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Carla Shinn

Librarians Lead the Way in EdTech - 23 views

www.techlearning.com/...69129

information literacy reading promotion research 2.0 professional development

shared by Carla Shinn on 09 Apr 15 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 09 Apr 15
     
    "Libraries and librarians are at the forefront and often the hub of the school. They are a community resource, a public face, a service profession, a helping hand, relationship builders, collaborators, and educational technology leaders. Librarians of 2015 are not the same librarians you remember from 1985. They still order books and teach research skills, but it is very rare to hear them shushing students, or hiding meekly behind the stacks. Librarians wear a number of hats and information literacy is closely tied to educational technology."
Cathy Oxley

Editing and Proofreading at QUT - 35 views

studywell.library.qut.edu.au/...ING_EditingandProofreading.pdf

pdf writing editing proofreading information skills QUT

shared by Cathy Oxley on 18 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 18 Mar 15
     
    Valuable information to guide students in how to create a quality academic response to a task before they hand it in.
Carla Shinn

Developing Digital Literacy Through Content Curation - 17 views

www.fractuslearning.com/...ital-literacy-content-curation

information literacy digital literacy

shared by Carla Shinn on 12 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 12 Jun 14
     
    With the amount of content that is shared on the Internet every minute, it's no surprise that many people feel overwhelmed by the quantity of information out there. This is why content curation is becoming an essential digital literacy skill for teachers and students.
David Hilton

History Teachers Group - 22 views

Thanks for pointing that out Dianne. It seems the last parenthesis has been included in the URL address. The correct link is here: http://groups.diigo.com/group/history-teachers

history teachers resources sources open source databases

started by David Hilton on 27 Dec 10 2 follow-ups, last by David Hilton on 03 Jan 11
Cathy Oxley

Lateline - 15/11/2010: Children must be taught to question: Lord Puttnam - 11 views

www.abc.net.au/...s3067187.htm

lateline 2010 David_Putnam questions research information skills professional development

shared by Cathy Oxley on 06 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 06 Dec 10
     
    "Academy-award-winning film producer Lord David Puttnam is a working member of the British House of Lords, where his policy focus is on improving education standards."
beth gourley

ThinkeringSpace Library Study - 0 views

www.id.iit.edu/...study_insights.htm

design libraries

shared by beth gourley on 20 Aug 08 - Cached
  • sought to understand representative libraries within the Chicago
  • The first, More Than Books, reveals the wide range of library offerings, indicating that they are much more than warehouses of books or media
  • The second, Constant Change, describes the continued efforts that have been made by the library to meet patrons' expectations and keep up with technology.
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  • The third, Underused Expertise, identifies the broad expert skills of librarians, and the low use of this public resource.
  • The fourth, Life-long Relevance, highlights the lack of continued interaction of patrons with the library through their different life phases
  • The fifth, Community Outreach, describes the movement of the library in two opposite directions, towards both masses and niches
  • The sixth, Sanctioned Initiatives, addresses the impact of high-level initiatives, such as the Early Literacy Program
  • beth gourley on 20 Aug 08
     
    This is one component of the webpage Thinkering Space the focuses on library observations that will inform design criteria for Thinkering Space
Sherri Librarian

Format bigotry or What exactly is a book? - 0 views

concordcarlislelibrary.blogspot.com/...y-or-what-exactly-is-book.html

ebook schoollibraries blog future

shared by Sherri Librarian on 12 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Reading is more relevant and critical than ever.  Paper and books aren't going anywhere. However, if we want robust programs, increasing readership and to become the hub of learning and skill-building for our schools, we had better diversify and start offering our students greater choice.
chris gibson

Young Learners Need Librarians, Not Just Google - Forbes.com - 0 views

www.forbes.com/...ligent-investing-google_2.html

librarians

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  • chris gibson on 24 Mar 10
     
    The ubiquity and ease of Google searches could make kids' minds go soft without the ability to critique or contextualize the answers.
Donna Bills

Fairy Tale Theater - A Quest for New Stories - 10 views

www.thematzats.com/...index.html

fairytales writing library skills education reading books

shared by Donna Bills on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Donna Bills on 31 Mar 10
     
    Fairy tale writing assignment
beth gourley

Gutenberg 2.0 | Harvard Magazine May-Jun 2010 - 10 views

harvardmagazine.com/...gutenberg-2-0

librarianship e-learning databases

shared by beth gourley on 24 May 10 - Cached
  • Her staff offers a complete suite of information services to students and faculty members, spread across four teams. One provides content or access to it in all its manifestations; another manages and curates information relevant to the school’s activities; the third creates Web products that support teaching, research, and publication; and the fourth group is dedicated to student and faculty research and course support. Kennedy sees libraries as belonging to a partnership of shared services that support professors and students. “Faculty don’t come just to libraries [for knowledge services],” she points out. “They consult with experts in academic computing, and they participate in teaching teams to improve pedagogy. We’re all part of the same partnership and we have to figure out how to work better together.”
  • It’s not that we don’t need libraries or librarians,” he continues, “it’s that what we need them for is slightly different. We need them to be guides in this increasingly complex world of information and we need them to convey skills that most kids actually aren’t getting at early ages in their education. I think librarians need to get in front of this mob and call it a parade, to actually help shape it.”
  • Her staff offers a complete suite of information services to students and faculty members, spread across four teams. One provides content or access to it in all its manifestations; another manages and curates information relevant to the school’s activities; the third creates Web products that support teaching, research, and publication; and the fourth group is dedicated to student and faculty research and course support. Kennedy sees libraries as belonging to a partnership of shared services that support professors and students. “Faculty don’t come just to libraries [for knowledge services],” she points out. “They consult with experts in academic computing, and they participate in teaching teams to improve pedagogy. We’re all part of the same partnership and we have to figure out how to work better together.”
    • beth gourley
      beth gourley on 24 May 10
       
