Riding the Waves of Technology

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• Riding the Waves of TechnologyInstead of Being
  Engulfed by Them????????????
• Janice Carter
• Director,University Library
• Golden Gate University
• jcarter_at_ggu.edu

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• Librarians have a great opportunity seeking out,
  researching and integrating new technologies
  effectively to ??????????????????????,??
• Promote library goals and objectives???????????
• Address needs and expectations of library
  users?????????????
• Share expertise with others ??????????
• Build awareness of the value librarians bring to
  their constituencies ???????????

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Librarians????

• Continually review and assess information seeking
  behavior?????????????
• Continually seek out new and more effective ways
  of promoting library goals ????????????????????
• Share information, knowledge, and pedagogy with
  others??????????

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Perhaps This Is True for All Librarians
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• Our strength as service providers and our
  experience modifying social technologies
  positions academic librarians to facilitate and
  encourage this learning customization as an
  aspect of information and technology
  literacy.???????????????????????????????????????,
  ?????????????
• Char Booth, Informing Innovation Tracking
  Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies
  at Ohio University A Research Report, Chapter
  8, Conclusion. ALA, 2009, p. 102
• Retrieved May 1, 2010, via http//www.ala.org/ala/
  mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/digital/ii-booth.pdf

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Perhaps This Is Relevant for All
Librarians??????????????

• Instead of mimicking the successes of peer
  institutions, academic librarians must sharpen
  their understanding of the cultures in which they
  operate in order to perceive where and when
  dynamic and social technologies are needed,
  wanted, and sustainable. ?????????????????,??????
  ?????????,?????????????,??????????????????????????
  
• Char Booth, Informing Innovation Tracking
  Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies
  at Ohio University A Research Report, Chapter
  8, conclusion. ALA, 2009, p. 103, Retrieved May
  1, 2010, via http//www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acr
  l/publications/digital/ii-booth.pdf

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Conditions for Library Innovation????????

• Char Booth identifies the following conditions
  for successful local climates of library
  innovation
• Char Booth??????????????
• 1) Research-based insight into local library,
  information and technology cultures???????????????
  ?????????
• 2) Knowledge of the universal characteristics of
  successful library technologies that can be
  applied in any context ??????????????????????
• 3) Understanding of local organizational
  structures/processes and their likely effect on
  technology planning and collaboration
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• 4) Active pursuit of working cultures that
  encourage prototyping, piloting, and
  experimentation ?????????????????

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Conditions for Library Innovation
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• 5) Systematic planning for the implementation
  and assessment of emerging technology
  projects?????????????????????
• 6) A nuanced approach to library evaluation that
  takes into account the lon tail effect of niche
  library services on overall usage statistics
• 7) A commitment to creative user outreach and
  education to raise the library profile
  ??????????????????
• 8) Transparent internal and external
  communication during the assessment, development
  and evaluation process.????????????????
• Char Booth, Informing Innovation Tracking
  Student Interest in Emerging Library Technologies
  at Ohio University A Research Report, Chapter
  8, Conclusion. ALA, 2009, p. 103, Retrieved May
  1, 2010, via http//www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acr
  l/publications/digital/ii-booth.pdf

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• How can we do all this? ??????

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Librarian Joke??????

• The librarian says?????
• Between my brother and myself we know
  everything.????????????????
• When you ask the librarian a question, he or she
  replies ???????????,???
• Thats one of the things my brother knows.
  ????????????
• The trick is finding the brother (or sister) who
  knows that.

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• Collaboration and sharing expertise?????????
• With other librarians, ???????
• With teachers and other educators?????????
• With technology experts ?????
• With students and other library patrons????????
• In person and/or online?????

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• In A Wiki Collaboration to Create National
  Guidelines Tips for Professional Practice, by
  Patt Moser, Knowledge Quest, Nov-Dec 2009,
• Patt Moser writes I recently read somewhere
  that in our current participatory culture
  educators have a responsibility to contribute to
  everyones learning process by sharing their
  thoughts online. (p. 52)?????,???????????,???????
  ?????,??????????????

