SUNYLA Emerging Technologies for Information Literacy

PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of your pictures. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the video. The effect of the slideshow is known as "Ken Burns". Could see using this to make a tutorial, along with audio, out of screenshots? Or even a simple tour of building, etc.

Free file sharing and net meeting. No download req'd & includes doc & browser share, text editor and whiteboard.

inquiry into the strategic and policy implications for higher education of the experience and expectations of learners in the light of their increasing use of the newest technologies.

designed for business use: multiple accounts (up to 6) and multiple users, integrated twitetr search, email notifications

zooming presentation editor

from: lauren's library blog

helps you embrace the backchannel and connect with your audience in realtime. Encourage the room to use the live stream to make comments, ask questions, and use that feedback to tailor your presentation, sharpen your points, and address audience needs.

I also created a group there for "Distance Librarians" - please join if interested!

social learning network for education, sponsored by Elluminate. Free, open environment with live, online meeting and collaboration space provided by Elluminate technology. For educators passionate about teaching and learning and want connect with like-minded colleagues to share content, develop best practices, and collaborate on a global level.

from Hidden Peanuts blog

crazy idea?: create a SUNY-wide alternate reality game that invites students from all over SUNY to collaborate to solve a complex mystery or puzzle of some kind and that involves using a variety of library and scholarly resources. Maybe even provide a forum for students to communicate and collaborate. If solved, SUNY libraries, for example, could donate books or other resources to some charity or cause?

article from Search Engine Watch

Here is one idea for using twitter, perhaps in collab with a history or writing or acting faculty member: have students role play people from a specific event (e.g., Watergate from the eyes of several key players) or set of circumstances (e.g., ppl from different backgrounds observing a lynching, etc.). Each student is assigned (or picks) a different "character" and then is responsible for researching that event or issue and or person and to create realistic tweets that they imagine their character might be observing or thinking about during the event or about the issue. You could then also assign a reflective essay for them to think about how the process of emerging themselves in the persona and interacting with the other characters effected their perspective (or just do a simpler assignment where they reflect on their research process).

possible tool 4 info lit instr via creative, reflective, multimedia research topic posters?