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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 [...]

LIS768 Group Projects Day 2

The New Digital Divide

This group explored the New Digital Divide.

The New Digital Divide

View more presentations from newdigitaldivide.

Their project blog: http://classes.tametheweb.com/newdigitaldivide/

Hyperlocal Libraries

http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dcg5kv2v_11cq59zkcw

Mobile Librarianship

Presentation at Google

Handout

Video:

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LIS768 Group Projects Day 1

It’s that time again! The semester in LIS768 always ends with group projects. The students self-select their topics and groups and design a presentation or prototype.

Exploring Second Life

Two students who had never visited Second Life explored and created a presentation on their findings.

http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0ATscYyaHH3riZGM0NGhrM2tfMjBnczJrZDNmMw&hl=en

Privacy and the Internet

This group presented an [...]

LIS768 Context Book Report Videos

This semester I added the option for my students in LIS768 to make a video or other media presentation instead of writing a blog post for the context book assignment. A few folks tried it out. Here are the results:

Setting the Table: Danny Meyer

http://classes.tametheweb.com/mcphillips/2009/10/29/context-book-setting-the-table/

Born Digital: John Palfrey & Urs Gasser

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Piloting BuddyPress as a LMS

Beginning this Fall semester, Michael Stephens and myself (Kyle Jones) began piloting an open source learning management system (LMS) built on WordPress Multi User (WPMU) and BuddyPress.  This post explains our history with WPMU, the move to BuddyPress, and some of Michael’s initial thoughts on the pilot.

By TTW Contributor Kyle Jones http://thecorkboard.org @thecorkboard

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Dominican Students/Grads Contribute ALA Coverage to LJ

I’m happy to share that I put LJ in touch with some of our recent grads/current students to cover programs at ALA. Katharine Johnson, Carrie Straka and Bill Goodwyn all contributed short articles for online coverage.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/microsite/49047/ALA+Annual+Conference+News.html

Take a look:

Bill: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6670769.html

Katharine: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6671470.html

Carrie: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6671137.html

Australian Learning 2.0 Surveys Launched

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 [...]

LIS768 Group Projects: Day Two

Teen Tribe Blog: http://teentribes.blogspot.com/

This group, inspired by Born Digital and Tribes, created a teen review blog.  They highlight various ways to involve teens and encourage them. Ideas: display teen reviews in physical space to generate interest, market via social tools and usual channels, and use FREE tools!

More than Books: http://morethanbooks.ning.com/

This group [...]

LIS768 Group Projects: Day One

Library Takeout: http://palatinelibraryteens.wordpress.com/

This group explored ways to take the library out of the building via outreach to teens. The About section of the blog links to the slides which take viewers through a sample presentation for teens about a local library’s outreach.

Digital Native Ning: http://digitalnativehs.ning.com/

This group [...]