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• Patt Moser describes the process she and other
  independent school librarians used to develop
  national guidelines, Principles of Good Practice
  for independent school libraries throughout the
  United States
• Patt Moser????????????????????????-???????????????
  ????,

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Her tips for wiki collaboration???????

• Gather the committee members ??????
• Start the wiki ????
• Invite members to join the wiki, give them
  read/write privileges ????????,???????
• Provide reminders that encourage members to keep
  at it. Do not rely solely on the wiki to carry
  the conversationUse e-mail, Facebook, Twitter or
  any tool available to remind members to
  contribute ???????????,????????????,??e-mail,
  Facebook, Twitter????????????
• Frequently reassure them that they can edit the
  wiki without permanently deleting another
  members work ??????,???????????????,????????
• Periodically edit the draft on the wiki to
  include the thoughts that others chose not to
  write themselves
• ???????????????????????
• Let members know when you think the draft is
  finished and give them a chance to review it
  before declaring it finished. This will almost
  always lead to more changes
• ?????,?????????,????????????,?????????
• Quote from A Wiki Collaboration to Create
  National Guidelines Tips for Professional
  Practice, by Patt Moser, Knowledge Quest,
  Nov-Dec 2009, p. 52

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• Note how she coached her colleagues through the
  process.???????????????
• Provide reminders that encourage members to keep
  at it. Do not rely solely on the wiki to carry
  the conversationUse e-mail, Facebook, Twitter or
  any tool available to remind members to
  contribute???????????,????????????,??e-mail,
  Facebook, Twitter????????????

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Brenda Dervins sense-making metaphor (1992)
Brenda Dervins ????

• Dervin, B. (1999). On studying information
  seeking methodologically the implications of
  connecting metatheory to method. Information
  Processing Management, 35(6), 727-750, as cited
  by
• Godbold, N. (2006)Beyond information seeking
  towards a general model of information behaviour,
  IR Information Research, Vol. 11 No. 4, July 2006
  , via http//informationr.net/ir/11-4/paper269.htm
  l, retrieved May 1, 2010

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Implications of Information Gap Analysis for
Adapting New Technologies???????????????

• When the gap seems big ?????
• Individuals may not search for information if
  they perceive that the gap is too big. The gap
  may appear too big when undertaking information
  behaviour involves risk, as suggested by Chatman
  (2000) and Wilson (1997) Chatman ? Wilson
  ??,??????????,?????????,???????????,??????,
• emotional risk, (fear of bad news, fear of
  failure, fear of increased uncertainty)
• physical risk and
• political/social risk (endangering your status or
  acceptability in your community).
• ?????(?????????????)?????????/????(?????????????
  )
• Other situations in which the gap will appear
  too big are when the person feels they do not
  have time or cannot see how to proceed.
  ?????????????????????????,???????
• Above quotes are from Beyond information
  seeking towards a general model of information
  behaviour, by Natalya Godbold, iR Information
  Research, Vol. 11 No. 4, July 2006, as retrieved
  May 1, 2010 via http//informationr.net/ir/11-4/p
  aper269.html, citing
• Chatman, E. A. (2000). Framing social life in
  theory and research. New Review of Information
  Behaviour Research, 3-17
• Wilson, T.D. (1997). Information behaviour an
  inter-diciplinary persepective. In P. Vakkari,
  R. Savolainen B. Dervin (Eds.). Information
  seeking in context. Proceedings of an
  international conference on research in
  information needs, seeking and use in different
  contexts 14-16 August, 1996, Tampere, Finland.
  (pp. 39-50) London Taylor Graham.

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Some Tools We Can Use to Share Ideas and Coach
Each Other????????????????????

• Include??
• Wikis (as we have seen above)??(????)
• Personal Learning Networks??????
• Conferences??
• Publications Online ?????

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Personal Learning Networks?????

