tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27394038415909568322012-01-22T19:29:54.291-08:00How does Web 2.0 affect our delivery of Information Literacy? How do librarians cope with the Google generation and what does this mean for Information Literacy? This site will be a sounding board for us to exchange our views and good practice!Peter Godwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407369904412497192noreply@blogger.comBlogger841100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739403841590956832.post-5178171157660861682009-07-03T00:14:00.000-07:002009-07-03T00:33:20.273-07:00

June has been a lean month on his blog as I have been gadding around more than usual. Highlight and lifetime ambition was a visit to Vancouver for the Second International M-Libraries Conference. What a place with 2.3m living in Greater Vancouver in a stunning setting.I shall be posting fully about this Conference shortly. I gave a session on "Information Literacy gets mobile" and the slides are

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Thank you for reading this blog. Please move on and subscribe to my new blog Information Literacy meets Library 2.0 ! Bigger and better than this one, it will supplement my book "Information Literacy meets Library 2.0" (published by Facet) which Jo Parker (Open University) and I have just edited.It was a brave and foolhardy thing to write a book on Web 2.0 (ugh) and we're going to use the new

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Visuwords is an online graphical dictionary. As it says "Look up words to find their meanings and associations with other words and concepts. Produce diagrams reminiscent of a neural net. Learn how words associate.Enter words into the search box to look them up or double-click a node to expand the tree. Click and drag the background to pan around and use the mouse wheel to zoom. Hover over nodes

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A collection of search tools for you to try out from one of these betas sponsored by world-class libraries around the world. As this post from College Degree Co. says "From academic libraries like that at MIT or renowned research centers like the Library of Congress, the following beta research tools feature innovative tricks to connect you with the most relevant, valid results on the Internet

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In case you haven't yet seen the final outcome of the LASSIE project : Social Software, Libraries and distance learners: literature review by Jane Secker. I can firmly recommend this excellent resource.

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I know this isn't directly to do with IL and Web 2.0 but inspiring presentations can stem from enthusiasm. This is something which I've always prized. This post on Presentation Zen is a gem. Garr Reynolds says : "In Sum(1) Never apologize for your enthusiasm, passion, or vision.(2) Never apologize for being inspired by another human being.(3) Seek out inspiration (don't wait for it).(4) Inspire

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Michael Stephens is in Australia and his presentation The Hyperlinked Library is on his blog Tame the Web. The images he uses in the prsentation are Creative Commons material from flickr and are a brilliant example of how flickr can be used creatively in presentations. I am highlighting these because the images he uses are so powerful.Wow!

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If you thought you know it all, think again - here is the UNESCO IL Primer by Forest Woody Horton Jr. 87 pages all free : which print out beautifully. Documents outcomes from the international meetings held in Prague, 2003 and Alexandria, 2005, Ljubljana and Kuala Lumpur, 2006 and more. I must admit to being skeptical about international efforts when these began, but this document is a useful

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There is an excellent article "Active learning with interactive whiteboards" by Robert Schroeder of Portland State University, in Communications in Information Literacy. It is both literature review and case study for college freshmen. He makes important points about the investment in whiteboards in the UK schools. Many will be coming into Uni (as they call it) being used to lessons with

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Going through some links earlier today I came across a useful summary for librarians who serve business staff and students. It's by Margaret Locher of CIO, and she recommends use of search engines and Wikipedia, blogs, Business School sites, Government statistical data, trade magazines and trade associations, and library databases! It's good to see a range of sources but pity that library

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I love this post from Will Richardson about the ultimate Conference attendee. It's Web 2.0 gone mad! Gone are the days of the typed Conference report to your manager - now it's all about sharing, remember?

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I came upon this interesting post, which takes a chart by Chris Lott on Information Fluency, (which puts Information Fluency at the junction between critical thinking, presentation skills and discipline knowldge) a stage further to creating a model for social fluency.This is put at the junction between knowledge, thinking and communication skills. Maybe this is a bit deep for me on a Monday

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It's not particularly Web 2.0 but it made me laugh and there's lot of good advice : it's a little document by John Baez which a friend of mine passed on to me. I hope I haven't got like the last point - yet.

