Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Fantastic Resource: Lee Rainey, Pew Internet & American Life Project
This week I attented the Internet Librarian Conference in Monterey, California. The opening speaker, Lee Rainey is the Director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project and shared some of the latest statistics regarding Internet Usage. If you aren't familar with the Pew Internet & American Life Project, http://www.pewinternet.org/, you should be. They collect and analyze data that you can use to make a data driven case for increased support of technology in your library. The reports are interesting reading and their site has a computer useage "test" you can take to see what kind of technology user you are. For school libraries they have a host of new reports on kids on the Internet. I cite their reports in my papers rather often and it's nice to hear not only my passionate plea to investigate technology, but see current facts about teen use. I hope they continue their great work and if you get a chance to hear Rainey speak, he's a dynamic and entertaining speaker, and it would be well worth your time.
Monday, October 22, 2007
Wiki Wiki Wiki
Some brilliant souls have been working diligently on the wiki. Excellent! Many more of you need to start posting. The end of the semester is creeping up on us.
We'll be at Treasure Mountain and AASL this week and I'll be at Internet Librarian as well. Looking forward to meeting all who are going as well! :)
We'll be at Treasure Mountain and AASL this week and I'll be at Internet Librarian as well. Looking forward to meeting all who are going as well! :)
Um, what was that email? Click here to find out!
Terrible about the Elluminate session having technical difficulties tonight. Some mentioned they were unsure about having received an email from Dr. Loertscher so here are its contents:
Thanks for your input last evening as we began to prioritize elements of the reading program that would make the most difference using the least amount of effort.
So important is this as a management principle, often learned in LIBR 204, that I could see that we needed more work before quality vision projects can be constructed.
So, we will continue this effort next week, but as I advised, you each need to do some thinking beforehand.
Therefore, would you draw up your personal priorities and send them to me in an email before class next Monday night.
You can use the categories that I listed on the white board at the end of class and if there is something that does not seem to fit, create a new category.
This will help us as a group move forward. It is said the the library media program contributes to achievement, but it does so only if you as the library media teacher make it do so.
After our synthesis next week, you should be able to decide on what you will present in your vision project and will be able to match an assessment measure that demonstrates that what you chose to implement did, in fact, achieve the envisioned results.
How powerful it would be if the library media teachers of the state could document and defend what there programs contribute. It would be a giant step forward!
I don't like to assign extra work, but feel that this is not extra since you would have to make these types of decisions anyway.
Thanks for your hard work. I have been reading som summaries of good articles being added to the wiki. These will help in the above task. It all pushes us forward into learning how to build exemplary programs.
Thanks for your input last evening as we began to prioritize elements of the reading program that would make the most difference using the least amount of effort.
So important is this as a management principle, often learned in LIBR 204, that I could see that we needed more work before quality vision projects can be constructed.
So, we will continue this effort next week, but as I advised, you each need to do some thinking beforehand.
Therefore, would you draw up your personal priorities and send them to me in an email before class next Monday night.
You can use the categories that I listed on the white board at the end of class and if there is something that does not seem to fit, create a new category.
This will help us as a group move forward. It is said the the library media program contributes to achievement, but it does so only if you as the library media teacher make it do so.
After our synthesis next week, you should be able to decide on what you will present in your vision project and will be able to match an assessment measure that demonstrates that what you chose to implement did, in fact, achieve the envisioned results.
How powerful it would be if the library media teachers of the state could document and defend what there programs contribute. It would be a giant step forward!
I don't like to assign extra work, but feel that this is not extra since you would have to make these types of decisions anyway.
Thanks for your hard work. I have been reading som summaries of good articles being added to the wiki. These will help in the above task. It all pushes us forward into learning how to build exemplary programs.
Monday, October 15, 2007
What's Voki? -See one here!
Here is a Voki I did last semester. They are fun to do and embed in websites, blogs, email, whatever. A fun way to do an audio podcast. The main limitation is one minute max. But if you have 130 students you don't want them longer than one minute anyway.
Here is mine:
Get a Voki now!
Take the challenge! Try to make a sample on and see if you can embed it in a comment to this post. : )
Here is mine:
Get a Voki now!
Take the challenge! Try to make a sample on and see if you can embed it in a comment to this post. : )
Monday, October 1, 2007
Knowville 2D & 3D
Knowville 2D
http://knowville.org/
Virtual World Powerpoint
http://robint.williams.googlepages.com/computergeekchic
Knowville 3D video
http://blip.tv/file/325444
KQED Segment
http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/611
If you are going to read one book on the topic, make it: Synthetic Worlds by Castronova.
Virtual worlds are microchasms of real worlds. They are inhabited by people, good and bad, smart and otherwise. Research shows that, escapist or not, people's real lives tend to mirror their fake ones. The number ONE thing that Virtual Worlds replace - television. People prefer active entertainment over passive entertainment.
http://knowville.org/
Virtual World Powerpoint
http://robint.williams.googlepages.com/computergeekchic
Knowville 3D video
http://blip.tv/file/325444
KQED Segment
http://www.kqed.org/quest/television/view/611
If you are going to read one book on the topic, make it: Synthetic Worlds by Castronova.
Virtual worlds are microchasms of real worlds. They are inhabited by people, good and bad, smart and otherwise. Research shows that, escapist or not, people's real lives tend to mirror their fake ones. The number ONE thing that Virtual Worlds replace - television. People prefer active entertainment over passive entertainment.
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