Here is the first task for All Together Now: A 2.0 Learning Experience - Blog on School Library Journal. It involves creating a blog and then letting others know about it with some other activities on that blog. I added this blog to the comments section set up for New York State. I like how Michael uses the comments to give out tasks to do. Well done! one of the comments also includes this great video: Blogs in Plain English
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Pew Internet: Home Broadband 2008Pew Internet: Home Broadband 2008 reports that:Some 55% of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 47% in early 2007. Poorer Americans saw no growth in broadband adoption in the past year while at the same time nearly one-third of broadband users pay more to get faster connections.You can read the full report at PDF version. I have one big bone to pick with the Pew Internet and American Life Pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
E-reader looks promising!Here is one e-book reader I would be comfortable using. You can read more about it at New Scientist. The article links to a paper presented at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy) in April 2008. Watch the video below. the dual-display ebook reader projectPowered by ScribeFire.
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Passively Multiplayer Online Game (PMOG) meets Virtual Community SyllabusOriginal post and video at:Howard Rheingold's Vlog“Blogfather" Justin Hall and his bride, Merci Hammon, talked to my Virtual Community/Social Media class at UC Berkeley, turning that week’s syllabus readings into a mission in PMOG which uses the Internet as gameboard, and your surfing behavior as game play. -- Howard RheingoldSee the video below. The video reinforce my thinking of PMOG being a good tool for instruction.
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TC3 Baker Commons Slide Show (converted to video)This video is a converted powerpoint slide show I made for a college open house at TC3. It is made up of pictures of our new Learning Commons. There is no audio.
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Cites & Insights 7:12 availableCites & Insights 7:12, November 2007, is available for downloading athttp://citesandinsights.info/civ7i12.pdf.The 28-page issue is PDF as usual (HTML versions of most essays areavailable at the home page, http://citesandinsights.info/) andincludes:*Bibs & Blather - Thanks! - A note about my new position as Director andManaging Editor of the PALINET Leadership Network (and why there wasno liblog extravaganza this year).*Following Up & Feedback - A tiny section correcting two name ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
New Badges for Library 2.0 Community on NingYou can now add badges showing your membership in the Library 2.0 community on Ning. You will find it at the bottom of the right hand column. You can add it to any web page that allows you to add embed code.
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Testing Opera Mini BrowserI have been testing the Opera MIni Browser by using the simulator (http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/demo.dml) which, from all indications, operates exactly as the browser would on my cell phone. I double checked a couple of websites to verify that. Information and instructions on installing the Mini browser can be found at: http://mini.opera.com. Here is my analysis so far: Outlook WebMail - cumbersome to use but does work. Can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
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