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Michael Lorenzen in his Information Literacy Land of Confusion blog has made an excellent and thoughtful post on the situation with Wikipedia. Students will use it, should be told about it, and instructors can use it as a tool for critical thinking and evaluation.

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I know this is not Web 2.0! But we owe the HILT Group of Cardiff University a big vote of thanks for making their excellent handbook available free on the web, under Creative Commons. We don't need to keep on re-inventing the wheel (how often have we heard that!) yet too often we don't take advantage of other's experiences. This is NOT intended for anyone to read from cover to cover, but to refer

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This very interesting post from Lis Parcell, tells about the course Information Literacy : Strategies for Success, led by Sharon Markless, held in Late January in Wales. She mentions the 30-40-30 rule: for any new initiative : if you are lucky 30 per cent of people will accept the change, 40 can be won over under the right conditions, and 30 will resist whatever you do. So that's what we can

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This is a new approach : Librarians' sport of choice: Teaching information literacy through fantasy football C&RL News, January 2008Vol. 69, No. 1 by Paul Waelchli. Could be fun...

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At first sight this might not seem to have much to do with Web 2.0! Came across Carnegie Mellon University Library's game arcade the other day and it has a game on it which is very dear to my heart. It's called Within Range. They have to pick a pile of books off a trolley and shelve in the correct LC order. What a pity its not Dewey! Come on someone : do a Dewey version.In fact, years ago, while

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This CIBER briefing paper is the most important read for academic librarians for a long time! Commissioned by JISC and the BL, it is the first attempt at a longitudinal study of how the so-called Google generation are using our libraries and what this might mean in the future. What stands out for me :The huge choice available for our users to switch between now - from subscription databases to

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In case you haven't seen these, the research reports from LASSIE (Libraries and Social Software in Education) led by Jane Secker and Gwyneth Price, are now available. There are useful short reports on use of social software and reading lists ; resource sharing and social software ; citing and referencing podcast and blogging and libraries. I found the report on use of del.icio.us with distance

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Information Literacy Programs in the Digital Age: Educating College and University Students Online edited by Alice Daugherty and Michael F. Russo will be published in time for ALA Midwinter 2008. It will present significant and innovative online instruction programs, describing the development, implementation, and assessment of each of these. It is described as a resource for institutions

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Wow, what a furore the article reporting that Tara Brabazon, Professor of Media at University of Brighton (and author of "University of Google") which appeared in Times Online seems to have caused! I suspect that she has been somewhat misunderstood, but even so, I do not believe banning the use of Google and Wikipedia by students is the best course.Now I know you would expect me to say this (!)

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This is just one of the videos now on YouTube about using Google Scholar in your library. This recent 6 minute example from USF (University of South Florida) is interesting because it presents the librarian doing a live search and bringing out a lot of points which we may all have experienced in using Scholar. I like the discursive style and the conclusion about using "it as just one more

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Just came across a "wizard" page from the IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency project. It provides an interactive form for students to use to evaluate a web page. They identify themselves at the top, then add the web page to be evaluated and then go through a series of ten criteria in the form of questions, to help them assess the credibility of the web resource. Doubtless we may all query the

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I've just been watching a really powerful presentation by Darren Draper of Jordan District Schools, Sandy Utah, about 21st century students and the potential of digital learning. Available in a variety of formats, I had to install Quicktime on my browser which then gave me about 8 minutes of slides underpinned by equally powerful piano music by Carly Comando (wish I could compose and play like

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This is an important article :Gross, Melissa and Latham, Don "Attaining information literacy : an investigation of the relationship between skill level, self-estimates of skill, and library anxiety" Library & Information Science Research (2007) 29 332-353.The authors describe surveys among a sample of fresher students at Florida State University which analyse student self-assessment of their IL

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Happy New Year! I'm starting with a couple of serach engines which I have seen reeferred to on other blogs. They are worth looking at.FuzzFind is a metasearch "which combines the power of the leading search engines and social bookmarking sites to make it easier to locate and identify the most relevant information. All results are grouped together and sorted according to the search engine

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Time to stop blogging! This little blog is now one whole year old! To those you read this I say "why are you reading this now and not enjoying yourselves having a fantastic Christmas?" Anyway best wishes and for 2008!

