LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Wikis interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:50:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://wplbookclub.blogspot.com/2016/04/louis-riel-comic-strip-biography-by.html In 1869, the Red River Settlement area, home to the French-speaking Metis, is sold to the Canadian government. Louis Riel, the de facto leader of the Red River Settlement, demands that they be granted the right to govern themselves. Not suprisingly, the government refuses this. This story relates Riel's resistance to the Canadian government's mistreatment of the Metis community.Louis Riel - Wikipediahttps://owa.fibrehost.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_RielLouis Riel - rethinking Riel (CBC Archives)Louis Riel - Trivial Pursuit (CBC Archives) Place a hold on a WPL copy of the book here. (Source: WPLBOOKCLUB) Wed, 20 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0100 377637 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/5981 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITYMarch 10, 2010 // Upcoming events and digital media [1] [TODAY 3/10/10] Institute of Politics Forum Event Co-Sponsored by the Berkman Center: "Digital Governance -- From the State House to the White House" with Aneesh Chopra: United States CTO; Ann Margulies: CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Teri Takai: CIO, State of California Event Moderator: Jerry Mechling: Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/03/digitalgovernanceforum) [2] [TUESDAY 3/16/10] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Cyber-pluralism: Can We Get Along with Each Other in a “Splitting” Internet?" with Donnie, Hao Dong, Berkman Fellow (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/03/dong) [3] [REGISTER NOW! 4/9/10] Conference: Journalism's Digital Transition: Unique Legal Challenges and Opportunities, organized by the Citizen Media Law Project and Cyberlaw Clinic (http://www.omln.org/conference) [TODAY] IOP FORUM on DIGITAL GOVERNANCE==================================================================================3/10/10, 6:00PM, JFK Jr. Forum, Harvard Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School Topic: Digital Governance -- From the State House to the White HouseGuests: Aneesh Chopra: United States CTO; Ann Margulies: CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Teri Takai: CIO, State of California Event Moderator: Jerry Mechling: Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS The Berkman Center will co-sponsor a panel discussion with chief technology officers and information officers from the White House, State of CA, and State of MA. Panelists include: * Aneesh Chopra: United States CTO;* Ann Margulies: CIO, Commonwealth of Massachusetts;* Teri Takai: CIO, State of California* Event Moderator: Jerry Mechling: Lecturer in Public Policy, HKS This event will be webcast live; for more information and a complete description, see the event web page: http://cyber.law.harvard. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:55:12 +0100 825360 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/arlisnap/~3/CLxgPGEG_cQ/ Have some knowledge of web 2.0 features such as blogs, wikis and mashups? Looking to meet some new folks and become involved? If so, please consider volunteering for this year’s Web 2.0 Kiosk... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: [ArLiSNAP]) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:20:42 +0100 825203 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/PQ_nqnVrnfc/ Me ha gustado  Cinchcast como alternativa para grabar audio en línea y tener una colección de podcasts que pueden ser insertados en el blog: Cinch is a free and easy way to create and share audio, text and photo updates using your phone or computer. Cinch enables you to capture and report on your experiences in a way that simple text just can’t do. Using a simple interface, you can make and broadcast your content creations through Facebook, Twitter, CinchCast.com and more. Comparto una prueba:   Compartir con del.icio.us ¡Compártelo con Digg! Añadirlo a Diigo Compartir con Reddit ¿Has encontrado algo bueno? Compártelo en StumbleUpon Compartir con Technorati Añadirlo a MySpace Compartir con Facebook ¡Compártelo en Twitter! ¿Enviarlo a un amigo? ¿Quieres suscribirte a los comentarios de este Post? Compartir con Linkedit Seed el Post en Newsvine Añdirlo a Google Bookmarks Añdirlo a Mister Wong Compartir con FriendFeed Enviar a Twittley Compartir con Wikio Store this link on MyLinkVault Add to a lense on Squidoo Clip this to Evernote Enviar a Meneame Enviar a Bitacoras Compartir con Tumblr Blog this on Blogger Compartir con Plurk Etiquetas: Blogs, web 2.0, web 2.0 Entradas relacionadas Zoho QuickRead: Para acceder y editar documentos desde el navegador (1) Bomberos 2.0 (0) Experimentando con Writely (3) Directorio de sitios 2.0 (0) Tubabel: diccionario social de regionalismos (1) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:47:48 +0100 825343 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/7UEMhHAJhpU/blameless-het-ontwerp-van-een.html Steampunk kom je steeds vaker tegen. Wikipedia omschrijft: Steampunk is een subgenre van fantasie of speculatieve fictie. De term slaat op verhalen die zich afspelen in een tijd dat stoomkracht nog de primaire krachtbron was (meestal de 19e eeuw), maar die ook elementen van sciencefiction of fantasie bevatten zoals futuristische uitvindingen en machines, of echt bestaande machines (zoals computers) die in deze verhalen veel eerder worden uitgevonden dan in werkelijkheid.Ik vind het concept van Steampunk wel aardig. Het levert mooie plaatjes op. Dat het genre ook boeken heeft voortgebracht wist ik echter nog niet. Dat leerde ik pas nadat ik las over het ontwerp van de boekomslag van Blameless, geschreven door Gail Carriger. Zij biedt op haar website zelfs een heuse leeslijst voor het genre aan. Ik durf geen uitspraken te doen over de kwaliteit van dit soort boeken maar de korte video over het ontwerp van de cover van Blameless is de 1 minuut 55 zeker waard. Je leest er meer over op Design:Related. Wel typisch dat dan juist deze omslag nog niet is terug te vinden op veel boekensites. Niet op Library Thing, niet op Amazon en niet in Worldcat. @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:05:00 +0100 825107 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/1kiXWh5RuNI/ Ein Thema, welches das Netz in den kommenden Jahren ganz zweifelsohne beherrschen wird, ist Linked Data. Vernetzte Daten. Wer im Besitz großer Datenmengen von allgemeinem Interesse ist, möge sie online frei geben, damit auch die Gemeinschaft etwas davon hat. Wer sich unter Linked Data nichts vorstellen kann, widme der Betrachtung obigen Videos fünf Minuten seiner kostbaren Zeit und höre sich den TED-Kurzvortrag von HTML-Erfinder Tim Berners-Lee an, der ganz praktische Beispiele dafür zeigt, warum in Linked Data die Zukunft des Webs liegt. Wer das Ganze dann noch in einer Textzusammenfassung auf deutsch haben möchte, schaue in den informativen Wikipedia-Artikel zum Thema: Linked Open Data. © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:39:25 +0100 825210 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/03/wilbanks Tuesday, March 9, 12:30 pmBerkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)This event will be webcast live at 12:30 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.Scientific research has so far shown significant resistance to adopting the kinds of "generative" effects we've seen in networks and culture. Most of the resistance is systemic - emerging from the institutions that host research, the cultures of scientific publication and reward, the lack of infrastructures to make data and tools easy to transfer and master, and the trend towards micro-specialization of disciplines. However, some interventions from the free culture and free software world can be "localized" to create an increased tendency towards generativity, and there is evidence of early success. Now it's important to begin questioning the interventions and analyzing the potential for the "stall" that can follow a generative system's emergence. John Wilbanks will discuss.About JohnJohn Wilbanks attended Tulane University and received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy in 1994. He also studied modern letters at the Sorbonne in Paris.From 1994 to 1997, he worked in Washington, DC as a legislative aide to Congressman Fortney "Pete" Stark. During this time Wilbanks was also a grassroots coordinator and fundraiser for the American Physical Therapy Association. John was the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's first Assistant Director from the fall of 1998 to the summer of 2000. There he led efforts in software development and Internet-mediated learning, and was involved in the Berkman Center's work on ICANN. While at the Berkman Center, Wilbanks founded Incellico, Inc., a bioinformatics company that built semantic graph networks for use in pharmaceutical research and development. He served as President and CEO, and led to the company's acquisition in the summer of 2003). ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:30:00 +0100 825093 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/09/18-interesting-firsts-on-the-internet/ Check out this post and see how recent some of these innovations are. 18 Interesting Firsts on the Internet 1. The First Email 2. The First Ever Domain Name 3. The First SPAM Email Ever 4. The First Ever Mobile Phone with Internet Access Facility 5. The First Ever Website 6. The First Ever E-Commerce Website and Transaction 7. The First Ever Online Bank 8. The First Ever Search Engine 9. The First Ever Blog 10. The First Ever Podcast 11. The First Item Ever Sold on eBay 12. The First Book Ever Sold on Amazon 13. The first edit on Wikipedia 14. The First Ever Video on YouTube 15. The First Ever Message on Twitter 16. The First Ever Voice Chat Service 17. The First Ever Website Hacked 18. The First Ever Social Network Site I was surprised by some. Stephen (Source: Stephen) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:13:21 +0100 824975 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/RZAeYhxI5ZU/upnext-future-of-museums-and-libraries.html "The Institute of Museum and Library Services invites you to help invent the future of museums and libraries through your participation in UpNext: The Future of Museums and Libraries Wiki. IMLS's first-ever wiki is a platform where individuals inside and outside of museums, libraries, and related fields can discuss, dissect, expand, and inform the issues outlined in the Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide. IMLS will use the knowledge shared in the wiki to help shape the agency's strategic plan, research directions, publications, convenings, and grant making. The wiki officially launched March 3 and is an opportunity to share resources, examples of what works, and vexing questions. It's sure to be a thought-provoking five weeks for all participants and provide food for thought for your career, your institution and the choices you face" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:35:26 +0100 824892 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/03/09/arbeitsgruppe-open-bibliographic-data/ Erst hat das CERN seine bibliographische Daten befreit, nun folgt die Universiteitsbibliotheek Gent in Belgien. Auf einer speziellen Webseite sind verschiedene bibliographische Datensets zum Download und zur freien Verwendung veröffentlicht. Diese Bibliothek wird sicherlich nicht die letzte sein, die ihre Katalogdaten in nächster Zeit veröffentlichen wird. Passend zu dieser Entwicklung hat sich eine Arbeitsgruppe zum Thema “Open Bibliographic Data” gegründet. Ziele: Act as a central point of reference and support for people interested in open bibliographic data Identify relevant projects and practices. Promote best practices as well as legal and technical standards for making data open (such as the Open Knowledge Definition). Act as a hub for the development and maintenance of low cost, community driven projects related to open bibliographic data. Weitere Informationen gibt es im Open Knowledge Foundation Wiki. [via OKFN] (Source: Infobib) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:58:32 +0100 825220 http://lisnews.org/world_without_public_libraries On the whole, I'm not much of a book reader. Most of my reading is done online; I read a handful of books every year, mostly non-fiction, based on various whims. Right now, I'm reading The World Without Us, a captivating exploration about how the world would revert (or not revert) back to a pre-human emergence. Some of these things have been dramatized into a series on the History Channel by a different name, providing the added element of CGI to show how buildings would collapse, infrastructure would fail, nature reclaims the suburbs, and how all that would remain for future archeologists is our stainless steel cookware. For the scientist in me, it's fascinating to see everything humans have made becoming undone by the natural forces of this world. So, in touching upon the premise of the book, I thought, "What would the world be like without libraries?" How would our demise come? Unlike the book, which asks the reader to suspend disbelief and accept the total sudden disappearance of humankind, I cannot propose nor fathom asking the same for libraries. In attempting to avoid hyperbole, I think the mechanisms of the library’s demise have already proven themselves present. It will not come through lack of innovation or adoption of technology or practices; our relevance and willingness to change in this digital information age has certainly been established. No, the end will come as it has for some libraries over the past two years: through budget cuts. Funding for all library types (public, academic, school, and special) has hung in the balance for the last couple of years after budgets tighten and communities and companies look to trim their expenditures. You need go no further than typing in the words “library budget” in a Google News search to see the current toll that is being exacted.  One problem, as I see it, is that the library as a community service does not fit nicely into any government spending niche. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:47:19 +0100 824748 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/03/school-library-websites-wiki.html Another resource I found just while I was wandering around. The School library websites wiki is interesting, though the bias is very American. Examples of Elementary, Middle and High school work. Covers tools, resources, books, reading, twitter, blogs and so on. Worth a look to see what folks are up in across the water. (Source: Phil Bradley) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824918 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/tim-berners-lee-at-ted2009-conference-the-year-open-data-went-worldwide/ From the Introduction in The Huffington Post: At TED2009, Tim Berners-Lee called for “raw data now” — for governments, scientists and institutions to make their data openly available on the Web. At TED University in 2010, he shows a few of the interesting results when the data gets linked up. Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. He leads the World Wide Web Consortium, overseeing the Web’s standards and development. In the 1980s, scientists at CERN were asking themselves how massive, complex, collaborative projects — like the fledgling LHC — could be orchestrated and tracked. Tim Berners-Lee, then a contractor, answered by inventing the World Wide Web. This global system of hypertext documents, linked through the Internet, brought about a massive cultural shift ushered in by the new tech and content it made possible: AOL, eBay, Wikipedia, TED.com. The segment runs about 5.5 minutes. Source: TED2010, Huffington Post See Also: More from Tim Berners-Lee at Ted2010: The Next Web (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:30:24 +0100 824764 http://theipl.wordpress.com/2010/03/08/ipl-15-things-14-awareness-tools-is-now-available/ IPL 15 Things #14: Awareness Tools is now available – learn about the different tools you can use to find, filter and recommend interesting content: http://ipl.ci.fsu.edu/community/wiki/index.php/Awareness_tools (Source: Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:42:01 +0100 824645 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/08/report-wikipedia-search-access-coming-to-ipad-iphone-version-of-safari-search-bar/ From a Blog Post: It isn’t a biggie like Bing, but you will be able to set your search to something besides Google in the search bar of the iPad’s Safari in upcoming iPhoneOS releases. Right now, the two options besides the current default Google are Wikipedia and Yahoo, but plugins *could* be developed to do things like Amazon and Bing searches directly from the search bar in the Safari browser. Source: 9 to 5 Mac (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:07:02 +0100 824606 http://lisnews.org/who_does_what_wikipedia Who Does What On Wikipedia? The quality of entries in the world's largest open-access online encyclopedia depends on how authors collaborate, UA Eller College Professor Sudha Ram finds. The patterns of collaboration between Wikipedia contributors have a direct effect on the data quality of an article, according to a new paper co-authored by a University of Arizona professor and graduate student. Sudha Ram, a UA's Eller College of Management professor, co-authored the article with Jun Liu, a graduate student in the management information systems department (MIS). Their work in this area received a "Best Paper Award" at the International Conference on Informations Systems, or ICIS. (Source: LISNews.org) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:33:59 +0100 824556 http://enmarchaconlastic.educarex.es/2010/03/08/premio-creatic-para-mariano-real/ Mariano Real Pérez, antiguo asesor TIC del CPR de Zafra y actualmente trabajando en la Comunidad de Andalucía,  ha sido ganador en los Premios CreaTIC de la web Wikisaber por su trabajo Recursos para las matemáticas- Pitágoras con un premio de 2000 euros. Allí podemos encontrar bancos de problemas, herramientas matemáticas, vídeos matemáticos, enlaces de interés, juegos y lógica, curiosidades matemáticas… ¡Enhorabuena Mariano! Compártelo! (Source: En Marcha con las TIC) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:38:55 +0100 824836 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/infoesfera/~3/08fsFLMc1so/bibliotecas-en-el-mar.html Marzo 6, 2010 por jjulioEl Titanic llevaba en su interior dos bibliotecas. Una estaba situada sobre el puente “A” y aparecía decorada al estilo Luis XV, con detalles tomados del palacio de Versalles. Los libros habían sido embarcados en Southampton. En segunda clase, sobre el puente “C”, viajaba también una biblioteca de doce metros, engalanada al estilo colonial y con sus libros guardados en armarios de cristal que flanqueaban uno de los lados. Cuando el mar se tragó el Titanic, la encuadernación, la paginación, los registros, las filigranas de los grabados, las cubiertas y portadas, los preliminares, los colofones, las marcas, las ilustraciones, las dedicatorias, y sobre todo párrafos y líneas, las letras con sus pensamientos revelados, la puntuación minuciosa y las anotaciones personales se envolvieron en aguas frías cargadas de sales nutritivas, se perdieron entre húmedos guijarros, descendieron lentamente por el barro hasta llanuras abisales, mezlándose los sentimientos de los autores con arcilla y desmoronándose en el agua parte de sus argumentos, deslizándose los peces entre páginas incrustadas en conchas de moluscos y colonias de corales, entrando por las paredes de las páginas tierra rojiza y guijarros de cuarzo, soplos de corrientes submarinas, gravas fluidas y aludes de sacudidas sísmicas que fueron derrumbando el poderío de las letras góticas a la vez que descosían cuadernillos y prosa y verso, quedaron sueltos, mecidos al vaivén del océano.Cuando se lee la historia de la destrucción sin fin de las bibliotecas – “Livres en feu“, de Lucien X Polastron (Denoel) -, se advierte que no es sólo el fuego el que consume los libros, sino también el mar. ... Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:12:00 +0100 824490 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/bIvZbjSuHwc/ Había creado una cuenta hace un tiempo en Posterous pero no la había usado.  Hoy le he dedicado unos minutos y me  ha sorprendido como plataforma de publicación de contenidos sin mayores complicaciones. Puedes publicar contenido desde la web o también mediante la cuenta de correo. Me parece una buena opción para aquellas personas que deseen comenzar a tener presencia en la Web. Compartir con del.icio.us ¡Compártelo con Digg! Añadirlo a Diigo Compartir con Reddit ¿Has encontrado algo bueno? Compártelo en StumbleUpon Compartir con Technorati Añadirlo a MySpace Compartir con Facebook ¡Compártelo en Twitter! ¿Enviarlo a un amigo? ¿Quieres suscribirte a los comentarios de este Post? Compartir con Linkedit Seed el Post en Newsvine Añdirlo a Google Bookmarks Añdirlo a Mister Wong Compartir con FriendFeed Enviar a Twittley Compartir con Wikio Store this link on MyLinkVault Add to a lense on Squidoo Clip this to Evernote Enviar a Meneame Enviar a Bitacoras Compartir con Tumblr Blog this on Blogger Compartir con Plurk Etiquetas: posterous, web 2.0, Windows Live Writer Entradas relacionadas No hay entradas relacionadas. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 19:58:04 +0100 824415 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/netbib/DFxV/~3/z8NLvv4OwmU/ Schönen Dank an Silvia Czerwinski für diesen Gastbeitrag! Mittlerweile haben einige Bibliotheken entdeckt, dass es durchaus Sinn macht, sich dort aufzuhalten, wo auch ihre Nutzer sind. So gibt es z.Z. im deutschsprachigen Raum 47 Bibliotheken, die entweder eine Seite oder eine Gruppe bei Facebook haben. Die Bibliotheken informieren über aktuelle Veranstaltungen, laden Fotos ihrer Einrichtung hoch oder informieren über Neuigkeiten wie bspw. veränderte Öffnungszeiten. Auf der Seite der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg können die Nutzer sogar direkt im Campuskatalog suchen. So etwas wird belohnt: 259 Nutzer bezeichnen sich derzeit persönlich als “Fan” der Bibliothek. Diese Zahl wird nur noch in der Schweiz getoppt, wo die ETH Zürich durch die aktive Kommunikation mit den Nutzern verdiente 436 Fans hat. Im Dezember 2009 habe ich eine Liste der deutschsprachigen Bibliotheken bei Facebook erstellt und diese Liste im LISWiki veröffentlicht. Wie in den meisten Wikis kann diese Seite von jedem bearbeitet und ergänzt werden. Bis heute sind schon fünf Bibliotheken hinzugekommen. Nun habe ich die Zahlen der Fans bzw. Mitglieder in der Liste aktualisiert. Der Vergleich der Daten ergibt für den Zeitraum von nur zweieinhalb Monaten Bemerkenswertes: Insgesamt ist die Anzahl der Fans/Mitglieder um 58% gestiegen. Dies ergibt im Durchschnitt pro Bibliothek einen Zuwachs von 66%. Wenn man sich die weiterhin steigenden Wachstums-Zahlen von Facebook (s. auch hier verdeutlicht, wird klar, dass diese Bibliotheken auf dem richtigen Weg hin zum Nutzer sind. (Source: netbib weblog) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:09:28 +0100 825172 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/z8NLvv4OwmU/ Schönen Dank an Silvia Czerwinski für diesen Gastbeitrag! Mittlerweile haben einige Bibliotheken entdeckt, dass es durchaus Sinn macht, sich dort aufzuhalten, wo auch ihre Nutzer sind. So gibt es z.Z. im deutschsprachigen Raum 47 Bibliotheken, die entweder eine Seite oder eine Gruppe bei Facebook haben. Die Bibliotheken informieren über aktuelle Veranstaltungen, laden Fotos ihrer Einrichtung hoch oder informieren über Neuigkeiten wie bspw. veränderte Öffnungszeiten. Auf der Seite der Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg können die Nutzer sogar direkt im Campuskatalog suchen. So etwas wird belohnt: 259 Nutzer bezeichnen sich derzeit persönlich als “Fan” der Bibliothek. Diese Zahl wird nur noch in der Schweiz getoppt, wo die ETH Zürich durch die aktive Kommunikation mit den Nutzern verdiente 436 Fans hat. Im Dezember 2009 habe ich eine Liste der deutschsprachigen Bibliotheken bei Facebook erstellt und diese Liste im LISWiki veröffentlicht. Wie in den meisten Wikis kann diese Seite von jedem bearbeitet und ergänzt werden. Bis heute sind schon fünf Bibliotheken hinzugekommen. Nun habe ich die Zahlen der Fans bzw. Mitglieder in der Liste aktualisiert. Der Vergleich der Daten ergibt für den Zeitraum von nur zweieinhalb Monaten Bemerkenswertes: Insgesamt ist die Anzahl der Fans/Mitglieder um 58% gestiegen. Dies ergibt im Durchschnitt pro Bibliothek einen Zuwachs von 66%. Wenn man sich die weiterhin steigenden Wachstums-Zahlen von Facebook (s. auch hier verdeutlicht, wird klar, dass diese Bibliotheken auf dem richtigen Weg hin zum Nutzer sind. (Source: netbib weblog) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 14:09:28 +0100 824260 http://bibliotequices.blogspot.com/2010/03/o-mundo-por-50-oscares.html São 50 estatuetas a distribuir entre 24 categorias. Não há nada de especial para anunciar ao mundo, não há nenhum filme de borla, acontece todos os anos... mas todos os anos não se fala de outra coisa (até há quem diga que a crise económica vai aumentar a audiência).A cerimónia de atribuição dos Óscares de 2010 (ou melhor os Academy Awards, USA 2010)  vai no seu 82º ano e meio mundo vai acompanhar em directo pela TV, média online, etc, etc.Carregue aqui para acompanhar: http://oscar.go.com/Recursos Web Nomeados 2010: www.imdb.com/features/rto/2010/oscars/ Dados sobre a cerimónia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/82nd_Academy_Awards Especiais nos média nacionais (com diverso material multimédia e infografias)Especial PúblicoEspecial iOnlineEspecial Diário NotíciasEspecial Expresso Especial Jornal de NotíciasSe algum alguém dia quiser saber como se promove um evento 8este ano até foi adiada para não coincidir com os Jogos Olímpicos de Inverno), como se faz um site de um evento, etc, já sabe onde ir!Por exemplo, em termos educativos vale a pena visitar o site: www.oscars.org/education-outreach/medialiteracy/index.htmlBibliotequices: http://bibliotequices.blogspot.com (Source: Bibliotequices) Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825008 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/03/culture-documentaire-et-folksonomies.html Article "de commande", pour la revue "Documentaliste, sciences de l'information", à paraître fin Février 2010. La version ci-dessous est celle de soumission, non encore revue et corrigée pour publication définitive. La version définitive sera déposée en archives ouvertes au moment de sa parution.Culture documentaire et folksonomies. L’indexation à l’ère industrielle et collaborative. Des folksonomies aux hashtags, quelles cultures informationnelles ? A L’INDEX. Il a déposé des photos de ses vacances sur FlickR ; recherché une vidéo d’un extrait de colloque sur YouTube ; partagé des signets sur Delicious ; publié un article sur son blog ; bavardé sur Twitter à propos d’un événement récent ; consulté des photos ou des profils de ses amis sur Facebook. Dans chacun de ces cas de figure et dans bien d’autres encore, l’usager a, en sus de son activité de dépôt, de recherche, de publication, de consultation ou de simple conversation, été invité à pratiquer une indexation libre. Une indexation sur ses propres traces informationnelles ou sur celles produites par d’autres. Une indexation qui traverse nos espaces numériques publics, privés et intimes, désormais réunis en une même sphère d’indexabilité. Une indexation à l’unisson de la cinétique des traces auxquelles elle s’attache : synchrone, instantanée, fragmentaire, plurielle. Enfin, une indexation parfois collaborative et le plus souvent, transparente aux autres, à tous les autres. C’EST EN FORGEANT QU’ON DEVIENT FORGERON ET C’EST EN INDEXANT ... QU’ON FINIT SUR TWITTER.Communauté. Wikipédia définit la « folksonomie » comme : « un processus de classification collaborative par des mots-clés librement choisis, ou le résultat de cette classification. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824977 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/03/06/halcon-milenario-con-5000-piezas-de-lego/ Ahora puedes construir la famosa nave Millennium Falcon con piezas de Lego, la más grande de sus construcciones. Eso sí, si tienes paciencia para montar sus más de 5.000 piezas. La nave ocupa 84 cm. de largo, 56 cm. de ancho y 21 cm. de altura. Con todo lujo de detalles, el conjunto incluye 5 mini-figuras: Han Solo, Chewbacca, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke Skywalker y la Princesa Leia Organa. Su precio es de 559,95 €. El Halcón Milenario es la nave del contrabandista Han Solo, personaje interpretado por Harrison Ford en la saga de La Guerra de las Galaxias (Star War). Más información sobre el mundo de Star War y algunos gadgets asociados: Wiki de Star War El Halcón Milenario de Hasbro Así construyen las figuras de Lego el Halcón Milenario en una genial Stop Motion Mesa de carbonita de Han Solo También puedes leer Weblog Magazine, mi blog en ABC.es Y estoy en Twitter, Facebook y Tumblr. (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Sat, 06 Mar 2010 20:45:57 +0100 824327 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/03/05/soporte-con-patas-de-insecto-para-portatiles/ Muy curioso este soporte con patas de insecto para ordenadores portátiles de 15”, 16” y 17”. Se llama Monster Monster Notebook Stand, los mantiene frios, cuesta 33 € y se puede comprar en www.monstermonstermonster.com. Y hablando de insectos, ¿sabías que el el caracol se aparea una vez en su vida solamente, pero el coito dura doce horas? o ¿que el órgano sexual de una araña macho está en el extremo de una de sus patas?. A pesar de su tamaño, podemos aprender mucho de los insectos. Los insectos en la Wikipedia Fotos de hormigas Curiosidades sobre los insectos Curiosidades sobre los insectos voladores También puedes leer Weblog Magazine, mi blog en ABC.es Y estoy en Twitter, Facebook y Tumblr. (Source: blogpocket 6.0) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 21:11:14 +0100 824329 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/03/05/the-mind-of-the-researcher-daniel-russell-akla10.html Daniel Russell, Google Search Quality & User Happiness 2010 Alaska Library Association Conference, opening keynote speaker Lewis & Clark left without a decent map it’s a complicated world out there and you don’t want to end up like the Donner Party (hey, go that way; it looks good) what does the current information map look like? let’s be adventurers but keep our eyes and minds open did a demo of Google Earth cost to put the flyover together = $0 and four minutes of time Google will crawl it within 48 hours when Lewis & Clark published about their trip, it took 10 years we see the world differently, and the library isn’t what it used to be stacks are no longer a core competence — the information landscape has radically changed 1200 exabytes of new content are generated each year (1.2 yottabytes if that helps or 1.2 billion terrabytes) 3.6 zetabytes per person per year (mostly music and video) libraries don’t have to curate and manage that — it stream to you text words per pseron per year = .1% of that total the good news is that the amount of reading per person per year has gone up by 3X since 1980 (primarily due to internet access); happening online, not print so need to develop new skills and new literacies showed Google Books can click on the places in a book and travel to all of them can actually recapitulate Huck Finn’s journey down the river LoC has 10 terabytes of text data or .01 petabytes he has 2 LoCs at home an exabyte = 50,000 years of DVD or 10 billion copies of The Economist (there aren’t enough trees in Alaska to print them all) we’re supporting this renaissance of access to print culture at the same time we’re expanding online content 1. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:23:16 +0100 823913 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/7toTuc99knk/de-verslavende-aanbevelingen-van.html Zoeken met Google wordt steeds persoonlijker. The Register meldde eerder deze week dat maar liefst 20 % van onze zoekacties worden beïnvloed door onze zoekgeschiedenis, onze online contacten en onze locaties. De verschillen per land of continent zijn in die cijfers niet eens meegerekend. Zouden mensen hier nu eigenlijk wel op zitten te wachten, vraag ik me af. Natuurlijk is het handig als je nuttige zoekresultaten niet iedere keer opnieuw hoeft op te snorren maar dan voldoen die nieuwe sterretjes van de zoekmachine toch ook prima? Ik vind het zelf helemaal niet zo'n prettig idee dat ik regelmatig heel andere pagina's met zoekresultaten in beeld krijg dan andere mensen. Je inzicht in de werking van zoekmachines neemt daar namelijk door af. En dan nog: mensen zijn juist dol op de de meningen en zoekresultaten van anderen. Dat gegeven zorgde er voor dat de aanbevelingen van sites als Amazon en Digg zo snel populair werden. In dat kader heb ik me eens in GetGlue verdiept, een aanbevelingswebsite voor vrijwel alles wat je kunt bedenken. Van boeken tot films, van muziek tot beroemde personen. Je kunt stemmen binnen de website maar er is ook een extensie voor de browser beschikbaar, die een beetje doet denken aan Google Sidewiki en die het mogelijk maakt om items binnen sites als Wikipedia en Amazon ter plekke van een beoordeling te voorzien. GetGlue is verslavend. RWW noemde het zelfs a nerd's dream come true. Naarmate je meer beoordelingen geeft krijg je meer suggesties. Daar komt geen eind aan. Het systeem maakt dat je blijft klikken maar doet je ook weer even stilstaan bij het feit dat er ontzettend veel dingen in het leven zijn die je leuk vindt (de keerzijde van die medaille is natuurlijk dat je ook weer precies weet wat je niet leuk vindt). GetGlue is in ieder geval leuker dan de nieuwe aanbevelingsmachine van Library Thing. Die kan ook nog wel een keer van pas komen weliswaar, maar is gewoon een stuk saaier. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:25:00 +0100 823880 http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/03/05/how-to-talk-about-your-blog-in-public/ A basic Google search will turn up all kinds of blogging and podcasting advice.   How to get bonus Google Traffic using SEO tips.    How to write great content.   How to monetize.   How not to become a viral ad for social media marketing douchebags.   What to Tweet and What Not to Tweet. What seems to be missing is what happens when you talk about your blog or podcast in actual public.    But, the way that Twitter and Foursquare seem to encourage ‘meet-ups’ and the popularity of large-scale unconferences such as Podcamp Toronto make it more necessary to remind bloggers that the people who read your blog are also the people who are going to try and meet with you in public.   They may never ever tell you that they read your blog or listen to your podcast, but that does not mean they do not have a dialogue in their head about what they like or do not like about your web presence. Enter case study #1 – I’m at a bar mingling with a whole group of people with common interests in social media.    