The report at BBC news Video Appears in Paper Magazines tells me that the first-ever video advertisement will be published in a traditional paper magazine in September.
The video-in-print ads will appear in select copies of the US show business title Entertainment Weekly. The slim-line screens – around the size of a mobile phone display – also have rechargeable batteries.
The chip technology used to store the video – described as similar to that used in singing greeting cards – is activated when the page is turned. Each chip can hold up to 40 minutes of video.
Embedded videos in books next perhaps? Imagine Skeleton Creek by Patrick Carman – how much easier to read that new combined format without having to jump onto Youtube. A whole new picturebook format could emerge too!
I like that I read about all this on the same day that I discovered that TED.comreleased its 500th TEDTalk.
What types of media, access, and support do cutting-edge media centers and school libraries offer students? How are teacher librarians and library media specialists leading the charge to help students master 21st century literacies?
Issue 22 Volume 4 of ASCD Express“The Transformational Media Centre” looks at ways teacher librarians and library media specialists can collaborate with teachers and other staff to enhance student learning.
A good read overall – and I’m excited to say also includes a piece by me – Content Used to be King – as the New Voices feature.
Yesterday was a great day for a group of educators gathered at our school, as a result of an initiative of the Professional Teachers Council, NSW.
I was given the opportunity to lead a day ” Web 2.0 Tools for Professional Teaching Associations” with members from different teaching associations, to consider how new media tools (Web 2.0) can and should be used to transform professional practice and empower teaching associations to meet the challenges of learning and teaching in an online world.
This was a big ask – it’s amazing how far we have come in terms of possibilities. It’s even more startling to stop and consider the priorities that now face teachers and teaching associations in supporting student learning opportunities in the 21st century.
I prepared a comprehensive digital handout – designed for the participants to be able to use again and again as they have conversations within their own associations about current and future developments. Let’s face it – in one day you can only point to the potential, not make it happen!
I used all online tools for this full day – starting with a google forms survey before the day; google slide presentation to launch the day; and a google site as the digital handout (with all the videos, slideshares, documents and AZ Toolkit embedded to show how!)
Just to prove the point that Judy is not dreaming, we were lucky to have Ross Cartilage from Google come and talk about “The Cloud” – yes folks, it’s real and it’s beautiful!
On Friday the 7th August I was proud to participate in the annual UQL Cyberschool Seminar in Brisbane, Queensland: A Decade of Databases: Where to from here? How lovely to escape cold weather, and to meet new faces in the Teacher Librarian profession. It was the 10th anniversay of the Cyberschool – a service to all schools in Queensland, and to other States in Australia, providing a wealth of information resources and online databases.
The Program of the day included Tanya Ziebell, UQ Library, Patricia Carmichael, a fabulously energetic TL from Concordia Lutheran College, Dan Walker, an inspirational Principal from Brisbane State High School, Dr Mandy Lupton, Lecturer in Teacher-Librarianship, QUT, Lea Giles-Peters, OLD State Librarian, Keith Webster, Director of Learning Services, Professor Phil Long, Centre for Educational Innovation, and of course – myself!
What a fabulous group of people to listen to before my turn came. It was great to have Phil Long talk in detail about the Horizon Project and together with Keith Webster, engage the audience with some interactive online trials using iTouch units on loan from Apple. Keith showed us his masterful way of presenting using CoolIris – loads of fun!
Here are the slides for my presentation. As always, the story is in the telling! I hope I encouraged some people to think ‘out of the box’, be connected, be comfortable with social networking, and hopefully find ways suitable to their own context to transform school library learning services.
A colleague a few months ago asked, “so how do I know when you have send out a message on Twitter”?
Good question – especially if you are new to Twitter.
It’s interesting to watch ‘newbies’ develop their own online etiquette and management of their Twitter use. Lots of options, but there are a few key tips that we could all keep in mind as we ‘tweet’ away.
1. Profile: Decide on a private of public profile (I keep my public, as I am happy to share my information finds with anyone who is interested). Make sure to put some key information into you bio – nothing worse than non-information!
