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Screencasting Patron POVs, a TTW Guest Post by Mick Jacobsen

I am currently developing screencasts for an exciting new project mpowwill roll out in the near future.

While looking at a stupidly designed, but very useful database, I thought “Why would any patron watch a tutorial on how to navigate this mess?  They want an answer to a question, not a walk through of a [...]

TTW Guest Post: Love thy Luddite

The Importance of the Non-Techie or How I Learned to Stop Pulling Out My Hair and Love my Luddite by: Mick Jacobsen

My wife mocks Twitter thoroughly, “You don’t even know these people,” she repeats. She thinks Facebook/MySpace is weird. She considers online gaming to be silly.  She wasn’t sure about this whole “Blog Thing” [...]

How to Manage Your iPod Class

Rick Roche writes:

I had several surprises:

I expected audiobooks to be a primary interest with the group because we promote iPod books that we circulate from the reference desk. Music, however, was the primary interest of this group. Only a couple had borrowed our iPods for the audiobooks. Several did express interest in [...]

Becoming 2.0 – Check Out These Presentations

I can tell a lot of work and thought went into this series of workshops:

http://becoming20.pbwiki.com/

Well done Bobbi & Robin!

FPPL Video Tutorials

Check out the video tutorials from the good folks at Franklin Park Public Library:

http://www.franklinparklibrary.org/index.php?q=tutorials

Starbucks Training Day

Via Library trainer Lori Reed:

http://librarytrainer.com/2008/04/26/learning-from-corporate-america-starbucks-closes-nationwide-for-training/

From the Starbucks Web site, “That amounts to almost a half a million hours of training in one night.”

My first thought on hearing this announcement was publicity stunt. Why do you need to close for training? Why can’t you do it before or after closing or off site? [...]

Test Drive: ASUS Eee PC 701 Video at SLJ Site

There’s always some great content at the School Library Journal Web site. This video by Jeffrey Hastings, exploring the ASUS Eee PC 701 4G sub-notebook, is an extension of his published review. It expands visually on the review in a fun and informative manner. The possibilities for using video in this manner excite me: [...]

Link Hotness

Greetings! I’m embedded at the Panera Bread at the corner of State Street and Congress Parkway in downtown Chicago, waiting for my first class of the semester to begin. LIS701: Introduction to Library and Information Science will be Wednesday nights inside the Harold Washington Library Center of the Chicago Public Library. I am really looking [...]

Learn More: Twitter

Rock on Steve! Thanks for another great post in the “Learn More” series.

 http://librarystream.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/learn-more-twitter/ 

Learn More: Social Networks

Don’t miss Steve Campion’s newest installments of his “Learn More” series. The various modules he’s put up for all to use would fit nicely in your online learning endeavor or for a library staff meeting. I appreciate Steve’s straight forward approach.

Good work!

Social networks 1: http://librarystream.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/learn-more-social-networks-pt-1/

Social networks 2: http://librarystream.wordpress.com/2008/01/08/learn-more-social-networkis-pt-2/

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