Nancy Davenport
compelling to reach for students where they live
- paradigm shifts
- abundance, not scarcity
- ideas as private property
- collection to customer
- if it’s not digital, it doesn’t exist
Really creative universities are working at boundaries and borders, where they’re blurring.
- Collaboration expected
- Failure appropriate
Commons
- Information
- learning
- focus on the ’stuff of learning’
- focus on the learner
suggests that we get used to Wikipedia
If you see a problem, fix it.
The question isn’t if it’s okay. It’s that they’re using it.
Rochester has an anthropologist on staff
- teaches librarians how to observe their students
- w/in first three steps of research paper, called students
- talked with peer councilors, older
- What about information counseling for RAs?
Minnesota doing a lot of neat things
- mobile librarians, take to students (dorms, classrooms, cafes, etc)
- looking at social networking and how it impact learning experience
Univ. of Richmond configured OPAC for PDA & has RSS feeds
Colorado College language: speakers from multiple regions, see character, watch character being written
Social Networking: be where they are, go where they go
staff of Facebook with chat addresses
Email is not cool
- Syllabus online
- problem sets, podcasts
- listen ahead
- class for questions, delving deeper, experiments
- class blog includes students
- CONNECTIVISM ANYONE?
Coming Attractions include sending IMs from shoes based on location
collaboration is important
- be part of team
- part of institution
- be on educational mission (not tech for own sake)
- be bilingual
Keep up to date:
See new products or technologies: think how are they applicable at home? at work? what do students say?
Don’t do things for the sake of doing them
donors: deliver content to them:
- notable lectures
- digitized treasures
- executive and faculty bios/photos
- recording of campus concerts
- how you used their money
Lynn O’Brien
Discussed Duke iPod project
explained case study:
Duke gave out iPods & microphones
One case of podcasting class projects. Enrollment shot through the roof because students knew they’d do real projects people would really use.
iPod use in year one:
- portable access to course materials
- use of richer course content in varied formats
- in-class audio recording for review/preview/reuse
- out of course audio recording (writing/field notes/interviews/etc)
“Use what they use, go where they go” drives innovation
Note for myself: Duke has dealt with ereserves on iPod question
Changed iPod program a lot. Now they don’t give out iPods based on class. Distributed based on need. Sometimes tablet PCs more useful. Sometimes extra tech isn’t.
Neurobiology program developed for iPod
- 500+ key terms
- text descriptions
- audio pronunciation
- images
This isn’t what they were going to learn in the course, but what they need to know to follow what’s going on in the course.
Hired a full-time person with MLS, law, and divinity degrees to watch fair-use, copyright issues.
Move students and faculty from consumers to producers of information.
Well designed facilities bring students in.
Students create spaces: Duke library didn’t set rules, but there are established quiet places and established chatting spaces.
In a relationship with Public Radio International Duke librarians are working on how to search audio and video to find the 5 relevant minutes (This is awesome! This is the one problem I have with podcasting today!)
Duke going to start a study this fall to see how this impacts learning. However, foreign language classes don’t want to go back to traditional teaching. Hard to have one control section because students switch to the iPod section.
In The Global Economy: North Carolina was started to teach students how to write verbally and visually. (This reminds me of my course with Bob.)
- This site is used all over country and world.
- It includes a video intro, research papers, etc.
- Face of new classwork.
Are we ready to provide the rich multimedia content needed in the classroom?
Are we moving fast enough to deliver materials in the way people want them?
Nancy Davenport recommends trying Facebook to see what happens. If no one leaves a message or asks a question, then not working, so you can take it down. If it works, leave it up.
Companion Poster Sessions:
Audio On The Go: The NCSU Libraries Digital Audio Player Lending Service
Robert Capuano
John Vickery
Combining Camtasia with Hand Held Video Players in Support of Interactive learning in academic libraries
Alan W. Aldrich
Courseware Connections: Inhabiting Your Campus CMS
Maureen Kelly
Kate Gronemeyer
How to Get Game: Conducting Gaming Events in an Academic Library
Giz Womack (of WFU)
Instant Message Reference Service at ECU’s Joyner Library
Mark Sanders
Wherever you go, I-Go: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library Web Brower Toolbar
Chirstpher Hamb
Lisa Hinchliffe
David Ward
I missed a bunch of interesting programs to attend this one. Did anyone blog the following?
- LITA: The Ultimate Debate: Who Controls the Future of Search
- Science Fiction: The Literature of Ideas
- ACRL-IS Emerging Technologies
- ACRL-WSS Introduction to Women’s Issues
- Model Programs from the Immersion Experience
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I am so glad you posted this, as I was late, lost in the other end of 3rd floor, and literally couldn’t get in the room.
Posted 30 Jun 2006 at 12:38 pm ¶No problem! Thanks for commenting. Several times I was a little late to where I was going due to the tricky room numbering on the 3rd floor!
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