I’m excited to meet so may new faces.    I join in to a conversation half-way through and a woman is talking about her blog or podcast.   She’s bragging about the huge response she gets from her readers claiming , somewhat disingenuously, that she does not know why they bother to follow her.    Then comes the punch line:   “Maybe they only read my blog because I’m a girl.” I couldn’t help it – it’s part of my east coast blood to knock anyone just a little off their high horse.   I mean no malice nor do I wish to give an air of arrogance, but I reply: “Actually, I am almost convinced that everyone reads my blog because I’m a boy.” What followed was a pre-rehearsed tirade of insults for my ’sarcasm’ that I wasn’t able to hear because the music in the bar was too loud. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:20:19 +0100 824369 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~5/BSGPmzKcfmI/presidente1.mp3 El Presidente de la Universidad de Puerto Rico, José Ramón de la Torre, fue entrevistado hoy por Carmen Jovet en relación a la situación por la que atraviesa esta institución. Incluyo el audio de esa entrevista para el beneficio de los que no pudieron escuchar la misma: Primera Parte: Segunda parte: Tercera parte: Cuarta parte: Compartir con del.icio.us ¡Compártelo con Digg! Añadirlo a Diigo Compartir con Reddit ¿Has encontrado algo bueno? Compártelo en StumbleUpon Compartir con Technorati Añadirlo a MySpace Compartir con Facebook ¡Compártelo en Twitter! ¿Enviarlo a un amigo? ¿Quieres suscribirte a los comentarios de este Post? Compartir con Linkedit Seed el Post en Newsvine Añdirlo a Google Bookmarks Añdirlo a Mister Wong Compartir con FriendFeed Enviar a Twittley Compartir con Wikio Store this link on MyLinkVault Add to a lense on Squidoo Clip this to Evernote Enviar a Meneame Enviar a Bitacoras Compartir con Tumblr Blog this on Blogger Compartir con Plurk Etiquetas: Noticias de la Isla, universidad Entradas relacionadas Lista de cursos abiertos (0) El término medio, la crisis económica y la Universidad (1) La Universidad de Puerto Rico, la política y lo pequeño (4) Videos del foro ¡¿Crisis y Asalto en la UPR?! (0) Portales de la UPR y la actitud 2.0 (7) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:53:13 +0100 823901 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Wisblawg-FromTheUwLawLibrary/~3/dUa8JicoFPw/more_creative_uses_for_old_boo_1.html A while back I did a post on some clever uses for old books. Since I've run into a few more, I thought I'd update the list. Kathy Kelly, an Erie law librarian, has developed a business called BookBags in which she makes purses and laptop computer cases from the covers of outdated law books and other volumes. The bags will be on display in the Fayette County Law Library beginning next month. This Into That artist, Jim Rosenau makes some really neat arts from vintage books, including book cases, book shelves, chairs, etc. How to Make a Hollow Book (from wikiHow):A hollow book can be a nifty way to hide something, whether it's a spare key, a secret note, or even money. Most people wouldn't think to browse your library for private or personal things. It's also a great way to pass something to someone discreetly--an unsuspecting onlooker will just think you're sharing a very good read! How to Turn a Book Into a Picture Frame (from wikiHow): Search the basement, the attic or the back of the bookshelves for an old book that has not been opened for years. Make sure that it isn't a valuable antique or first edition! Follow the steps to insert a favorite picture into the frame. Place the book on the end table to be enjoyed and shared by everyone. Instructables also has a video tutorial on how to make this cool Recycled Book Lampshade. How to Make and Do has some other fun ideas, including a literary clock, stacked book table legs, and personalized flap books. Don't have the right books for these projects? Then stop by the Friends of the UW Madison Libraries used book sale on April 7-10, 2010. Held at the Memorial Library at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, this is the largest used book sale in Wisconsin and includes more than 15,000 books covering almost any subject. (Source: WisBlawg - From the UW Law Library) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:41:37 +0100 823988 http://jamillan.com/librosybitios/blog/2010/03/los-decepcionantes-libros-aumentados-de.htm El problema de los libros en soporte electrónico es que compiten no solamente entre sí, sino con el vasto mundo de los productos multimedia. La cosa es más llamativa cuando consideramos que en ciertos entornos (como el iPhone o el iPod Touch) los libros se deben adquirir en una tienda, iTunes, que está orientada sobre todo a música y videos.Una solución en la que ha pensado más de uno es enriquecer los textos con materiales multimedia. La última aventura en este sentido es Vook, al que parece que no le va nada mal de inversores. Pero ¿qué es lo que ofrece exactamente? Por el momento, textos en el dominio público, dotados en ciertas zonas de enlaces a Wikipedia y a Google Books, y con la adición de videos. Véase como ejemplo el título altisonantemente llamado The Sherlock Holmes Experience. Por 2'39 euros se consiguen dos historias del famoso detective más un puñadito de videos. Estos presentan, por ejemplo, a especialistas contando cosas, como en un programa de televisión (no muy bueno). También hay otros videos de un caballero, vestido se supone que a la usanza de la época de Sherlock, paseando por escenarios holmianos. ¡Dios mío!, cualquier frase del relato de Conan Doyle nos sumerge en ese ambiente de una manera muchísimo más poderosa...  No sé muy bien cuál es el futuro de los libros en soporte electrónico, pero me voy haciendo una  idea clara de por dónde no va a ir. (Source: El blog del futuro del libro) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825030 http://enmarchaconlastic.educarex.es/2010/03/04/cursos_cpr_semana_del_01032010_al_07032010/ Esta semana, tenemos cursos relacionados con las nuevas tecnologías en los CPRS de Almendralejo, Azuaga, Badajoz, Brozas, Cáceres, Caminomorisco, Castuera, Don Benito-Villanueva, Hoyos, Mérida y Trujillo. CPR Curso CPR de Almendralejo Escuela 2.0 Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas CPR de Azuaga La utilización de las TIC en el IES Bembézar CPR de Azuaga Jugar, pensar, aprender: enseñar ciencia mediante experimentos. CPR de Badajoz CURSO: “ESCUELA 2.0. PIZARRA DIGITAL INTERACTIVA” CPR de Brozas Escuela 2.0: Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas. Alcántara CPR de Brozas Escuela 2.0: Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas. Valencia de Alcántara CPR de Cáceres AULA ABIERTA: “JÓVENES EN RED: Potencialidades y riesgos de las Redes Sociales”. CPR de Cáceres LAS REDES SOCIALES Y OTROS RECURSOS TIC PARA LA ENSEÑANZA DE LAS CIENCIAS NATURALES Abril 2010 CPR de Caminomorisco RECURSOS TIC PARA MONITORES DE ACTIVIDADES FORMATIVAS COMPLEMENTARIAS CPR de Caminomorisco LA PIZARRA DIGITAL INTERACTIVA COMO RECURSO DIDÁCTICO (Interwrite) CPR de Castuera FORMACIÓN PARTICIPANTES PROYECTO ATENEA. CEIP TENA ARTIGAS. CASTUERA CPR de Don Benito-Villanueva Escuela 2.0: Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas CPR de Hoyos Iniciacin a LinEx CPR de Hoyos Formación en TIC. Escuela de Familia. CEIP Hoyos CPR de Mérida Escuela 2.0: Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas CPR de Trujillo CURSOS: Escuela 2.0. Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas CPR de Almendralejo Escuela 2.0 Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas(21 horas - 2 créditos ) Además de la progresiva implantación de recursos TIC en las aulas educativas, otro de los ejes de intervención del programa Escuela 2.0 es la formación del profesorado en aspectos metodológicos y sociales de la integración de estos recursos digitales en la práctica docente. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:30:41 +0100 823563 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/bhd6-kPVA-0/   ¡Movilízate y participa! El martes 9 de marzo a las 2:00 pm frente al Edificio Darlington, la APRUM convoca a tod@s l@s docentes indignad@s o agraviad@s con las consecuencias de las decisiones tomadas por la alta gerencia de nuestra Universidad. El Presidente de la UPR, Dr. Manuel de la Torre, hará su primera visita oficial a nuestro Recinto para constituir en una reunión del Senado, extraordinaria y abierta al público, el Comité de Consulta para la Rectoría de nuestro Recinto. Este es el momento para hacer escuchar el creciente descontento sobre los ascensos recomendados y no concedidos y las deterioradas condiciones de investigación, trabajo y estudio de nuestra comunidad. Es momento, también de anticiparle a la Administración que l@s docentes no estamos dispuest@s a que se siga poniendo en peligro la estabilidad de la primera institución docente del país, la oferta y calidad de la enseñanza que reciben nuestr@s miles de estudiantes, las condiciones de investigación y de generación de conocimiento, ni los beneficios logrados por l@s trabajador@s universitarios. Vístete de negro. Trae tu pancarta. Súmate en solidaridad. Juntos somos más. Raymond Knight, portavoz Compartir con del.icio. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:29:46 +0100 823513 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/04/the-march-2010-issue-of-arls-e-news-is-now-online/ Access the March, 2010 Issue Here are Just a Few of the Articles Included in the Issue: + Library Copyright Alliance Releases Issue Brief on Streaming Films for Educational Purposes + IMLS Solicits Thoughts on the Future of Museums and Libraries in “UpNext” Wiki + SPARC Announces Sparky Award Winners, Opens People’s Choice Contest—Deadline to Vote March 7 + Save the Date for Open Access Week 2010: October 18–24 + UK Report Analyzes Disciplinary Approaches to Data Sharing + ARL Annual Statistical Surveys Update Source: Association of Research Libraries (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:36:25 +0100 823503 http://bibliotequices.blogspot.com/2010/03/tudo-borla.html A BD Nancy é publicada desde 1922 em jornais. Autor inicial: Ernie Bushmiller. Saiba mais sobre esta BD aqui: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_%28comics%29Bibliotequices: http://bibliotequices.blogspot.com (Source: Bibliotequices) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825017 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/03/things-i-need-to-learn-more-about/ I’ve got a list of things I need to learn more about and keep studying. Here’s a short list of what’s top of mind lately: Mobile reading – how do you create a good or acceptable experience? HTML5 – what is it and is it ready for primetime? Faceted Search display – Is this the future for results display? Going Mobile – Is it going to be a device specific app or is it going to be something standard or web based? There’s a right answer here but lordy how long will that take and can anyone wait? Anyway, I found some intersting links that have helped so I’m sharing them here but I’m really storing them here too so I can find them again. Wikipedia: HTML5 Here’s the standard overview of the less techncial among us. In short, HTML5 aims to reduce the need for proprietary plug-in-based rich internet application (RIA) technologies such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, Apache Pivot, and Sun JavaFX. Hmmm, no plug’ins. That’s cool and would truly cook all those app store business models, eh? HTML5: What’s good, What’s bad? in Ongoing by Tim Bray. I have to say that when the co-developer of XML isn’t sure if HTML5 is right/ready/etc. then I look deeper under the hood. This post goes under the hood to geek levels. Mobile App or Mobile Web (two parts) from Commonplace.ney blog Part 1: Mainframe to Mobile Part 2: Mobile app or mobile web? Part 3: Anticipated Mobile reading I still have some discomfort with the idea of newspapers and long documents on telephones to read but apparently this is normal reading in Japan and other places. I guess we need to review and reseaarch this further. Is alphabet dirven reading different than Asian character sets for reading? I have been entranced by visual display and faceted search for many years. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:41:49 +0100 823202 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/03/san-jose-state-students-wary-of-sourcing-wikipedia/ From the Article in The Spartan Daily (San Jose St. University): Natalie Sabeh, a junior biology major, has come to realize when using Wikipedia, the information is not always correct. “Sometimes, you see some crazy stuff on there you know is not true,” Sabeh said. Vinh Kha Nguyen, a graduate student in mathematics, said he uses Wikipedia on class assignments and said he knows the information presented on the Web site is not always accurate. “I use it, but I’m still skeptical about it,” Nguyen said. “They can put any information.” Even with incorrect information on Wikipedia’s Web pages, Sabeh said she still goes to the Web site at the beginning of her research process. [Snip] Freshman dance major Nikki Wood said her teachers don’t accept Wikipedia as a source, and she agrees with their decision. “I think its fine,” Wood said. “There’s so many other Web sites.” Wikipedia can be used to find reliable sources, Wood said, with a list of literature cited and external links at the bottom of a topic’s page Access the Complete Article Source: The Spartan (San Jose State U.) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:41:25 +0100 823165 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/NCL93FP5xAw/ If you’ve been to any confrences lately where Linked Data has been on the agenda, you’ll probably have seen the four principles of Linked Data (I grabbed the following from Wikipedia…) 1. Use URIs to identify things. 2. Use HTTP URIs so that these things can be referred to and looked up (“dereference”) by people and user agents. 3. Provide useful information (i.e., a structured description — metadata) about the thing when its URI is dereferenced. 4. Include links to other, related URIs in the exposed data to improve discovery of other related information on the Web. Wot, no RDF? ;-) Anyway – here’s my take on what we have… building on my Parliamentary Committees Treemap, I thought I’d do something similar for the US 111st Congress Committees to produce something like this map for the House: I reused an algorithm I’d used to produce the UK Parliamentary committee maps: - grab the list of committees; - for each committee, grab the membership list for that committee. That is, I want to annotate one dataset with richer information from another one; I want to link different bits of data together… The “endpoint” I used to make the queries for the Congress committee map was the New York Time Congress API. The quickest way (for me) to get the data was to use a couple of Yahoo Pipes. Firstly, here’s one that will get a list of committee members from a 111st Congress House committee given its committee code (it’s left as an exercise for the reader to generalise this pipe to also accept a chamber and congress number arguments ;-) I get the data using a URL. Here’s what one looks like: http://api.nytimes.com/svc/politics/v3/us/legislative/congress/111/house/committees/HSAG.xml?api-key=MY_KEY So given a committee code, can get a list of members. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:01:13 +0100 824202 http://ksulib.typepad.com/talking/2010/03/shortcuts-ask-dave.html Q: Dave, I’m at my wits end!  My students keep turning in papers citing online sources despite my admonishments to stay as far away from the Internet as possible.  I just don’t believe that a series of tubes is a trustworthy source.  Can you offer any assistance? A: I’m all for using credible sources and you are pure-hearted in your desire to instill this virtue in your students.  However.  Oh noes!  Teh internets r not jus 4 pr0n, lulz!  Also haz all teh 1337 stuffs and not jus stuffs wot r teh suxx0r – w00t!  ROFLMAO!  (For my remaining literate readers, I’d like to thank you for indulging me in some dusty internet humor)Here’s the thing: there’s online sources and then there’s sources found online.  I can see some of you are confused.An online source could potentially be anything.  The real crazies are easy to spot by even the least research-savvy undergrad (e.g. Timecube); it’s the stuff that seems credible but doesn’t offer sources, or misrepresents information (e.g. some of Wikipedia’s worst offenders) that is dangerous.But, there are a great many credible sources available online, including some that are print resource that are also published online.  That is to say, if you find a journal article online via a library database or a journal’s website, it will have the same words as the print copy of the article (in the journal on the shelf in the library or in your office).  Ergo, Soil Science Society of America Journal on the shelf at the call number S590 .S64 A13 = Soil Science Society of America Journal [online]. Additionally, we subscribe to a number of databases that cover resources you used to only be able to find in print like: market analyses (Mintel), encyclopedias (Credo Reference), and standards (ASABE Technical Library). ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823650 http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2010/03/march-legacy-mob-uss-california.php After the success of cataloging the 1963 White House Library, we've made it into a monthly thing.This month, starting at 12:00 noon EST Wednesday, March 3, and continuing for 24 hours, we're going to be cataloging the on-board library of the U.S.S. California, as it was in 1905.This California's library catalog were written up and published by the Government Printing Office, and has been scanned by the Internet Archive. Designed to serve the California's 830-odd officers and men—the libraries were separate—it offers a unique view of the navy of the time, and of the country. The ship, then rechristened the San Diego, and its library, went to the bottom of the ocean in 1918, the victim of a German U-boat. Six sailors died.Check out the talk threadJeremy has set up a wiki pageAll see the USSCalifornia library as it developsThe "Legacy Mob" is an amalgam of two LibraryThing inventions:The Legacy Library, where members catalog famous or notable past collections, like that of Jefferson, Hemingway or the Massachusetts Bay Colony.The Flash-Mob Cataloging, where members show up to catalog a small collection, like the Rhode Island Audubon or St. John's Church in Beverly, MA (Source: Thing-ology (LibraryThing's ideas blog)) Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:56:00 +0100 823939 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/yDsfOqz8f8U/ Dr Michael Stephens delivered the Dr Laurel Anne Clyde Memorial Keynote Address at the ASLA XXI Biennial Conference, held in Perth, Western Australia, from 29 September to 2 October 2009. Reprinted with permission from the Australian School Library Association Inc. (ASLA) Access 2010 24(1): 5. The evolving Web is an open and social place. The Web has changed everything. Its impact on every facet of our lives — home, work and school — would be difficult to measure but the ‘always on, always available’ Internet is certainly a game changer. Can you recall the first time you realised that the Internet would change your job? Your school? Your students? Dr Laurel Anne Clyde recognised the power and potential for emerging technologies in schools and spent time exploring the implications. As technology evolved, so did her research. Her work examining weblogs was one of the first scholarly endeavours with emerging Web 2.0 tools. Now many of us study and move in a world of hyperconnected spaces: Facebook, WordPress Multi- User Blog communities (WordPress MU), Flickr and any number of socially enabled sites. What a world Dr. Clyde would see today! Sadly, this world includes the fact that many libraries are suffering financial setbacks. The recent news that Australian school libraries are in dire need of support all too well illustrates that changes are needed. The press release from the Australian School Library Association (ASLA 2009) detailed the findings of a 2007 study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), including: That means ensuring there are enough qualified teacher librarians as well as maintaining and improving infrastructure. Having a new or refurbished school library is important, but the full potential of these resources cannot be realised without a qualified teacher librarian in place as well. This fact cannot be ignored. Schools need qualified librarians. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:09:41 +0100 822933 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/AzplysXPZw4/ El Nuevo Día  ha rediseñado su portal y ya puedes echarle un vistazo a su versión beta (Vía Luis Herrero). Llama la atención el rol central que tiene ahora la sección de clasificados y que además  han aumentado los espacios para anuncios. Si esta tendencia continúa, en el futuro ENDI será solamente  un portal de clasificados y anuncios. Compartir con del.icio.us ¡Compártelo con Digg! Añadirlo a Diigo Compartir con Reddit ¿Has encontrado algo bueno? Compártelo en StumbleUpon Compartir con Technorati Añadirlo a MySpace Compartir con Facebook ¡Compártelo en Twitter! ¿Enviarlo a un amigo? ¿Quieres suscribirte a los comentarios de este Post? Compartir con Linkedit Seed el Post en Newsvine Añdirlo a Google Bookmarks Añdirlo a Mister Wong Compartir con FriendFeed Enviar a Twittley Compartir con Wikio Store this link on MyLinkVault Add to a lense on Squidoo Clip this to Evernote Enviar a Meneame Enviar a Bitacoras Compartir con Tumblr Blog this on Blogger Compartir con Plurk Etiquetas: Vida en Linea, Vida en Linea Entradas relacionadas El Viejo San Juan con internet wireless (4) La Web 2.0 como bosque tropical (1) En lo que hoy me detuve (0) Truco para eliminar la publicidad del contador webstats4u (0) Añadiendo tags a tus artículos (4) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:50:03 +0100 822858 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/qRCfsVj-KSM/ In this sixth post in my Kindle “shakedown” series, I find that the Kindle shakes and falls when it comes to note-taking. Reading my first book on the Kindle, I was satisfied with the way it let me highlight text. The functions for entering and editing notes were also acceptable. One immediate limitation I found was that notes must be linked to a particular location in the text. When I wanted to jot down a general note, I improvised by creating a general notes section at the beginning of the text. Jumping back to it was a bit of a pain. It is possible that a reader will never want to do another thing with their notes, other than view them again on some future re-reading of the book. Good old-fashioned marginalia. If so, that reader may be satisfied with the Kindle’s note-taking functions. Many readers like myself make notes so we can do something with them: homework, research, a book review, or a journal entry. These tasks require copy-pasting the notes into other files, operations not easily performed on a Kindle.In order to use the notes, I had to find a way to transfer them to my computer. I plugged the Kindle into my computer and inspected the files on its disk. Each book is associated with an “.azw” file, Amazon’s protected file format. You can open the file with the free Kindle for PC software. I was delighted to see the book content with highlights and notes neatly lined up beside it. I then discovered that I could not copy-paste from it! Furthermore, the software is tied to my purchased books. I cannot use it to view other files I may have read on the Kindle, nor does it show my newspaper subscription. The Kindle has an unprotected file, “My Clippings.txt”, in which I found the highlights and notes for all my books and subscriptions. I could copy-paste this content. ... Tue, 02 Mar 2010 17:30:24 +0100 822830 http://lisnews.org/share_your_thoughts_future_museums_and_libraries_wiki Share your thoughts on the Future of Museums and Libraries Wiki The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invites you to help invent the future of museums and libraries through your participation in UpNext: The Future of Museums and Libraries Wiki. IMLS’s first-ever wiki is a platform where individuals inside and outside of museums, libraries, and related fields can discuss, dissect, expand, and inform the issues outlined in the Future of Museums and Libraries: A Discussion Guide. IMLS will use the knowledge shared in the wiki to help shape the agency’s strategic plan, research directions, publications, convenings, and grant making. The wiki will be officially launched March 3, but is open for registration now. (Source: LISNews.org) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:26:11 +0100 822682 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/MaestrosBibliotecariosDePuertoRico/~3/9BMoQCUEfyQ/recursos-para-practicar-la.html Repasa las tablas de multiplicar con mister PI Generador de tablas GENMAGIC Animales matemáticos 3 multiplicaciones GENMAGIC La oca de las tablas de multiplicar CNICE Multiplicar sin parar JUNTA DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN ZONA DE ALUMNOS Aprendiendo a multiplicar SALÓN EDUCATIVO Multiplicación por una cifra JOSÉ ANTONIO DEL OLMO VIAN Multiplicaciones en WIKISABER Tablas de multiplicarGobierno (Source: Maestros Bibliotecarios de Puerto Rico) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:02:00 +0100 824425 http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/kresgenews/archives/2010/03/business_inform.html On the Kresge Library Wiki, we created a page that highlights useful business resources available for Michigan Residents. Besides freely available news sites, this wiki page includes links to business and article databases from the Michigan Electronic Library, which are available to all residents of the state of Michigan. (Source: Kresge Library News) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823688 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2010/03/web-20-what-it-can-do-for-you.html Most presentations from the Libraries for Nursing study day (Nov 2009), Web 2.0 - What it can do for you, including presentations on wikis and podcasts, are online at http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/health/subject-groups/libraries-for-nursing/Pages/study-day-web2.aspxPhoto by Sheila Webber: After holi celebrations, Sheffield, March 2010 (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822878 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/03/01/drawing-the-curtain-on-isp-cooperation-with-law-enforcement/ I’ve been a faithful follower of Cryptome for quite some time. Cryptome has been posting very interesting and controversial content on the internet since 1996. It was the first WikiLeaks. Recent readers would note some publications that are very interesting for those who are interested a look at the level of cooperation of between internet service providers and law enforcement. Some of the reaction has been overblown, in my view. Nobody should be surprised that service providers hand over customer information in response to warrants and subpoenaes. Where the law requires it, banks do it, pharmacies do it, libraries do it and credit card companies do it. I think it would be shocking if service providers didn’t have policies and procedures for this. What would be more troubling would be the extent to which service providers hand over information in the absence of a lawful requirement. Most recently, Microsoft served a DMCA notice on Cryptome and its hosting provider, demanding that their Global Criminal Compliance Handbook be removed. Cryptome countered and Microsoft ultimately caved. My personal view is that service providers should make this information public so that customers really understand their digital footprints. So if you want to see what Facebook, AOL, PayPal, MySpace, AOL and Skype will provide in response to a lawful demand, check out Cryptome. And for lawyers, these documents will tell you what you can expect to get in response to a lawful demand. (Source: Slaw) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 00:43:59 +0100 824464 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryGarden/~3/KwnTHCM1Spw/ A post by Marie L. Radford Nothing thrills a writer/editor more than the joy of finally being able to see a finished book that you have had in the works for many months.  I am delighted to announce that Reference Renaissance: Current and Future Trends is now available from Neal-Schuman!  I had the privilege of working with co-editor Dave Lankes of Syracuse University on the book which captures the latest in the work of researchers and practitioners, updated from their presentations at the first (hugely successful!) Reference Renaissance Conference. Dave is the creative, intellectual, and dynamic force behind the ground-breaking Virtual Reference Desk conferences and books which have provided inspiration and models for the Reference Renaissance events and publications. Anyone interested in the latest buzz should take a look at this book which features current research in reference, including virtual services like IM and live chat, innovative service models, and philosophical approaches. In addition, numerous “reports from the field” chronicle innovative service models, virtual reference successes, marketing, initiatives in staff development and training, and using search engines and other virtual tools. I have authored a chapter with Lynn Silipigni Connaway of OCLC called:  “Getting Better All the Time: Improving Communication and Accuracy in Virtual Reference” that features results and recommendations from our Seeking Synchronicity IMLS, Rutgers, and OCLC, Inc. grant project. Here’s a sneaky – peek from our chapter… The top tip for boosting accuracy when you are providing live chat VR is the following: when asked for specific information, before you push a Web site or URL, check to make sure it contains the precise information requested by the user, not just a general overview of the topic. We found this simple verification step would have increased accuracy from 78% to90% for ready reference questions. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:59:34 +0100 822966 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/4Vr8Av1IEcg/3609 Christy Confetti Higgins a Cybrarian at Oracle started the morning with her talk entitled ‘Embracing New Measures of Value: Integration and Collaboration at Sun Microsystems.’ Christy talked to us about integrating information from outside sources into inside sources. The approach they took was to maximize dollars spent, repurpose content, and leverage social media. One example of this is that they pulled in their own Twitter feed to the Information Services Wiki. Another example she gave us was from their learning portal. On this main page they included a feed of books from Safari and Books24/7 (I wonder if the reason the library catalog is excluded is because limitations in the software …). In addition to pulling data in, they used social media to connect with employees. They have both a public and an internal blog. Using the RSS feeds from these blogs they were able to then pull in feeds based on tags into the wiki (so if the post was about financial information it could be on the financial page of the wiki). Another use of social media was to create a community for the engineers called the “Read Community” this way the engineers could share what they were reading with their colleagues – this comes back to one of the topics from yesterday brought up by Cameron – we learn a lot from the resources our colleagues are reading and sharing with us. With this tool they not only had the engineers sharing information, they were also able to take the recommendations that were shared and put them on a Safari Books Reading List and pull that out with an RSS feed and post that to the wiki. (What I’m hearing is that RSS is central to nearly everything they do! Which backs up what I keep telling librarians – you need to offer at least one RSS feed on your site so people can use and re-mix your content. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:59:44 +0100 823153 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/03/01/stan-garfields-communities-manifesto/ Libraries are truly all about their communities. I really love this manifesto as a foundation to discuss the role of libraries in our communities and to align us with our communities’ needs. And these principles apply to more than public libraries but to any community of practice, research community, school community, etc. Read the full post for an expansion on these. Communities Manifesto By Stan Garfield “Communities are groups of people who, for a specific subject, share a specialty, role, passion, interest, concern, or a set of problems. Community members deepen their understanding of the subject by interacting on an ongoing basis, asking and answering questions, sharing information, reusing good ideas, solving problems for one another, and developing new and better ways of doing things. This document defines and describes 10 principles for successful communities. It is based on my experience in creating, leading, and managing communities and communities programs, both inside and outside of organizations. 10 Principles 1. Communities should be independent of organization structure; they are based on what members want to interact on. 2. Communities are different from teams; they are based on topics, not on assignments. 3. Communities are not sites, team spaces, blogs or wikis; they are people who choose to interact. 4. Community leadership and membership should be voluntary; you can suggest that people join, but should not force them to. 5. Communities should span boundaries; they should cross functions, organizations, and geographic locations. 6. Minimize redundancy in communities; before creating a new one, check if an existing community already addresses the topic. 7. Communities need a critical mass of members; take steps to build membership. 8. Communities should start with as broad a scope as is reasonable; separate communities can be spun off if warranted. 9. