Digi TechForum: Looking at Dead & Emerging Technologies

Darlene Fichter

March 21, 2006

Small pieces loosely joined

By now … Next …

Tim 0’Reilly – What is Web 2.0? http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html

Theme Songs ?

I am a rock

I am an island

Your space

My spacePhoto: thoth92

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So happy together

Together

How does “it” feel?

Need an article?Finding Journal Articles#1. Go to Library home page#2. Where is the link to online articles?#3. Guess which link to click to find articles#4. 350 databases in an A-Z list “What were they thinking?” #5. “Which one should I try?

What does this stuff mean?   ABI/INFORM Global, Academic Search Premier,  ASABE Technical Library”

#6. “I have no idea what database to pick.” #7. “Where is ERIC – I’ve used that before.”#8. Pick an article database that might have my topic but does it have

“online articles”?#9. Enter some keywords.#10. Cross fingers, feel lucky.#11. No results aaargh! OR 1000 results …#12. “Why can’t I limit to scholarly?”#13. Sift through the results one by one.#14. Here’s an article that could work! #15. Start clicking on “Find It” – “aarrgh” no full text#16. Try again – Yes - an article that could work!#17. If lucky, repeat #9-#11 till done.#18. Otherwise, repeat #4 to #11 till done.

Supertramp’s

Take the Long Way Home

Need a article?

I’ll just Google it!

Maybe my buddy will IM me his.

In the midst of Tech Storm

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.Faye Wattleton

Tech Storms

The Perfect E-Storm: Emerging Technology, Enormous Learner Demands, Enhanced Pedagogy, and Erased Budgets – Curtis Bonk

Emerging

Technologies

Erased

Budgets

Escalating

Demands

Enhanced

Services

If don’t look, it’ll go away!

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You Can’t Control My Mind!

http://eclectech.co.uk/mindcontrol.php

I’ll Just Watch from over Here, Thanks!

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Stabilo BossSome Rights Reserved

Embrace it! - Digital Native

Survival Tips Librarian 2.0

New Competencies*

1. Digital read/write participants skills: write daily, read, vary diet, test, draw, record,

summarize

2. Learning with others (sociality of everything we do)

skills: listen, filter, search, tag, annotate, …

Nancy “Snow” White: Seven Competencies of Online Interaction Presentation at Northern Voice Blogging Conference, www.archive.org/details/ConferencePresentation

3. Facilitators for relationships, reputation, presence,

flow skills: art of convening conversations, connectors,

networkers …

4. Intercultural Antennae skills: learn to speak and listen outside of your default culture

5. Tolerance for Ambiguity skills: feel ok with “not in control”, not knowing but move

forward w/o certainty … we need to improvise

6. Learn the tools skills: play more, experiential learning, observe, interact

7. Self-Awareness

Remix (inspired by Michael Casey and Michael Stephens)

Hetemeel.com http://www.hetemeel.com/einsteinform.php

Thanks

Darlene Fichter http://library.usask.ca/~fichter darlene.fichter@usask.ca MSN: darlene.fichter@usask.ca AIM: darlenefichter