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Social Media Best Practices for Libraries

This post was written by Kasia Grabowska for last semester’s LIS 768: Library 2.0 & Networking Technologies class. Kasia has allowed me to repost it here.

After doing brand monitoring research for the past few weeks, looking closely at Skokie Public Library (and not so closely at several other libraries), I decided to put together a list of “do’s [...]

Online Education & Blogging

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/online_education_and_blogging

Joshua Kim writes:

The best preparation I received for blogging was teaching online. One of the most important elements for running a successful online course involves presence. The instructor must be “present” in the course discussion boards and blogs. Teaching online gave me tons of practice in writing rapid, hopefully thought provoking, discussion and blog posts [...]

LIS768 Context Book Report Media

An Army of Davids (Podcast)

http://lis768.tametheweb.com/ahbraincramp/files/2010/02/AnArmyOfDavids1.mp3

Born Digital

Community: The Structure of Belonging

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Googeled: The End of the World as We Know It

Grown Up Digital

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out

Tribes

http://animoto.com/play/JmI0BkZymqMdeclKOXcyzg

Twitterville

Libraries of the Future in Plain English

I am loving this! Great stuff from Down Under. I’ll be adding this to my Intro to LIS course.

Utilizing Emerging Tools to Extend the Classroom

Links from my Dominican “Technology Bytes” session tomorrow:

Finding My Tribe at EDUCAUSE LI

WordPress as a Learning Management System – Move Over, Blackboard

Slides: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/TechnologyBytesSessionStephens.pdf

Links from ALA Techsource Post:

Born Digital: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/BornDigital/196238
ELI2010 Presentations: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/Browse/ELI2010/37186
Gardener Campbell’s Blog: http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/
Google Moderator: http://moderator.appspot.com/
Michael’s Hyperlinked Campus:http://www.educause.edu/Resources/CreativeCollaborationandImmers/196260
Twitter Symbiosis: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/TwitterSymbiosisALibrarianaHas/196234

WordPress as a Learning Management System – Move Over, Blackboard

Don’t miss this interview with the Kyle Jones all about the WordPressMU/BuddyPress sites he’s developing for my classes at

http://wpmu.org/wordpress-as-a-learning-management-system-move-over-blackboard/

Q: What are the pros and cons of using BuddyPress in an educational / classroom environment?

A: No other LMS that I’m aware provides such a human touch on learning. We really see the students personalities show in [...]

Thomas Brevik on iPad

Thomas and I have worked together at Internet Librarian International 2008 and back in the day doing a podcast or two about Library 2.0. He’s one of the good thinkers in LIS who I wish I had more of a chance to sit with and talk. Glad to see his take on the iPad this [...]

Dominican GSLIS Student’s Blog Highlighted at BestBizWeb

Allow me to gush a bit. One of my students from last semester has had her LIS768 blog highlighted by BestBizWeb:

SITE: Megan Mulherin’s Blog

URL: http://classes.tametheweb.com/meganmulherin

CATEGORY: Blog

PURPOSE: This is a blog about news, trends, and tips related to information, research, online searching, and library issues.

FEE/FREE: FREE

SOURCE CHECK: This blog is written as part of a library [...]

I Need My Teacher to Learn 3.0

Have you seen this? “The ways that you’re teaching have to change as well.” There is a lot to think about here.

In Praise of Grade Inflation

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/in_praise_of_grade_inflation

Joshua Kim writes:

But many of our classes are moving towards an active learning approach where students are required to create something new. A better understanding of how we learn, catalyzed by technologies that bring multimedia authoring and sharing to a range of technical skill levels, have combined to transition our students from knowledge consumers to [...]