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:56:40 +0100 822407 http://enmarchaconlastic.educarex.es/2010/03/01/certamen-internacional-educared/ El Certamen Internacional EducaRed, dirigido a docentes y alumnos (desde 3 a 17 años) de centros escolares de todo el mundo, consiste en la realización de trabajos multimedia relacionados con los temas del currículo escolar. También podrán participar grupos procedentes de centros de formación de adultos y centros de educación especial. Las modalidades de participación son: Modalidad Web: realización de trabajos curriculares en formato Web, a través de sencillas herramientas de creación. Modalidad Blog: trabajos de contenido curricular elaborados mediante la herramienta de blog que EducaRed proporciona a través del Certamen. Modalidad Wiki: trabajos de contenido curricular elaborados mediante la herramienta de wiki que EducaRed facilita dentro del Certamen. Modalidad Experiencias Didácticas: presentación de una experiencia en la que el docente esté utilizando, o haya utilizado, las Tecnologías la Información y la Comunicación como vehículo para la enseñanza de contenidos curriculares. En esta modalidad se admitirá únicamente a profesores en solitario, sin alumnos ni en grupo con otros profesores. Hasta el 30 de abril en primera instancia puedes realizar la inscripción. Mira los premios que os esperan. Puedes leer las bases haciendo clic aquí Compártelo! (Source: En Marcha con las TIC) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:37:55 +0100 822371 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Wikipedia_founder_Jimmy_Wales_on_internet_censorship__Dirk_--- timtak1 says: February 28th, 2010 at 5:57 pm. Wikipedia censors all the stuff ("the rest of the library") that ends up on Wikia, that makes Mr. Wales (Source: pligg - all) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:00:36 +0100 822335 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/5yqhsWuBxkY/feedthru Sconul Access If you're a member of a UK HEI, you you can probably get user rights from other UK HE academic libraries... An history of new technology at the Open University - The Schommunity Wiki A timeline of technology adoption in the OU. (Source: OUseful Info) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 824208 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/03/cfp-teaching-with-technology-radical.html CFP: Teaching With TechnologyTeaching today, from K-12 through graduate school, is ubiquitously tied to digital technology. from K-12 through graduate school, today's classroom is increasingly digital., and the call to make it more so grows. Institutional resources are increasingly directed toward classroom digital initiatives, libraries are merged with academic computing departments, and the instructional technologist has begun to occupy a central role on many campuses. New degree programs are popping up, and digital humanities is a newly, yet nebulously, defined discipline. As economic crisis continues to hold the country in its grip for a second year (at least), teachers and students are subjected to additional pressure to make themselves “competitive” as workers in a narrowly defined marketplace that demands technological skills as an end rather than a means to education. Much has already been published about the use of technology in the classroom, including a 2002 cluster of articles in Radical Teacher. It is unlikely that we will see any real decoupling of technology from teaching and learning in our future or lifetime, any more so than it is likely that we see it in any other aspect of our society. or culture at large. Given the fact that ignoring or rejecting technology wholesale is not a viable or palatable option for most of us, we must therefore continue to actively think about use the its use, of it, insist on approaching it with a critical eye, and ask questions at every turn about whose interests are being served, who benefits from our implementation of technology, and why when we choose to engage with technology in teaching and learning.Radical Teacher, the independent magazine for educational workers at all levels and in every kind of institution focusing on critical teaching practice, the political economy of education, and institutional struggles, solicits articles for an upcoming special issue devoted to teaching and technology. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824125 http://www.echosdoc.net/index.php#info1044 Le site "About.com" propose une liste de 47 liens vers des encyclopédies gratuites en ligne offant une alternative (ou complétant) Wikipedia. (Source: EchosDoc : actualité de l' I. & D.) Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:00:00 +0100 822514 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/4OfzfIDQj8Q/3596 This year’s NFAIS conference was opened by Clay Shirky. He started by giving us a 5 word synopsis of his book Here Comes Everybody — Group Action Just Got Easier. He then when on to a story about the power of social networks. HSBC (a bank in the UK) in 2007 decided they were going recruit new clients (graduate students and undergrad students). They offered these students accounts with an overdraft that had no fees associated with it. Then in the summer they took back their plan to offer the account with no penalties for overdrafts and said they were going to charge $140 per overdraft. They said you have 30 days to get your money out before we charge you. The idea was that college students are all over the world in the summer and won’t be around to throw a fit. But a college student found out about it and published it on Facebook. The bank didn’t realize that these students were still connected even though they were spread out. In the end HSBC changed their mind. This wasn’t because the students were unhappy – it was because they were unhappy and organized. Clay then went into talking about 3 information issues. Volume of Information When the printing press turned into the mechanical object we know today, books were able to be printed 300x faster than a scribe could pen the book. When a new tech comes along, previously impossible things become possible. Abundance breaks more things than scarcity does – when the web first became viable newspapers thought this was great! They could send out text and images for free and reach more than just their local customer base – they can reach people worldwide. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:15:41 +0100 823157 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/HZi2unCfLXw/2557-pandia-search-engine-news-wrap-up-feb-28.html Another week has passed in the world of search engines, and there are no surprises: Google has again got most of the attention. It seems Europe has decided that Google has to be disciplined. Here are your headlines, hand picked by Pandia: Human moderated search engines True Knowledge is a pioneer in a new class of search technology that allows you to ask questions on the web (P Bradley Feb 25 2010) Google Surfaces Facebook Pages in Real-Time Facebook Pages are basically advertising tools for organizations, businesses, celebrities and bands (GoogleWatch Feb 25 2010) kgb Turns Answers Service Into Giant Database kgb is a text answer service. Text a question to 542542 and get an answer. (ResearchBuzz Feb 23 2010) 47 Alternatives to Wikipedia 47 Wikipedia alternatives you can use to find information, research a paper, get quick answers, and much more. (About.com feb 22 2010) Parlor trick: Buzzzy searches Buzz Search engine for Google Buzz (cnet Feb 16 2010) Xerox sues Google, Yahoo over search patents Xerox accuses Google and Yahoo of infringing patents (Reuters Feb 23 2010) Yahoo Answers Gets A New Look Yahoo has announced a fairly substantial overhaul of how Yahoo Answers looks and works (SE Land Feb 25 2010) Losing Google? Chinese Scientists Say It’s Like Going Blind, Life Without Electricity Chinese scientists say their research will be dramatically compromised if Google shuts down its search engine in China. (SE Land Feb 25 2010) Gross Negligence Surfaces in Baidu Domain Hijacking Incident On January 12, baidu. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:47:08 +0100 822793 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/N5qzsmo3jjw/ Vía Digital Inspiration me entero que que la nueva versión de Windows Live Writer incluirá el “office ribbon”: Así que si usas ya Word aprender a manejar  WLW te tomará unos minutos. Y si deseas saber más sobre este excelente editor de blogs, te invitamos a consultar el manual que tenemos disponible en DigiZen. Compartir con del.icio.us ¡Compártelo con Digg! Añadirlo a Diigo Compartir con Reddit ¿Has encontrado algo bueno? Compártelo en StumbleUpon Compartir con Technorati Añadirlo a MySpace Compartir con Facebook ¡Compártelo en Twitter! ¿Enviarlo a un amigo? ¿Quieres suscribirte a los comentarios de este Post? Compartir con Linkedit Seed el Post en Newsvine Añdirlo a Google Bookmarks Añdirlo a Mister Wong Compartir con FriendFeed Enviar a Twittley Compartir con Wikio Store this link on MyLinkVault Add to a lense on Squidoo Clip this to Evernote Enviar a Meneame Enviar a Bitacoras Compartir con Tumblr Blog this on Blogger Compartir con Plurk Etiquetas: Windows Live Writer, Windows Live Writer Entradas relacionadas Plugin para insertar enlaces de la Wikipedia en WLW (0) Windows Live Writer 2008: Ya no es beta (5) Guía actualizada sobre Windows Live Writer (2) WordPress.com con 2.5 (4) Guías y recursos disponibles en DigiZen (1) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Sun, 28 Feb 2010 14:58:29 +0100 822181 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/-Ry39QPYgZE/ Ayer estuve participando en el  Primer Encuentro de Educadores Puertorriqueños coordinado por Jeanette Delgado y su equipo de trabajo. La actividad contó con la participación de   educadores de escuelas públicas y privadas, profesores universitarios, periodistas, blogueros, estudiantes de pedagogía,  entre otros. Lo mejor de estos encuentros  es que nos permiten conocer presencialmente a un buen número de personas con las cuales hemos mantenido comunicación mediante medios electrónicos. Facilitan el  encontrarnos con personas que siguen nuestras huellas digitales de forma anónima y con aquellos a quienes seguimos vía blogs, facebook,  y twitter . Y nada más por eso, este tipo de encuentro  tiene un  gran valor y significado.  Se ofrecieron excelentes talleres sobre Google Earth, Edu 2.0, Twitter, desarrollo de portafolios electrónicos (por el blogfesor Antonio Delgado de Edumorfosis), entre otros. Sugiero que en el portal de la Red de Educadores Puertorriqueños se pueda abrir un espacio para comentarios y reflexiones sobre cada una de las charlas. De esa manera podemos  continuar el encuentro en este espacio. Esta actividad  hizo evidente que no hay que esperar por las agencias e instituciones del gobierno para el desarrollo de proyectos educativos. Jeanette Delgado y su equipo le han dado un ejemplo al Departamento de Educación y la Universidad de cómo planificar actividades gratuitas y de gran envergadura sin tener que incurrir en gastos. Lo que se necesita es ser creativo e innovador. En el Encuentro ofrecí una charla  en torno a lo que significa la web para el proceso de enseñanza-aprendizaje. He revisado la misma  con el objetivo de añadirle audio y resumir los aspectos esenciales. Record your screencast online Compartir con del.icio. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:35:09 +0100 822182 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/27/chile-earthquaketsunami-resources-from-google-and-others/ Google has posted a link on their home page to: + Ability of Donate Directly from the Page to UNICEF and DirectRelief International + A Person Finder Database Available in English or Spanish. At about 4pm EST (Saturday) the database contained about 3700 records. + You’ll Also Find a Map of Earthquake Aftershocks (in Chile Region) + The American Red Cross Disaster Newsroom includes video updates from the International Response Operations and other information from the International Response Operations Center. Twitter Feeds + American Red Cross HQ + International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies + Red Cross-Chile (Spanish) + Red Cross-Chile (Translated via Google Into English) ++ Red Cross-Hawaii ++ People Finder for Tsunami (Hawaii and Other Locations in the Pacific) ++ U.S. Department of State (DipNote) Maps and Aerial Imagery The OpenStreetMap Wiki lists several resources. According to the this source, As of February 2010, the only high resolution image data available is the normal Yahoo! Aerial Imagery. This only covers Santiago (coverage map) and Iquique, and is pre quake (around 10 years old). Low resolution Landsat imagery is available for the entire impacted area. (In Spanish) UStream is Providing a Live Stream of TV de Chile Live Streams of TV from Hawaii (via UStream) ++ A Wikipedia Entry is Being Developed and Update. It covers the earthquake and tsunami. Sources: Examiner.com, Google, Various Twitter Feeds, Wikipedia (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:57:17 +0100 822027 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/02/27/how-do-you-make-yourself-visible/ Since our students are more and more online, how do we make our library programs accessible and visible to both students, teachers, and parents? Join several of  us for a panel presentation of  Web presence for libraries on Monday night, 7 CST on Elluminate as part of the Teacher-Librarian Virtual Cafe.  I’ll be on the panel along with librarians Buffy Hamilton, Christina Bentheim, and Barbara Jansen.  We’ll each be sharing ways that we bring the library to students. Find out how libraries are using tools like blogs, Facebook, wikis, online pathfinders, and more to make library services accessible to students anywhere/anytime. If you aren’t a librarian, please share this with a librarian you know or attend yourself!  And if you are new to using Elluminate, there is a tutorial to help you here. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ffutura.edublogs.org%2F2010%2F02%2F27%2Fhow-do-you-make-yourself-visible%2F'; addthis_title = 'How+do+you+make+yourself+visible%3F'; addthis_pub = ''; (Source: Not So Distant Future) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:24:23 +0100 822056 http://zanettimontessori.blog-city.com/goodbye_wonderful_blog.htm The School District I work in has filtered out the blogs that I've worked at creating for students and teachers. Teachers only have access at this point.  The new blog I created for students has also been filtered (http://zanetti.edublogs.org/ )so I moving to a PB WIKI format. I feel like information just wants to get out there! STAY TUNED FOR PHOTOS OF THE CURRENT PHYSICAL STATE OF THE LIBRARY! THIS PROMISES TO BE A SHOCKER!You can find me at: http://zanettireads.pbworks.com /  until I'm filtered out again! Best to you researchers -- in the name of freedom of ideas -- peace, ms. pPICTURING AMERICA   (That paint job is  sad commentary) (Source: Latest entries from zanettimontessori.blog-city.com) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 15:44:00 +0100 823660 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/wTQfJlTbtEE/ Earlier this month, as a guest writer on Charlie Stross’s blog, Elizabeth Bear wrote an essay about “the future of web publishing,” centering around the “hyperfiction environment” called Shadow Unit in which she takes part. I couldn’t help but be amused by the subject of the post. You see, history repeats itself. Bear et al may very well be right about being part of the “future” of Internet publishing—but in the format in which they are writing, they have also stumbled squarely onto its past. To note, I do not mean this in any derogatory sense. Though I have not read through the Shadow Unit stories myself, it sounds very much like an excellent setting with a lot of hard work put into it, and like the writers and fans alike are having a lot of fun. What amuses me is how precisely Bear’s description of the setting also fits all those other settings that have come before, even if the Shadow Unit writers were not aware of them. Hyperfiction and Shared Universes To summarize the post, which is itself well worth reading, “hyperfiction” can be non-linear (written out of order and with branching side-stories, rather than being a linear narrative), interactive (whereby people following along can adopt in-setting personas and “(role-)play along”), multimedia (text, images, audio, video, etc.), confusing (with no clear story order and all that branching and supplemental material, people can easily get lost), self-funded (Shadow Unit takes donations but does not sell advertising), and extraordinarily rich (many people working together can create a remarkably well-realized world). Bear may call it “hyperfiction,” but in actuality no new name was really needed. As described, Shadow Unit is a perfect example of what we who have been writing them for years now call “collaborative fiction” set in a “shared universe”. Collaborative fiction on the Internet has a rich history. ... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:15:00 +0100 821906 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/jxT7zd4SJI0/ Una escuela de Florida ha producido este maravilloso video para fomentar la lectura. Un mensaje inspirador y valioso:   Compartir con del.icio.us ¡Compártelo con Digg! Añadirlo a Diigo Compartir con Reddit ¿Has encontrado algo bueno? Compártelo en StumbleUpon Compartir con Technorati Añadirlo a MySpace Compartir con Facebook ¡Compártelo en Twitter! ¿Enviarlo a un amigo? ¿Quieres suscribirte a los comentarios de este Post? Compartir con Linkedit Seed el Post en Newsvine Añdirlo a Google Bookmarks Añdirlo a Mister Wong Compartir con FriendFeed Enviar a Twittley Compartir con Wikio Store this link on MyLinkVault Add to a lense on Squidoo Clip this to Evernote Enviar a Meneame Enviar a Bitacoras Compartir con Tumblr Blog this on Blogger Compartir con Plurk Etiquetas: Enseñanza, Videos Educativos, Videos Educativos Entradas relacionadas Rip Van Winkle y las escuelas en el siglo 21: el video (6) Children see, children do (1) Enfermería 2.0: Aplicaciones del EduTube (2) Así es el amor (1) Endless Love: Bush y Blair (1) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 10:20:12 +0100 821915 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/UpLQeoBOEEU/ "Un bodhisattva es, literalmente, un ser viviente (sattva) que aspira a la iluminación (bodhi) y lleva a cabo prácticas altruistas. El ideal del bodhisattva es de fundamental importancia dentro de la tradición budista mahayana, y se refiere al individuo que busca la iluminación, no sólo para sí mismo, sino también para los demás. El amor compasivo, un compartir que está pleno de empatía por el sufrimiento de los demás, es la más grandiosa de las características del bodhisattva.”