• Personal learning networks are created by an
  individual learner, specific to the learners
  needs extending relevant learning connections to
  like-interested people around the globe.
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• PLNs provide individuals with learning and
  access to leaders and experts around the world
  bringing together communities, resources and
  information impossible to access solely from
  within school walls.????????????????????,????????
  ??????????, ??????????
• Quote and picture from Lisa Nielsens 5 Things
  You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal
  Learning Network, The Innovative Educator,
  Sunday, October 12, 2008, retrieved from
  http//theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/04/
  5-things-you-can-do-to-begin-developing.html
• May 1, 2010
• Diagram is from David Warlicks PLN

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5 Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your
Personal Learning Network?????????????5??

• 1. Join a professional social network. I belong
  to Classroom 2.0 (for educators using Web 2.0
  technology) and EduBlogger World (for education
  bloggers) and I launched a social network called
  The Innovative Educator (enhancing instruction
  with tech across the content areas).
  ????????,???Classroom 2.0 (??Web 2.0
  ??)?EduBlogger World (????),??????The Innovative
  Educator?????(????????)
• 2. Pick 5 Blogs you find interesting and start
  reading them. In addition to my own blog, I
  follow weblogg-ed learning with the read/write
  web, Tales of a Technology Omnivore, The Brazen
  Careerist, Cool Cat Teacher, Ted Talks, Dan H.
  Pink. You may want to look at some of these as
  well as find other Education Blogs or explore the
  listing of International Edubloggers.
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• 3. Subscribe to the blogs you selected.
  Caution Limit your reader to five to start.
  Keeping up with more blogs will be
  difficult.????????,??,????????5?,???????????
• 4. Become a part of the conversation and start
  commenting on the blogs you read.
  ???????????,?????
• 5. Join the microblogging phenomena by reading
  Tweets at Twitter. Start by selecting 5
  well-known Edubloggers Id recommend starting
  with willrich45 / Will Richardson, coolcatteacher
  / Vicki Davis, stevehargadon / Steve Hargadon,
  acarvin / Andy Carvin, penelopetrunk / Penelope
  Trunk, ????Twitter????,??5??????,????willrich45?
  ??
• Quote is from Lisa Nielsens 5 Things You Can Do
  to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning
  Network, The Innovative Educator, Sunday, October
  12, 2008, retrieved May 1, 2010 from
  http//theinnovativeeducator.blogspot.com/2008/04/
  5-things-you-can-do-to-begin-developing.html

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For me, the information gap is too large

• Dervin, B. (1999). On studying information
  seeking methodologically the implications of
  connecting metatheory to method. Information
  Processing Management, 35(6), 727-750, as cited
  by
• Godbold, N. (2006)Beyond information seeking
  towards a general model of information behaviour,
  IR Information Research, Vol. 11 No. 4, July 2006
  , via http//informationr.net/ir/11-4/paper269.htm
  l, retrieved May 1, 2010

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• We all have personal learning networks????????
• Take a minute to think about yours.????????
• How do you learn? ??????
• Whom do you consult? ?????
• What works for you? ??????

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• See also The Art Technique ofPersonal Learning
  Networksor A Gardeners Approach to Learning
  from David Warlicks Colearners
  ????http//davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/T
  heArtAmpTechniqueOfCultivatingYourPersonalLearning
  Network

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• In a way, what we're talking about is a
  gardener's approach to learning, where we are
  working an information ecosystem, learning how
  its elements interrelate and arranging new
  relations to create an environment, a network,
  that produces what we need to know to do what we
  need to do.
• This quote and the image on the next page are
  from
• The Art Technique of Personal Learning
  Networksor "A Gardener's Approach to Learning
  from David Warlicks Colearners
  http//davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheAr
  tAmpTechniqueOfCultivatingYourPersonalLearningNetw
  ork, retrieved May 1, 2010

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Choose Sources That Work For YOU??????????

• Tech Talk for Befuddled Academics
• via The Chronicle of Higher Education
• screen shot from http//chronicle.com/forums/inde
  x.php/board,58.0.html
• retrieved March 1, 2010

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Look to Sources that Summarize Information????????

