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links for book Library Mashups by chapter. See also delicious.com/librarymashups
n Library Mashups, Nicole C. Engard and 25 contributors from all over the world walk readers through definitions, summaries, and practical uses of mashups in libraries. Examples range from ways to allow those without programming skills to make simple website updates, to modifying the library OPAC, to using popular sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, LibraryThing, Google Maps, and Delicious to share and combine digital content.
This is an amazing illustration of Sir Kenneth Robinson's presentation on schooling in the 21st century. It's fascinating to watch an illustrator create a visual map of Robinson's ideas as they are spoken. The content of the presentation is enormously important to any educator struggling to change the system. It's even more important to those who've been subdued and mislead by old ideas into thinking they can't learn or create.
A three and one half minute video tour that show viewers what London may have looked like prior to the Great Fire, created by Pudding Lane Productions.
"six students from De Montfort University taking part in the Crytek Off the Map project, building a 3D representation of 17th century London before The Great Fire."
For more information on our whole project, including concepts and processes please visit our team blog
Anderson and Krathwohl's taxonomy – Remembering
1. Remembering: Retrieving, recalling or recognising knowledge from memory. Remembering is when memory is used to produce definitions, facts or lists, or recite or retrieve material.
Learning to know Learning to do Learning to live together Learning to be
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
Advanced and Boolean Searching
Bullet pointing
Highlightin
Bookmarking or favouriting
Social networkin
Social bookmarking
Searching or “googling
Understanding: Constructing meaning from different types of function be they written or graphic.
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows
“... team players. Virtually every project at Google is run by a small team. People need to work well together and perform up to the team's expectations. ”
Blog Journallin
Categorising & Taggin
ommenting and annotating
Subscribin
Applying: Carrying out or using a procedure through executing or implementing. Applying related and refers to situations where learned material is used through products like models, presentation, interviews and simulations.
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
Running and operating
Playin
Uploading and Sharin
Hacking
Editing
Analysing: Breaking material or concepts into parts, determining how the parts relate or interrelate to one another or to an overall structure or purpose. Mental actions include differentiating, organizing and attributing as well as being able to distinguish between components.
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
Mashing
Linking
Reverse-engineering
Cracking
.Evaluating: Making judgements based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing..
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
Blog/vlog commenting and reflecting
Posting
Moderating
Collaborating and networking
Validating
Testing (Alpha and Beta)
Creating: Putting the elements together to form a coherent or functional whole; reorganising elements into a new pattern or structure through generating, planning or producing.
The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
Programming
Filming, animating, videocasting, podcasting, mixing and remixing
"Research Entrepreneurs," lays out a future in which "individual researchers are the stars of the story."
Reuse and Recycle," describes a gloomier 2030 world in which "disinvestment in the research enterprise has cut across society." With fewer resources to support pathbreaking new work, research projects depend on reusing existing "knowledge resources" as well as "mass-market technology infrastructure."
The "crowd/cloud" approach is widespread, producing information that is "ubiquitous but low value."
"computational approaches to data analysis" rule the research world. Scholars in the humanities as well as the sciences "have been forced to align themselves around data stores and computation capacity that addresses large-scale research questions within their research field."
"Global Followers," describes a research climate much like what we know now, except that the Middle East and Asia take the lead in providing money and support for the research enterprise.
nstitutions as well as individual scholars will follow the lead of those parts of the world, which will also set the "cultural norms" that govern research. That eastward shift affects "conceptions of intellectual property, research on human subjects, individual privacy, etc.," according to the scenario. "Researchers bend to the prevailing wind rather than imposing Western norms on the cultures that increasingly lead the enterprise."
"I plan to use the scenarios to engage staff and key stakeholders in mapping things out,"
The cumulative point made by the scenarios is that librarians should think imaginatively about what could happen and not get hamstrung by too-narrow expectations. (The phrase "adapt or die" comes to mind.)