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This book, edited by Laura B. Cohen has apparently just been published. Here are some details :Library 2.0 Initiatives in Academic Libraries is a hybrid book and wiki presenting twelve case studies of significant Library 2.0 initiatives in academic libraries. Following its publication, the authors will write regularly updated reports about their initiatives for at least two years on a wiki hosted

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Here are links to two major presentations given recently which I would like to draw attention to. Ellyssa Kroski at ACRL New York symposium : about the best summary of where we are with use of social software in academic libraries.Meredith Farkas at UC Berkeley "Building Academic Library 2.0 " which is on YouTube and enables her enthusiasm to come across.

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This was a short presentation I gave in the Pillar Room at Olympia during the Online Conference last week. Didn't manage to show any YouTube videos and the two I most enjoy highlighting are the De Montfort Induction video, which is excellent because in good Web 2.0 style it begins with the users and promotes the Library from their viewpoints : and the L-Team, which amuses me no end every time I

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With 101 countries represented, this event was a sell-out this year. Web 2.0 was a pervasive theme and I felt was reaching a critical mass position.Jimmy Wales (founder of Wikipedia) as the first keynopte speaker was inspiring. He felt he was like a "Red Cross for information" as Wikipedia was open source with no chance of being sold to Google! Funded by small donations it was not dependent on

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Came across another little movie in the Commoncraft series : this time it's about social bookmarkiong and it makes a very good introduction to del.icio.us. As they say "We made this video because we want people to see the power of social bookmarking and how it makes web pages easy to remember, organize and share". Could be very useful to "sell" the idea to academics and to some students.

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Came across several very useful posts about where to find free images for re-use.Joyce Valenza : A picture is worth....Search Engine Journal : 10 places to find free imagesPresentation Zen : 10 links to cool, high-rez imagesHey Jude : Find free images online : my list

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There is an excellent article called "Student-content creation : convergence of literacies" by Joan Lippincott in the latest EDUCAUSE Review. In it she admits that despite years of advocacy few Universities have implemented ICT or Information Skills components throughout the curriculum. She suggests that the time is right for proposing a frameworkj which on Higher Education's need to focus on "

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It seems an eternity since I last blogged! This is because I have been on the Conference trail and have not been one of those really whizzy delegates who sit in sessions taking notes on their laptop and blogging immediately afterwards! Still in the Stone Age of taking notes in a book I have to decipher hand-writing later on...I can report on what I think was a ground-breaking Conference held at

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I have just returned from the excellent TALIS Insight07 Inspiration for Change Conference at the Hilton Metropole, Birmigham NEC. With over 300 delegates from all over the UK this was far more than a LMS sales pitch. I gave a presentation on "From Google to YouTube to SecondLife : the challenge to information literacy". See Overdue Ideas blog for detailed posts on most of the presentations.But

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In this YouTube video, Louise Klusek, Head of Reference at the Newman Library, Baruch College, talks about her responsibilities of teaching in Business 1000 and BPL classes, showing students how to do company research and industry research, and answering business-related questions. Speaking from her own experience as a corporate librarian working on Wall Street, Professor Klusek stresses that "

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Public Libraries in the US seem to be increasing their presence on MySpace. Its a way of outreach to younger patrons who may not otherwise use libraries. This example from Contra costa County California is worth looking at : sparkly background, loud music and all.

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Just in case you have missed this magnificent post from Read/Write Web here is the link. How far is it our job as Information Literacy teachers to tell students about the best applications? How do we keep up with them anyway? Well here's a great start! Surely its just a matter of recommending where appropraite as part of our IL "Curriculum" and also utililising them in our teaching where

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There's an interesting article 'Tags help make Libraries del.icio.us'(for public and academic librarians) in Library Journal 15 Sept 2007 by Melissa Rethlefsen, which neatly summarises the power of tagging and includes some examples who have taken up the challenge.

