Apple really has caused a stir: vidcasting is all over my aggregator! http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/ Reuters
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http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2095642005 Nice article with some thought provoking points.
Rob Coers and I met for the first time last year at ILI 2004. What amazed me is how similar our training back grounds are: training public librarians for many years, etc. From that meeting, we began chatting and decided to propose a session on technology training for 2005 and presented “Twenty Technology Training Tips for Trainers” yesterday. I was excited about the idea of two trainers from different parts of the world coming together to share experiences and insights. What an incredible session it was! With most planning and discussion carried out via IM and other tools, we had […]
Tonight, I’m subbing for my colleague Joe Sipocz in his Info literacy class at IUSB. Here’s the outline, courtesy of Nancy at IUSB. (And I added a few things as well…) I’m putting it here for easy access 1. What is the Internet? A. Definitions B. How does it work? C. History D.What is on the Internet? | Lycos Top 50 (via Stephen Abram) | Deep Web B. Evaluation Evaluation checklist: http://www.iusb.edu/~libg/pdf/internet-basics.pdf Other criteria, the 3C’s: context, comparison and corroboration. Examples: http://www.whitehouse.org http://www.whitehouse.gov In-class exercise: http://www.martinlutherking.org http://www.improbable.com/airchives/classical/cat/cat.html http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html#gfpbunnyanchor III. Search engines/Directories How they work: Spiders | Google Pigeons Which ones […]
Michael Casey, who has the coolest programs at his library for young people, comments here at TTW: This quote is from the Accessibility Trial of the Downloadable Digital Audio Book Service from netLibrary and Recorded Books. (I tried to enter a link but it was refused when I tried posting) “The fact that netLibrary’s digital audio books are in the protected WMA file format, coupled with the fact that Apple iPods and most accessible devices (for example, the Book Port and the Book Courier) will not play the WMA file format, is unfortunate. One can only hope that soon both […]
Maire turned me on to this extensive review of the Nano. http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/nano.ars/1 The images of the scratched surface of the black Nano they tested are awful! I need a Nano case!
http://www.macminute.com/2005/09/21/forbes-deutsche-back/ Forbes reports: “Due its strong product portfolio, market-share leadership, and the stickiness of iTunes, we believe Apple will continue to dominate this product category,” the bank said, forecasting 31 million iPod units in calendar 2005 and 43 million units in calendar 2006, notes the report. “The firm also believes Apple will continue to drive share gains in the PC market due to the combination of a renewed enthusiasm for Apple’s brand, cutting-edge computer designs, and the superior user experience of Apple’s OS.” I’m all about Apple and the folks who are selling content to libraries getting together to make […]
Rock on Stephanie Zimmerman… her images came into my aggregator today. Hot stuff, especially this: What a great way to promote training in a library!
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/161/report_display.asp I meant to blog this a few weeks ago, but here it is…still timely in my book. “The average American internet user is not sure what podcasting is, what an RSS feed does, or what the term “phishing” means…” Pew lists eight techie terms in the report and I kid you not, your public/student/employee technology/internet classes should define and discuss everyone of them! These did ok: Spam Firewall Spyware Internet Cookies Adware These didn’t: Phishing Podcasting RSS Feeds (I’d add blogging and image sites too!) This is important knowledge… every librarian on your staff should be able to define […]
So Harry Potter is available exclusively at iTunes. That means you need an iPod to play the files! What a DRM mess we live in… Anyway, to try to put a spin on this, one cool thing a library could do Is buy a Harry Potter iPod or 2 and circulate them with all the books loaded! Just like the shuffles circulating at South Huntington PL, this might make some Potter fans very happy: access to a Hogwarts engraved iPod and hours of magical audio! http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=9588012&src=rss/technologyNews