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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

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February 3rd, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, LIS Education in the 21st Century | One comment - (Comments are closed)

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 [...]

February 3rd, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, LIS Education in the 21st Century, Open Source Software | Comments are closed

Seth Godin’s Linchpin: Thoughts from the Blogosphere (Updated)

I received my copy of Linchpin, the new book by Seth Godin a few weeks ago and have only got to read a bit. What I’ve read, however, is speaking to me the way all of his books do. Until I have finished the book and pondered some more, take a look at these posts, [...]

January 28th, 2010 | Category: Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, LIS Education in the 21st Century | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Gearing up for New LIS Class Sites

Michael’s EDUCAUSE Learning Initiatives 2010 conference presentation where he discussed “The Hyperlinked Campus” leads nicely into a recent post I made detailing exactly how Michael and I put together his course sites from a technical standpoint.

If you’re looking to break free from the constraints of your learning management systems (LMS), I highly suggest you [...]

January 20th, 2010 | Category: Learning 2.0 & Beyond, LIS Education in the 21st Century, TTW Contributor: Kyle Jones | One comment - (Comments are closed)

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.

January 16th, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, Learning 2.0 & Beyond, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, LIS Education in the 21st Century, University Tech | Comments are closed

Interview with Finding Education

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 [...]

January 15th, 2010 | Category: CAVAL Research Project, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, LIS Education in the 21st Century, Michael's Musings | Comments are closed

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 [...]

January 8th, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, LIS Education in the 21st Century | Comments are closed

Don’t Miss the Tech Set from LITA & Neal Schuman

The Librarian in Black writes:

I’m pleased to announce that my first book, Technology Training in Libraries, is set to be released in March of this year!

This book has been a labor of love for the last year.  In it, I walk you through setting up a technology training program in your library, [...]

January 6th, 2010 | Category: Librarian 2.0, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Library 2.0/Web 2.0, Library Innovators, Library Technology, LIS Education in the 21st Century, Micro-Content: Twitter & More | Comments are closed

View it any way you’d like…

Via all sorts of wonderful bloggers comes this video prototyping the future of Sports Illustrated. Karl Fisch had this to say:

More evidence that the way we interact with “text” is changing. To combine and paraphrase something I’ve heard David Warlick say more than once with something Jason Ohler says:

We need to [...]

December 8th, 2009 | Category: Content (is Conversation), Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Library Technology, LIS Education in the 21st Century | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

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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November 1st, 2009 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, Librarian 2.0, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Library 2.0/Web 2.0, Library Innovators, LIS Education in the 21st Century | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
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