SUNYLA Emerging Technologies for Information Literacy

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.

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?

Possible cheap alternative to clicker system?

Text Message (SMS) Polls and Voting, Audience Response System. Free plan up to 30 respondents.

How have you used twitter to collaborate?

I can see developing a branching adventure storyline that integrates elements of info lit (plagiarism, copyright, research, evaluation) using a tool like this. The student makes choices along the way that determines the outcome for their character (i.e., plagiarize and get demoted/fired as a journalist, or use biased information and offend a friend, etc.).

open source software to create own "choose your adventure" branching book.

dead simple, collaborative whiteboard with some edu/tutoring functions (some math and physics widgets, for example).

it's been revealed that thousands of electronic devices containing sensitive and historically important data are missing from the nation's most important public repository. While IT tends to have a knee-jerk reaction in favor of traditional data centers, the situation at the National Archives shows the sense of false security they impart.

ASU's "The Library Minute" YouTube channel - brief videos about library services and tools.

Crazy idea? ETC creates a YouTube channel and does a series of brief screencasts where one or more of us (once a month?) demos a technology or tool or service and how we are using it or how we might want to use it for instruction within SUNY.

micro-forum type application for your website. It pulls your Twitter stream in near real-time (max 1 min delay), reformatting tweets into threaded conversations with unlimited nesting. Possible tool for integration into LMS platforms?

info & links to content of Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University

info & links to content of Char Booth's ACRTL report: Informing Innovation: Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies at Ohio University