Dr Michael Stephens delivered the Dr Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Keynote Address at the ASLA XXI Biennial Conference, held in Perth, Western Australia, from 29 September to 2 October 2009.
Reprinted with permission from the Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) Access 2010 24(1): 5.
The evolving Web is an open and social place. The Web has [...]
Our presentation at VALA2010 is Thursday morning (Wednesday night for me).
We’re utilizing this conference to launch a new Web site dedicated to the Learning 2.0 Research we’re doing for CAVAL:
http://research.tametheweb.com/
And you can follow along!
Here’s an updated draft of our slides:
The impact and benefits of Learning 2.0 programs in Australian libraries
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I was honored to do an interview with Finding Education’s Shannon Firth last week. We talked a lot about the Australian research project as well as other topics. The post is now up:
http://blog.findingeducation.com/assignment/educators-that-rock-michael-stephens/
Here’s a bit of the piece:
fE: How important is branding to libraries? And what do things like blogs and wikis have to do [...]
This year has been most magical. I traveled a bit, had some wonderful students in my classes, and learned so much from everyone I encountered. I also spent much of the summer with our new dog Cooper in Traverse City hiking and sitting by the fire.
One of the most magical and life changing events, however, [...]
A few days after I delivered my keynote at the Australian School Library Association, I received a wonderful email from Lyn Walsh. She asked permission to adapt the presentation for her work with the Amata Anangu School. Because my talks are all CC licensed I told her [...]
Thanks to all who attended and to those who are hosting me here in Townsville. Great group to talk with!
Slides are here: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/239835/QPLAChangeChallengeStephens.pdf
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I can’t believe we leave for Australia in less than a month! The research project is shaping up nicely as we comb through all the data and start analysis. Here’s a bit of what I’ll be doing:
October 2, 2009: Australian School Library Association [...]
Learning 2.0: 23 Things Survey FindingsView more presentations from hblowers.Helene writes:
In going through some old posts still in draft, I realized that I had never shared the findings of the Learning 2.0: 23 Things survey that I had conducted last summer specifically with coordinators of other programs. In conducting the survey I had hoped to [...]
Below is the text of our survey invitation for CAVAL. I wanted to share it here as well. If you are in Australia and would like to take the [...]
http://citylibrarieslearning.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/discover-learning-20/
My co-investigator Warren Cheetham has launched his library’s Learning 2.0 program after we ran a pre-course survey of the staff. From his intro post:
Welcome everyone! I hope you are as excited as I am to begin this learning journey together. We have a lot of fun things ahead of us, and I am really looking [...]
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