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ADAM CARRON

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  • ADAM CARRON on 06 Aug 12
     
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Cathy Oxley

Children's Books: A Shifting Market - 14 views

www.publishersweekly.com/...s-books-a-shifting-market.html

ChildrensBooks ya_lit statistics ebooks

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  • Cathy Oxley on 21 Mar 14
     
    "The rise of e-books is one factor affecting book buying"
Anthony Beal

23 Studies Find Positive Link Between Library Spending and Student Learning - 0 views

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libraries research

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  • Anthony Beal on 25 May 11
     
    When support for school libraries rises, reading scores go up and learning by other measures increases also. That's what researchers at Mansfield University in Mansfield, PA found when they examined and summarized the results of 23 studies done around the United States and Canada.
Marita Thomson

Infographic: A Look At The Size And Shape Of The Geosocial Universe In 2011 - 0 views

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infographic socialmedia

shared by Marita Thomson on 21 May 11 - No Cached
  • Marita Thomson on 21 May 11
     
    Thomas' infographic shows the current size of major social networks as well as the other well-known online services we use on a daily basis relative to their peers. It also overlays the present size of each company's mobile user base. You'll see Skype, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, MySpace, LinkedIn, and more. You can also check out the agency's infographic from last year to see the relative changes. Notable differences include: The rise of Chinese Qzone and Twitter, the fall of Myspace, and the stasis of Friendster.
Cathy Oxley

Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity | Rising Temperature, R... - 11 views

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geopolitics food_security scarcity climate_change rising_temperature food_scarcity

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  • Cathy Oxley on 30 Nov 14
     
    Challenges to food security
Anne Weaver

Teenagers, Legal Risks and Social Networking Sites - 19 views

newmediaresearch.educ.monash.edu.au/...SNSandRisks_REPORT.pdf

cybersafety digital Citizenship

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  • Cathy Oxley on 05 Aug 12
     
    The project found that young people, their parents, and teachers were generally aware that the use of SNS can give rise to risks that must be managed, however there was a worrying lack of understanding of the nature of the legal risks.
Carla Shinn

Keeping Public School Libraries Relevant - 13 views

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21st century libraries

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  • Carla Shinn on 08 Aug 13
     
    "Public school libraries have always served an admirable purpose in education. In an indirect way, K-12 libraries have given students support in learning endeavors and been a go-to spot for information. With that being said, as the first Internet-generation rises through the public school ranks, libraries need big changes to remain relevant. It is not enough to simply "be there;" school libraries need to reach out to students and pull them in with helpful resources that combine traditional and contemporary theories in literacy."
Cathy Oxley

A Short History of the Highrise - 2 views

www.nytimes.com/...high-rise

highrise NYC nytimes urbanisation skyscrapers interactive_video

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  • Cathy Oxley on 11 Apr 14
     
    An amazing interactive video in 4 parts, created from images from the NY Times archives. At any point you can stop and explore the content in more detail.
beth gourley

"Social Media is Here to Stay... Now What?" - 0 views

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social_media web2.0 networking

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  • Social media is the latest buzzword
  • Web2.0 means different things to different people
  • Web2.0 was about the perpetual beta
  • ...49 more annotations...
  • For users, Web2.0 was all about reorganizing web-based practices around Friends
  • typically labeled social networkING sites were never really about networking for most users. They were about socializing inside of pre-existing networks.
  • ACT ONE : NETWORK EFFECTS
  • Friendster was designed as to be an online dating site.
  • MySpace aimed to attract all of those being ejected from Friendster
  • Facebook had launched as a Harvard-only site before expanding to other elite institutions
  • And only in 2006, did they open to all.
  • in the 2006-2007 school year, a split amongst American teens occurred
  • college-bound kids from wealthier or upwardly mobile backgrounds flocked to Facebook
  • urban or less economically privileged backgrounds rejected the transition and opted to stay with MySpace
  • At this stage, over 35% of American adults have a profile on a social network site
  • the single most important factor in determining whether or not a person will adopt one of these sites is whether or not it is the place where their friends hangout.
  • do you know anything about the cluster dynamics of the users
  • all fine and well if everyone can get access to the same platform, but when that's not the case, new problems emerge.
  • ACT TWO : YOUTH VS. ADULTS
  • showcases the ways in which some tools are used differently by different groups.
  • For American teenagers, social network sites became a social hangout space, not unlike the malls
  • Adults, far more than teens, are using Facebook for its intended purpose as a social utility. For example, it is a tool for communicating with the past.
  • dynamic more visible than in the recent "25 Things" phenomena.
  • Adults are crafting them to show-off to people from the past and connect the dots between different audiences as a way of coping with the awkwardness of collapsed contexts.
  • Twitter is all the rage, but are kids using it? For the most part, no.
  • many are leveraging Twitter to be part of a broad dialogue
  • We design social media for an intended audience but aren't always prepared for network effects or the different use cases that emerge when people decide to repurpose their technology.
  • The key lesson from the rise of social media for you is that a great deal of software is best built as a coordinated dance between you and the users.
  • you are probably even aware of how inaccurate the public portrait of risk is
  • ACT THREE : RESHAPING PUBLICS
  • I want to discuss five properties of social media and three dynamics. These are the crux of what makes the phenomena we're seeing so different from unmediated phenomena.
  • 1. Persistence.
  • The bits-wise nature of social media means that a great deal of content produced through social media is persistent by default.
  • You can copy and paste a conversation from one medium to another, adding to the persistent nature of it
  • 2. Replicability.
  • much easier to alter what's been said than to confirm that it's an accurate portrayal of the original conversation.
  • 3. Searchability.
  • Search changes the landscape, making information available at our fingertips
  • 4. Scalability.
  • Conversations that were intended for just a friend or two might spiral out of control and scale to the entire school
  • 5. (de)locatability.
  • This paradox means that we are simultaneously more and less connected to physical space.
  • Those five properties are intertwined, but their implications have to do with the ways in which they alter social dynamics.
  • 1. Invisible Audiences.
  • lurkers who are present at the moment
  • visitors who access our content at a later date or in a different environment
  • having to present ourselves and communicate without fully understanding the potential or actual audience
  • 2. Collapsed Contexts
  • Social media brings all of these contexts crashing into one another and it's often difficult to figure out what's appropriate, let alone what can be understood.
  • 3. Blurring of Public and Private
  • As we are already starting to see, this creates all new questions about context and privacy, about our relationship to space and to the people around us.
  • One of the key challenges is learning how to adapt to an environment in which these properties and dynamics play a key role. This is a systems problem.
  • Social media is not new. M
  • beth gourley on 21 Mar 09
     
    Important summary of how social media works for youth and adults, and how five properties and three dynamics have a systematic affect that we all must deal with.
  • beth gourley on 21 Mar 09
     
    Diigo in education
Carla Shinn

The Jacket Designer's Challenge: To Capture a Book by Its Cover - 21 views

www.npr.org/...to-capture-a-book-by-its-cover

books reading reading promotion

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  • Carla Shinn on 20 Oct 14
     
    "Peter Mendelsund estimates he's designed "somewhere between 600 and 1,000 book covers," ranging from Crime and Punishment to Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.... Now Mendelsund has designed the covers for two new books of his own. Cover is a collection of hundreds of his book covers, including many that were rejected, along with commentaries on his technique. What We See When We Read is about how words give rise to images in our minds." Article and podcast
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