Posts from ‘April, 2008’

What’s the Alternative: Career Options for Librarians and Info Pros is a brand new title by Rachel Singer Gordon. And what a valuable addition to the library literature.
Rachel covers a wide range of alternative settings where your library and information skills could be put to work. Some of the settings covered include: professional associations, [...]

I just ran across the California 2.0 Curriculum Connections wiki. It has some great ideas for using 2.0 tools in the K-12 curriculum. The wiki is a part of the California School Library Learning 2.0 project.
Another great repository of curriculum ideas is the Classroom 2.0 wiki.
You’ll find these and a selection of other resources for [...]

I’m in Arlington, Virginia this week for the 2008 Computers in Libraries conference. I had really good intentions of  blogging about the sessions I’d been too.  But at the end of the day, I’ve just been too tired to think or write coherently. And live blogging from the conference sessions is way more than my [...]

flickr has been hinting at including video for a while now and now it’s there. I haven’t uploaded anything yet, but it  looks as easy as uploading photos. Check out  flickr’s blog post on the new service and their FAQ page as well.
Videos can be a max of 90 seconds  and no more than 150 [...]

Thinking about buying some of those terrific little Flip video cameras for your library? Then check out this rebate that Melissa Bergin from Niskayuna High School came across today:
If you go to Flip Video’s website  there is a rebate of $15 each if you buy three or more cameras. If you go to “where to [...]

Jenny Levine and Aaron Schmidt put on a great night of gaming at the Computers in Libraries 2008 conference. What a great way to start the conference. There were wii’s and ddr and guitar hero and board games and card games and lots of tun and laughter. I tried my hand at Brain Age [...]