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Martha Hickson

Guest Post: Cory Doctorow for Freedom to Read Week | Blog | Raincoast Books - 13 views

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advocacy

shared by Martha Hickson on 28 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • Martha Hickson on 28 Mar 15
     
    What's more, we're *drowning* in information. Pre-Internet librarianship was like pre-Internet newspaper publishing: "select, then publish." That is, all the unfiltered items are presented to a gatekeeper, who selects the best of them, and puts them in front of the rest of the world. Now we live in a "publish, then select" world: everyone can reach everything, all the time, and the job of experts is to collect and annotate that material, to help others navigate its worth and truthfulness. That is to say that society has never needed its librarians, and its libraries, more. The major life-skill of the information age is information literacy, and no one's better at that than librarians. It's what they train for. It's what they live for.
Yolanda Hogeveen

Cool tools for Schools - 1 views

cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com

web2.0 tools resources education cooltoolsforschools classroomwikis

shared by Yolanda Hogeveen on 16 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Yolanda Hogeveen on 16 Jun 10
     
    As its title suggests, an awesome collection of resources for the classroom. Includes a huge variety of categories, such as research; quiz and poll; images; and video. Well worth perusing!
Donna Baumbach

ipl2: Information You Can Trust - 12 views

ipl2.org

research library reference searchengines resources directories information ipl2 ipl lii

shared by Donna Baumbach on 03 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 03 Jun 10
     
    Internet Public Library and Librarians' Internet Index combined kids, teens, special collections, newspapers & magazines, subject area resources
Donna Baumbach

22 Educational Social Media Diagrams - 12 views

blog.hubspot.com/...nal-Social-Media-Diagrams.aspx

socialmedia graphics infographics web2.0 edtech visualization

shared by Donna Baumbach on 27 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 27 Jun 10
     
    Sometimes it is easier to see concepts visually to get a basic understanding and then do further research on the topics that are most relevant to your business. In today's post we collected some great visualizations of social media concepts including monitoring and content distribution.
Donna Baumbach

Best Embeds for Educational Wikis and Blogs - 24 views

mrssmoke.onsugar.com/ducational-Wikis-Blogs-3082114

blogs wikis embedding edtech web2.0 embeds tools blog embed wiki

shared by Donna Baumbach on 17 Sep 10 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 23 Nov 10
     
    "a master list of embedding options that will hopefully spark your imagination. As you browse the list consider how you will use these embeds. While some of these work perfectly for classroom blog posts, others tend to be more effective wiki tools. Do you want students to view a video clip and then leave comments below? That's a perfect blog scenario. Or do you want students to collect data in a form? Yep, that's a wiki tool. I know your wheels will be turning to come up with great new ways to use the tools. "
beth gourley

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

www.nybooks.com/21514

library

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.
Cathy Oxley

Public Domain Clipart optimized for word processors - 0 views

www.wpclipart.com/index.html

free

shared by Cathy Oxley on 15 Dec 08 - Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 15 Dec 08
     
    WPClipart is a collection of high-quality artwork and photos optimized for use with word processors and inkjet printers
Donna Baumbach

#movemeon - 0 views

www.lulu.com/...6170010

ebook twitter microblogging edtech collaboration free web2.0

shared by Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09
     
    "a collection of 140-character pearls of wisdom from educators using the social networking service, Twitter. From behaviour management to interaction with colleagues, you will find practical advice and ideas contributed by classroom practitioners!" 2009 by Doug Belshaw
Donna Baumbach

Zootool | Sneak Peek - 0 views

zootool.com/sneak-peek

socialbookmarking video audio text links web2.0

shared by Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 21 Dec 09
     
    "Collect all kinds of images, videos from over 30 video sites, slideshare presentations, scribd documents, pdfs, links, rss feeds and much more."
Fran Bullington

All Video Tutorials (Oregon Middle School Library) - 10 views

sites.google.com/...video-tutorials

school_library videos tutorials information literacy

shared by Fran Bullington on 31 Jan 10 - No Cached
  • Fran Bullington on 31 Jan 10
     
    Oregon Middle School Library's tutorial video collection.
Jane Lofton

Vimeo Video School - 7 views

vimeo.com/videoschool

vimeo video tutorials

shared by Jane Lofton on 18 Dec 10 - No Cached
  • Jane Lofton on 18 Dec 10
     
    Collection of tutorials on video making
Jane Lofton

Welcome to Open Library (Open Library) - 53 views

openlibrary.org

ebooks free openlibrary

shared by Jane Lofton on 04 Mar 11 - Cached
  • Jane Lofton on 04 Mar 11
     
    Collection of free ebooks, some of which are also in audio form. 
Fran Bullington

QR Codes In Education - 16 views

livebinders.com/...51894

qrcodes Livebinder education resources cool tools

shared by Fran Bullington on 13 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Fran Bullington on 13 Mar 11
     
    Great collection of resources.
Dennis OConnor

Digital Preservation Channel Library of Congress - 0 views

www.youtube.com/view_play_list

youtube 21cif information fluency

shared by Dennis OConnor on 25 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 25 Mar 11
     
    Description: Digital Preservation is a series of thought-provoking videos produced by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, highlighting its efforts to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content for current and future generations. Learn more about digital preservation at the Library of Congress by visiting http://www.digitalpreservation.gov
Donna Baumbach

Restyle the web with Stylish! - userstyles.org - 17 views

userstyles.org

websites web_design css extensions chrome firefox information literacy

shared by Donna Baumbach on 03 Jun 11 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 03 Jun 11
     
    "the largest collection of user styles anywhere! User styles let you change the way websites look. Personalize your Facebook, jazz up your Google, rip out useless parts of other web sites... There are tens of thousands of user styles, I'm sure you'll like at least a few."
Marita Thomson

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - 0 views

www.libsuccess.org

wikis librarians libraries bestpractice professional development

shared by Marita Thomson on 11 May 11 - Cached
  • Marita Thomson on 11 May 11
     
    Welcome to Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. This wiki was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians. All over the world, librarians are developing successful programs and doing innovative things with technology that no one outside of their library knows about. There are lots of great blogs out there sharing information about the profession, but there is no one place where all of this information is collected and organized. That's what we're trying to do.
Cathy Oxley

Jane McGonigal to Find the Future at the New York Public Library | Fast Company - 7 views

www.fastcompany.com/...at-the-new-york-public-library

NYPL games mobile_technologies app cool tools

shared by Cathy Oxley on 27 Aug 11 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 27 Aug 11
     
    "Libraries aren't just about collecting knowledge from the past, they're also a place to inspire big ideas and world-changing dreams for the future."
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