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This Secondary ICT- Web Literacy programme is a very useful tool helping teachers to provide guidance to their pupils when using the internet for research. Vetry useful resource for schools, and possibly higher level education.A group of Year 9 pupils at Wortley High School in Leeds are asked to look at three websites. The subject matters are Martin Luther King, the holocaust and Victorian

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I really envy some of the bloggers whose stuff I read regularly for their dedication, but where do they get the time to do all those posts?? After a period of relative silence, imprisoned writing a book about Web 2.0 and InformationLiteracy, I can come alive again. I've just seen a little video that has made me drop everything so that I can post about it!Michael Wesch, Kansas State University,

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I wanted to draw attention to the collection of subject guides at Dalhousie University in Canada. They have been created by the subject librarians there using the Springshare application LibGuides. The remakable thing about them is that there are 148 of them! Yes, 148! This is not unique either - Utah State University have 53. Many libraries are now using LibGuides as an easy way to store content

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Nikola Smolenski has produced a visual of what Wikipedia would look like if it was printed in book format. Take a look at the 1250 volumes and how she's calculated it. Might be useful to show to students to give them some idea of the scale : then introduce them to how it's made up, and updated.

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Why didn't I use these wonderful tips from i-Librarian over the past few days when I was preparing my latest presentation? It's so easy to fall in with what we know and are comfortable with.... but we all know what it's like at those one day conferences ; "Death by Powerpoint" I call it. It would make a nice change for someone to stand up and speak from the heart!Don McMillan said it all so

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Increasingly I keep coming across references to slide-shows which are in slideshare. This service is a wonderful example of Web 2.0 technology at its best - allowing you to share your presentations with others, and gaining ideas from others! This particular show by Paul Reid, a teacher in Western Australia, is about how social software Web 2.0 tools can be used in inquiry based learning. There

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At this time of stress and inductions, here is bit of light relief!This is a must for my Information Literacy teaching this term! It is taken from a wonderful collection of illustrations Utopia: "The Quest for the Ideal Society in the Western World" by the French artist, Villemard. See the collection here.With thanks to Hey Jude and Stephen's Lighthouse.

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I came across Library Learning 2.0 today. It is an interesting re-working of the famous Helen Blowers "Learning 2.0" programme. Facilitated by Carlene Walter it was intended for teacher-librarians of the Prairie Spirit School Division in Saskatchewan, Canada."Library Learning 2.0 is an online learning program that fosters the expansion of one's information literacy toolbox. Participants will

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I came across this via Ellyssa Kroski's iLibrarian blog, but could not resist also posting about it. Here, on the Otis College of Art Library site are resources for students to use which take account of their different learning styles- Quick fixes, movies or interactive resouces, longer in-depth tutorials. Its a very interesting idea and a good collection of resources to view all under one

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I have just been reading "Cult of the amateur : how today's internet is killing our culture" by Andrew Keen. Expecting this to be a long rant about the evils of Web 2.0 and how it was putting authors, musicians and scholars out of work, I was still entertained by his approach. Andrew Keen started out in Sillicon Valley, but became disillusioned by the Web 2.0 brigade. I recommend the book because

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Take a look at Ellyssa Kroski's iLibrarian account of the Library Camp held 14 August at Baruch College in New York City. The concept of an Unconference is attractive, as it avoids extensive preparation, formal presentations and allows enthiasts to get together and share their most recent experiences and concerns. By all accounts this was a very useful exchange and this conference wiki relates

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By the way, my recent lack of posts was due to a summer break in our "holiday home" which has two rooms - wish I was still there.... This little video about the I Generation is made entirely from archive footage with rap music underneath and may appal some, but could be useful as a teaching tool. ..See what you think.

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Not another article comparing one with other, but instead a list of corrections in Wikipedia of errors in Britannica. They are not earth shattering but make good points about how Wikipedia can draw on a large number of experts, and can update and correct easily,

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Slideshare is a wonderful example of Web 2.0 in action and here is a lovely presentation by Chuck Hamaker of UNC Charlotte. Just 10 slides but such powerful images - wow!

