Had to post this comment up top from Lynette in Australia. She was responding to this: http://tametheweb.com/2008/06/05/wanting-feedback/ Many teachers and schools still see the need to “control learning” rather than sharing the learning experience with students, hence applications such as YouTube, Myspace, Facebook, etc… are blocked in educational facilities. Literacy today is more than books and the published word, it involves communication, sharing and social networking and this is all achieved throught he use of Web 2.0 technology. I am currently taking 900 teachers and teacher librarians through the Learning 2.0 program in Australia. Apart from IT departments blocking sites, […]
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Pizza @ TADL BATL, originally uploaded by lerxst / boycat. I’m very impressed with the BATL @ TADL Gaming program! http://batl.tadl.org/
Community Chest, originally uploaded by kiltedlibrarian.
Frank Haulgren commented here and I just had to make it a post: Western Washington Univ.s “14 Days To Have Your Say” project was directly inspired by the Starbuck’s campaign. I had read a newspaper article (quaint, no?) about this project one day while having lunch and immediately thought to myself, “We can do this! We should do this!” The 14 Days blog has closed has closed for comment. A final post has been made by me for the libraries and we are now beginning to analyze the comments and see what we can undertake over the summer. Bu far […]
IMG_2068.JPG, originally uploaded by David Warlick. Read David Warlick’s post here: http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/archives/1472
First and foremost, Facebook pages can be used for marketing and outreach to library users. Facebook is the social hub of most campuses today, and students use their profiles to proclaim their identities to their peers. So by becoming a fan of the library’s page, students declare, “hey, I like the library, too.” Beyond that, the possibilities are endless–it is only limited by what librarians are willing to do, and what users want and need. For example, the British Library page has 688 fans, and includes pictures, videos, events, and comments. At Odum Library where I work, our library’s page […]
http://www.socialcustomer.com/2008/05/defining-you.html In the old world, you were defined by what you consumed*. In the new world, you are defined by what you create. *- your credit report, your vehicle, etc Much discussion. Check it out. I tend to agree.,
We-R-hot!, originally uploaded by rambleonsylvie. Rambleonsylvie writes: my library’s youth services crew is “oh so cool.” Check out all the stuff they will be doing. we bought and have loaded a video game creation program on the lab computers for them. all the events filled right up, they’ll do more, maybe year round. I can only echo her sentiment: HOT!
passion quilt meme, originally uploaded by rambleonsylvie. Charles Robinson would be proud.
Stephen Francouer writes: http://tinyurl.com/556pof My Plan Do quick look ups of nineteen terms and concepts discussed in Clay Shirky’s book Here Comes Everybody to see what reference sources would be more helpful to the students I work with. Methodology Using quotation marks around search terms to force phrase searches, I looked in the following resources: Wikipedia Encyclopedia Britannica Gale Virtual Reference Library Oxford Reference In any given set of search results, I would look first for main entries that mirrored my search terms exactly and record any such precise hits in a table. If there were no exact hits, then […]