Categories Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
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What a perfect tie in to our work in LIS701 last night. A few students shared stories that I just couldn’t believe of policies and rules at their institutions and the lack of human conversation that surrounded them. http://www.socialcustomer.com/2007/12/conversation-is.html My take: “Conversation” is just that…communication between actual human beings. This process of real conversation happens millions of times, and is only successful when the interactions are real and genuine, transparent and truthful. Conversation is the “root act” that creates transformation. Read the whole post to see how conversations can start, not with marketing speak or floods of messages but naturally. […]
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 […]
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 […]
The podcast group is presenting: how to make great library podcasts and more! http://librarypodcast.blogspot.com/ http://podcastpractice.blogspot.com/
The tagging group presented on tagging in libraries and created a tag based pathfinder for Chicago. Delicious: http://del.icio.us/socialtagging Site: http://www.daniellegustafsonsundell.com/ChicagoPlacesPathfinder.html
Don’t miss the resources and Slideshare of Elyssa Krsoki’s presentation to ACRL New York: http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/acrl-ny-social-software-in-academic-libraries/ Many HOT examples in her straight-forward, concise style!
http://gslistoolbar.wordpress.com/ The third group developed a toolbar for the Dominican GSLIS! Students, faculty and staff can download and install the toolbar for instant access to LIS resources. I have officially melted into a puddle on the floor.
The second group designed a Ning network for a university library! http://l2university.ning.com/ They tried to get the ads removed but never heard back from the Ning folks. Take a look. I am impressed!
http://opensocialweb.org/2007/09/05/bill-of-rights/ Preamble: There are already many who support the ideas laid out in this Bill of Rights, but we are actively seeking to grow the roster of those publicly backing the principles and approaches it outlines. That said, this Bill of Rights is not a document “carved in stone” (or written on paper). It is a blog post, and it is intended to spur conversation and debate, which will naturally lead to tweaks of the language. So, let’s get the dialogue going and get as many of the major stakeholders on board as we can! A Bill of Rights for […]