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Sara Thompson

Think Like a Start-Up: a White Paper - The Ubiquitous Librarian - The Chronicle of High... - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 09 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • I’ve been fascinated with startup culture for a long time and as I considered all the changes happening in academic libraries (and higher ed) the parallels were quite stunning.
  • we are being required to rethink/rebuild/repurpose what a library is and what it does. The next twenty years are going to be an interestingly chaotic time for the history of our institutions.
  • In concise terms: startups are organizations dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This sounds exactly like an academic library to me. Not only are we trying to survive, but we’re also trying to transform our organizations into a viable service for 21st century scholars and learners.
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  • I’ve found that entrepreneurs tend to love talking about the future of higher education, largely because it didn’t work well for them and they want to see something different.
  • Let me know if something resonates with you or your workplace. I’d love to hear from libraries practicing a similar R&D methodology.
  • Sara Thompson on 09 Apr 12
     
    Deb, I think this would be right up your alley. He's asking a lot of the same questions you ask, with some interesting links on the last page to other resources. Sections: 1. Is higher ed too big to fail? 2. Innovators wanted 3. Think like a startup 4. Lean startups 5. Build, Measure, Learn 6. Three Essential Qualities 7. Too much assessment, not enough innovation 8. A strategic culture (not plan) 9. Microscopes and telescopes 10. Real artists ship
Sara Thompson

» Personal Data Monitoring: Gamifying Yourself ACRL Tech Connect - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 09 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 09 Apr 12
     
    People want to collect and analyze data about what they do to help them reach their goals. Now that this is so easy we must consider how we can help them.
Sara Thompson

instaGrok: The Search Engine Made Just For Education | Edudemic - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 18 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • The killer feature to me is not the fun interactive ‘related terms’ web or the websites and images that pop up with each search. It’s the ‘Quizzes’ tool that gives you classroom-ready quiz questions on your search term. It’s downright amazing.
  • Quick Tip:You can use the little slider at the top of the search results screen to adjust how detailed your results are. You can go from the ABC chalkboard to the Einstein-y looking fella.
  • Sara Thompson on 18 Apr 12
     
    Without going into too much detail, instaGrok basically lets you punch in any search term (I'd recommend using a subject matter or item you're learning about) and get a neatly formatted and interactive experience as search results
Sara Thompson

This is a news website article about a scientific finding | Martin Robbins | Science | ... - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 26 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 26 Apr 12
     
    I'm keeping this as an example for class presentations.  I don't know what it's an example of, but some day I will need this. I just know it. Found it again recently from a twitter thread.
Sara Thompson

Hack Your Learning Spaces? - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 10 May 12 - No Cached
  • I propose a THATCamp session in which we think about ways to hack campus space. And I mean hack in the most generous sense of the term. How can we use these spaces in ways they weren’t designed for? How can we turn their flaws—bolted down desks, windowless rooms, tiered seating, and so on—into advantages (or at least neutralize them)? How can we turn institutional places into dwelling spaces that we inhabit and habituate? I was initially thinking mostly of classrooms—because I have taught in dreadfully designed rooms—but I’d extend this idea to include all campus spaces. And I’d like our hacks to go beyond the simply practical (though we need those too) to include what amounts to philosophical and ideological hacks.
  • What would a temporary autonomous zone look like on campus? …in the student union? …in your classroom? How can we change attitudes about what can or can’t be done in certain spaces? What’s the most surprising thing we can do with a campus space, and conversely, what’s the most predictable thing we can do in a new way?
Sara Thompson

Net Smart: How To Thrive Online - 1 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 25 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 25 Mar 12
     
    Interesting visual spin on the various literacies we want our students to learn. I'm hoping to find a video of the author speaking about this before diving into the book. 
Sara Thompson

How Turning My To-Dos into a Story Boosted My Memory and Solved My Procrastination Problem - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 01 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 01 Apr 12
     
    This sounds like something that would easily take me half an hour the first several times.  Intriguing, but .... I don't know.
Sara Thompson

21st Century Literacies: Syllabus, Assignments, Calendar | HASTAC - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 28 May 12 - No Cached
  • Peer evaluation:  You must do your assignments satisfactorily to fulfill your contract.   Each week, two or three students will work as a peer group in charge of leading our joint education for two or three classes.  During that unit, the peer leaders will assign readings as well as writing or multimedia assignments--and they will be charged with determining if each student has satisfactorily completed the assignment.   They will be charged with providing written feedback on all assignments.  Their goal will be to ensure that each student satisfactorily completes the assignment and they will work with each student to make sure they succeed.
  • How to Crowdsource Grading, I described this method: http://www.hastac.org/blogs/cathy-davidson/how-crowdsource-grading
  • SYLLABUS We will be co-creating a syllabus in this course.  Professor Davidson will begin, there will be several special guests or other events, but the remainder of the course content will be assigned by peer-leaders charged with offering a challenging, creative, informative, inspiring, participatory educational experience (No Talking Heads Please!) for the class.   Peer-led classes might that involve reading/seeing/listening to/experiencing imaginative works (including scientific papers,) attending lectures, visiting art museums and going to concerts together, or visiting businesses and community organizations to understand how these literacies are changing.  I will get us started with some readings and a museum visit and a collaborative public wiki-based writing assignment.   We have a number of exciting visitors coming this term.   The rest of the syllabus will be filled out by the peer leaders and will evolve over the course.
Sara Thompson

