SUNYLA Emerging Technologies for Information Literacy

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

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.

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?

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.

Possible cheap alternative to clicker system?

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

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.

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?

easy to use tool to embed documents on any website and can mark up the documents for otherts to see. Also provides usage analytics & access controls.

This might be a nice way to both attach more specific help to online handouts and tutorials, giving them more context. You might even place a video tutorial made by another organization, for example, in the context of your own environment so students can make better sense of it in relation to your own library's resources.

from: lauren's library blog

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).