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If you haven't seen this already, I thoroughly recommend you take a look at the draft literature review "Social Software, Libraries, and Distance Learners" by Jane Secker. It defines social software, what it means for libraries, with examples of libraries using it ; a section on how this relates to distance learning; and finally a section on the topical subject of libraries as social spaces.

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Amazingly after the last post I have found, thanks to Lauren's library blog, a little 3 minute slide show with voice over on YouTube from Peabody Library, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, which may have pedagogical value! Its about the difference between scholarly and popular journal literature. See what you think.Then you can consider a video from the same source about Finding

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I can't resist introducing you to Super Librarian, just in case you haven't already met her. Its a 35 second promo video from McCracken County Public Library, Kentucky. This brings me to an interesting point.We can sometimes be guilty of mistaking promotion for pedagogy when considering YouTube materials. Most of the library ones that I've seen have been more about promotion and orientation,

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This is a recommended list of Web 2.0 tools from a history and ICT teacher in Doncaster, Doug Belshaw. Some will be familiar, others perhaps not. It's a great list worth exploring.

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Came across this interesting chart from Forrester Research (in Business Week 11 June 2007) which gives participation of US online users for creators, critics, collectors and joiners of social networking sites. If I was in the States I would be an Older Boomer! Its a very useful visual summary.

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Here's a book I must read, which has caused a good deal of controversy. Author Andrew Keen admits that its a polemic - not a fair book, but it does make some serious points about the cult of Web 2.0. Here's a Google author interview for anyone with lots of time. Here's a snapshot entry about Keen in Wikipedia. Finally some discussion from BBC Newsnight.Anyone read the book?

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Here's another in this YouTube series - very short this time. Very elementary : hope it plays for you : it wouldn't work yesterday when I tried it to introduce the subject to the Education Librarians' Group!

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The last few weeks have been hectic and the blogosphere has been filled with Conference reports. Web 2.0 is certainly still flavour of the month! My presentations at the Business Librarians' Conference in Northampton and at Under One Umbrella certainly showed there's plenty of enthusiasm for embracing the new technologies.Across the water at the ALA Conference on 25 June in Washington George

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There's a useful little movie on You Tube called Wikis in Plain English which may be useful to explain the concept to newcomers or non-believers!

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Anyone wanting to see examples of tutorials being placed on YouTube and of audio Information Literacy tutorials should look at the Alkek Library of Texas State University. This is all housed within a refreshingly clean web site. There is also an interesting page which combines all kinds of help available to students.

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This little movie caught my attention because of the juxtaposition of Google and Ken Burns. For those who havent seen them, Ken Burns made my favourite documentary series about The West and the American Civil War. As anyone who has been to any of my presentations knows, I am a Western freak and cowboys have a habit of sneaking into all my Powerpoints! So what is all this movie about?When users

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Thanks to Phil Bradley for bringing my attention to this little movie on YouTube from Dunedin Public Library. I'm just dying to try it out with a group of first year students to see how many misbehaviours they can spot and which they think is the most serious. It might be a better way of getting across library rules and encourage a discussion rather than the librarian just keep telling them what

Peter Godwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407369904412497192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739403841590956832.post-6924199631163763052007-05-18T06:52:00.000-07:002007-05-18T07:08:19.021-07:00

Darlene Fichter of University of Sascatchewan Library has given an excellent presentation on mashups. The slides give a good indication of many interesting sites, made up of two web applications mashed together. Its the best and most entertaining introduction that I have come across. Best of all is the opening title slide with the singing monster : this you have got to check out!

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Ever had to explain RSS? I always find that this is the part of a talk about Web 2.o tools where its easy to make people glaze over! I was really glad to come across references to this slick little movie which explains it really quickly and simply. Give it a try! It's called RSS in plain English.

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Slides from a fascinating presentation by Char Booth about Ohio University Library's recent Video IM project given at ACRL Cyber Zed Shed 31 March 2007. Could this be the answer to providing assistance on other floors of large libraries?

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This site collects together a number videos and Powerpoints about Web 2.0 which could be very useful for teaching and demonstrations. Some of them are very entertaining. It is an offshoot of the Shambles in SE Asia (The Education Project Asia) which aims to help international schools find resources.

