Lots of 2.0s flying around, yes, but here’s one more. Great post by Will Richardson (one of my blogging heroes) at: http://www.weblogg-ed.com/2005/11/21#a4288 “…what I think most people don’t get when they pick up these tools is that to use them well they have to want to be learners, not just teachers. This isn’t like a textbook or a worksheet or a (fill in your one-dimensional outdated teaching tool here). This is a conversation, (or at least the potential for one) not a monologue or some contrived negotiation of knowledge that ultimately gets tested against what’s been written in a textbook […]
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Must…have…tag…cloud… Speaking of: Jessamyn is helping me with an install of Movable Type 3.2. Hopefully TTW will get a much-needed makeover soon!
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!
Nice post at the Read/Write Web by Richard McManus that picked up on Michael Casey’s post and the Web Panels’ thoughts. In all this arguing over the value or otherwise of the Web 2.0 meme, I’ve almost lost track of what is really important – how Web 2.0 ideas are being implemented in The Real World. I came across a great post by Michael Casey of LibraryCrunch, who is investigating what the Library 2.0 Web site will look like. He pointed to Michael Stephens’ round-up of responses to that question, which are well worth perusing. I liked this one from […]
As Jessamyn is speaking more and more people are appearing in my chat list…. Steve from Colorado just shared this flickr site he’s using for his library: http://flickr.com/photos/tuttlibrary and his blog: http://library.coloradocollege.edu/steve/
Thoughts about Tags: “…the key is to tag sparingly and with focus, using words that are highly descriptive.” WIRED Reverse Thinking as well… Tips from Top Taggers http://www.imdb.com/Sections/Keywords/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ TAGFIGHT! http://www.netomer.de/flickrtagfight/fight http://www.last.fm/user/mstephens7
I was so happy to see Sherri post about Meebo and include this little phrase: “Hello Web 2.0!” with a link to wikipedia as a definition. (And WOWZA is that some good reading!) So yes, greetings to Web 2.0! Are you ready for it? Has your library looked at blogs? IM? Flickr? And while we are saying hello, take a look at: http://webjunction.org/do/DisplayContent?id=11257 for WebJunction’s overview of public libraries and online community, brought about by new social tools: A new generation of “social software” tools is coming on the scene, and they’re making it easier than ever for people to […]
More from the Librarians-better-get-it-before-our-users-pass-us-by Dept. Will Richardson writes three things schools should do to get on the social tools bandwagon and he speaks volumes to librarians as well – if we choose to listen. 1. Schools need to start blogging and inviting the community into conversations about what’s going on. We need to tell parents and students and community members that we will entertain and respond to any comment or idea they contribute provided they do so in a way that respects the civil exchange of ideas and the people involved. Libraries should too.. AADL anyone? 2. We need to […]
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/web-focus/ Here’s a nice article by Brian Kelly, who I will be presenting with (along with Aaron) at Internet Librarian International in London in October. Take a look. Here’s Brian’s line up at ILI2005 as well. I’m fascinated by the use of wikis to document/report/collaborate on projects. Last June at UNT, we started a wiki for our two cohorts writing group papers and the amount of work that was done within the pages was incredible. At SJCPL, we are beginning to experiment with staff authored wiki pages as part of our presence. Take away: you might want to put wikis […]
New option at flickr: my most interesting photos… http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelsphotos/popular-interesting/ Here’s a page that explains “interestingness” There are lots of things that make a photo ‘interesting’ (or not) in the Flickr. Where the clickthroughs are coming from; who comments on it and when; who marks it as a favorite; its tags and many more things which are constantly changing. Interestingness changes over time, as more and more fantastic photos and stories are added to Flickr. I like that…we are telling our stories at flickr. Librarians..libraries…please ponder jumping into the flickr pool!