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Jennifer Garcia

Add Online Surveys, Online polls to your website or blog - 10 views

www.runpolls.com

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shared by Jennifer Garcia on 17 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Jennifer Garcia on 17 Nov 09
     
    "Free cool polls and Surveys for your websites! online surveysSimple, Easy and intuitive poll builder + pre made themes online pollsSupport all languages! yes ALL! with automatic alignments! live pollsDrag&Drop - can't get any simpler online surveysFree to use - no time limits online pollsImmediate results - live information survey builderFlexibe - set when and how and where to display your polls surveysFully downloadable reports - analyze your polls offline add pollsFast, light and secure - tiny footprint and free SSL support! "
Donna Baumbach

Learn Stunning Facts On Twitter With #omgfacts | Penn Olson - 0 views

www.penn-olson.com/...facts-on-twitter-with-omgfacts

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shared by Donna Baumbach on 29 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 29 Nov 09
     
    "@omgfacts." possible for twitterfall or other twitter display/feed
Katy Vance

Bookshare Launches New eBook Tools for Kids with Print Disabilities - The Digital Shift - 0 views

www.thedigitalshift.com/...r-kids-with-print-disabilities

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shared by Katy Vance on 09 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • The Bookshare Web Reader is compatible with Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and IE 9.0 and above. It allows readers to adjust font size, colors and display format, and takes advantage of Google Chrome’s features to allow students to read books multi-modally, with word-by-word highlighting and text-to-speech.
Martha Hickson

'Books That Shaped America' from the Library of Congress - USATODAY.com - 10 views

www.usatoday.com/...1

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shared by Martha Hickson on 23 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Martha Hickson on 23 Jun 12
     
    Library of Congress asked curators and experts to compile a list of books that have influenced us as a nation
Donna Baumbach

Glossi - Your Passion On Display - 21 views

glossi.com

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shared by Donna Baumbach on 21 Sep 13 - No Cached
Carla Shinn

Free Technology for Teachers: LibrAdventures - A Map of Writers and Their Stories - 30 views

www.freetech4teachers.com/...-map-of-writers-and-their.html

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shared by Carla Shinn on 28 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Carla Shinn on 28 Aug 14
     
    LibrAdventures is a neat use of Google Maps that displays the place and the events that influenced famous authors and their works. LibrAdventures also includes some artists and film directors. You can explore LibrAdventures by selecting a name, a location, or an event from the drop-down menus at the top of the LibrAdventures homepage.
Kathleen Porter

Social Media Employee Policy Examples from Over 100 Organizations | Social Media Today - 1 views

socialmediatoday.com/...00-companies-and-organizations

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shared by Kathleen Porter on 10 Jul 10 - Cached
  • The following table contains the names of over 100 companies and organization that have published their Employee Social Media Policies or Guidelines online... The left side column is the name of the organization, and it is linked to their organizational or corporate home page. The right side column displays a link to the actual document of policy web page for you to either download or review.
  • Ralph can be reached by email at RPaglia@gmail.com on Twitter @RalphPaglia and LinkedIn at http://LinkedIn.com/in/RPaglia
  • Kathleen Porter on 10 Jul 10
     
    by Ralph Paglia, July 3, 2010, via Social Media Today -
  • Kathleen Porter on 10 Jul 10
     
    For teaching secondary / higher-ed students, and because private/nonprofit sector policies often inform government ones...
kathleen johnson

Ideal Library - 14 views

I am working on something similar, a potential article for SLJ. I can send a draft in about a week if you are interested.

started by Jean Bruce on 23 Nov 10 3 follow-ups, last by kathleen johnson on 25 Nov 10
beth gourley

The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

www.nybooks.com/21514

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shared by beth gourley on 25 May 08 - Cached
  • four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
  • around 4000 BC, humans learned to write.
  • the invention of writing was the most important technological breakthrough in the history of humanity
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  • second technological shift when the codex replaced the scroll sometime soon after the beginning of the Christian era. By the third century AD, the codex—that is, books with pages that you turn as opposed to scrolls that you roll
  • eventually included differentiated words (that is, words separated by spaces
  • other reader's aids
  • codex, in turn, was transformed by the invention of printing with movable type in the 1450s.
  • technology of printing did not change for nearly four centuries, but the reading public grew larger and larger, thanks to improvements in literacy, education, and access to the printed word.
  • fourth great change, electronic communication
  • movable type to the Internet, 524 years;
  • writing to the codex, 4,300 years;
  • codex to movable type, 1,150 years;
  • would argue that the new information technology should force us to rethink the notion of information itself.
  • Internet to search engines, nineteen years
  • search engines to Google's algorithmic relevance ranking, seven years;
  • continued at such a rate as to seem both unstoppable and incomprehensible.
  • continuity I have in mind has to do with the nature of information itself or, to put it differently, the inherent instability of texts.
  • every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that information has always been unstable.
    • beth gourley
      beth gourley on 25 May 08
       
