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lizziechase

Fiction with a twist blog: Upper primary/lower secondary - October 22 start - 17 views

Dear everyone Fiction with a Twist is a 5 week blog, hosted by the School Libraries and Information Literacy Unit with a full set of teaching resources at http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/raps/twist1...

started by lizziechase on 09 Oct 12 no follow-up yet
Chris Hays

Lessons From Finland: What Educators Can Learn About Leadership | MindShift - 1 views

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shared by Chris Hays on 23 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • Chris Hays on 23 Sep 13
     
    Great article highlighting the book which expresses differences in Finland vs. the United States.
puzznbuzzus

Some Interesting Health Facts You Must Know. - 0 views

1. When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, and they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate. 2. The human head is one-quarter of our total length at birth but on...

health quiz facts

started by puzznbuzzus on 15 Feb 17 no follow-up yet
puzznbuzzus

Is English Language So Popular because of the USA? - 0 views

Americans might tend to inflate the influence of the United States in the history of the spread of English. Before the World Wars, particularly WWII, the US was a bit player on the world stage. The...

english quiz online

started by puzznbuzzus on 17 Feb 17 no follow-up yet
beth gourley

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

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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 Bullington

American Rhetoric: The Power of Oratory in the United States - 7 views

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shared by Fran Bullington on 11 Feb 10 - Cached
  • Fran Bullington on 11 Feb 10
     
    Thousands of speeches!
Debra Gottsleben

My response to an ASCD EL article - Teaching the iGeneration - Bloomfield Hills, MI, Un... - 0 views

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shared by Debra Gottsleben on 12 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Debra Gottsleben on 12 Mar 11
     
    Another great piece on the role of the school librarian.
  • Debra Gottsleben on 12 Mar 11
     
    Great article about the importance of school libraries!
Jamie Camp

World's Simplest Online Safety Policy - Sayville, NY, United States, ASCD EDge Blog post - 1 views

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shared by Jamie Camp on 18 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Jamie Camp on 18 Jun 11
     
    Excellent analysis/recommendations about what really is and isn't required by US law regarding student work online. Best lines are the last paragraph: These laws were passed to keep children safe, not keep children out of the 21st century. With a little common sense we can ensure schools are not committing educational neglect by keeping students stuck in the past.
Anthony Beal

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

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

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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
Anthony Beal

University System of Georgia - A Primer on Databases and Catalogs - 9 views

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

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shared by Anthony Beal on 26 Aug 11 - Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 26 Aug 11
     
    Includes guidance on Boolean, Proximity Operators, Truncation / Wildcards, Subject Headings, Keywords, Thesauruses and Indexes.
Anthony Beal

University System of Georgia - Starting Your Search - 11 views

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shared by Anthony Beal on 26 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Anthony Beal on 26 Aug 11
     
    A ten-step strategy for learning how to research 
beth gourley

Best Buy and Verizon Jump Into E-Reader Fray, With iRex - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...23ebooks.html

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shared by beth gourley on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics that already makes one of Europe’s best-known e-readers, plans to announce that it is entering the United States market with a $399 touch-screen e-reader.
  • The iRex has an 8.1-inch touch screen and links to buy digital books in Barnes & Noble’s e-bookstore and periodicals from NewspaperDirect, a service that offers more than 1,100 papers and presents them onscreen largely as they appear in print form.
  • The iRex can also handle the ePub file format, a widely accepted industry standard, which means that owners can buy books from other online bookstores that use ePub and transfer texts onto the iRex.
  • beth gourley on 28 Sep 09
     
    Source for Tennant's article in LJ
iupdateyou123

Peritoneal mesothelioma - 0 views

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    Peritoneal mesothelioma
iupdateyou123

Pleural Mesothelioma - 0 views

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    Pleural Mesothelioma
justquestionans

Strayer-University ACC 599 Homework Help - 2 views

Get help for Strayer-University ACC 599 Homework Help. We provide assignment, homework, discussions and case studies help for all subjects Strayer-University for Session 2017-2018. ACC 599 WEEK 1 ...

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started by justquestionans on 26 Jun 18 no follow-up yet
Cathy Oxley

Mass shooting statistics in the United States - Washington Post - 7 views

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  • Cathy Oxley on 18 Feb 18
     
    The terrible numbers that grow with each mass shooting.
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