Time Magazine recently announced that Mark Zuckerberg was selected as their “Person of the Year.” It seems a rather peculiar choice, since not only is Facebook “old hat” but also because Facebook has not been the best player in regards to user privacy. So I have my own end of the year suggestion for Time [...]
Entries from December 22nd, 2010
A Kindling we go
December 13th, 2010 · No Comments · Web 2.0
Libraries are definitely on the brink of a paradigm shift in terms of lending. In an effort to give a variety of e-book options a try for my students, we invested in four Kindles a few months ago. Teachers had the first opportunities to check them out, but we began with student check-outs two weeks [...]
Librarians–shifting the paradigm
December 11th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Web 2.0
A common thread of discussion among wired librarians is the struggle they face in getting recognized for how technologically connected they are and how students rely on their services for assistance. In most high schools, particularly, the library itself is fairly “wired”–outfitted with computers and devices of all kinds for multimedia productions and research uses, [...]
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