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Sharla Lair

Ayah Bdeir: Building blocks that blink, beep and teach | Video on TED.com - 3 views

www.ted.com/...that_blink_beep_and_teach.html

building blocks blink teach video ted com

shared by Sharla Lair on 29 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 29 Mar 12
     
    We have to get these! We can create our own little MOBIUSbots!
  • anonymous on 30 Mar 12
     
    http://littlebits.cc/ Ayah Bdeir is from the MIT Media Lab. I love the Media Lab - it produces the coolest of cool ideas. I'm not sold on using these to make a bot, but I'm definitely going to get some for Freya.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 30 Mar 12
     
    Wow, I cannot wait until Henry is old enough to play with these!
Jennifer Parsons

Unprofessional Development: Katamari Hack - 2 views

kathack.com

katamari hack javascript fun game html5 cool

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 04 Apr 12
     
    A hack you can stick in your browser window to make any web page Katamari Damacy!
  • anonymous on 04 Apr 12
     
    Can you repost the link? A giant ball just rolled over this page and now it's gone :(
anonymous

Google Begins Testing Its Augmented-Reality Glasses - NYTimes.com - 5 views

bits.blogs.nytimes.com/...-its-augmented-reality-glasses

Google augmented reality

shared by anonymous on 04 Apr 12 - No Cached
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 04 Apr 12
       
      Watch the video!
  • Sharla Lair on 05 Apr 12
     
    That is soooo cool! I want a pair.
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  • Jennifer Parsons on 05 Apr 12
     
    That's amazing! It reminds me of something similar that some groups have been trying to make for blind people-- using audio, instead of visual prompts (e.g., if there's a bus stop 20 feet ahead of the person, the user would hear "Bus stop at Some Number on Such-and-Such Street." 20 feet or so from them). http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815102854.htm
  • anonymous on 05 Apr 12
     
    Took less than 24 hours for some genius to come up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3TAOYXT840
  • Sharla Lair on 05 Apr 12
     
    That actually made me LOL! Thanks for that. ;)
Jennifer Parsons

» Glimpses into user behavior ACRL Tech Connect - 0 views

acrl.ala.org/techconnect

outsourcing analytics usability user behavior tech software library

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 03 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • The screen captures are fascinating — watch below as an off-campus user searches the library home page for the correct place to do an author search in the library catalog
  • Be prepared; watching a series of videos of unassisted users can dismantle your or your web committee’s cherished notions about how users navigate your site.
  • Paid accounts also have access to real time analytics, so libraries would be able to get a montage of what’s happening in the lobby as it is happening. Imagine being able to walk out and announce a “pop-up library workshop” on using the library catalog effectively after seeing the twentieth person fumble through the OPAC.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 03 Apr 12
     
    Describes the use of analytics tools such as Inspectlet, ClickTale, userfly, and more; it includes a nice little comparison table of features. Particularly cool are the real time screenshots and heatmaps depicting page use.
Sharla Lair

TED Books Launches New iPad App with Enhanced eBooks - The Digital Reader - 2 views

www.the-digital-reader.com/...-ipad-app-with-enhanced-ebooks

ted ipad app ebooks reader

shared by Sharla Lair on 10 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 10 Jul 12
     
    For those of you that enjoy TED videos...
  • anonymous on 11 Jul 12
     
    So awesome. I'm not sure I'll pay $3 for many of these, but it's cool just the same. I'm actually kinda surprised they are directly monetizing their old content.
Megan Durham

Berklee College of Music Stan Getz Library Goes Live on Evergreen - 7 views

liswire.com/...tz-library-goes-live-evergreen

shared by Megan Durham on 21 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 21 Aug 12
     
    Just thought this was cool and their catalog looks neat too. Go Evergreen!
  • anonymous on 22 Aug 12
Megan Durham

At Kansas libraries, getting a pan is a piece of cake - KansasCity.com - 1 views

www.kansascity.com/...ibraries-let-people-check.html

library libraries

shared by Megan Durham on 27 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 27 Aug 12
     
    MOBIUS needs to do this only instead of empty cake pans they should be filled with cake and instead of going to other libraries they should come directly to the office. A longtime practice of checking out cake pans at libraries in Kansas, particularly in rural areas, has increased as people look for a way to save money while still providing treats for special occasions. More cake pans are being loaned at the Great Bend Public Library after employees recently moved nearly 100 of the pans from a back room to bookshelves, The Hutchinson News reported.
  • Debbie Luchenbill on 07 Sep 12
     
    I've heard of libraries in Missouri that loan cake pans, too. I can't remember where she was from, but remember at MLA several years ago a librarian telling me about all the different shapes and "characters" of cake pans they had--cool idea!
Megan Durham

The People's Library continues despite city crackdown - 0 views

www.kalw.org/...ntinues-despite-city-crackdown

library libraries

shared by Megan Durham on 07 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 07 Sep 12
     