• One Hashtag Helps Educators Change Their Schools,
  by Tanya Roscorla,
• http//www.convergemag.com/edtech/One-Hashtag-Help
  s-Educators-Change-Their-Schools.html
• Retrieved March 2, 2010

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• For more on edchat, check out these
  links?????edchat,??????
• Edchat wikihttp//edchat.pbworks.com/
•  
• Edchat group on The Educator's PLN ning
  http//edupln.ning.com/group/edchat
•  
• Blogs that summarize Edchats include
  ??Edchats?????
• 1. Teacher Reboot Camp by Shelly Terrell2.
  Rliberni's Blog by Berni Wall3. Blogging about
  the Web 2.0 Connected Classroom by Steven W.
  Anderson

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Look to People Who Summarize What Is Happening
??????????????

• Teacher Reboot Camp
• http//teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/
• Retrieved March 2, 2010

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• These are just examples. ?????
• What is important is what works for ????????
• What works for you in light of??????????
• Your goals and objectives? ??
• Your needs and interests??????
• Your knowledge base? ??????
• Your community? ????

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References????

• Anderson, S.,(2010, March 2) Why a PLN?
  Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom, A
  Blend Of Technology And Education, retrieved from
  http//web20classroom.blogspot.com/ May 1, 2010
• Booth, C. ( 2009) Informing Innovation
  Tracking Student Interest in Emerging Library
  Technologies at Ohio University A Research
  Report, Chapter 8, Conclusion. ALA, 2009, p.
  103, Retrieved May 1, 2010, via
  http//www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publication
  s/digital/ii-booth.pdf
• Dervin, B. (1999). On studying information
  seeking methodologically the implications of
  connecting metatheory to method. Information
  Processing Management, 35(6), 727-750, as cited
  by Godbold, N. (2006)Beyond information
  seeking towards a general model of information
  behaviour, IR Information Research, Vol. 11 No.
  4, July 2006 , via http//informationr.net/ir/11-4
  /paper269.html, retrieved May 1, 2010

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References (continued)????

• Godbold, N.Beyond information seeking towards a
  general model of information behaviour, iR
  Information Research, Vol. 11 No. 4, July 2006,
  as retrieved May 1, 2010 via http//informationr.n
  et/ir/11-4/paper269.html, citing Chatman, E. A.
  (2000). Framing social life in theory and
  research. New Review of Information Behaviour
  Research, 3-17, and Wilson, T.D. (1997).
  Information behaviour an inter-diciplinary
  persepective. In P. Vakkari, R. Savolainen B.
  Dervin (Eds.). Information seeking in context.
  Proceedings of an international conference on
  research in information needs, seeking and use in
  different contexts 14-16 August, 1996, Tampere,
  Finland. (pp. 39-50) London Taylor Graham.
• Moser,P. (2009) A Wiki Collaboration to Create
  National Guidelines Tips for Professional
  Practice, Knowledge Quest, Vol 38, no. 2,
  Nov-Dec 2009, pp. 47-52
• Nielsen, L. (2010) 5 Things You Can Do to Begin
  Developing Your Personal Learning Network, The
  Innovative Educator, Sunday, October 12, 2008,
  retrieved from http//theinnovativeeducator.blogsp
  ot.com/2008/04/5-things-you-can-do-to-begin-develo
  ping.html May 1, 2010 Diagram is from David
  Warlicks PLN

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References (continued)????

• Roscorla, Tanya, One Hashtag Helps Educators
  Change Their Schools (2010)Converge Magazine,
  January 8, 2010, retrieved March 2, 2010, from
  http//www.convergemag.com/edtech/One-Hashtag-Help
  s-Educators-Change-Their-Schools.html
• Tech Talk for Befuddled Academics (2010) via
  The Chronicle of Higher Education, screen shot
  from http//chronicle.com/forums/index.php/board,5
  8.0.html retrieved March 1, 2010
• Terrell, Shelley, Teacher Reboot Camp
  http//teacherbootcamp.edublogs.org/
• retrieved March 2, 2010
• Warlick, D (2010) The Art Technique of
  Personal Learning Networks, or A Gardener's
  Approach to Learning David Warlicks Colearners
  http//davidwarlick.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheAr
  tAmpTechniqueOfCultivatingYourPersonalLearningNetw
  ork, retrieved May 1, 2010