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Sabbatical Pod and Video Cast – Resources

(these references are incomplete) Video Casts Clayton Christiensen – Disruptive Innovation and The Way We Learning (“Disrupting Class. 2009) – WGBH Boston Jim Collins – Charlie Rose – “Good to Great” Columbia U – Scholarly Comm – Harvard Open Access Initiatives – Jim Neal (Columbia) / Stuart Scheiber (Harvard) John Willinsky: The Quality of Open [...]

Starred Google Reader Posts

Levittown and Mass Amateurization

Levittown and Mass Amateurization Levittown Memorial HS Alumni Growing up in Levittown Levittown Roller Rink Facebook – leads to related groups and their discussion and photos Personal memories Relevant questions Groups Halloween lived in LEVITTOWN, NY St. Bernard’s Catholic School (Levittown, NY) 265 members Discovery – Levittown, Puerto Rico

ACRL 2009 – Library Subject Guide Widgets

Library Subject Guide Widgets come and then leave – lists of linksmultiple interfaces widgets …. rss video chat tagging Uses custom search engine   google.com/cse toward … Google books search full textXerxesSome vender provide widgets (national academies) – Tic Toc .. creates RSS feed for current contents .. went away .. see if it still exists [...]

ACRL 2009 – DevShed – Mobile- Mobile Devices

DevShed – Mobile- Mobile Devices … See Virtual Conf. Low and no cost options: Meebo Twitter – Library News page (also Content Mang. Syst.) Optimized Mobile site (Small – 5pgs) – redirect by branding with “Mobile” IconOptimized for for iPhone/iPodTouch – most traffic

ACRL 2009 – Twitter for Libraries: Best Practices and Advanced Uses of Micro-Blogs.

Twitter for Libraries: Best Practices and Advanced Uses of Micro-Blogs.. see Virtual Conf. Both Social & Mobile .. the 2 most important new Libr Tech Most Basic .. more complex microblogging systems have failed .. (Hmmm.. Disruptive Innov.) Information literacy skills .. Context:Mobile: Cell Phones (Smart Phones .. iPhones)Social “SMS Current awareness .. “blogs old [...]

ACRL 2009 – KBART: Improving Access to Electronic Resources; plus, Finding the Hidden Side of Seattle

KBART: Improving Access to Electronic Resources; plus, Finding the Hidden Side of Seattle – McCrackenOpen URL improvement.. to solve Inaccurate Data  .. in NISO working group now Presentation: KBART – > Seattle tip -> KBART -> Seattle tip -> etc. Cornell -> creating a db to help provides write better OpenURLS

Top 20 social web sites (Feb 27, 2009)

http://www.pandia.com/sew/1298-top-20-social-web-sites.html Top 20 social web sites The latest issue of Website Magazine presents a top 50 list of social media resources, that is the most visited social web sites out there. Increasingly, people use social media sites to find information online. Instead of using the regular search engines, which search huge indexes of all kind [...]

Keeping track of Posts

Keeping track of posts (CC or not) Delicious with tag (ala, ideas, share, etc.) DiggTechnoratiBookmarksZoteroEndnote Web

Organizing thoughts and materials and ideas

New ways to work Blogs, 2.0 tools, voice?, Overly cumbersome sorting this out .. tons of trying things and decision making .. and organizing/reorganizing Help … which apps to use .. what process.. could be a book itself .. but then something new would occur .. new app .. new feature .. something Selecting books, [...]