Via Ken Smith at IUSB, my favorite hometown blogger! Ken points to an interview with David Kline, who just published a book called Blog! He pulls out this impressive quote. After bloggers master the fundamentals of this new medium, they will come to value belonging more than hearing themselves talk. Also, this sense of being a member of something bigger than themselves will drive them to shape their postings to be of service I truly believe librarians who blog professionally have a great sense of community, especially those who have avoided the ME ME ME mentality and looked toward the […]
Monthly Archives: November 2005
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I wrote about Indiana and the study that found we are tech poor in the state last week. Here’s a neat post from Winnie, where she mentions the study as well as her experiences at IL05. Note that even a small library can have success with tech and be ahead of the game! http://allthingsw.blogspot.com/2005/11/technology-librarians-and-indiana-how.html “Now, in general, I think that New Castle and Henry County are behind in the tech wave that?s been coming at us for the past few years. But, I do think that NCHCPL is doing a good job of staying on top. For instance, Google has […]
http://www.chipublib.org/003cpl/scholars/scholars05.html (Scroll down!)
From the CPL Scholars in Residence Program, Day 1: At 9:50am in the Board Room at Chicago Public Library, one of the librarians noted: “So much is happening with Library 2.0…” And it wasn’t me, Jenny or Stephen! Thanks to LibraryCrunch for the inspiration! Please add Michael’s blog to your aggregator: a post like this is just one of his many gems!
Monday morning…deep breath…
I’m off to teach all weekend at Dominican and then I’ll be at Chicago Public Library with Stephen Abram and Jenny Levine for their Scholars in Residence Program. I’ll blog when I can!
Via David King: http://www.blyberg.net I agree with David: Code Alert for us non-techies but darn good stuff.
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2181372005 Here’s the HOT part about student created content and new ways to look at learning: The school was chosen after it successfully bid to pilot the “iPodagogy” project in Scotland. Pauline Walker, the school’s deputy headteacher, said the iPod could even allow the pupils to make their own television shows, which they may then download and watch back when they want. “It’s another way of delivering school work which is exciting, rather than writing an essay,” she said. “Anything that helps to get the kids thinking will help them to learn.” Ewan Aitken, the City of Edinburgh Council’s executive […]
Via cj at Technobiblio! 🙂 http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/166/report_display.asp Interesting stuff on content creation and collaboration: Bloggers and to a lesser extent teens who read blogs are a particularly tech-savvy group of internet users. They have more technological tools such as cell phones and PDAs and are more likely to use them to go online. Not only do they live in technologically rich households, but they are more likely to have their own computer at home and to be able to use it in a private space. They help adults do things online. Most strikingly, they have more experience with almost all online […]
Via Nancy K, SJCPL’s Coordinator of Info Tech (who gets it big time!): This makes me sad. An article at the IndyStar notes how poorly Indiana fares in a study of how we stack up with other states in a “technology report card.” It seems Indiana has not progressed in tech start ups, graduating scientists and the tech economy in general http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2005511020478 We rank rather low in some categories and actually dropped in a few. What do we need? The article says we need more science and math graduates, more technology in schools (that’s used) and a focus on information/tech […]