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Random thoughts and ideas of a babyboomer librarian in the early years of the 21st century. My name is Bill Drew and I was once told by a friend and fellow librarian,"You are a lightning rod for comments and discussion." My response was,"I am well grounde

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Baker Commons SlideShow

Here is a slideshow from my Picassa account of the Baker Commons at TC3. I will continually update this show. ...

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[ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:53:00 +0000 ]

All Together Now -- Thing # 1:Blogs

Here is the first task for All Together Now: A 2.0 Learning Experience - Blog on School Library Journal. It involves creating a blog and then letting others know about it with some other activities on that blog. I added this blog to the comments section set up for New York State. I like how Michael uses the comments to give out tasks to do. Well done! one of the comments also includes this great video: Blogs in Plain English ...

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[ Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:47:00 +0000 ]

Pew Internet: Home Broadband 2008

Pew Internet: Home Broadband 2008 reports that:Some 55% of all adult Americans now have a high-speed internet connection at home. The percentage of Americans with broadband at home has grown from 47% in early 2007. Poorer Americans saw no growth in broadband adoption in the past year while at the same time nearly one-third of broadband users pay more to get faster connections.You can read the full report at PDF version. I have one big bone to pick with the Pew Internet and American Life Project...

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[ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:35:22 -0500 ]

E-reader looks promising!

Here is one e-book reader I would be comfortable using. You can read more about it at New Scientist. The article links to a paper presented at ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Florence, Italy) in April 2008. Watch the video below. the dual-display ebook reader projectPowered by ScribeFire. ...

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[ Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:16:44 -0500 ]

Passively Multiplayer Online Game (PMOG) meets Virtual Community Syllabus

Original post and video at:Howard Rheingold's Vlog“Blogfather" Justin Hall and his bride, Merci Hammon, talked to my Virtual Community/Social Media class at UC Berkeley, turning that week’s syllabus readings into a mission in PMOG which uses the Internet as gameboard, and your surfing behavior as game play. -- Howard RheingoldSee the video below. The video reinforce my thinking of PMOG being a good tool for instruction. ...

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[ Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:50:21 -0500 ]

TC3 Baker Commons Slide Show (converted to video)

This video is a converted powerpoint slide show I made for a college open house at TC3. It is made up of pictures of our new Learning Commons. There is no audio. ...

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[ Thu, 10 Apr 2008 16:27:17 -0500 ]

Cites & Insights 7:12 available

Cites & Insights 7:12, November 2007, is available for downloading athttp://citesandinsights.info/civ7i12.pdf.The 28-page issue is PDF as usual (HTML versions of most essays areavailable at the home page, http://citesandinsights.info/) andincludes:*Bibs & Blather - Thanks! - A note about my new position as Director andManaging Editor of the PALINET Leadership Network (and why there wasno liblog extravaganza this year).*Following Up & Feedback - A tiny section correcting two name prob...

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[ Thu, 18 Oct 2007 12:48:59 -0500 ]

New Badges for Library 2.0 Community on Ning

You can now add badges showing your membership in the Library 2.0 community on Ning. You will find it at the bottom of the right hand column. You can add it to any web page that allows you to add embed code. ...

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[ Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:23:24 -0500 ]

Testing Opera Mini Browser

I have been testing the Opera MIni Browser by using the simulator (http://www.opera.com/products/mobile/operamini/demo.dml) which, from all indications, operates exactly as the browser would on my cell phone. I double checked a couple of websites to verify that. Information and instructions on installing the Mini browser can be found at: http://mini.opera.com. Here is my analysis so far: Outlook WebMail - cumbersome to use but does work. Can read...

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[ Mon, 30 Jan 2006 14:13:00 -0600 ]

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