Patrick Rothfuss, author of The wise man's fear and The name of the wind, has started a Geek and sundry series of videos called The story board. In these videos Patrick Rothfuss talks with leading writers about some really interesting ideas. These videos would be great for people to use for readers advisory professional development.
The authors are key writers in different (mostly fantasy based) genres, talking about writing. They also seem to be having a lot of fun. It is also a way of demonstrating what can be done with a Google hangout. Enjoy.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Thursday, September 27, 2012
branch discussions about librarians around the city
I found out about branch thanks to Justin Hoenke. There seems some great potential with this as a discussion tool. I will have to play around with it a bit, but am excited by the possibilities it presents for (lightly) structured public discussion.
Have a look at this discussion about librarians around the city.
Friday, September 14, 2012
#learn12 : links for my presentation for Learning for all conference
The following links are for my presentation for Learning for all. I would suggest reading my paper as well (once it is published).
Statistics on video game use in Australia
Board games
Library games
- Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game
- Ann Arbor District Library Summer Game earn points
- GetGlue
- Pierce County Library Teen summer challenge
- Nicholson, Scott Everyone plays at thelibrary : creating great gaming experiences for all ages, Medford, N.J. : Information Today, Inc., c2010
- Find the future : the game
Changing thinking about games
- LARPs can change the world 27 March 2012
- Grimm, Nick, 5 reasons to play D&D Grimm wisdom, 5 August 2012
- Beck Bob, Michael Porter, and David Lisa World of Warcraft and libraries, Computers in Libraries 2010
- Edited transcript of online seminar June 2010, Games and libraries wiki
- Mayer, Brian and Christopher Harris, Libraries got game : aligned learning through modern board games, Chicago : American Library Association, 2010. If you are an ALIA member you can access this as an ebook - full list here)
- BoardGameGeek
- TableTop with WilWheaton by Geek & Sundry
- Game Library for the School Library System of Genesee Valley EducationalPartnership
Science games
Museum games
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing ideas to consider including in education
programs
- Old Weather
- Zooinverse
- University of Iowa Libraries Civil War diaries and letters transcriptionproject
- UI Lib transcripts
- What’s the score at the Bodleian?
- Hear whales communicate
- The Milky Way project
- British Library, Placing historic maps
- Remember me : displaced children of the Holocaust
- Kesler, Sarah Crowdsourcing helps Holocaust survivors find answers, Mashable 23 May 2011 / [accessed 20 August 2012]
- Museum of the future, Crowdsourcing
- [US] National Archives : Citizen archivist dashboard
- Distributed proofreaders
- Project Gutenburg
- Duolingo
- Duolingo review, PCMag
- Gooseberry Patch
- HistoryPin
- Wikipedia list of crowdsourcing projects
- CrowdFlower
- Tomnod
- Datablog, The Guardian
- Flickr Commons
and for some more ideas about libraries and games see my paper Playing with readers Information Online, January 2011
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Someone removed my metadata before reusing some photographs
I know this sounds weird, but someone stripped the metadata from some images I have on Flickr and reused without any acknowledgement on their blog, which was then pinned on Pinterest. I am reluctant to give the blog which did this more traffic, but looking at it makes the point.
I have been thinking about this for a few days, just on and off. They created more work for themselves because they removed the metadata. The real artists are the architects and designers who created the TU Delft Architecture Library, and they don't rate a mention in the blog post either. The name of the library is not even mentioned.
The same image had made its way to Pinterest already
along with several others which people had pinned from my Flickr account. I make my photographs available with Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share alike licence, so they are easy for other people to use. It would have taken more time to remove the metadata, than to leave it with the image.
The same images have been used before, with attribution, for example on Alloway Library News and Recylart which shows how easy it is.
I am really happy to have my images reused which is why I make them available with Creative Commons Licences. I also do it so that people don't have to ask, they can see from the licence what is possible, and use it.
I came across the example of metadata removal when I was looking for something for work this week on Pinterest which had nothing to do with information desks. I was initially really pleased to see that other people had been photographing the TU Delft Architecture Library as it is a very beautiful library, but then I realised that they were actually my photographs with no attribution. I realise that there would be other examples out there, but I tripped across this one. It was the pettiness of removing the metadata which had me thinking. Flickr makes it really easy to share images and keep all the metadata intact (which is brilliant).
I am going to continue to share my photographs because I think it is helpful, and I know I benefit a lot from other people who share their images for reuse.
If you would like to see more image if the TU Delft Architecture Library, have a look at the slideshow below
I have been thinking about this for a few days, just on and off. They created more work for themselves because they removed the metadata. The real artists are the architects and designers who created the TU Delft Architecture Library, and they don't rate a mention in the blog post either. The name of the library is not even mentioned.
The same image had made its way to Pinterest already
along with several others which people had pinned from my Flickr account. I make my photographs available with Creative Commons attribution, non-commercial, share alike licence, so they are easy for other people to use. It would have taken more time to remove the metadata, than to leave it with the image.
The same images have been used before, with attribution, for example on Alloway Library News and Recylart which shows how easy it is.
I am really happy to have my images reused which is why I make them available with Creative Commons Licences. I also do it so that people don't have to ask, they can see from the licence what is possible, and use it.
I came across the example of metadata removal when I was looking for something for work this week on Pinterest which had nothing to do with information desks. I was initially really pleased to see that other people had been photographing the TU Delft Architecture Library as it is a very beautiful library, but then I realised that they were actually my photographs with no attribution. I realise that there would be other examples out there, but I tripped across this one. It was the pettiness of removing the metadata which had me thinking. Flickr makes it really easy to share images and keep all the metadata intact (which is brilliant).
I am going to continue to share my photographs because I think it is helpful, and I know I benefit a lot from other people who share their images for reuse.
If you would like to see more image if the TU Delft Architecture Library, have a look at the slideshow below
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