    This is just a warm and fuzzy piece for a Friday. But this is really cool what people are doing here. It reminds me of a story a I read a couple years ago about a girl lending books out of her locker (seen here: http://www.care2.com/causes/student-runs-secret-banned-books-library-from-locker.html) Hopefully the city in this case will see that the people want/need a library and turn it into one!
Megan Durham

EDUCAUSE, Internet2 Expand Etextbook Pilot - 1 views

www.thedigitalshift.com/...ternet2-expand-etextbook-pilot

ebooks professional Professional Development Development

shared by Megan Durham on 05 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 05 Sep 12
     
    This seems like a really cool concept (almost makes me want to go back to school . . .almost). The only problems I saw with this article was that the textbooks can be accessed through Blackboard, which is a great tool if professors know how to use it or it can be a nightmare for students if they have a professor who doesn't know how. Also I think its really funny that they stated "periodically" a revised edition of a textbooks come out, but I think most of my undergrad professors only assigned newest editions just so you couldn't buy used textbooks! But I digress. Anyways really neat concept and I'm anxious to see how it all works out.
Justin Hopkins

Shareable: Libraries Aren't Dying, They're Evolving - 1 views

www.shareable.net/...the-evolving-library

shared by Justin Hopkins on 26 Jul 12 - No Cached
    • Justin Hopkins
      Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
       
      This is so true. I remember back in the old days of COIN (Columbia Online Information Network). COIN was an ISP that the public library ran. It was free for anyone to use, but if you wanted a decent connection or access to email you had to pay. It was in the days before www. Anyway it was so cool and the perfect example of how libraries were quick to jump on the new tech. I remember seeing the metal and smoked glass cabinet full of modems on the second floor of the old library building out where everyone could see and marvel at it. It had a big sign hanging from the ceiling "COIN".
  • The State of America’s Libraries Report for 2011 notes that library visitation per capita and circulation per capita have both increased in the past 10 years.
  • “In general, libraries embraced the internet right away,” says Raphael. “And not just to provide computers for patrons. They recognized that it became a new tool for librarians.”
  • Scott Peterson on 26 Jul 12
     
    A positive four part blog entry about how libraries are evolving to meet new needs, strengthen communities during bad economic times, and are centers for sharing. Overall I think this article is the most realistic one I've read in some time. It still acknowledges that libraries are doing more with less, and that perceptions of libraries are slow to change.
Justin Hopkins

In the Olympics of Algorithms, a Russian Keeps Winning Gold - Technology Review - 1 views

www.technologyreview.com/...-of-algorithms-a-russian-keeps

olympics algorithms technology coding programming

shared by Justin Hopkins on 08 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 08 Aug 12
     
    That's really cool! I wonder if he would work for MOBIUS? Ha ha!
Jennifer Parsons

TED Blog | The wide open future of the art museum: Q&A with William Noel - 0 views

blog.ted.com/...rt-museum-qa-with-william-noel

ted Professional Development museum art open data open access Creative Commons

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • The Walters is a museum that’s free to the public, and to be public these days is to be on the Internet. Therefore to be a public museum your digital data should be free. And the great thing about digital data, particularly of historic collections, is that they’re the greatest advert that these collections have. So: Why on Earth would you limit how people can use them? The digital data is not a threat to the real data, it’s just an advertisement that only increases the aura of the original, so there just doesn’t seem to be any point in putting restrictions on the data.
  • Institutions with special collections, particularly museums — libraries perhaps less so — want to improve their brand and raise visitorship. One way in which they can do that is through advertising. And what better way to advertise than by making instantly available, or as available as possible, images of their collections? Because that’s how they get known.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12
     
    An interview with William Noel, curator of the Walters Art Museum, which recently featured the Archimedes palimpsest in its collection-- both physical and digital.  What's wonderful about that is that its digital collection is under Creative Commons license. I'm a bit confused as to why Noel thinks that libraries don't want to advertise their collections, unless he's referring to the fact that libraries typically contain copyrighted material in their collections.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 28 Sep 12
     
    Oh, and you can get to the digital exhibition of the Archimedes palimpsest at http://archimedespalimpsest.net/. It's not terribly user-friendly (to quickly look at the images, select "Google Book of the Archimedes Palimpsest"), but being able to access the raw TIFF images is pretty darn cool.
Megan Durham

Kindle Worlds - 1 views

www.amazon.com/...feature.html

library technology ebooks

shared by Megan Durham on 23 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 23 Jul 13
     
    New stories inspired by books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games people love. Welcome to Kindle Worlds, a place for you to publish fan fiction inspired by popular books, shows, movies, comics, music, and games. With Kindle Worlds, you can write new stories based on featured Worlds, engage an audience of readers, and earn royalties.
  • Megan Durham on 23 Jul 13
     
    Here is more info. about Kindle Worlds. I'm surprised authors are ok with this- it seems like a lawsuit waiting to happen.
  • Megan Durham on 23 Jul 13
     
    Though this could turn into a cool library program. . . or at the very least a lively copyright conversation.
Megan Durham

Human Libraries - 2 views

How cool is? Instead of a book about something you can checkout an expert!

Professional Development library

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