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sallyb - Library Dragon - 15 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 29 Oct 10
     
    St Michael's Grammar School teacher librarian Sally Bray developed a very good fiction blog and has kindly agreed to share her blogging journey with readers of Bright Ideas.
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For the Win by Cory Doctorow - Free eBook - 14 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 27 Oct 10
     
    An extremely interesting book looking at the global effects of gaming; much of it is based in fact.
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The End of the Textbook as We Know It - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education - 11 views

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  • Here's the new plan: Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).
  • Why electronic copies? Well, they're far cheaper to produce than printed texts, making a bulk purchase more feasible
  • An Indiana company called Courseload hopes to make the model more widespread, by serving as a broker for colleges willing to impose the requirement on students. And it is not alone.
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  • The real champions of the change are the college officials signing the deals.
  • "Our game plan is to bring the cost of textbooks down by 75 to 80 percent."
  • In its standard model, Flat World offers free access to its textbooks while students are online. If students want to download a copy to their own computers, they must pay $24.95 for a PDF (a print edition costs about $30)
  • Robin Cicchetti on 27 Oct 10
     
    Unusually informative article on the state of digital texts in 2010. Short and concise. Good info for librarian tech leaders.
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monarchlibrary - BookSuggestions - 14 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 26 Oct 10
     
    I really love the way that Monarch Academy Elementary (Primary) Librarian Keisa Williams has incorporated Google forms into her already excellent library wiki. Students get involved in the library and get experience using web 2.0 tools such as Google Docs, while Keisa gets an organised documents with records of all student requests, along with names, date of request and so on.
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RealTime Health - Home - 3 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 25 Oct 10
     
    RealTime Health: the digital health network is a collaboration between The Le@rning Federation, The Chronic Illness Alliance , Aboriginal Medical Service of Western Sydney, Asthma Foundation of Victoria, Australian Hearing, Diabetes Australia - Vic, Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria, Orygen Youth Health and SANE Australia.
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NovaNews - 12 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 24 Oct 10
     
    Bev Novak has been developing an interesting blog. Bev uses her blog as a forum for writing about, processing and sharing her learning with other educators. 
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Watch TV Online | Watch Australian TV Online - 7 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 22 Oct 10
     
    TheAge.tv brings dozens of the world's best shows to your computer - all for free.
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Emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 - 11 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 22 Oct 10
     
    The Emerging List of Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010
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Rushdie's Stream library & Borges' Print library»Seeing the picture - 3 views

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  • Robin Cicchetti on 22 Oct 10
     
    Fascinating blog post on the future of libraries, drawing from works by Salman Rushdie and Jorge Luis Borges. This is a quick but satisfying read.
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eT@lking: Retribalizing, Literary Style: Virtual Book Clubs and Bookcast | Bright ideas - 8 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 21 Oct 10
     
    McLuhan predicted we'd have to leave the bookworld behind to be "with it" in the electronic world but with social media we can do it all. Learn about an evolving virtual book club model, online or inworld, that culminates with the screening of collaboratively produced bookcasts, multimedia aesthetic responses to books.
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Futurelab: free handbook downloads - 10 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 20 Oct 10
     
    Futurelab are offering free access to digital editions of some of their digital literacy and innovation handbooks.
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IASL/SOFTLINK INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARD - 2 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 19 Oct 10
     
    Thanks to Softlink for giving me this award in 2010.
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LiveBinders Tips and Tricks - 11 views

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  • Donna Baumbach on 20 Oct 10
     
    ideas for improving your livebinders
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Brave new world - 2 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 19 Oct 10
     
    Tania Sheko's personal learning blog - a fantastic read for all teachers and teacher librarians.
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Softlink: Library Management Systems - 0 views

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  • Bright Ideas on 19 Oct 10
     
    Thanks to Softlink for awarding me the IASL/Softlink International Excellence Award for 2010.
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4 Very Different Futures Are Imagined for Research Libraries - Libraries - The Chronicl... - 0 views

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shared by Robin Cicchetti on 19 Oct 10 - No Cached
  • "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."
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  • "Disciplines in Charge,"
  • "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.)
  • Robin Cicchetti on 19 Oct 10
     
    Discusses changing information formats and scenarios of response. Good article to reference in 5 year plans.
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