2. Discuss and Collaborate: Use the @ symbol to reply to anything of interest, or to have a conversation on a topic. Using the @ symbol lets you know if someone has tweeted a message to you, started a conversation, or replied to a general query for help. Ah hah, here’s the answer to my colleague’s question.
3. Direct Message: I set up my DM to come to my email anyway, so I know if I have received an important message that I might want to jump right over to Twitter to respond to. After all, I don’t share my email with everyone but it’s a communication tool that is always at my fingertips – especially at work!
4. Keeping the Conversation live: Each time you jump onto Twitter (some people keep a steady stream open in the background using TweetDeck or a similar tool) be sure to click on your @messages and your DM (Direct messages).
5. Favourites: Nothing beats the knowledge power of the crowd. There are many good things to follow up at a later time. Just “favourite” the tweet – and when you have time later (weeks later sometimes) you can revisit all your favourites for thorough investigation!! I have to confess this gets away with me a bit – so the school hols are a good time to regroup and clear out your list 🙂
6. Digging deeper: Use the power of search to find tweets of interest on your area of interest. Of course, trending topics can be interesting too.
7. Bend it to your purpose: The power of the hashtag means you can keep a theme going, or focus on a workshop or conference presentation – sharing information with others. For example #necc09 brings back all the wonderful thoughts, ideas, reflections and information links from the NECC (National Education Computing Conference) Washington this year!
8. Pushing the information further: Of course one of the wonderful things of interconnected personal networks is the capacity to distribute and share information. The power of RT is one to watch – “re-tweet” – and Twitter etiquette encourages us to attribute to the original message. For example deangroom@heyjudeonline thanks for the link http://blabberize.com/ – is so funny – love the demo!
Is this all for real?
You bet! Organisations the world over are communicating to educators and librarians with relevant and important information. Libraries, Tech organisations, the Board of Studies NSW and other organisations, Tertiary libraries, publishers, media news and more. I have a huge collection @heyjudeonline – feel free to browse.
I think it’s fab when schools begin to use the power of Twitter. St Peter’s at Tuggerah @spcct are sending out updates to their school community.
I am running a Twitter account for our library at SimplyBooks – Promoting reading and good literature, as well as providing links and information about quality approaches to boys reading education.
My school, Joeys, is trying out Twitter for Live Sport Results on Twitter. Results will be updated regularly each Saturday throughout the season. The page will also include any last minute changes to fixtures and wet weather information.
Follow JoeysSport on Twitter and make sure you get SJC’s sports results as they happen.
For more insights into twittering for educators and librarians check out :-
I use HootSuite to manage more than one account – saves the login logout saga! Use the secret weapon – a Hootlet! to send a tweet to one or more accounts as you surf the web! Just use Tweetie on your iPhone to track and tweet!
Gary will be presenting a Keynote at the ASLA NSW PD day this coming Saturday, on the topic of “Pedagogical Powerpoint”. His message is really the same at Mr Bowen -Gary urges us to add pedagogical value to your classes if you are using Powerpoint. The idea is that we should challenge thinking, inspire creativity, and stir up discussion with a Powerpoint presentation – not present a series of dry facts. Of added value is Gary’s work on hunting down research papers that shed light onto the whole notion of how to use Powerpoint well.
There is so much that we can get involved in if we want to in schools – whether it’s podcasting or ‘powerpointing’ – its about driving deep learning through deep investigation and discussion.
Meanwhile, enjoy reading the article, and perhaps take it to your next staff meeting as a discussion starter.
More than any thing else, Mr. Bowen wants to discourage professors from using PowerPoint, because they often lean on the slide-display program as a crutch rather using it as a creative tool. Class time should be reserved for discussion, he contends, especially now that students can download lectures online and find libraries of information on the Web.
Global Kids, Inc. is an internationally recognized leader in using digital media to promote global awareness and youth civic engagement.
The Global Kids’ Online Leadership Program integrates a youth development approach and international and public policy issues into youth media programs that build digital literacy and STEM skills, foster substantive dialogues, develop resources for educators, and promote civic participation.
Global Kids’ Second Life Curriculum is a key component of Global Kids professional development services. They cover everything an educator or student would need to know to use Second Life, whether on their own or within an educational setting. At the same time, it teaches global literacy skills. Components of the curriculum can be used as hand-outs to develop specific Second Life-specific skills or within a broader educational program designed to teach such subjects as science, film-making or literature.
