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Top Ten Links Week 40 – Broadband, Time Management and Productivity

October 11, 2010
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Top Ten Links Week 40 – Broadband, Time Management and Productivity

My personal select top ten from the links I shared on Twitter 10/1/2010 through 10/7/2010. The best of the best and/or the most important stuff I tweeted last week 1. broadband is the great infrastructure challenge of the early 21st century #broadband – a broadband.gov post from Phoebe Yang – Senior Advisor to the Chairman on Broadband. It’s no great secret how I feel about broadband and the digital divide. 2. Three more folks on the Bloggers@IL2010 list and now WordPress.com and WordPress Self Hosted are tied again.- Going to be at Internet Librarian and blogging your sessions? Let ITI know so you will be on the resource list for those who can’t attend 3. 8 Bad Habits that Crush Your Creativity And Stifle Your Success via @copyblogger @DanielPink Creating and evaluating at the same time The Expert Syndrome Fear of failure Fear of ambiguity Lack of confidence Discouragement from other people Being overwhelmed by information Being trapped by false limits 4. E-rate in a Broadband World - This week, the Commission released the text of an order that modernizes and upgrades the E-rate program to bring fast, affordable Internet access to schools and libraries across the country. … the

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Top Ten Links Week 11

March 21, 2010
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Top Ten Links Week 11

My personally selected top 10 from the links I shared on Twitter from 3/12/2010 thru 3/18/2010 1. Media Skills Integrated into Core Standards #transliteracy – A draft of K-12 standards put forth by the National Governor’s Association, as part of theCommon Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), integrates media skills as a key design consideration of these standards. 2. love this picture of the social media bandwagon - from @jimmy1712‘s blog.via @theREALwikimanv- even better it has a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial license! 3. Excellent primer on covering FCC broadband plan and why it matters via @knightfdn @ibarguen: This is an issue that will touch just about every reader, viewer, listener and online user. After all, 35 percent of Americans (about 100 million people) do not have broadband access 4. FCC Proposes Digital Literacy Corps from the Libraries and Transliteracy blog For millions of Americans, libraries and other public computing centers are important venues for free Internet access. Libraries are established institutions where non-adopters know they can access the Internet, but community centers, employment offices, churches and other social service offices play increasingly important roles. Low-income Americans and racial and ethnic minorities, in particular, rely on public institutions and community access centers for Internet access. Over

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Transliteracy is 3D

February 4, 2010
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Since posting the Libraries and Transliteracy slideshow I’ve been asked many times to define transliteracy. Its a slippery term, people often confuse it with digital literacy or technology literacy. Sometimes I’m not sure I even have a good grasp on the concept. So a colleague and I sat out to hash out the details, here is what we came up with. Transliteracy is 3D View more presentations from Bobbi Newman. In collaboration with Brian Hulsey Special thanks to Sue Thomas and Tom Ipri for their input & approval. If you’d like to learn about libraries and transilteracy please visit my Transliteracy page If you’d like to know more about transliteracy in general please visit transliteracy.com and follow the conference on February 9th. Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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Andy Woodworth’s 5 Universal Truths That All Librarians Can Agree Upon

January 4, 2010
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Andy has put together a list of 5 Universal Truths That All Librarians Can Agree Upon Right Now. Perception of information is changing Literacy is changing Libraries are now part of greater information chorus Communication is our friend The underlying philosophies of the library have not changed I like the focus on the positive and of course I want to know – do you agree? Bookmark on Delicious Digg this post Share on FriendFeed Share on netvibes share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tumblr it Buzz it up Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Tell a friend

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