      premise
  • pace of change seems breathtaking:
  • news has always been an artifact and that it never corresponded exactly to what actually happened.
  • News is not what happened but a story about what happened.
  • aving learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary sources for knowing what really happened
  • newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events
  • We live in a time of unprecedented accessibility to information that is increasingly unreliable. Or do we?
  • as messages that are constantly being reshaped in the process of transmission
  • Instead of firmly fixed documents, we must deal with multiple, mutable texts. By studying them skeptically on our computer screens, we can learn how to read our daily newspaper more effectively—and even how to appreciate old books.
  • Unbelievers used to dismiss Henry Clay Folger's determination to accumulate copies of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare as the mania of a crank.
  • When Folger's collection grew beyond three dozen copies, his friends scoffed at him as Forty Folio Folger.
  • eighteen of the thirty-six plays in the First Folio had never before been printed
  • only two were reprinted without change from earlier quarto editions
  • extual stability never existed in the pre-Internet eras.
  • Piracy was so pervasive in early modern Europe that best-sellers could not be blockbusters as they are today
  • They abridged, expanded, and reworked texts as they pleased, without worrying about the authors' intentions.
  • question in perspective by discussing two views of the library, which I would describe as grand illusions—grand and partly true.
  • o put it positively, there is something to be said for both visions, the library as a citadel and the Internet as open space.
  • We have come to the problems posed by Google Book Search.
  • Google proposal seemed to offer a way to make all book learning available to all people, or at least those privileged enough to have access to the World Wide Web
  • will open up possibilities for research involving vast quantities of data, which could never be mastered without digitization
  • Electronic Enlightenment, a project sponsored by the Voltaire Foundation of Oxford
  • scholars will be able to trace references to individuals, books, and ideas throughout the entire network of correspondence that undergirded the Enlightenment
  • notably American Memory sponsored by the Library of Congress[1] and the Valley of the Shadow created at the University of Virginia[2] —have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of databases on this scale
  • will make research libraries obsolete
  • 2. Although Google pursued an intelligent strategy by signing up five great libraries, their combined holdings will not come close to exhausting the stock of books in the United States.
  • 1. According to the most utopian claim of the Googlers, Google can put virtually all printed books on-line.
  • If Google missed this book, and other books like it, the researcher who relied on Google would never be able to locate certain works of great importance.
  • On the contrary, Google will make them more important than ever. To support this view, I would like to organize my argument around eight points.
  • For books under copyright, however, Google will probably display only a few lines at a time, which it claims is legal under fair use.
  • 3. Although it is to be hoped that the publishers, authors, and Google will settle their dispute, it is difficult to see how copyright will cease to pose a problem.
  • But nothing suggests that it will take account of the standards prescribed by bibliographers, such as the first edition to appear in print or the edition that corresponds most closely to the expressed intention of the author.
  • Google defines its mission as the communication of information—right now, today; it does not commit itself to conserving texts indefinitely.
  • it has not yet ventured into special collections, where the rarest works are to be found. And of course the totality of world literature—all the books in all the languages of the world—lies far beyond Google's capacity to digitize
  • Electronic enterprises come and go. Research libraries last for centuries. Better to fortify them than to declare them obsolete
  • 5. Google will make mistakes.
  • Once we believed that microfilm would solve the problem of preserving texts. Now we know better.
  • 6. As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that Google's copies will last.
  • all texts "born digital" belong to an endangered species
  • 7. Google plans to digitize many versions of each book, taking whatever it gets as the copies appear, assembly-line fashion, from the shelves; but will it make all of them available?
  • 4. Companies decline rapidly in the fast-changing environment of electronic technology.
  • No single copy of an eighteenth-century best-seller will do justice to the endless variety of editions. Serious scholars will have to study and compare many editions, in the original versions, not in the digitized reproductions that Google will sort out according to criteria that probably will have nothing to do with bibliographical scholarship.
  • 8. Even if the digitized image on the computer screen is accurate, it will fail to capture crucial aspects of a book.
  • ts physical aspects provide clues about its existence as an element in a social and economic system; and if it contains margin notes, it can reveal a great deal about its place in the intellectual life of its readers.
  • Rare book rooms are a vital part of research libraries, the part that is most inaccessible to Google. But libraries also provide places for ordinary readers to immerse themselves in books,
  • Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library.
  • I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns.
  • he research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future.
  • beth gourley on 25 May 08
     
    The library as citadel and as the open internet both play an important and distinguishable role.
Fran Hughes

School Library 2.0 - 5/1/2006 - School Library Journal - 0 views

www.schoollibraryjournal.com/index.asp

21stCenturyLibrary school_libraries future

shared by Fran Hughes on 18 Feb 09 - Cached
  • interface that would allow students to build a virtual collection of their favorite books by letting them copy a record to display on their “bookshelf.
  • use blogs and podcasts to facilitate book discussions and booktalks.
  • You can further stimulate a dialogue by establishing a “Book Talk” program through voicemail.
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  • So set up a special “Book Talk” phone number so students can submit their contributions from their cellphones
  • “Library Powered”
  • Interactive technologies have already galvanized the greater library community
  • The digitally re-shifted library will end the argument over flex vs. fixed scheduling once and for all by shifting to a new model.
  • The library is still functioning as the “Intel Inside,” but that doesn’t have to mean “In Your Presence.”
  • How else can libraries harness the power of 2.0 to provide services wherever and whenever they are needed?
  • screencasting
  • pathfinders
  • generated from keyword searches
  • but rather reconsidering what works best in meeting new challenges in a changing educational world.
  • Fran Hughes on 18 Feb 09
     
    Say good-bye to your mother's school library
Anthony Beal

ALISS Recommends: Useful Resources for Training and Student Inductions. - 1 views

www.alissnet.org.uk/Display.aspx

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shared by Anthony Beal on 27 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 27 Sep 11
     
    ALISS Recommends: Useful Resources for Training and Student Inductions. 
Laura Gardner

The Comic Book Periodic Table of the Elements - 0 views

www.uky.edu/...index.html

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shared by Laura Gardner on 24 Sep 09 - Cached
  • Laura Gardner on 24 Sep 09
     
    This site contains comic book images linked to the chemical elements via the periodic table.
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