notes & links

OLA/WLA Joint Conference
Vancouver, Washington
April 16, 2007

Rachel Bridgewater
Anne-Marie Deitering
Karen Munro

Further Reading

Mashing up the once and future CMS. (Brown, Malcolm. March/April 2007. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 8–9).

Sayonara Super-Size — It’s Bite-Sized on the Web. (Kroski, Elyssa. June 13, 2006. Infotangle).

EDUCAUSE’s “7 Things You Should Know About…” series. (short fact sheets on emerging technologies).
Web 2.0: A new wave of innovation for teaching and learning? (Alexander, Bryan. March/April 2006. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 32-44).

Jon Udell’s screencasting bookmarks on del.icio.us

Fadde, Peter J. Producing Video Learning Objects for E-Learning. (Fadde, Peter J. eLearn Magazine).

Software, Tools, and Widgets to Try

Jing — http://www.jingproject.com/
Picnik — http://picnik.com
Flickr — http://flickr.com
YouTube — http://youtube.com
Diigo — http://www.diigo.com/
Webslides — http://slides.diigo.com/
del.icio.us linkrolls — http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls
del.icio.us tagrolls — http://del.icio.us/help/tagrolls

Facebook applications — http://www.facebook.com/apps/

• LibGuides application
• Study Groups application
• del.icio.us application
• Meebo application
• Booth Library Ask?Away application

IM widgets

• MeeboMe - http://www.meebome.com/
• Plugoo — http://www.plugoo.com/
• Hab.la — http://hab.la/

Examples from the Session

LibGuides — http://www.springshare.com/libguides/

ICAP - Interactive Course Assignment Pages at OSU — http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/about/index.html

Orange County Library System’s YouTube video on downloading music — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrzstc-caE

Berkeley’s Congresearch (Screencast/wiki) — http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/wikis/congresearch/

U of Texas at Austin useful widgets page — http://www.lib.utexas.edu/tools/

Collaboration in Campus-Wide Assessment: Defining Undergraduate Information Literacy Competencies for Oregon State University
Presented at the 7th Biennial Conference on University Education in Natural Resources
Corvallis, Oregon
15 May 2008

Presentation

Presentation slides are available in the conference collection on OSU’s institutional repository, Scholar’s Archive.
Sources:

Barr, R.B. & Tagg, J. (November/December 1995). From teaching to learning — A new paradigm for undergraduate education. Change, 27:6 12-26.

Davidson, J. & Crateau, C.A. (1998). Intersections: Teaching research through a rhetorical lens. Research Strategies, 16: 4, 245-257.

Dugan, R.E. & Hernon, P. (November 2002). Outcomes assessment: Not synonymous with inputs and outputs. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 28: 6, 376-80.

Kempcke, K. (2002). The art of war for librarians: Academic culture, curriculum reform, and wisdom form Sun Tzu. portal: Libraries and the Academy. 2: 4, 529-551.

Kuhlthau, C.C. (2004). Seeking meaning: A process approach to library and information services. (Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited).

Oregon State University Libraries. Undergraduate Information Literacy Competencies. http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/instruction/ug_comp.html

Pascarella, E.T. & Terenzini, P.T. (2005). How college affects students: A third decade of research. V. 2. (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass).

Teaching and Learning with Emerging Technologies
215 Milam Hall
Margaret Mellinger and Anne-Marie Deitering

Anne-Marie’s del.icio.us bookmarks

Margaret’s del.icio.us bookmarks

Tools to try

Google Documents & Spreadsheets

“Picnik

Exploratree

Haiku

Carmun

Tafiti

del.icio.us

Connotea

CiteULike

World of Warcraft

del.icio.us network explorer

Facebook Applications Directory

Classroom examples

Art History discussion (Flickr notes)

WR 222’s del.icio.us page

WR 222 del.icio.us bookmarks displayed in a course page

How-to: creating tagrolls of content from del.icio.us

Geography 314 (WOU) class VodPod page

WR 214 Online Tools Trailfire trail

Further reading
Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students. (Catone, Josh. Jun 22, 2007. ReadWrite Web)

E-learning 2.0: how Web technologies are shaping education. (O’Hear, Stephen. August 8, 2006. ReadWrite Web)

Mashing up the once and future CMS. (Brown, Malcolm. March/April 2007. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 8–9)

Sayonara Super-Size — It’s Bite-Sized on the Web. (Kroski, Elyssa. June 13, 2006. Infotangle)

EDUCAUSE’s “7 Things You Should Know About…” series. (short fact sheets on emerging technologies).

A Cognitive Analysis of Tagging - or, how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular (Rashmi Sinha. September 27, 2005. Thoughts on Technology, Design and Cognition)

The Del.icio.us Lesson (Joshua Porter. May 2, 2006. Bokardo)

To find more

academHacK: Tech tools for academics

The mission of this site is to “serve as a resource for academics trying to navigate the world of computing and technology.”

educate/innovate

Educate/ Innovate is the Blackboard blog about the convergence of education and technology

Infodoodads

Six librarians from OSU’s Valley Library contribute to this blog, which “reviews and discusses existing and new tools, services, and technology for finding information on the internet.”

Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day

A daily item of e-learning interest selected by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

Solution Watch

This site “surveys the new generation of the Web, reviewing and providing in-depth walkthroughs of today’s best products and services.”