(Vía). "Merci", cortometraje de Christine Rabette, es una historia en torno al poder de un individuo para cambiar  el estado de ánimo  y actitudes de un grupo. Te aseguro que lo verás una y otra vez. Compartir con del.icio. ... Sat, 27 Feb 2010 00:34:21 +0100 821826 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~5/YWbQxSVOSnI/3FC.mp3 Es realmente impresionante lo sencillo que es hoy en día grabar un mensaje de audio y publicarlo en línea. Hace unos días hablamos de Vocaroo y hoy le presentamos otras dos herramientas para grabar audio: Audioboo y Chir.ps. Entre las ventajas de estas aplicaciones es que no necesitas instalar ningún programa, no tienes que preocuparte por publicar el archivo y son gratuitas. Nuestros estudiantes pueden utilizarlas sin mayores problemas para completar tareas relacionados a un curso. Chir.ps esta dirigida a añadir audio a las publicaciones en Twitter pero puede ser usado de forma independiente. Después de crear una cuenta en el sistema puedes comenzar a grabar un mensaje usando esta interfaz: Después de grabar el mensaje, añades lo que deseas que aparezca en Twitter y oprimes el botón de “Tweet Your Audio Now”. Si lo hacen más sencillo, lo dañan. El mensaje es procesado en pocos minutos y se publicará tanto en Twitter como en el portal del Chir.ps. Existe también la opción de subir un archivo en formato mp3 He creado un sitio en Chir.ps para añadir  algunos cuentos cortos. Los mensajes pueden ser descargados en formato mp3 pero no ofrecen un código para insertarlos en un blog o página web. Sin embargo, puedes usar un “player” para que se pueden escuchar desde el blog: [audio http://chir.ps/3FC.mp3 ] Para grabar un mensaje en Audioboo seleccionas entre el botón de grabar un mensaje en línea o subir un archivo en formato mp3: Si seleccionas la primera alternativa, se presentará una página en donde puedes comenzar a grabar el mensaje: Después de terminar de grabar el mensaje, añades un título y una etiqueta para describir el mismo: Incluso puedes incluir una imagen relacionada al mensaje: Si lo deseas pues también añadir tu localización: Finalmente, pulsas en el botón de “Publish”. Audioboo ofrece un código para insertar el mensaje en un blog o página web. ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:36:59 +0100 821827 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/02/26/from-vimey-to-yancouver/ ♫There’s a Long, Long trail a winding Into the land of my dreams, Where the nightingales are singing And a white moon beams. There’s a long, long night of waiting Until my dreams all come true; Till the day when I’ll be going down That long, long trail with you…♫ Lyrics by Stoddard King, Music by Zo Elliott, “There’s a Long, Long Trail” (WWI song). This is a co-operative Canadian weblog on things legal. I thought that, as a Canadian who is observing firsthand an interesting event taking place here in Vancouver, I would take a moment and blog about it. Contrary to what you are probably thinking, this post is not about the Olympics, but rather what the Olympics seem to be doing for Canada – and Canadians. After all, being “Canadian” is, itself, a legal designation, but it is more – much more. Stephen Colbert (of the “syrup-sucking, ice-hole” fame) came to tape his show here. What did he find? Canadians lining up…queuing…to see his show. No one asked them – it was rush seating – yet he found Canadians politely lining up well in advance of the show and respecting those who had come earlier. What else is apparent? Vancouver is swimming in a sea of people wearing red and white surrounded by flags hanging everywhere. In speaking about Canada and the Olympics, the Vancouver Province Newspaper on Sunday Feb 21, 2010 quoted from the The Chicago Sun Times, USA: [It’s] a country whose top two character traits seem to be politeness and reservedness. But these Olympics have brought out a patriotism that apparently can’t be held down by shyness. Canadian flags are taped to windows all over Vancouver. Canadians are walking the streets clad in red Team Canada clothing. They’re singing the national anthem in train stations. ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:23:45 +0100 822309 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/26/oclc-research-and-alise-recipients-of-2010-library-and-information-science-research-grants-announced/ From the Announcement: OCLC Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded 2010 Library and Information Science Research Grants to Louise Spiteri of Dalhousie University and Laurel Tarulli of Halifax Public Libraries; Hsin-liang Chen and Barbara Albee of Indiana University; and Besiki Stvilia and Corinne Jörgensen of Florida State University. Here’s a Small Amount of Info About Each Person Who Has Been Award the Research Grant and Their Research Project: + Louise Spiteri, Ph.D of the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University and Laurel Tarulli of Halifax Public Libraries will conduct research to examine and compare how library users access, use, and interact with two social discovery systems used in two Canadian public library systems. The objective of the study, “The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: Usability Studies of User Interaction with Social Discovery Systems,” is to provide important insight into the design or modification of social discovery tools to ensure they provide the best user experience. + Hsin-liang Chen, Ph.D. and Barbara Albee, of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, will examine the implementation of an open source library automation system (Evergreen) in Indiana public libraries and its impact on library users in the project, “Impact of Open Source Library Automation System on Public Library Users.” The expected significant outcomes of this project are to identify: benefits library users receive from the implementation of the open source library automation system, library users’ interests in using the OPAC to discover shared library collections, and whether the consortia library collections gain more usage by library users due to the implementation of the open source library automation system. ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:45:41 +0100 821823 http://wiredforbooks.org/mp3/JackMatthews1984.mp3 (See also: Jack Matthews Interview  Part One. (Parts 2 and 3 will appear in the next week). My introduction to short story writer Jack Matthews could not be more accidental. Between 2007 and 2008, I had been downloading and listening to a series of author interviews conducted by Don Swaim during the 1970s and 80s. Don Swaim did a series of 3 minute interviews with CBS Radio Services called Book Beat, presumably when authors showed up in NYC for a book tour.  Swaim shot the breeze with authors for an hour, talking about random things, and later found enough material for the three minute segment that actually aired.  But he saved the audio from the full interviews, digitalized them and put them online. The Wired for Books  interviews themselves are unpredictable, unrehearsed, meandering, sometimes dull and sometimes overly focused on topical irrelevancies (See Note below). Unlike the erudite interviews of  the KCRW Bookworm podcast, (which Michael Silverblatt conducts like a graduate student eager to show off his profound understanding of an  author’s oeuvre),  the exigencies of a radio schedule gave Swaim little time to do real preparation.  Over the decades  Swaim interviewed a number of literary greats (both recognized and unrecognized). At the same time, he interviewed a lot of popular authors, biographers, historians  and celebrities who had no business writing books. Sometime in 2008, I was listening to a random mp3 while doing housework.  It was a fascinating interview with a man who collected rare books and had recently published a book about book collecting. Midway through the interview, I realized I had already heard the same interview while driving from San Antonio to Houston. I remember making  a mental note to look the author up, but never did. His name was Jack Matthews, and the interview was done  in 1984. (Listen to the mp3). ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:49:44 +0100 821800 http://sites.menashalibrary.org/2010/02/26/clicker/ This is a great link for Friday, because you just might have time to enjoy it this weekend!  Clicker is a website that serves as a guide to Internet television.  They index all broadcast programming online, creating a one-stop place to find all of these shows, including web originals.  The site contains 450,000 episodes from over 6,000 shows.  Plus they have thousands of movies and 50,000 music videos.  Their opening page is welcoming with a slideshow of new and hot shows.  You can easily search by title or browse by categories like animation, arts, documentary, kids and many more.  You can also limit your browsing to specifically TV, movies, music or web originals.  Nicely, they have also implemented a wiki where fans like you can contribute content about your favorite shows.  You can also create a playlist of your shows so that you see new episodes as they are added. Related articles by Zemanta Let Clicker Be Your Guide to Internet Television (shankrila.com) Clicker (lockergnome.com) Clicker Raises Another $11 Million To Become The TV Guide Of Online Video (techcrunch.com) Clicker – Search Engine for TV Content on the Web (gajeebo.com) Find Names, Topics, or Themes from TV with Clicker.com Search Within [Search Techniques] (lifehacker.com) (Source: Sites and Soundbytes) Fri, 26 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822666 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/25/ala-president-visits-california/ American Library Association President, Dr. Camila Alire, visited Salinas, California yesterday. A presentation that she gave was covered by the The Salinas Californian. From the Article: She stressed the importance of reaching out to “millennials,” while dropping phrases like wikis, tweeting and social networking. “Santa gave me a Kindle,” said Alire, former dean of the University of Colorado at Denver’s libraries. But it’s not just about knowing Google search shortcuts. Librarians have to be “nimble,” she said, in providing their communities with the tools to weather a sagging economy and — in Salinas, especially — target high illiteracy rates. [Snip] Like it or not, a lot of library learning now is done on the computer monitor, according to Alire. Ninety-nine percent of public libraries in America offer free Web surfing, she said, and 73 percent are the only institutions in their community that do. Alire talked with a librarian in the Bay Area who found a woman crying in front of a library PC. The woman was embarrassed that she couldn’t work the machine — her first time on a computer. “Libraries are meeting a desperate need of making that technological connection with the community,” Alire said. (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 23:05:19 +0100 821436 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/25/online-less-than-3-hours-live-webcast-a-lecture-by-lawrence-lessig/ Professor Lessig will be giving a 45 minute lecture on fair use, politics, and online video followed by a 30 minute Q&A. The webcast/”wireside chat”) will be live beginning at: 6:00 PM (EST)/3:00 PM (PST)/GMT -5 at http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig. From the Web Site: The event will be moderated by Elizabeth Stark of the Open Video Alliance. Questions can be submitted using the hashtag #wireside. This is a talk about copyright in a digital age, and the role (and importance) of a doctrine like “fair use.” Fair use allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, and is essential for commentary, criticism, news reporting, remix, research, teaching and scholarship with video. As a medium, online video will be most powerful when it is fluid, like a conversation. Like the rest of the internet, online video must be designed to encourage participation, not just passive consumption. Today’s lecture, conversation, and live local events are being organized by the Open Video Alliance. Want to Watch and Participate With Others? Live viewing events and other local activities have been setup around the globe. Here’s a list and map. Technical The event will be streamed using Threora. The OVA suggests using Firefox to view. More info about browsers can be found on this wiki page. More info and access to the lecture at: http://openvideoalliance.org/lessig The Wireside Chat is made possible with the support of iCommons and the Ford Foundation Source: Open Video Alliance (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:01:54 +0100 821439 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/09IEsbJmMDE/ Gabriel Pérez, Presidente del  Free Culture@ UPRM, invita a la siguiente actividad: Free Culture @ UPRM te invita a la charla por el distinguido Lawrence Lessig donde se va a discutir los temas  derechos de autor, el fair use y el vídeo en la Internet. Vamos a tener refrigerios y pizza al final de la actividad, para los que estuvieron presentes. Después de la actividad vamos a presentar algunos de los vídeos de Internet mas populares y vamos a discutir cual ha sido el efecto de la revolución del Internet en la democracia, la libre expresión, la industria de los medios y los derechos de autor. Dónde: Stefani 203 Cuándo: jueves 25 de febrero del 2010 a las 6:30 PM Para más información visita: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/20481 uprm.freeculture.org freeculture.org Compartir con del.icio. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:02:41 +0100 821459 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/historia/shakespeare-y-el-misterio-de-fulke-greville/ Estos últimos días se ha armado cierto revuelo en Inglaterra a propósito de un curioso monumento ubicado en una capilla de la Iglesia de Santa María en Warwick, y de su contenido. El monumento, de dimensiones y opulencia considerable, fue mandado construir por Fulke Greville en el siglo XVII. Pero antes de continuar veamos quien era el señor Greville. Fulke Greville nació en 1554, unos diez años antes que Shakespeare. Entre otras cosas a lo largo de su vida fue juez, almirante de marina, capitán del ejército, espía y ministro de Hacienda durante el reinado de James I. Pero la verdadera pasión de Fulke Greville eran las artes. Según una biografía escrita mediado el siglo XVII, Greville quiso ser recordado, tras su muerte en 1628, como el maestro de Shakespeare. Esta afirmación tan extraña ha traído de cabeza a muchos investigadores a lo largo de los años. ¿Qué quiso decir Greville con eso? El historiador A.W.L. Saunders lleva más de diez años investigando el asunto. Y según sus estudios hay coincidencias realmente espectaculares, hasta 177 similitudes entre las vidas y personalidades de Fulke Greville y William Shakespeare. Por ejemplo, ambos vivían en la misma calle de Stratford, tenían los mismos amigos (incluyendo a Christopher Marlowe y Francis Bacon), tenían los mismos enemigos, y se movían en los mismos círculos literarios. Considerando que Stratford-upon-Avon tenía por entonces unos 600 habitantes masculinos, Saunders argumenta que las posibilidades de que se diesen tantas coincidencias entre dos de ellos debía ser infinitesimal. Para estar seguro consultó con expertos matemáticos, los cuales le confirmaron que las posibilidades debían ser astronómicas. Como decíamos, Greville hizo construir, por una considerable suma de dinero, el monumento de la iglesia de Warwick. Pero no está enterrado allí, sino en la cripta. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:09:58 +0100 822240 http://blogs.ubc.ca/dean/2010/02/finding-the-hard-to-finds-searching-for-grey-gray-literature-2010/ This is a radically-updated version of a manual we wrote for a 2006 workshop. Sorry for the inertia in getting it updated. I would like to be able to start a new section on the wiki called Cases in searching: grey literature. Do you think that would be a useful ... (Source: UBC Academic Search - Google Scholar Blog) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:30:04 +0100 821218 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/HmD_AIgzuJ0/3589 WikiCFPCall For Papers of Conferences, Workshops and Journals MarcXimiLMarcXimiL is a free, flexible, fully standards-compliant and efficient bibliographic similarity analysis framework. More of my links (Source: What I Learned Today...) