tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-246714702024-03-06T20:05:00.498-08:00ishushopen notebook, excitable librarianUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger361125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-57142916355960499752015-05-17T06:16:00.003-07:002015-05-17T06:16:44.483-07:006 Ways to the Gamification of Education
http://towerdefensenews.blogspot.com/
There are many more than 6, but I like the Duolingo model. I also like Badges.
I like the idea of applying a 'simple' game goal to learning and watching what happens. Tower defense is about keeping the baddies from getting across your territory --- you build 'towers', upgrade them, spend resources on heroes, traps, and other stuff to help you Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-62523541863125364242014-12-01T08:36:00.000-08:002014-12-01T08:36:01.003-08:00be researchers
Shifting language from 'reference librarian' and 'reference services' to 'research'. Research services. Be a 'researcher' -- someone who does research, who participates and publishes, and someone who teaches others how to use info sources (in any medium) to do their own research.
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-29681208165351054682010-09-05T17:55:00.001-07:002015-05-17T06:25:05.383-07:00Nest Settling
Lookit:
http://woodyevans.wordpress.com/
http://towerdefensenews.blogspot.com/
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-53076146333509790222010-08-09T06:44:00.000-07:002010-08-09T06:44:31.119-07:00facebook q&aI've publicly criticized FB's use by libraries before -- but at the link below I don't even bother to mention the dissolution of reference services this development suggests.
http://woodyevans.com/public_html/archives/795
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/NewsBreaks/Facebook-Questions--Askcom-Cashing-in-on-Mass-Ignorance-69187.aspUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-73932670017027582102010-03-24T06:31:00.000-07:002010-03-24T06:32:40.057-07:00Happy Ada Lovelace Day: Donna HarawayAda Lovelace Day: Donna HarawayHappy Ada Lovelace Day!My hero of the day is Donna Haraway.I think I first encountered Donna Haraway’s work in about 1996. I was studying up on Actor-Network Theory as part of an effort to get into an exchange program to Keele University (John Law had taught at Keele, and that’s how I got into ANT), and somehow that led me to theCyborg Manifesto. Once at Keele, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-7310263311547726152010-03-22T14:06:00.000-07:002010-03-22T14:10:10.369-07:00woodyevans.com goes archivalGrab it while you can, hoss:http://woodyevans.com/public_html/feedUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-63434840918657286532009-10-08T10:16:00.001-07:002009-10-25T06:46:46.326-07:00(teaching a class how to embed video for their blog projects... Dave ended up as the example for some reason...)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-40243282982079774442009-08-19T08:26:00.000-07:002009-08-19T08:28:29.071-07:00QR book to Web application: liveVia "Building Library 3.0" blog:QR book to Web application: liveQR Library application -- this is very homemade, very "beta" -- actually very "delta".I've described it before: QR code slapped on a book, a patron uses their phone to snap a pic, QR pic takes them to whatever online resource you want them to see.Here's an example:Imagine you've just picked up this book in the library, "Chess and theUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-11966144047246378652009-08-07T20:37:00.001-07:002009-08-07T20:37:56.457-07:00cc open idvia bq:http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2009/08/06/06readwriteweb-creative-commons-launches-cc-openid-profile-92620.html?emc=eta1""Says open source advocate Chris Messina in a recent blog post on CC OpenID:"Creative Commons is redistributing the brand equity and social capital their members have accrued over the last several years by letting people show and verify their affiliation toUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-43879750975293423752009-08-07T20:33:00.000-07:002009-08-07T20:36:25.793-07:00heather liggett on nprHere's Ms. H. Liggett's twitter page. NPR's M. Brand (?) interviewed her on Fri. afternoon. Go take a look for yrself at her activism-type work:http://twitter.com/hal512Some good old libertarianista type ideas there, but not often fully formed... I wouldn't trade a corporate oligarchy for a collectivist-leaning republic, I don't think... but maybe some "libertarians" would. What would Ron PaulUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-38674581442710293132009-08-07T20:27:00.000-07:002009-08-07T20:29:34.822-07:00use yr infoskillzHere you go, see if you can find problems with Maddow's logic here:Maybe you can't. But who else is going to try? And who the frak else is dissecting the layers of oligarchy at recessrally.com?