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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-11-29

Posted by Jen - 29/11/09 at 02:11:00 am

Muppets + Bohemian Rhapsody = Excellent. http://bit.ly/4SO25l #
And of course, am now following @Nurtureshock on Twitter. #
Just finished reading Nurtureshock. 1st chapter re: praise/effort relationship should be must-read 4 college students http://bit.ly/8uhDd7 #

November 29, 2009 | In Fun Stuff | No Comments

Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-11-20

Posted by Jen - 20/11/09 at 02:11:00 pm

Notes on "Enhancing Info Capacity of Individuals" Sesh re: Knight Commission Report #ioc http://post.ly/D40Z #

November 20, 2009 | In Fun Stuff | No Comments

Notes on “Enhancing Info Capacity of Individuals” Sesh re: Knight Commission Report #ioc

Posted by Jen - 20/11/09 at 12:11:42 pm

I just got out of a symposium session called “Enhancing the
Information Capacity of Individuals” at an OSU Symposium called
“Informing Ohio Communities: A Symposium on the Knight Commission
Report”. I got a nifty free copy of the report for going to the sesh,
but you can download it at http://report.knightcomm.org/. I was
impressed with the report’s executive summary and hope to assign it in
the future to one of my freshman comp classes; it could start a great
discussion about community and social literacies.

Before I start blabbing, a list of participants:

Moderator
Brenda Brueggemann, Professor of English; Coordinator, Disability Studies

Speakers
Richard Voithofer, Associate Professor of Educational Technology
Patrick Losinski, Executive Director, Columbus Metropolitan Library
Tom Fritz, Executive Director, Connect Ohio
Gary Cavin, Chief Information Officer, City of Columbus
Osei Appiah, Associate Professor of Communication

Discussant
H. Lewis Ulman, Associate Professor of English; Director, Digital Media Studies

Things that interested me at this sesh:

Brenda Brueggemann, who designates herself as hard-of-hearing, said “I
was never deaf in the library” and that the Internet has helped expand
that information freedom beyond the walls of the library.

Richard Voithofer asked, “Is it time for public education to get out
of the content business and into the literacy business? Proposed that
we begin talking about a literacy called “community literacy” about
how 2 engage groups to meet particular goals.

Voithofer furhter observed that young people are often “faking tech
literacy”. This reminded me of the argument made in Bartholomae’s
“Inventing the University” regarding students who fake academic
college written literacies.

I learned a lot from the panelists about the state of the city of
Columbus re: literacy and broadband access. According to Voithofer,
the Columbus Literacy Council identified 100,000 adults in C’bus who
are not reading at the 4th grade level. Columbus Public Library Exec
Director Patrick Losinski said that in the workshops the Columbus
Public Library system holds for at-risk parents, many of those teenage
parents have never had a book read to them. They experience the joy
of reading with children for the first time EVER in these workshops.
Crazy!

I also learned that Ohio is one of two states that funds libraries at
the state level and that the desire for broadband access among library
users is so high that Columbus libraries have queues of up to 3 hours

There was a lot of chatter about public broadband access and how in
some places such as Finland and Spain, it’s construed as a legally
enforceable right. Someone, I can’t remember specifically whom,
talked about how 70 percent of U.S. landmass has broadband access
available, and that covers 95% of the population. However, some of
those 95% choose consciously not to use broadband in the home, either
because they can’t afford it (and many of those folks rely on
libraries for broadband) or because–more surprisingly to me–they
don’t see the need for it. Someone told a good story about an IT tech
guy who didn’t have broadband and didn’t see the need for it until his
paper boy started failing to deliver his newspaper in a timely
fashion. The guy got broadband so that he could access the paper
early in the morning.

Louie Ulman, who was the discussant, made a great list of things
(based on the previous presenters/discussion) about things that one
might desire for a citizen to be able to DO with information once
they’ve got it: subscribe to it, query it, discuss it,
cross-reference, etc. Might be interesting to hold a sesh JUST on
that–what things we would want a community literate citizen to be
ideally able to do with information.

Wish I could have stayed longer at the sesh, but alas, I had to run
off to a Final Cut Pro workshop!

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November 20, 2009 | In Uncategorized | No Comments

Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-11-19

Posted by Jen - 19/11/09 at 02:11:00 pm

RT @mtechman: Orisinal, fun Flash games that won't drive parents crazy http://www.ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ [Awesomely addictive.] #

November 19, 2009 | In Fun Stuff | No Comments

Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-11-18

Posted by Jen - 18/11/09 at 02:11:00 pm

RT @TechCrunch: Google Sites Become Prettier With Templates http://bit.ly/2AZFHQ by @leenarao [well they're LESS ugly now...] #
RT @nytimes: Online Maps: Everyman Offers New Directions http://bit.ly/1h77rO [Foucault would have a field day with this.] #
RT @web20classroom: Using Google Apps for ePortfolios….http://is.gd/4WFPl [This RT is for Katie and my SWC peeps] #

November 18, 2009 | In Fun Stuff | No Comments

Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-11-14

Posted by Jen - 14/11/09 at 02:11:00 pm

Yearning, wishing, hoping for an open source cross-platform easy-to-use video editor for the classroom. Anyone find it yet? #
RT @kylepace: Mikogo – Free desktop sharing tool for presentations, webinars, meetings, etc. http://bit.ly/unSxB #

November 14, 2009 | In Fun Stuff | No Comments

Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-11-13

Posted by Jen - 13/11/09 at 02:11:00 pm

RT @bgblogging: RT @geoparadigm: 30 Infographic Maps http://bit.ly/2XMwqi Remarkable #
RT @billgx: RT @Minervity: Want to Generate Color Schemes from Your Photos? – http://bit.ly/1d8gxu [love it!] #

November 13, 2009 | In Fun Stuff | No Comments

Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-11-05

Posted by Jen - 05/11/09 at 02:11:00 pm

RT @web20classroom: Excellent examples of ways to use Wordle In The Classroom….http://is.gd/4O86c #
RT @mashable: Now trending on Mashable: "Now You Can Dislike Stuff on Facebook (With a Firefox Plugin)" – http://bit.ly/1yQiXA [finally!] #

November 5, 2009 | In Fun Stuff | No Comments

Jen’s Twitter Updates for 2009-11-03

Posted by Jen - 03/11/09 at 02:11:00 pm

[Who pays this much for p. towels!? 62c is my normal. Thegrocerygame.com srsly] @LifeB4Tw1tter puts paper towels 2 test: http://bit.ly/U7IHi #

November 3, 2009 | In Fun Stuff | No Comments