From the brilliant danah boyd: We all care about education and helping youth learn, but why do we only value push mechanisms? As media opens up a culture of osmosis and makes pulling information fun, youth are increasingly disconnected from the world of push. More problematically, because parents and teachers are invested in vetting information and discouraging all other information access, we are failing to teach our youth how to evaluate, interpret, and assess the information that they pull or that which falls out of the sky. In other words, they are completely media illiterate. Unless you’re a marketer seeking […]
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http://www.ilovelibraries.org/ Via the ALA Marginalia blog: http://discuss.ala.org/marginalia/2007/12/10/ola-the-first-100-days/ ilovelibraries.org, an advocacy website launched in June 2007, continues to develop. On average, the site receives over 60,000 page views monthly–and in September, ilovelibraries drove more traffic to Booklist Online than Google™ searches! As a result of efforts by the Chapter Relations Office and the Chapter Relations Committee, 25 state chapters are now using Capwiz advocacy software, which allows viewers (members and the general public) to contact state and national legislators via Ilovelibraries.org. Special 2010 funding will allow the remaining chapters to use this software. Further discussion among Chapter Relations, Washington Office and […]
http://www.wishfulthinking.co.uk/blog/2007/12/03/time-management-for-creative-people-free-e-book/ A “Getting Things Done” primer for those who work on the Web (and others). Checkout out the chapters on harnessing the inbox and reviewing commitments.
DOK Delft offers iPod Touch Originally uploaded by mstephens7 http://www.dok.info/index.php?cat=nieuwsitems&nieuws_id=222 I don’t think Babelfish got this translation right: Now get acquainted with newest technology! Always and everywhere listen to music and very sharply films examine, but you can with these IPod also Hertzian at. You serve him by moving your fingers concerning the baffle. For only one euro per day you obtain the neusje of the salmon in house for a first familiarisation. Course at music & film department and question to the leenvoorwaarden.
____________ _______ made a point of being wherever you are. They have a tremendous, almost inescapable, presence in countless, high-traffic neighborhoods. Yet they’re also somewhat cutting-edge, not just in how they treat their employees or in their gutsy (if questionable) expansion tactics, but also in their efforts to stay relevant. This is evidenced in such ventures as adding Wi-Fi connections for customers…. To find out which: click here. We discussed this last night in LIS701 as part of trendspotting/Library 2.0 module.
dottymichael Originally uploaded by Dave & Bry Thanks to Dave Pattern for the dot treatment. Check out Kathryn and Jessamyn too. The word effect is incredible! Dave – can you do my Stonehenge pic like that? http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/268/
Arrival Originally uploaded by mstephens7 What a great reception in Florida! 🙂 Thanks to the Florida Council of State University Libraries/College Center for Library Automation (CCLA) Executive Board/Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) Board for inviting me to keynote their meeting. The discussion and questions that followed were wonderful! The presentation is available here: http://www.tametheweb.com/talks07/HyperlinkedCCLAFGCU.pdf
I’m honored to be taking part in this ongoing series. Get a load of the roster for 2008! The archives for conversationalists Aaron Schmidt and Meredith Farkas is here: http://www.opal-online.org/archivelis.htm The Casual Conversations series is designed to be up-close and personal from a respectable online distance. While there are many conferences (in-person, online, and in-world) where librarians can hear leaders in the field make formal presentations about interesting projects, there are few opportunities to hear these same leaders discuss informally what they currently are working on, their future plans and goals, the challenges and opportunities facing librarianship, their personal pet […]
Via Hey Jude: http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2007/12/08/students-20-fantastic-initiative/ This will be an initiative to watch: Administered, designed, edited, and written by a global mix of students of varying ages, interests, voices, and points of view, Students 2.0 will feature content written by both staff writers and guest contributors. From Hawaii and Washington, from St. Louis and Chicago, from Vermont, New York, Scotland, Korea, and other points on the globe, these writings will be united in one central aspect: quality student writing, full-voiced and engaging, about education. The moment for a student-centered edublogosphere has come. The staff at Students 2.0 invite their adult partners in […]
Lee & Michael, Apple Store, Coconut Point, Estero, Florida Originally uploaded by mstephens7 Thanks to Mr. Lee Leblanc for driving me around southwest Florida for my talk at the Florida Council of State University Libraries/College Center for Library Automation (CCLA) Executive Board/Florida Center for Library Automation (FCLA) Board Meeting at Florida Gulf Coast University. Lee is a MLIS student at FSU – and he inspires me. http://bibliodox.blogspot.com/