School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come
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Smashwords - School Libraries: What's Now, What's Next, What's Yet to Come - A book by ... - 24 views
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A crowdsourced collection of over 100 essays from around the world about trends in school libraries written by librarians, teachers, publishers, and library vendors.
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Social Media Employee Policy Examples from Over 100 Organizations | Social Media Today - 1 views
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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.
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Ralph can be reached by email at RPaglia@gmail.com on Twitter @RalphPaglia and LinkedIn at http://LinkedIn.com/in/RPaglia
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For teaching secondary / higher-ed students, and because private/nonprofit sector policies often inform government ones...
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educational-origami - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy - 1 views
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Blooms Domains of learning. Made with C-Map
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Collaboration is not a 21st Century Skill, it is a 21st Century Essential.
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Bloom's Digital Taxonomy isn't about the tools or technologies rather it is about using these to facilitate learning
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... communication skills. Marshalling and understanding the available evidence isn't useful unless you can effectively communicate your conclusions.”
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In a recent blog post from the official google blog, Google identified the following as key traits or abilities in 21st Century Employees:
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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.
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Learning to know Learning to do Learning to live together Learning to be
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The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
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Advanced and Boolean Searching
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Bullet pointing
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Highlightin
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Bookmarking or favouriting
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Social networkin
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Social bookmarking
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Searching or “googling
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Understanding: Constructing meaning from different types of function be they written or graphic. The digital additions and their justifications are as follows
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“... 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. ”
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Blog Journallin
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Categorising & Taggin
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ommenting and annotating
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Subscribin
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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:
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Running and operating
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Playin
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Uploading and Sharin
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Hacking
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Editing
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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:
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Mashing
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Linking
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Reverse-engineering
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Cracking
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.Evaluating: Making judgements based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing.. The digital additions and their justifications are as follows:
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Blog/vlog commenting and reflecting
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Posting
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Moderating
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Collaborating and networking
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Validating
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Testing (Alpha and Beta)
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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:
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Programming
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Filming, animating, videocasting, podcasting, mixing and remixing
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Directing and producing
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Publishing
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TxtBear - The Swiss Army Knife for documents - 9 views
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useful web application that allows you to easily upload and document and immediately turn it into a webpage.
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The Library in the New Age - The New York Review of Books - 0 views
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four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
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around 4000 BC, humans learned to write.
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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
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eventually included differentiated words (that is, words separated by spaces
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other reader's aids
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codex, in turn, was transformed by the invention of printing with movable type in the 1450s.
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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.
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fourth great change, electronic communication
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movable type to the Internet, 524 years;
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writing to the codex, 4,300 years;
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codex to movable type, 1,150 years;
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would argue that the new information technology should force us to rethink the notion of information itself.
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Internet to search engines, nineteen years
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search engines to Google's algorithmic relevance ranking, seven years;
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continued at such a rate as to seem both unstoppable and incomprehensible.
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continuity I have in mind has to do with the nature of information itself or, to put it differently, the inherent instability of texts.
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every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that information has always been unstable.
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pace of change seems breathtaking:
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news has always been an artifact and that it never corresponded exactly to what actually happened.
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News is not what happened but a story about what happened.
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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
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newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events
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We live in a time of unprecedented accessibility to information that is increasingly unreliable. Or do we?
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as messages that are constantly being reshaped in the process of transmission
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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.
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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.
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When Folger's collection grew beyond three dozen copies, his friends scoffed at him as Forty Folio Folger.
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eighteen of the thirty-six plays in the First Folio had never before been printed
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only two were reprinted without change from earlier quarto editions
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extual stability never existed in the pre-Internet eras.
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Piracy was so pervasive in early modern Europe that best-sellers could not be blockbusters as they are today
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They abridged, expanded, and reworked texts as they pleased, without worrying about the authors' intentions.
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question in perspective by discussing two views of the library, which I would describe as grand illusions—grand and partly true.
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o put it positively, there is something to be said for both visions, the library as a citadel and the Internet as open space.
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We have come to the problems posed by Google Book Search.
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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
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will open up possibilities for research involving vast quantities of data, which could never be mastered without digitization
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Electronic Enlightenment, a project sponsored by the Voltaire Foundation of Oxford
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scholars will be able to trace references to individuals, books, and ideas throughout the entire network of correspondence that undergirded the Enlightenment
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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
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will make research libraries obsolete
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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.
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1. According to the most utopian claim of the Googlers, Google can put virtually all printed books on-line.
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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.
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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.
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For books under copyright, however, Google will probably display only a few lines at a time, which it claims is legal under fair use.
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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.
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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.
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Google defines its mission as the communication of information—right now, today; it does not commit itself to conserving texts indefinitely.
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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
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Electronic enterprises come and go. Research libraries last for centuries. Better to fortify them than to declare them obsolete
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5. Google will make mistakes.
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Once we believed that microfilm would solve the problem of preserving texts. Now we know better.
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6. As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that Google's copies will last.
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all texts "born digital" belong to an endangered species
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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?
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4. Companies decline rapidly in the fast-changing environment of electronic technology.
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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.
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8. Even if the digitized image on the computer screen is accurate, it will fail to capture crucial aspects of a book.
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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.
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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,
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Meanwhile, I say: shore up the library.
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I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns.
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he research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future.
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The library as citadel and as the open internet both play an important and distinguishable role.
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Fair use and transformativeness: It may shake your world - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on ... - 0 views
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copyright is designed not only to protect the rights of owners, but also to preserve the ability of users to promote creativity and innovation.
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the critical test for fairness in terms of educational use of media is transformative use
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adds value to, or repurposes materials for a use different from that for which it was originally intended, it will likely be considered transformative use; it will also likely be considered fair use
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BGA filed suit against DK for copyright infringement. The courts threw the case out, agreeing with DK's claim of fair use. The posters were originially created to promote concerts. DK's new use of the art was designed to document events in historical and cultural context. The publisher added value in its use of the posters. And such use was transformative.
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The fact that permission has been sought but not granted is irrelevant. Permission is not necessary to satisfy fair use.
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What is fair, because it is transformative, is fair regardless of place of use.
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One use not likely to be fair, is the use of a music soundtrack merely as an aesthetic addition to a student video project.
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adding value, engaging the music, reflecting, somehow commenting on.the music
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photocopying a text book because it is not affordable is still not fair use
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a discussion to "develop a shared understanding of how copyright and fair use applies to the creative media work that our students create and our own use of copyrighted materials as educators, practitioners, advocates and curriculum developers."
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This seems like an obvious share. An important discussion because it also opens more collaboration with colleagues. I have found that some colleagues want to avoid the gatekeeper because of the conservative nature of understanding copyright and fair use. This has been even more difficult while being in an international school.
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The five alert services (all free) discussed are: 1. Track New Book 2. Book Buzzes 3. Any New Books 4. Author Alerts 5. Wowbrary A service many of you are probably familiar with. Wowbrary alerts users to new books at numerous public libraries around the U.S.
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An article looking at where the sales of books is heading, and what it means for authors as well as consumers.
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Half a century before e-books turned publishing upside down, a different format threatened to destroy the industry.
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