work to use PKM to bring current examples into my classes:<\/p>\n

Use tags in Pinboard.in to make retrieval easier<\/h3>\n

I always include any course numbers that are related to the topic of the resource, as well as whether the asset being saved is an audio or video clip.<\/p>\n

For example, I recently bookmarked this episode of NPR's Planet Money called “Free Parking.”<\/p>\n