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 06:02:01 +0100 821681 http://santafelibrary.blogspot.com/2010/02/rainstick-craft.html If you're ages 6 to 12, join us for an afternoon of making Rainsticks!Rainsticks are musical and ceremonial instruments used from ancient times to today. Their name describes the soothing, calming rain-like sound they produce. There are several theories on the origin of the rainstick. Chilean legend says that Diaguita Indians used rainsticks during their ceremonies to call on the spirits to bring rain.Rainsticks are made from a long, hollow tube—traditionally from a cactus that has been hollowed—and filled with beads or beans. Children can make their own rainsticks using paper as a fun craft project at the library for the rainy month of March.The program is free and materials will be provided. Please call to register.Wednesday, March 10thLa Farge Library:3:30 pm to 4:30 pm955-4863Wednesday, March 10thMain Library:4:00 pm to 5:00 pm955-6783Thursday, March 11thSouthside Library:3:00 pm to 4:00 pm955-2828Sponsored by the Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library.Rainstick graphic courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. (Source: ICARUS... the Santa Fe Public Library Blog) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821433 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/02/feedeep-so-near-yet-so-far.html I took a look at Feedeep today, and started by looking at their introductory video. I was really impressed, and keen to try it out. The things that I liked about it were that you could sort results by language, image, videos, by date (if there was an event for example) and audio. Users could click on the image option and see pictures directly in a popout box which was a quite cool idea. There's a social media element as a Twitter box pops up with tweets about your search subject. Moreover, you can link your account, click and drag webpages, images into tweets and so on. There are plugins that you can add - games, weather, tag clouds and so on. Really exciting stuff. This is the results screen: Unfortunately, the reality is much below the hype. The first search that I ran resulted in page after page of Wikipedia results. One I can handle, pages of them is unacceptable. I did a search for Madeira, and got really rubbish results; nothing that related to the disaster it suffered recently. Clicking on an image option pulls up the pictures from a page, but it was almost impossible to then get rid of it. Clicking on the Twitter option took me back to the home page. Not exactly what I was expecting. The 'cloud tag' option wasn't - it was a listing of previous searches. Worst though, and why I'm suggesting you steer clear, is the results. I've already mentioned it, but just look at what we're getting for 'librarians'. It's absolute nonsense I'm afraid to say. This search engine just doesn't cut it. It's got all the right ideas, and if it did what it was supposed to I'd be singing its praises, but it falls very far short. I should have gone with my split second impression when I first saw the logo and home page - a very poor impression of Google was what I thought. And I was right. (Source: Phil Bradley) Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821392 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/02/human-moderated-search-engines.html True Knowledge "is a pioneer in a new class of search technology that allows you to ask questions on the web, just as if you were talking to another human being. Rather than trying to guess keywords to find the information you are looking for, you simply ask True Knowledge the question you want to ask. Our answer engine does not simply guess at relevant web pages, but rather understands the meaning behind your question: drawing inferences and conclusions when needed to find the answer you are looking for. True Knowledge is tapping subject matter experts around the globe to build its information repository - bringing together the benefits of machine-driven automation and people-driven intelligence"It's clearly best at factual data - how many feet is 60 inches, population of London and so on. It tends to fail, not surprisingly with touchy feely questions, such as 'which is better, a or b?' The answers it gives are reasonable. A search for 'what is twitter' gives straight forward functional information, such as business type, website, email address, wikipedia page and so on. Users can log in and give their own answers as wel, and these can be voted up or down. There are also links to other sites, such as ChaCha, Wikianswers, Answerbag and so on. I prefer Trueknowledge to ChaCha - the answers are more indepth and factually useful. I asked the question "What is the population of London?" and ChaCha simply said 7,518,000 without any details as to where it got that information. Trueknowledge gave the answer 7,556,900 and linked to london.gov.uk and Wikipedia. This was closer to the figures mentioned on the Mayor of London's site than the ChaCha offering.However, these are not the only engines that are in this area. The obvious other one which is in the news at the moment is Aardvark which I've used for a long time. It's a nice resource since it allows users to register and list what subject areas they know about. ... Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821391 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2010/02/24/scspn/ What’s the best way to spend a warm, sunny, February Saturday in western Washington? If you answered “by sitting indoors and watching presentations about data” you may be… correct! This past Saturday, about sixty scientists and librarians gathered on the Microsoft campus for Science Commons Symposium – Pacific Northwest. We had the privilege of hearing from some of the world’s most prominent thought leaders in the areas of open data, open access, and what web technology means for the future of scientific communication. Here are a few eyebrow-raising ideas from the symposium. Practicing science is a privilege, not a right. Cameron Neylon, a biophysicist at ISIS in the United Kingdom, kicked off the day by describing a day in the life of a research scientist– himself. He emphasized that practicing science is not a right, it’s a privilege. Much scientific research is publicly funded; therefore, scientists are accountable to the public. They should make the data they collect and the results of their experiments as widely available as possible. Neylon went on to say that “you don’t need a sledgehammer to take down a snowman” and that, sometimes, formal publication is overkill. There are simpler, faster, and less expensive ways to share information. However, these simpler, faster systems must be technically and legally interoperable in order to really improve communication. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/CameronNeylon/science-in-the-open-science-commons-pacific-northwest Presentation: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/4874055 We need to move from an environment of trust to one of proof. Jean-Claude Bradley is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Drexel University, leader of the UsefulChem project, and coiner of the term Open Notebook Science (ONS). ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:23:05 +0100 822761 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/hKvLswl_dTk/ We’ve reported on Nintendo DS e-book applications several times over the last few years—both homebrew apps such as dslibris and a commercial cartridge containing 100 public domain e-books released in Europe in 2008. The other day, Paul received an email suggesting the new Nintendo DSi XL could be an e-book reader for Europe in lieu of the Kindle. Times Online actually reviewed it in this capacity in January: Secondly, the bigger size makes the DSi XL a serious rival for more expensive eBook readers. I’m not sure about this, but if the console can open .txt files, then there’s no reason you can’t download your own out-of-copyright classics and bung them on an SD card. I’ll check this out later. It turns out it might well be an e-book reader for America, too: today, CNet reports that aforementioned 100-public-domain book cartridge will be released on this side of the Atlantic in June, at a standard retail price of $20. (Business Week has another such report.) Publishing Perspectives reports that a similar bundle of French public-domain literature is coming out for the DSi in France on March 5th. The $190 DSi XL’s screens will be 93% larger than the old Nintendo DS’s (increasing in size from 3.5” to 4.2” diagonally according to Wikipedia), and support wider viewing angles. They are expected to retain the same 256×192 pixel resolution, however. While this is not as good a resolution as the iPhone’s 3.5”, 480×320 screen, it is still better than the 160×160 pixel display on the original Palm PDAs, and plenty of people read e-books on those in the old days. It does provide over twice the screen area as an iPhone. This is another example of the e-book convergence strategy that worked so well for the Palm and the iPhone: put e-books on things people bought for other reasons. Since the DS has an app store, it is entirely possible that multiplatform e-book apps could be ported to it. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:32:52 +0100 821268 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/vhN59xaX7j4/ Con la participación de  alrededor de 150  personas,  se celebrará el sábado en UPR de Cayey  el “Primer Encuentro de Educadores Puertorriqueños”,  coordinado por la profesora Jeannette Delgado. Mis felicitaciones a Jeannette  y su equipo de trabajo por esta valiosa iniciativa. Compartir con del.icio.us ¡Compártelo con Digg! Añadirlo a Diigo Compartir con Reddit ¿Has encontrado algo bueno? Compártelo en StumbleUpon Compartir con Technorati Añadirlo a MySpace Compartir con Facebook ¡Compártelo en Twitter! ¿Enviarlo a un amigo? ¿Quieres suscribirte a los comentarios de este Post? Compartir con Linkedit Seed el Post en Newsvine Añdirlo a Google Bookmarks Añdirlo a Mister Wong Compartir con FriendFeed Enviar a Twittley Compartir con Wikio Store this link on MyLinkVault Add to a lense on Squidoo Clip this to Evernote Enviar a Meneame Enviar a Bitacoras Compartir con Tumblr Blog this on Blogger Compartir con Plurk Etiquetas: web 2.0, web 2.0 Entradas relacionadas Recomendado en Twitter (0) Networked student (0) La hoja de cálculo de Google (2) Web social para profesionales de información (1) El síndrome de “toy story” en la web 2.0 (3) (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:11:36 +0100 821188 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/24/the-volunteer-mappers-who-helped-haiti-open-source-maps-are-helping-the-world-bank-save-lives-in-haiti/ + A BBC Magazine photo slideshow. 9 slides. + Access the Haiti Crisis Map from OpenStreetMap + OpenStreetMap Wiki + Open Source Maps Are Helping the World Bank Save Lives in Haiti (via Fast Company) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:09:32 +0100 821170 http://enmarchaconlastic.educarex.es/2010/02/24/cursos_cpr_semana_del_22022010_al_28022010/ Esta semana, tenemos cursos relacionados con las nuevas tecnologías en los CPRS de Almendralejo, Azuaga, Badajoz, Cáceres, Caminomorisco, Castuera, Don Benito-Villanueva, Hoyos, Mérida, Plasencia y Trujillo. CPR Curso CPR de Almendralejo Escuela 2.0 Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas CPR de Azuaga La utilización de las TIC en el IES Bembézar CPR de Azuaga Seminario de Profesores TIC de Secundaria CPR de Azuaga Jugar, pensar, aprender: enseñar ciencia mediante experimentos. CPR de Badajoz CURSO: “ESCUELA 2.0. NUEVAS AULAS TECNOLÓGICAS” CPR de Cáceres Elaboración de objetos digitales educativos con el Constructor de Atenex CPR de Cáceres AULA ABIERTA: “JÓVENES EN RED: Potencialidades y riesgos de las Redes Sociales”. CPR de Cáceres Herramientas Docentes Y Web 2.0 CPR de Caminomorisco INTRODUCCIÓN A LA ANIMACIÓN CON FLASH CPR de Caminomorisco RECURSOS TIC PARA MONITORES DE ACTIVIDADES FORMATIVAS COMPLEMENTARIAS CPR de Castuera FORMACIÓN PARTICIPANTES PROYECTO ATENEA. CEIP TENA ARTIGAS. CASTUERA CPR de Don Benito-Villanueva Escuela 2.0: Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas CPR de Hoyos Iniciacin a LinEx CPR de Hoyos Formación en TIC. Escuela de Familia. CEIP Hoyos CPR de Mérida Escuela 2.0: Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas CPR de Plasencia CURSO DE PROGRAMACIÓN WEB PARA DISPOSITIVOS MÓVILES CPR de Trujillo CURSOS: Escuela 2.0. Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas CPR de Almendralejo Escuela 2.0 Nuevas Aulas Tecnológicas(21 horas - 2 créditos ) Además de la progresiva implantación de recursos TIC en las aulas educativas, otro de los ejes de intervención del programa Escuela 2.0 es la formación del profesorado en aspectos metodológicos y sociales de la integración de estos recursos digitales en la práctica docente. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:09:16 +0100 821215 http://www.lisnews.org/moral_panics_and_copyright_wars Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars is a book by William Patry. Patry is Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, Inc. Wikipedia entry on Patry Book description: Metaphors, moral panics, folk devils, Jack Valenti, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, predictable irrationality, and free market fundamentalism are a few of the topics covered in this lively, unflinching examination of the Copyright Wars: the pitched battles over new technology, business models, and most of all, consumers. In Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, William Patry lays bare how we got to where we are: a bloated, punitive legal regime that has strayed far from its modest, but important roots. Patry demonstrates how copyright is a utilitarian government program--not a property or moral right. As a government program, copyright must be regulated and held accountable to ensure it is serving its public purpose. Just as Wall Street must serve Main Street, neither can copyright be left to a Reaganite "magic of the market." The way we have come to talk about copyright--metaphoric language demonizing everyone involved--has led to bad business and bad policy decisions. Unless we recognize that the debates over copyright are debates over business models, we will never be able to make the correct business and policy decisions. A centrist and believer in appropriately balanced copyright laws, Patry concludes that calls for strong copyright laws, just like calls for weak copyright laws, miss the point entirely: the only laws we need are effective laws, laws that further the purpose of encouraging the creation of new works and learning. Our current regime, unfortunately, creates too many bad incentives, leading to bad conduct. Just as President Obama has called for re-tooling and re-imagining the auto industry, Patry calls for a remaking of our copyright laws so that they may once again be respected. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:40:11 +0100 821700 http://lisnews.org/moral_panics_and_copyright_wars Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars is a book by William Patry. Patry is Senior Copyright Counsel at Google, Inc. Wikipedia entry on Patry Book description: Metaphors, moral panics, folk devils, Jack Valenti, Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, predictable irrationality, and free market fundamentalism are a few of the topics covered in this lively, unflinching examination of the Copyright Wars: the pitched battles over new technology, business models, and most of all, consumers. In Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars, William Patry lays bare how we got to where we are: a bloated, punitive legal regime that has strayed far from its modest, but important roots. Patry demonstrates how copyright is a utilitarian government program--not a property or moral right. As a government program, copyright must be regulated and held accountable to ensure it is serving its public purpose. Just as Wall Street must serve Main Street, neither can copyright be left to a Reaganite "magic of the market." The way we have come to talk about copyright--metaphoric language demonizing everyone involved--has led to bad business and bad policy decisions. Unless we recognize that the debates over copyright are debates over business models, we will never be able to make the correct business and policy decisions. A centrist and believer in appropriately balanced copyright laws, Patry concludes that calls for strong copyright laws, just like calls for weak copyright laws, miss the point entirely: the only laws we need are effective laws, laws that further the purpose of encouraging the creation of new works and learning. Our current regime, unfortunately, creates too many bad incentives, leading to bad conduct. Just as President Obama has called for re-tooling and re-imagining the auto industry, Patry calls for a remaking of our copyright laws so that they may once again be respected. (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:40:11 +0100 821063 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PegasusLibrarian/~3/V4IHudW2RWE/credo.html This I believe: The classroom is about learning, not teaching. Learning happens best when it is directly and explicitly tied to and relevant to a project at hand. Learning happens best when it builds on existing knowledge. This is why getting some sense of where the students are (such as talking to them before launching into a session as Steve does) is so important. Teaching that sets out to be “everything these students will need to know about the library, just in case we never get to teach them again” isn’t teaching — it’s inoculation. Teaching isn’t a vaccine. Also, remember that teaching isn’t as important as learning, so it doesn’t matter how much you hope to convey — it matters how much you think your students can actually learn in a given amount of time. I didn’t quite believe the people at Immersion that 2-3 learning goals is all you can do in an hour, but it’s one of the things that has really stuck with me and fundamentally changed the way I approach the classroom. One-shot instruction is never “just” one-shot instruction. One of the most important but rarely stated learning goals of every instruction session is that the librarian is helpful and knowledgeable and approachable. If I only have time to teach citation mining (which, by the way, gives me a chance to VERY quickly open up our catalog and our Journals list and give a brief overview of how scholars index their own literature and the difference between book and journal citations) I can leave that mini-class knowing that those students will be more likely to seek out my help with other research-related problems now that they’ve met me (particularly since I leave them with hints embedded in their class-specific subversive handout). Each one-shot is therefore more of a launching point than an ending point. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:52:39 +0100 821187 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/jleeson/2010/02/24/a-global-infrastructure-for-sharing-learning-resources/ Here’s a great little article on working towards creating a ‘global infrastructure for sharing learning resources‘. The article, on the Creative Commons wiki, discusses what you, as a repository or content owner might like to think about should you want to make your content discoverable and sharable as open education resources (and why wouldn’t [...] (Source: Education.au Blog) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:41:23 +0100 820832 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/02/24/library-2-0-not-just-for-users.html The concept of “Library 2.0″ has been around long enough now that we’ve gone through all the stages and argued it to death, as noticed by Andy Woodworth in a post titled Deconstructing Library 2.0. That’s a good thing, and you should go read his thoughts on the subject. No matter which side you of the debate you come down on, you can probably prove your case. Me? I agree with Andrew Burkhardt when he notes, “The time has come for libraries to be social on the web. Social is the new normal. It has become mainstream and people expect it. Library 2.0 is not dead, it has just become boring and commonplace. And to quote Clay Shirky, ‘Tools don’t get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.’ ” In his paper Participatory Networks: The Library As Conversation, Dave Lankes said that “libraries should focus on the phenomena made possible by the technology,” not the technology itself, which I think is a pretty good way of thinking about “Library 2.0.” Maybe that’s where we are now, which would be a great way to continue the discussion, hopefully without the moniker. I think several of us thought that’s what we were doing, but it didn’t come across that way. The hard part, though, is that Library 2.0 doesn’t really replace anything. Like so many library services, the opportunities these new tools afford us are in addition to everything we’re already doing, which causes problems, because we don’t get additional resources to implement them. To serve as many of your users as possible, you have to be in as many of the places where they are as possible. That principle has been the philosophy behind this site from day one, eight years ago. That means being out in your community physically and digitally, and that’s one of the pieces of L2 that I think was never adequately explained. We’re already pretty good at getting out from behind the physical reference desk. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:53:28 +0100 821152 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/hBS-ENt0pRs/ Final keynote of the day is a conversation between Kurzweil and O’Reilly. Kurzweil presentation on Blio: enabling factors in place for ebooks. Blio is free ereader with free and for pay books. With audiobooks combine audiobook with the text book. Can synchronize highlighting on the text with the audiobook. Can use text to speech to do the same thing if don’t have an audiobook. For textbooks include auxiliary website material directly into the book. Connect directly from a book to Wikipedia, dictionary definitions, highlight material, take notes. Conversation: For Blio what is the authoring environment: have an authoring tool that makes it easy to put stuff in. Underlying format is web based. Will be a lot of magazines doing it and ads can change after publication sold. Are there performance rights with TTS: expect few problems because publishers afraid TTS will take away from audiobook sales and here can combine the audiobook with the regular book. May be premium versions of books, just like with DVDs. Their DRM contract will allow user to use the book with multiple devices. Talking to some retail chains, manufacturers and publishers about incorporating Blio into books, themselves. What’s your position on DRM: It’s up to the publisher. Blio will not take the lead on that. What will ebooks do in the future: will be radically new business models in the future. Blio has powerful ways to search for free material. How about the pace of technology: Technology will continue to increase faster and faster and the pace will always increase. It is very predictable. Our intuition about the future is that it is linear, but the progression to the future is exponential. By 2020 the cost of a computer that can simulate the entire human brain will be $1,000. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:03:08 +0100 820941 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/4Uz0OUYDbew/vage-knaken-sexcom.html Een klassieke video bij een klassiek onderwerp. Ik kan het niet uitstaan.Voor de zoveelste keer in een paar jaar komt sex.com weer in het nieuws. Het domein wordt weer eens verkocht. Vraagt er eentje: "hoe verdien je daar nu 100 miljoen per jaar mee"? Ik weet het gewoon niet. Als ik de URL intik kom ik op een vaag seksportaal. Ik tref geen banners of Google ads aan. Als ik in Google.nl op 'sex' zoek zit de site niet bij de eerste tien. In google.com ook niet. De Pagerank is 5. De whois verklaart weinig, het lemma in Wikipedia zegt niets, de geschiedenis is merkwaardig. Ik zeg het niet graag, maar ik heb geen flauw idee hoe deze mensen hun duiten verdienen. Ik krijg de indruk dat het veel gebakken lucht is. Het goede nieuws is: ik leer graag. Heeft iemand interessante suggesties? @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:08:00 +0100 820954 http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/podcamp-toronto-2010-my-recap/ Going to Podcamp Toronto has been one of the best things I’ve done in quite a few years.     Yes, better than Computers in Libraries.    Better than OLA Superconference or really any library conference I’ve gone to.   And yes, as Phil Swinney mentioned, it was better than Podcamp Halifax as well. Podcamp Toronto is better than most library conferences because: A lot of what podcasters and social media artists do relates very well to librarianship. As a librarian, I felt I had a unique perspective to share in the discussions about social media marketing and podcasting. Unlike librarians, social media marketers want to connect to as many people as they possibly can – not just their friends and colleagues.   The #PCTO2010 crowd was very friendly and supportive.   They wanted to help newbies learn and share tips with their colleagues. Podcasters and Marketers are very curious about librarians.   They know we are very crappy marketers of extremely valuable and useful services. Podcamp Toronto was better than Podcamp Halifax for a few common sense reasons: They were much better at filming / streaming etc. of the presentations – (because they are bigger). They were better at securing sponsorship (at the Saturday party, an elephant could have got very drunk without paying so much as a cent). There were just that many more connections, more excellent presenters, more diverse questions etc. No one had to justify their social media presence.   It was a given that social media is important and valuable and Podcampers were going to reap the benefits of their diving in to this space early. There were more podcaster presentations.  The one I went to by John Meadows about editing interview content was fantastic.  (I’m not really a podcaster, but he made me want to become one). ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 16:23:40 +0100 820973 http://stephenslighthouse.com/2010/02/23/the-news-deja-vu-all-over-again/ Thank goodness for Yogi Berra who said “This is like deja vu all over again.” A recent report from the Biz Report noted that: “Are you reading your local paper with a feeling of déjà vu? The feeling may not be a trick of the mind. According to a recent report, many newspaper reporters and editors are turning to social media for article ideas and research. The national survey, conducted by Don Bates with The George Washington University and Cision, nearly 90% of reporters use social media for research purposes.” “Social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are garnering the bulk of reporters’ attention but Wikipedia is also a favorite font of information with 61% of reporters saying they turn there for information. Most reporters turning to social networks and the like are writing primarily for the web, but writers for all sorts of news outlets are using social media. The report found: • 69% of online writers turn to social media • 48% of magazine writers use social media • 89% of all reporters reference blogs and 96% utilize corporate websites • 72% of newspaper writers turn to social outlets What is disturbing about the trend is that 89% of those using social media admit that blogs and social network sources are ’slightly less’ or ‘much less’ reliable because of accuracy and verification concerns.” It is distressing that many of us and our users intuitively think that print is more trustworthy, edited and tested for quality. Indeed some print publications such as Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek and Forbes have shut down or severely curtailed their libraries and left their reporters to their own devices. ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:30:38 +0100 820825 http://www.nic.it/multimedia/video/natividigitali.mov Nativi digitali è un concorso rivolto ai giovani e promosso da Registro.it per sviluppare idee innovative e realizzarle (un po’ di wikinomics insomma) Dal comunicato stampa: Con l’unico limite della fantasia e della creatività, i ragazzi sono invitati a emulare Larry Page o Mark Zuckerberg (che, poco più che maggiorenni, crearono dal nulla Google e Facebook) per [...] (Source: biblioragazzi) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 07:33:19 +0100 822266 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Grumpator/~3/yY8Q0KJFuP0/science-commmons-symposium-recap.html I was all set to do a comprehensive summary of the Science Commons Symposium, but several others have beaten me to it!  However, I think I can add some of my impressions from the librarian point of view. First off, this is the first meeting I've attended where I actively participated over Twitter during the presentations.  It was really interesting to follow this additional layer of conversation.  I had also created a Friendfeed account ages ago, but have mostly used it to aggregate my own content.  Sometimes understanding a new social networking tool requires seeing it in action, which I certainly did this weekend. Brian Glanz of the Open Science Foundation wrote up a great roundup, including links to any available slides for each speaker. If you want the slides, go visit this page, I didn't link them below. Jean-Claude Bradley, one of the speakers, also wrote up a quick recap. Steve Koch also wrote up some notes (and on Saturday night, too!) including a mindmap! Secondly, thanks to Microsoft Research for hosting us (best box lunch I've ever had!) and for the free book!  The Fourth Paradigm: Data Intensive Scientific Discovery is the first book published by Microsoft under a Creative Commons license, so make sure to snag a downloadable copy. So, on to my value-add. A theme that emerged from several presenters (Cameron Neylon, Jean-Claude Bradley, Stephen Friend of Sage Bionetworks, John Wilbanks) was the problem of handling the exponential, explosive growth of data.  There are problems archiving it, problems with standardized ways of processing and handling it, and problems retrieving it.  Doesn't this sound like it's right up our alley?  And why aren't librarians doing more in this arena? Similarly, another theme was the eroding trust in traditional peer-review publications. ... Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822049 http://jamillan.com/librosybitios/blog/2010/02/estampas-florentinas-i-el-lector-y-la.htm En la bellísima basílica de la Annunziata de Florencia hay un atrio, comenzado a erigir en 1447. De algún momento de ese siglo o del siguiente son unos pequeños frescos, cuya autoría no figura ni en las guías que he consultado ni en la completísima entrada de la Wikipedia. Se trata de dos trompe l'oeils o trampantojos que fingen ventanas.El de la izquierda representa a una figura asomada leyendo un libro y el de la derecha un jarrón con azucenas en el alféizar.Se me ha ocurrido que el desconocido pintor del Renacimiento que imaginó estas pinturas seleccionó precisamente dos de las más bellas circunstancias que florecen bajo la luz: la lectura y las plantas. (Source: El blog del futuro del libro) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 821481 http://futura.edublogs.org/2010/02/22/letters-for-libraries/ Libraries are in need of your help–actually, not just libraries–students need your help.  And they need not just the help of librarians but of technology teachers, classroom teachers, administrators, parents,  and policy makers.   This week, please consider writing three “Letters for Libraries.” As funding tightens everywhere this year, library programs are being reduced and curtailed, squeezed by local budgets, state budgets and now the federal budget.  Yet at the same time the information needs of our students are growing.  Libraries are the learning hubs where students have access, guidance, partners in learning, collaborative spaces and global learning opportunities. Yet, President Obama’s recent budget has eliminated school library funding grants.   We need your help.  Students need your help. Please take some time this week to participate in a “Letters for Libraries” drive and send your voice to legislators.  It’s easy–just check out the wiki linked above, commit yourself to writing three letters to support school library funding this week and if you want, add yourself to the Letters for Libraries wiki map. The wiki provides more information about the cuts as well as a sample letter if needed.  Or share your own stories–the ways your own library is impacted by funding cuts or how it impacts students and teachers positively. Congress is meeting this week to discuss refunding the Elementary and Secondary Education Act so your support right now is critical.  Ask Congress to support funding the Improving Literacy for School Libraries and to include specific support for school libraries in ESEA funding. Your students need you. (Postscript:  It’d also be a great week to write in support of the National Writing Project, another very successful program whose funds are yet again in danger of being cut). ... Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:44:23 +0100 822057 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/02/22/tomorrows-textbooks-coming-sooner/ Simon has mentioned the challenges of writing for the screen, and the prospects for tomorrow’s texts. An announcement from Macmillan describes an ambitious model for moving popular student texts to a web platform with the ability to have dynamic linking and enriched content. Textbooks will no longer be flat. The new service is called Dynamicbooks. So far, the texts chosen appear to be in the hard sciences, where presumably knowledge is more stable than it is in the human sciences, and is universal. No sign of anything similar on the legal front, where markets are much more fragmented and legal change prompts obsolescence. These new dynamic books should be cheaper than print. A NYT piece uses as an example Schacter’s book “Psychology”, which lists for $134.29, and is available for $119.20 on discounted websites; the DynamicBooks version of the text will sell for just $48.76. The Times comments: Instructors who have tested the DynamicBooks software say they like the idea of being able to fine-tune a textbook. “There’s almost always some piece here or some piece there that a faculty person would have rather done differently,” said Todd Ruskell, senior lecturer in physics at the Colorado School of Mines. The Chronicle of Higher Education is predicting format wars. McGraw-Hill’s competitive product even has grading software built in. Follett Higher Education Group’s CafeScribe, and Flat World Knowledge are also competing for the space. Wiley also has robust offerings, as does Coursesmart. The Daily Finance stresses the potential for wiki-like collaboration and predicts new forms of multiple author books and opportunities for engagement with students and readers. (Source: Slaw) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:24:44 +0100 822332 http://blogs.ubc.ca/dean/2010/02/to-tweet-or-not-to-tweet-in-public-health/ Francisco Grajales is now part of our wiki advisory. His ppt presentation is worth a look. (Can you believe there are librarians who think twitter has no application in our field? Utter nonsense!) ~Dean To tweet or not to tweet? : Exploring the use of Social Media for [public] healthView more ... (Source: UBC Academic Search - Google Scholar Blog) Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:15:02 +0100 820464