Students and researchers expect to be able to access information around the clock from almost anywhere in the world. Libraries are at a turning point. As technology rapidly transforms the way we access information, and resources are increasingly available online and in digital formats, the established role of the library as a physical space housing racks of books is looking increasingly out of step with the needs of students and researchers.
JISC’s ‘Libraries of the Future‘ debate has gone digital, with a specially-commissioned documentary. Over 200 people have already viewed the ten minute video, which marks the culmination of a year long campaign.
The Libraries of the Future campaign stimulated debate among librarians, information professionals and academics on the issues surrounding technology’s impact on the emerging role of the academic library in the 21st century through a series of events, printed resources and podcast interviews.
The Libraries of the Future publication explores the issues surrounding Libraries of the Future, showcases the events and activities of the campaign and looks forward to some possible solutions.
This documentary showcases interviews with leaders from JISC, Oxford University and LSE as well as students and academics who discuss what the library of the future will look like.
Information in Bb 2.0 is one of the coolest things I have come across – appropriate for the ‘rethink’ time of the holidays! Play any or all of these videos together, start them at any time, in any order to create your own collage of user experience.
Be sure to play the 3rd down on the left: ” information will breathe in and out of us”
Information
By Daniel Donahoo (2009)
she closes the lid
and unplugs the device
no bigger than her thumb
from the computer.
My lifes work, she says. But, it isnt her lifes work.
You see, we store information like an Escher painting.
It shouldnt all fit in there. But, it does.
And every day we manage to fit more and more into smaller and smaller spaces until one day
she says,
we will be able to fit all the information the world has
everything that everyone knows and believes and dreams
into nothing.
It will all be there. Stored and filed.
Tagged with any keywords you might imagine.
Our hard drives will be thin air.
They will make nanobots look like elephants.
And elephants will be in there too. Tagged. Accessible with search terms
like grey, ivory,
and the largest land dwelling mammal
We will process away at nothing and understand everything.
We will think of a word and the information will slip in, not through our ears or eyes
but straight thorough our skin. Information will breathe in and out of us,
permeate our skin.
Our knowing will be as deep as it is wide.
You see our work here is to learn so much,
to be so full of knowing,
that all there is left to do is unlearn.
Humanity must get to a point where we let go.
We leave the useless ideas and the spent ideologies in the recycle bin.
like an adolescent brain shedding neurons.
like a snake slithering from its old skin.
like an old man who has come to understand so well the point where reality meets the intangible that he is able to decide which breath will be his last. And, he will enjoy that breath more than any that he has taken in his entire life.
And, her lifes work is more than a four meg flash drive.
My lifes work, she says, is the impact that this has.
This is not about what I produce. It is all about what others receive.
Evidence Based Library and Information Practice Conference, Bridging the Gap, was held in Stockholm, Sweden, June 29th – July 3rd2009. the conference focused onthe best available evidence to improve library and information practice in all types of libraries.
Papers and Poster Sessions are available for download.
I was particularly interested in the presentation by JoAnne Witt (Australia) – Scaffolding students to an academic standard of information literacy. Download presentation
Questions looked at included:
What effect did the library training have on student selection and referencing of sources?
Were students using “library sources”?
Did the mode of delivery matter?
Which changes to the program resulted in improvements?
Were students using ‘library sources’?
The research covers issues related to use of Google vs Databases -of great interest to schools. This research shows what they did to scaffold learning and improve learning outcomes.
Extraordinary!
greeting cards – is activated when the page is turned. Each chip can hold up to 40 minutes of video.
This was a big ask – it’s amazing how far we have come in terms of possibilities. It’s even more startling to stop and consider the priorities that now face teachers and teaching associations in supporting student learning opportunities in the 21st century.
On Friday the 7th August I was proud to participate in the annual 
A colleague a few months ago asked, “so how do I know when you have send out a message on Twitter”?
Global Kids’ Second Life Curriculum is a key component of Global Kids professional development services. They cover everything an educator or student would need to know to use 
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