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Allison Burrell

WebJunction - Where librarians and library staff connect, create, and learn - 0 views

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    For Pennsylvania Librarians: HSLC/Access PA created WebJunction Pennsylvania in partnership with WebJunction, an online learning community that incorporates social software features to encourage community building. Members of the WebJunction community share their ideas and experience and promote best practices in libraries. Pennsylvania joins over fifteen other states in this cooperative educational system. Course content is contributed by the cooperative. The WebJunction system keeps track of courses taken and can generate a certificate upon course completion.
Martha Hickson

Karen Jensen, TLT - @TLT16 Teen Librarian Toolbox - 12 views

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    Libraries also have a brand: we are the information centers of our communities. That information may come in the form of books, programs, or access to technology, but that is our main goal. If we start to veer too far from that brand, we dilute our effectiveness and muddy our message. We risk alienating our patrons and supporters while overwhelming our staff to the point where we are trying to do so many things that we do none of them well. Staying on message, on brand, makes it that much easier to communicate with our communities who we are, what we do, and why we matter.
sdiwc conferences

CFP - ICDIPC2012 - Lithuania - IEEE - 0 views

You are invited to participate in The Second International Conference on Digital Information Processing and Communications that will be held in Lithuania, on July 10-12, 2012. The event will be hel...

Digital Information Communications Conferences

started by sdiwc conferences on 17 May 12 no follow-up yet
Cathy Oxley

Book: The Whuffie Factor | ::HorsePigCow:: marketing uncommon - 0 views

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    The Whuffie Factor is a breakthrough book, providing the strategic map and specific tactics for success in the lucrative, but strange and elusive world of online communities. As Tara Hunt has found, online success comes from building a community and being part of it - not by pushing a product or service. If you want to learn the secret sauce behind Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube, you have to use them until you love them.
anonymous

Digital Images Collections Guide | ALA Connect - 0 views

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    "A curated bibliography of quality digital image collections spanning ~85 subjects, including ~950 digital collections, that have been culled primarily from the LibGuides Community, and several subject areas have been further refined by 20 subject liaison librarians at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities.  To browse by 8 general discipline areas see: https://www.lib.umn.edu/media/imageguide (non-editable).  The goal of the site is to share this work with the visual resources community, hopefully making the resource stronger through participation for others to repurpose."
Fran Bullington

School Library Monthly - ALA Presidential Task Force: Focus on School Libraries - 18 views

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    "It was the best times, it was the worst of times…." This famous observation by Charles Dickens is certainly applicable to the current status of school library programs and school librarians. On the one hand, some programs are valued and receive ongoing support from their communities. Led by competent, effective school librarians, programs such as those recognized as meeting the criteria of the American Association of School Librarians (AASL) National School Library Program of the Year Award, provide solid evidence of the positive impact of best practice on teaching and learning. On the other hand, the economic downturn, often combined with a lack of understanding or value for how school librarians and library programs contribute to student achievement, has led other communities to eliminate positions and to cut back, curtail, or get rid of once thriving programs.
Ninja Essays

How to Learn a New Language - 0 views

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    "Our entire world has become like a small village. Everyone is connected with everyone, and you can easily communicate with a business partner, teacher, tutor, or student from another corner of the Earth. You already have the Internet as the best tool of communication, but do you have the skills to develop a strong connection with someone who doesn't speak your language?"
Bright Ideas

Community | Edublogs - education blogs for teachers, students and institutions - 4 views

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    Edublogs has a community and blog directory, making it easy to find blogs that fit your area of interest.
Cathy Oxley

Welcome to Massively Minecraft « - 10 views

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    "The purpose of this community project is to trial the use of the game Minecraft (http://www.minecraft.net) in schools as part of voluntary student activity. The community will engage in exploration and research, not to decide or direct any particular application of the game but, to understand where students might take it and how they and their teachers visualise possibilities for it use within the curriculum."
Martha Hickson

"This Is Our Library, and It's a Pretty Cool Place": A User-Centered Study of Public Li... - 7 views

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    This study sought to collect data from teens and librarians about their preferences and recommendations for the effective design of physical library spaces for teens. Librarians and teens at twenty-two U.S. public libraries filmed narrated video tours of their young adult (YA) public library spaces. The researchers used qualitative content analysis techniques to analyze the video data and to develop a framework for guiding the design of effective YA public library spaces. In addition to providing specific recommendations for user-centered YA library space design, this study highlights the need for continued user input into the design and maintenance of YA public library spaces as teens' needs evolve and vary across time and from community to community.
Judy O'Connell

