by David Lee King on January 2, 2008
Some of you might have heard about this – just passing it along: YALSA has some Teen Tech Week mini grants to give out to some lucky libraries! From Yalsa’s website:
“Thanks to our 2008 Corporate Sponsor Dungeons & Dragons, you could win one of twenty mini grants for your celebration! Mini grants of $450 and $50 worth of Teen Tech Week products are available to YALSA members who plan to offer unique, engaging programming activites, services or resources to celebrate Teen Tech Week in their community. Download the official rules and submit the application form and your proposal to the YALSA office at yalsa@ala.org by January 7, 2008.”
So if you want to do this, get those application forms in fast!
by David Lee King on June 27, 2007
Guess what ALA2007’s most attended program was? Was it Julie Andrews? Was it Peter Morville? No.
This is only my guess, because I don’t have all the numbers… but my guess, based on one set of numbers alone, was … the BIGWIG Social Software Showcase UnConference!
What? There were only 30 or so people who attended! How can that be, David? That’s just the physical attendees. But so far, my twitter presentation for the showcase has been viewed 953 times. That’s a bunch of attendees!
How about some of you other BIGWIG presenters? How many people have viewed your screencasts (those of you whomade screencasts)?
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by David Lee King on June 24, 2007
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Yesterday, I participated in the LITA BIGWIG Social Software Showcase. It was very cool! The Showcase had more of an “unconference” feel, which was nice. So rather than doing a formal presentation with a brief Q and A at the end, I created a screencast of my presentation (linked above) about cool Twitter add-ons, and then at the Showcase David Free and I sat at a table and had good conversations with interested attendees. We talked about a range of things, from Twitter to Facebook to other techie topics.
I think ALA could use some more of these… my guess is the interest groups and poster sessions are supposed to cover this type of ground, but I’m not sure they’re achieving that. The Showcase DID achieve it. So let’s definitely have more!
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by David Lee King on June 23, 2007
John Lester (Pathfinder Linden!):
- introduction to second life
- fundamentally not a game
- asked “is the web a game?” There are games on the web… SL is the same
- online augments face-to-face just like the phone augments – doesn’t replace
- median age 35
- goal – host your own SL grid (they went open source in January 2007)
- emotional bandwidth – constantly want to connect with people (emoticons vs avatars with facial expressions)
- over 200 universities represented – doing experiential learning
- creating immersive experiences
- imagine learning about ancient egypt, in a replica of ancient egypt
- real vs virtual worlds… are people you talk to real? Cell phone? What’s the difference?
- don’t get mired in past frameworks – ie., movies are not plays
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by David Lee King on June 22, 2007
Michael Stephens, Keynote: The Hyperlinked Library: Reference Services in the 2.0 World
David says: other people probably took better notes – honestly, I really enjoy just sitting and listening to Michael talk – he does a great job, and it’s fun!
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introduced web and library 2.0, discussed the information revolution that’s taking place.
three things to do:
evolve – checking out laptops, camcorders, etc… welcoming buildings
let go of control – no cell phone signs as examples
be visible online
plan with your users
engage your users
- catalog search box in facebook
- comments in catalog
adopt a 2.0 philosophy
- throw out the culture of perfect
- learn from the gamers (it’s ok to make mistakes)
- discover, play and experience these new tools
Second Life reference desk – 200 questions a week
create a culture of trust
- trust users
- trust each other
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by David Lee King on June 15, 2007
Aaron Dobbs has a great idea or two on improving ALA, so he created a wiki called the Improve ALA Wiki.
Go check it out and contribute!
by David Lee King on June 13, 2007
Some of you probably know I like to play with video once in a while… well, apparently ALA does, too! They now have a videoblog, called AL Focus. Very cool, indeed. Jenny Levine has a bit more info about the videoblog.
Now I need to update my presentation I’m giving at ALA about videoblogs…
by David Lee King on June 11, 2007
(update – the BIGWIG sites seem to be down, but there are updated links to both twitter presentations. Enjoy!)
I was asked to participate in the first ever BIGWIG Social Software Showcase “unconference.” (site seems to be down). What is the Showcase, you ask? From the LITA blog: “LITA BIGWIG (Blogs, Wikis, and Social Software IG) is pleased to present the first ever online, unconference at ALA Annual 2007. The Social Software Showcase will be occuring around and during Annual. We have gathered eleven librarians and leaders in the field to present on cutting edge technology and social software. Regardless of where you are in the world, you will have the opportunity to view and discuss the presentations on the official Social Software Showcase Wiki.”
For my part, I added a screencast about Twitter add-ons, meant to be a part 2 to David Free’s Twitter, Part One (updated links to each presentation).
So – go read about the Showcase, watch/listen/read all the presentations as they get added to the Showcase wiki, and participate!
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by David Lee King on June 6, 2007
David Free is moving to ACRL! He’s going to be the editor of College and Research Libraries news. Why is this neat? David (besides being a great dude) understands emerging trends… for example, he originally announced his new job via twitter, and then today he told me about it via Google Talk. This is sure to be a good thing.
Congratulations, David Free!
