The DPLA is the first national project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans, and eventually to everyone in the world, online and free of charge! How is this possible? If you are intrigued, and have a million questions, please read the questions and answers about DPLA as provided by Director of Content Emily Gore in a recent online post at http://tinyurl.com/ccuvrn8.
The “in person” event launch for DPLA in Boston was to be April 18, 2013, but due to the Boston Marathon tragedy, which happened directly across the street, there has been a slight change in plans. The online site will go live as scheduled with online help to assist users. See the Dan Cohen link below for more detail.
The 2012-2013 school year is coming to a close. Despite dwindling budgets, this past year continued to challenge many K-12 and Higher Education institutions to redefine learning and redesign traditional classroom concepts.
As a result, industry leaders such as SXSWebu, a technology and learning think-tank, took a hard look at the leading trendsetters in education during their annual conference held in Texas. Read Edudemic’s post listing the top 10 hot topics discussed by these front-line classroom educators. These trends should be of interest to K-12, college, and public librarians alike!
No matter what kind of librarian you are, you probably accept the fact that you are a teacher. And as teachers we interact with individuals or groups who also interact with teachers in other settings. Therefore, it is important for us to keep track of what is changing in the broader educational world, as it has direct impact on many of our users. The recent SXSWedu Conference in Austin Texas highlighted the idea of educators becoming facilitators in personalized learning environments.
Read a short article for details about the bullets below, but in a nutshell, the key foci of the conference were:
• Teach students to find the answers.
• Ignite a spark.
• Put context before content.
• Let learning be iffy.
• Bring students in as curriculum designers.
An article in the April 9th Star Tribune gives helpful detail about efforts to embed technology in the Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, and Bloomington schools.
Read more to hear what kinds of tablets were used and what Microsoft and Best Buy added to the resource base to make transformative learning come alive in these metro schools.
Have you wondered how many people log in to Facebook in a single minute?
According to a new infographic posted by Intel, it’s a staggering 277,000 logins every minute, even as six million Facebook pages are getting viewed per minute. Do you ever need to do presentations about the scale and growth of the Internet? If so, you have got to save this visual treasure trove of data. By breaking the Internet down into what happens in one minute, the numbers are at least a little more manageable. Take a look at http://tinyurl.com/bnwtx44
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