What’s important about the emerging web: Beyond the hype of 2.0

Rachel Bridgewater & Anne-Marie Deitering
30 August 2007

Tools & Applications

Rachel’s del.icio.us bookmarks

Anne-Marie’s del.icio.us bookmarks

Vinorati

Damsels in Success

Ravelry

Barbie Girls

Ning

Things to think about

The del.icio.us lesson
Joshua Porter, Bokardo

woah… omg. reflections on mega-viewership
danah boyd, apophenia: making connections where none previously existed

Sayonara super-size — It’s bite-sized on the web
Ellyssa Kroski, InfoTangle

Full-text: Keen vs. Weinberger
David Weinberger & Andrew Keen, Wall Street Journal online

Web 2.0: The sleep of reason
Michael Gorman, Britannica Blog

Responses are too many to list, but here are a few:

Clay Shirky Old revolutions good, new revolutions bad: A response to Gorman

Karen Munro, Michael Gorman, Fisher King

And there are a variety of follow-up essays from Michael Gorman himself.

Toward a Learning Commons
OLA Annual Conference
Corvallis, Oregon
19 April 2007

Further reading

Dr. D. Russell Bailey (UNCC)
Information Commons Services for Learners and Researchers: Evolution in Patron Needs, Digital Resources and Scholarly Publishing
INFORUM 2005L 11th Conference on Professional Information Resources (Prague, May 24-26, 2005)
http://library.uncc.edu/infocommons/conference/prague2005/

Scott Bennett
“First Questions for Designing Higher Education Learning Spaces”
Journal of Academic Librarianship, volume 33(1), 14-26
March 2007

Andrew Richard Albanese
“Campus Library 2.0″
Library Journal (April 15, 2004)
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA408330.html

Joan Lippincott
“Linking the Information Commons to Learning” (PDF)
Chapter 7, Learning Spaces
http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/PUB7102g.pdf

McMaster University
Knowledge Commons Service/Staffing Model Annotated Literature Review
2005
http://library.mcmaster.ca/about/k-commons/litreview.htm

North Carolina State University
Information Commons Resources: Selected Bibliography
https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/jobs/epa/dlcbib.html

Examples

Estrella Mountain Community College
Designing Learning Spaces that Promote Engagement

The University of Massachusetts at Amherst Learning Commons
W.E.B. DuBois Library
http://www.umass.edu/learningcommons/

North Carolina State University Learning Commons
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/learningcommons/

An Experiment in Modern Knowledge Spaces: The Library East Commons (Quicktime)
A video created by an English 1102 class at Georgia Institute of Technology, describing and analyzing the Library’s process of creating a learning commons.
http://smartech.gatech.edu/handle/1853/13665

Assessment

University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Learning Commons Assessment
http://www.library.umass.edu/assessment/learningcommons.html
Observational and other data, focus group reports, etc.

University of Minnesota
Poster Session
Starting with assessment: The development of an information commons from a user needs persepctive (PDF)
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~crous018/acrl-poster/poster.pdf

Rachel Applegate, IUPUI
Information Commons Data Methodologies (MS Word)
www.arl.org/arldocs/stats/statsevents/laconf/2006/ApplegateInformationCommonsDataMethodologies.doc

IUPUI
ES Informal Learning Spaces: A Study of Use (PPT)
http://www.opd.iupui.edu/uploads/library/OD/OD8980.ppt

Zoomerang (online survey tool)
http://info.zoomerang.com/

SurveyMonkey (online survey tool)
http://www.surveymonkey.com/

Herman Miller
Research & Design portal
http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/IP/0,1776,a10-c362,00.html

Virtual Learning Commons

University of Manitoba
https://www.umanitoba.ca/virtuallearningcommons/

University of Minnesota Undergraduate Virtual Library
http://www.lib.umn.edu/undergrad/

Remixing/Digital Scholarship

Eric Mankin
“Requiem for the term paper”
Trojan Family Magazine
http://www.usc.edu/dept/pubrel/trojan_family/spring04/TermPaper1.html

Elizabeth Daley
“Expanding the Concept of Literacy”
EDUCAUSE
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=FFPIU027

Notes from the field

What’s the Secret to Successful Library Space?
The Ubiquitous Librarian
http://theubiquitouslibrarian.typepad.com/the_ubiquitous_librarian/2006/12/whats_the_secre.html

The Learning Commons Blog
Georgia State University Library
http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?typeID=82

Finding common ground on the read/write web: Developing Your Expertise to Make Friends and Influence Learning on Your Campus

Keeping Up — Add these to your feeds

Finding new tools and applications

AcademHack: tech tools for academics

The Museum of Modern Betas

Solution Watch

weblogg-ed: the read-write web in the classroom

Finding Visualizations

Information aesthetics: form follows data

Finding mashups

Google Maps Mania

Programmable Web Mashups Dashboard

Applications and tools to try out

Google Documents and Spreadsheets

Flickr

Picnik

MyNoteIT

stu.dicio.us

Many Eyes

Swivel

del.icio.us

Blackboard Scholar (public page)

U.S. Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud

LivesConnected

TagCrowd

Soweto uprisings.com

American Image Project

Issues and Commentary

Infotangle (Ellyssa Kroski).
See the post on microcontent: Sayonara Super-Size - It’s Bite-Sized on the Web

Digital Digs (Alex Reid).
See the post on Ferpa, blogging and public pedagogy: Public and private course blogs

if:book (Institute for the Future of the Book).

apophenia (danah boyd).
See the post on openness & context: about those walled gardens (don’t skip the comment thread).

Terry’s Worklog (Terry Reese).
See the post on innovation, openness and open source: Can the open source community help the ILS matter?

educate/innovate (Blackboard).