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-90740502872949427082009-07-22T07:54:00.000-07:002009-07-22T08:06:28.263-07:00buildingthree blogspot wearable webhttp://buildingthree.blogspot.com/2009/07/wearable-web-3-4.html:Following on from last post's comment on gendering of the Web... it occurs to me that the Web won't be or can't be successfully gendered by in the way I suggested. Just because feminine terms out-rank masculine terms, etc. Bibliometric brute force won't make the Web pink nor blue. Many reasons for this (maybe more on the subject Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-35079027116585876442009-07-18T17:41:00.000-07:002009-07-18T17:42:26.727-07:00cellphones libraries reminder, gee2 COMMENTS:quietman said...Cell phones are not annoying in and of themselves, it is the abuse of cell phones that should be outlawed.Unfortunately most people are too inconsiderate simply by nature to understand that a loud annoying ringtone or cell yell irritates everyone in their vicinity. They ruin it for everyone.Until basic manners catch up with technology an outright cell phone ban is the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-31233246622587908852009-07-08T06:34:00.000-07:002009-07-08T07:38:44.727-07:00google os based on chromeNY Times has (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/technology/companies/08operate.html):SAN FRANCISCO — In a direct challenge to Microsoft, Google announced late Tuesday that it is developing an operating system for PCs that is tied to its Chrome Web browser.The software, called the GoogleChrome Operating System, is initially intended for use in the tiny, low-cost portable computers known as Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-62607938905297927322009-06-25T17:48:00.001-07:002009-06-25T17:48:50.123-07:00hunch, @ we bloghunchNew work up at Information Today’s Newsbreaks.“Hunch: Psycho-Social Divinatory Machine for the Masses”(Thanks @ Chris Dixon for the dialog!)Posted in info-sci, research, writing.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-42746436857972837402009-06-01T11:00:00.000-07:002009-06-01T11:11:44.225-07:00qik & sousveillancehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillancehttp://qik.com/Sousveillance is about us all 'at the bottom' observing what goes on around and above us in an intentional way. Missteps by those in power (censorship, abuse, illegal moves of other kinds) can be recorded and cataloged just as well as the illegal moves of those 'below' -- us -- can be recorded and cataloged by those in power.Qik may be a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-86432238917842549382009-05-22T06:58:00.000-07:002009-05-22T07:09:51.134-07:00addictomatic re:For my money, Addictomatic is still a great way to grok the 'tone of the web' on newsy subjects.http://addictomatic.com/topic/"frank+black"http://addictomatic.com/topic/"swine+flu"+texashttp://addictomatic.com/topic/star-tidesListening: "Rejoice" U2, October Reading: 'library ala carte' faqsUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-76178173775126782392009-05-21T07:04:00.000-07:002009-05-21T07:12:12.846-07:00wolfram alpha semantic searchWolfram|Alpha write up at InfoToday's NewsBreaks:http://tinyurl.com/we-wolframUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-47139462139383251132009-05-20T11:54:00.001-07:002009-05-20T12:03:45.396-07:00new work by Reverend Doctor HegwoodJared Hegwood has new pieces out this year -- go read them:“Like Fish” here at elimae“Hugs” here at Keyhole Magazine“Lately” forthcoming at Night TrainUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-58653643412180607492009-04-26T11:28:00.001-07:002009-04-26T11:32:00.178-07:00disinformation on educationIf Mr Gatto is right, are librarians who really do equitably and on principle defend free access to any information for the common good systemically at odds with the system? Are librarians acceptable enemies of the corporate state structure (that is, are we enemies that are necessary & have to be tolerated)? What gives?(Via disinfo.com...)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-82464478487065927682009-04-25T09:22:00.000-07:002009-04-25T09:43:50.841-07:00disaster pandemic aid notesBill Gates on mosquitos, Vinay Gupta on ending poverty with open hardware. ----And now we have the Swine Flu in North America.http://vinay.howtolivewiki.com/blog/personal/swine-flu-its-on-now-1426Disaster relief, open design solutions, local control, growing food from your own garden, solar water distillation and solar UV purification... all sounds a little more suburan in light of these worries:Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-12306053707759086092009-04-24T19:31:00.000-07:002009-05-20T12:06:46.986-07:00building library 3.0UPDATE:Amazon's US page for my book is:http://www.amazon.com/Building-Library-3-0-Woody-Evans/dp/1843344971/---Got a book due out soon. It's with the copy-editor now, an able chap named Peter Williams.Here, I'll summarize the book. Libraries gotta get with supporting niche groups & 'communities of interest' with 2.0 tools now so that when Semantic (web 3.0) applications start spilling out Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-44841001993910090462009-04-24T07:00:00.000-07:002009-04-24T07:03:00.116-07:00off the facebooksFacebook was fun. I'll miss it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-86472706485751728212009-04-23T13:01:00.000-07:002009-04-23T13:10:20.087-07:00notes / linksJust some things I want to keep up with..http://nancydowd.wordpress.com/http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/yalsa/yalsa.cfmhttp://popculturebookreview.blogspot.com/http://yzocaet.blogspot.com/http://www.coloradolibraries.orghttp://www.coloradolibraries.org/2009/04/22/new-guidelines-for-donating-to-state-prison-libraries/http://njla.pbwiki.com/Conference+2009http://nancydowd.wordpress.com/2009/02/11Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24671470.post-22626069296121269962009-04-23T12:57:00.001-07:002009-04-23T12:58:22.361-07:00catching up on TLAby way of the blog and notes sent from friends...http://tla2009.wordpress.com/ --...Woody Evans http://woodyevans.com/ Writing & Research for HireUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0