Peter Godwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407369904412497192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739403841590956832.post-61296637338817340212007-04-11T13:50:00.000-07:002007-04-13T00:35:37.925-07:00

This free publication available since last year is edited by Terry Freedman with chapters by 14 authors from UK, USA, Canada and Thailand, set out to inspire teachers to use Web 2.0. There are some interesting insights in its 92 pages and school librarians should find it very exciting!

Peter Godwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407369904412497192noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739403841590956832.post-70175420777217283122007-04-03T08:25:00.000-07:002007-04-03T08:34:41.658-07:00

In a rush of enthusiasm I have joined my first social network Library 2.0, powered by Ning. It has only been running a month and already has 930 members!!! I guess they are mainly from the States but this may change. Give it a try! This shows the level of interest and first impressions are that it is a very interesting place to gain new ideas and run discussions.

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Returning from Conferences always means a pile of e-mails and now also a host of blog posts to read. Then there are the freebies, pens, publishers' handouts about abstruse databases to unpack, and thinking about reading all the notes I've made (and now can't quite decipher) ; and the memories of Alfred Waterhouse's Town Hall. Yes, it was a great Conference and Sheila Webber has blogged about some

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This post from the Learning and Teaching in the 21st Century blog draws attention to several resources on YouTube about Web 2.0 in addition to "The Machine is Us" and may be useful aids to discussion.

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This very thoughtful post from Judy O'Connell is well worth reading. In our enthusiasm about Web 2.0 we must not forget the importance of using the technology for deeper learning. Its not gimmicks : its really about helping student learning.

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Reflecting on the LILAC Conference In Manchester I suspect that those who heard my presentation on "From Google Scholar to YouTube" will remember most the heckling voice which interrupted my Powerpoint delivery! Setting up Ms Dewey on the Web to sit beneath my Powerpoint I did not expect it to launch! The results were found to be hilarious because no-one could understand where the voice was

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This wonderful little video has now been moved on YouTube to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek

Peter Godwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407369904412497192noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739403841590956832.post-86584214618430272262007-02-15T01:48:00.000-08:002007-02-15T01:59:13.564-08:00

The BOOK? On a site about Web 2.0? Before we get too serious on this site lets have some fun! This wonderful little video on YouTube is about the discovery of the book in medieval times and should be watched by all enquiry desk librarians. I'm wondering if I could get into one of my teaching sessions....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjVeRbhtRU

Peter Godwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407369904412497192noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2739403841590956832.post-27445370750392373202007-02-08T04:19:00.000-08:002007-02-05T08:53:55.384-08:00

A number of blogs are reporting on a very interesting and useful video hosted on YouTube, by Michael Wesch of Kansas State University. In a few minutes it manages to demonstrate the importance of how the web is developing in the Web 2.0 era. Find it athttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl=

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For a bit of fun you can now compare the popularity of one keyword or phrase against another via GoogleFight http://www.googlefight.com/or GoogleBattle. http://www.googlebattle.com/The little graphics make this quite entertaining. Maybe we can use this to help students understand about use of different keywords to describe the same thing. e.g. murder versus homicide. Thanks to Miguel Guhlin for

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The importance of the school sector in the changes being brought about by Web 2.0 is likely to be a recurrent thread in our discussions.The influential thinktank DEMOS have recently published a pamphlet called Their Space : education for a digital generation. http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/theirspaceWritten from the perspective of the young learner the insights can inform us about the value

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I read in lauren's library blog about JumpCut, http://www.jumpcut.com/ a website that allows you to load your movies and audio and do editing yourself.This sounds like another great Web 2.0 application : a further case of something you may be able to do yourself rather than involve colleagues and expensive software. It all depends on time and your own enthusiasm!I can also recommend Library

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Why does anyone read blogs? Perhaps some are unread, and they're just a therapy or an ego trip for the blogger! I have agonised too over whether this should be a blog or a wiki. I'm sure now that I have this right. This will be a place for tips, opinions and exchange. There are other places where useful lists, definitions and mateerials can be stored.

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