      Good summary of differentiating library services and the need to accommodate staffing. Ultimatley makes for the teaching partnership.
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  • “The digital world of content is going to be overwhelming for librarians for a long time, just because there is so much,” she acknowledges. Therefore, librarians need to teach students not only how to search, but “how to think critically about what they have found…what they are missing… and how to judge their sources.” 
  • But making comparisons between digital and analog libraries on issues of cost or use or preservation is not straightforward. If students want to read a book cover to cover, the printed copy may be deemed superior with respect to “bed, bath and beach,” John Palfrey points out. If they just want to read a few pages for class, or mine the book for scattered references to a single subject, the digital version’s searchability could be more appealing; alternatively, students can request scans of the pages or chapter they want to read as part of a program called “scan and deliver” (in use at the HD and other Harvard libraries) and receive a link to images of the pages via e-mail within four days. 
  • (POD) would allow libraries to change their collection strategies: they could buy and print a physical copy of a book only if a user requested it. When the user was done with the book, it would be shelved. It’s a vision of “doing libraries ‘just in time’ rather than ‘just in case,’” says Palfrey. (At the Harvard Book Store on Massachusetts Avenue, a POD machine dubbed Paige M. Gutenborg is already in use. Find something you like in Google’s database of public-domain books—perhaps one provided by Harvard—and for $8 you can own a copy, printed and bound before your wondering eyes in minutes. Clear Plexiglas allows patrons to watch the process—hot glue, guillotine-like trimming blades, and all—until the book is ejected, like a gumball, from a chute at the bottom.)
  • We’re rethinking the physical spaces to accommodate more of the type of learning that is expected now, the types of assignments that faculty are making, that have two or three students huddled around a computer working together, talking.” 
  • Libraries are also being used as social spaces,
  • In terms of research, students are asking each other for information more now than in the past, when they might have asked a librarian.
  • On the contrary, the whole history of books and communication shows that one medium does not displace another.
  • it’s not just a service organization. I would even go so far as to call it the nervous system of our corporate body.”
  • beth gourley on 24 May 10
     
    "This defines a new role for librarians as database experts and teachers, while the library becomes a place for learning about sophisticated search for specialized information." "How do we make information as useful as possible to our community now and over a long period of time?"
Sharon Laverick

12 tips for creating better presentations - 0 views

www.microsoft.com/...presentations.aspx

presentation multimedia Web2.0

shared by Sharon Laverick on 03 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Sharon Laverick on 03 Mar 11
     
    For creating presentations generally but relevant to multimedia.
Anthony Beal

UEL Info skills - Home - 0 views

infoskills.uelconnect.org.uk

informationliteracy libraries education

shared by Anthony Beal on 03 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 03 Mar 11
     
    RT @jsecker: Very impressed with new UEL Infoskills site: http://infoskills.uelconnect.org.uk/ #infolit
Robin Cicchetti

SXSW 2011: The internet is over | Technology | The Guardian - 20 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...sxsw-2011-internet-online

technology gamification Web 3.

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 20 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • His take on the education system, for example, is that it is a badly designed game: students compete for good grades, but lose motivation when they fail. A good game, by contrast, never makes you feel like you've failed: you just progress more slowly. Instead of giving bad students an F, why not start all pupils with zero points and have them strive for the high score?
    • Robin Cicchetti
      Robin Cicchetti on 20 Mar 11
       
      How can this idea be applied to information skills and school libraries?
  • a consultant on cyber-crimefighting speaks with undisguised joy about how much information the police could glean from Facebook, in order to infiltrate communities where criminals might lurk. Asked about privacy concerns, she replies: "Yeah – we'll have to keep an eye on that."
  • Until recently, the debate over "digital distraction" has been one of vested interests: authors nostalgic for the days of quiet book-reading have bemoaned it, while technology zealots have dismissed it. But the fusion of the virtual world with the real one exposes both sides of this argument as insufficient, and suggests a simpler answer: the internet is distracting if it stops you from doing what you really want to be doing; if it doesn't, it isn't.
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  • "we were not meant to operate as computers do," Schwartz says. "We are meant to pulse."
  • "the dictator's dilemma".
  • Robin Cicchetti on 20 Mar 11
     
    Fascinating article about the next generation of the ubiquitous web and the implications. Good definition of "gamification." This is excellent background information for strategic planning and discussing the potential implications on education.
  • Robin Cicchetti on 20 Mar 11
     
    Fascinating article about the next generation of the ubiquitous web and the implications. Good definition of "gamification." This is excellent background information for strategic planning and discussing the potential implications on education.
Anthony Beal

National Forum on Information Literacy | 21st Century Skills - 13 views

infolit.org

informationliteracy libraries

shared by Anthony Beal on 29 Sep 11 - Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 29 Sep 11
     
    "The mission of the  National Forum on Information Literacy is not only to promote information literacy at home and abroad, but also to provide programmatic research and training activities to a broad spectrum of constituencies. Our aim is to provide workforce development support services in the following areas (1) education and learning, (2) business and economic interests, (3) health and wellness, and (4) government and citizenship."
Anthony Beal

University System of Georgia Library - The Flow of Information - 7 views

www.usg.edu/...index.phtml

libraries infoskills sites informationliteracy flow

shared by Anthony Beal on 26 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 26 Aug 11
     
    Shows how information appears in different types of sources over time. Includes the flow for 1953: Crick & Watson - Determine the Structure of DNA
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