Districts across the country are making choices regarding their budgets this season; with the economies around the country struggling and funding limited, it has caused some painful decisions in many districts to reduce library services to students, (see Shonda Brisco’s map) as well as many other cuts. Yet even in these difficult situations, some districts, [...]
Entries from May 31st, 2010
Student panels–Technology and Privacy
May 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Web 2.0
Through a partnership with our English teacher, Kristy Robins, I’m facilitating some student panels today and on Monday using Ustream for a livestream of the student panels, and CoveritLive for a backchannel for the students listening to the panels. We invite listeners/chatters to hear our excellent panelists talk about Facebook, biometric scanning, Social Networking and [...]
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Social media–saving education?
May 9th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Web 2.0
Dramatic statement? Maybe. But a must-read article in May’s issue of American Libraries, “Will Social Media Activism Reverse the Fortunes of Besieged Libraries” started me thinking about all the ways social media has made the invisible “visible” and how that visibility saves education in more ways than one. Certainly, social media activism can be credited [...]
No heads in the sand here
May 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Change, libraries, Web 2.0
Whither are libraries going? Just this week a colleague suggested to me that librarians might be a dying profession. However, I don’t believe that, nor do I think that librarians have their heads in the sand about the evolving nature of their profession, clients, or facilities or materials. Not only are we hearing this message from [...]
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