On ‘Participation Culture, Creativity and Social Change’

Friday, August 6th, 2010

I loved this presentation- so many great ideas. As ever, I can only apply the experience to being an educator, not a librarian. And I am comfronted with the question as to whether I am doing enough to encourage my students to be creators rather than just passive consumers of knowledge.  As mentioned in a […]

Outline for final paper

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

Facebook and Information Literacy Instruction in Higher Education For many children and young adults- sometimes called the Millennial generation- online social networking has become an increasingly important sphere for both interacting with others and for exercising their creativity (Holmburg et al,  2008).  Yet, it can be argued that libraries and schools have been slow to […]

Libraries vs collaboration

Saturday, July 31st, 2010

As I watched this video, the first thing that came to mind was, ‘Oh, geez, I’d really like to do my part of our wiki project over again.’ I assembled all these points related to planning, consultation, articulating goals etc.- that is, all the stuff that a typical public library has had to do to […]

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