Survive and Thrive! An Advocacy Toolkit for School Librarians - 43 views

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    It's time for school librarians to step out and enlighten their communities about all the ways their libraries impact students' education.
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    "It's time for school librarians to step out and enlighten their communities about all the ways their libraries impact students' education."
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    "On this site, you will find message templates (sample e-mails, letters, newsletter blurbs, brochures, and even videos) containing these taglines and targeting specific stakeholder audiences in order to promote school librarians as 21st century skills experts. We hope that these sample templates will be used by school librarians and school library advocates to inform their communities about the vital and irreplaceable role that school librarians play in teaching and learning. Maybe you'll get inspired to create something for us that we can use, too. In the meantime, we hope you find this site helpful."
Carla Shinn

Epic Reads. Your World. Your Books. - 13 views

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    Online Community for teen books and authors. Visit our different channels to find communities of teens who like the same genres as you, or join in a forum discussion to share your opinions and insights. Discover a great new book? Don't forget to "Chuck It" at your friends for them to check out too!
Anthony Tony

Learn New Languages Online - 0 views

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    The world around us is getting hi-tech and is breaking all the geographical, cultural and language barriers for advance communication and to establish professional connection. Companies are opening their branches in foreign countries even after a big language difference.
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    The world around us is getting hi-tech and is breaking all the geographical, cultural and language barriers for advance communication and to establish professional connection. Companies are opening their branches in foreign countries even after a big language difference.
Donna Baumbach

Safe Digial Social Networking - 0 views

  • Young people also need guidance and adult assistance to learn how to safely navigate the virtual environments of the 21st Century. Schools must be proactive, rather than merely defensive, in helping students acquire the skills of digital citizenship needed today and in the future. Simply banning read/write web tools on school networks is an inadequate response: Educators must strive to learn alongside students and parents how these technologies can be safely and powerfully used to communicate and collaborate.
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    "Young people also need guidance and adult assistance to learn how to safely navigate the virtual environments of the 21st Century. Schools must be proactive, rather than merely defensive, in helping students acquire the skills of digital citizenship needed today and in the future. Simply banning read/write web tools on school networks is an inadequate response: Educators must strive to learn alongside students and parents how these technologies can be safely and powerfully used to communicate and collaborate."
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    resources and links provided - from a workshop to schol library media spcialists (and others) by Wesley Fryer
beth gourley

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

  • 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
       
      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.”
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    "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?"
Martha Hickson

Librarydoor: Information Trumps Technology in the Common Core - 17 views

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    next time you ponder what to do with technology, consider the following essential questions: What information can my students communicate with technology?  What information can I embed into this project?   Can my students access information to synthesize, critically?  Are my students information literate as well as tech-savvy?  Am I asking my students to JUST find information? Or, have I asked them to do anything with that information?  Synthesize?  Create? Debate? Transform that information into a position, problem solve,  etc,?  
Antonietta Neighbour

StoriesFrom | New Media. Better World. - 2 views

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    Through rich stories written and recorded by local community members, StoriesFrom gives the most underrepresented a space to shape their own story. In a world where mainstream media often filters and dictates news, StoriesFrom empowers individuals to speak their truth, while providing a space for exploration and connection to wide reaching audiences. From the young Kosovo generation redefining their identity, to boarding schools where Native Americans were stripped of theirs, to Palestinians and Kurds fighting for a place of their own, StoriesFrom seeks to connect us all.
Antonietta Neighbour

StoriesFrom | At The Table In Riga - 0 views

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    Through rich stories written and recorded by local community members, StoriesFrom gives the most underrepresented a space to shape their own story. In a world where mainstream media often filters and dictates news, StoriesFrom empowers individuals to speak their truth, while providing a space for exploration and connection to wide reaching audiences. From the young Kosovo generation redefining their identity, to boarding schools where Native Americans were stripped of theirs, to Palestinians and Kurds fighting for a place of their own, StoriesFrom seeks to connect us all.
Cathy Oxley

The eight traits that make a school great - 24 views

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    Curiousity, creativity, criticism, communication, collaboration, compassion, composure, citizenship
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