2009 - Lack of Annual Reports Make it Difficult to Analyze Library Strategic Credibility - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 24 May 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 24 May 12
     
    This study gives a snapshot ofthe trends in strategic plans of ARL members. It shows that many ARL members do not produce an annual report, and that it istherefore difficult to assess if their strategic plans are implemented successfully.
Sara Thompson

Every stereotypical presentation ever : 404 Tech Support - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 18 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 18 Jan 12
     
    Oh, I am so using this at some training event at some point in the future.
Sara Thompson

How to Get the News You Want Without Being Overwhelmed - Alan Jacobs - Technology - The... - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 01 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • (1) Our story begins with RSS feeds (in my case via Google Reader) and Twitter. Lots of reading material turns up every day through these initial filters. Some of it I can tell immediately I don't need to follow up on, but if I see something that's even potentially interesting I send it to ...
  • (2) Instapaper. What a great gift Instapaper is. The bookmarklet makes it trivially easy to send articles to Instapaper from your browser, and the better Twitter and RSS clients for the iPad and iPhone
  • (3) What I read in Instapaper I pass along to one of three destinations. If I have no further use for an article or post after reading it, I simply trash it. If I decide I'd like to share something in the article with others, I post it to my tumblelog.
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  • And if I think the article is something I might want to use later, I select a representative quotation from it and then bookmark it, with an appropriate tag, in Pinboard -- which is just as wonderful as Instapaper. Incidentally, I also pay $25 a year to have Pinboard generate a (searchable!) archive of all the pages I have bookmarked, which insures me against link rot.
  • And one more thing: I think filtering strategies need to be taught -- starting in high school, at the latest, and in a very thorough way in colleges. But this is rarely and haphazardly done. Drinking from the firehose is too hard, too disorienting; and yet that's what we allow young people to do. This is a serious mistake. The filtering tools are out there, and they're either free or ridiculously cheap. Let's use them, and teach others to use them.
Sara Thompson

CreativeMornings | a monthly breakfast lecture series - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 10 Feb 12 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 10 Feb 12
     
    I watched one of the CreativeMornings talks online and emailed them to see how we would start a chapter in Sioux City.  
Sara Thompson

http://www.hiddenpeanuts.com/postfiles/The%20case%20for%20home-grown,%20sustainable%20n... - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 27 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 27 Nov 11
     
      "Old models of library operation may disappear, but that does not mean they can't be replaced.  Academic libraries' central book model is temporarily insulated by high prices, but change will come just the same.  The time provided by this insulation should be used to explore sources of content like local special collections with clear ownership and distribution rights.  Without restrictions like those imposed by many third party vendors, special collections can provide a proving ground for next generation interfaces and services. This home-grown expertise within libraries can then be applied on a wider basis in the future.                 The examples and efforts discussed in this column share one thing at their core, and that is that they are services made by libraries, for libraries.  As a collective institution, libraries have great expertise in building sustainable preservation systems capable of lasting many years.  Third party vendors do not have a proven track record on building long term preservation systems for electronic resources at this point in time.  By placing our trust, funds, and collections in the hands of those third parties we turn libraries into middlemen.  For the short term gain of providing easy access to next generation library services, we risk disintermediation by those vendors and removal from the service equation entirely.  Libraries of all types and sizes can look inward and grow from our strengths.  Major publishers and content providers aren't likely to allow new services with the same scope libraries enjoyed in the past.  Fortunately, special collections and collaborative efforts are accessible to even the smallest library as perfect opportunities for gaining relevant experience and expertise.  By basing that experience and expertise on homegrown services built by and for libraries, they can ensure a sustainable future of next generation services."
Sara Thompson

Library Terms That Users Understand - 0 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 01 Oct 11 - Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 01 Oct 11
     
    "This site is intended to help library web developers decide how to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand them well enough to make productive choices. It serves as a clearinghouse of usability test data evaluating t
Sara Thompson

Connect to KU - The University of Kansas - 1 views

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shared by Sara Thompson on 04 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • Sara Thompson on 04 Nov 11
     
    A well-organized table of various social media accounts from departments across the University of Kansas.
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