Taking control of fair use – (Peer-Reviewed Monday)

Posted on June 29, 2009 by Anne-Marie

And… on a Monday even.  What are the odds? This article (PDF) picks up on the post last week about Emily the Strange and Nate the Great.  In terms of creativity, transformation, fair use and — what this means for those of us in libraries, those of us who teach, or those of us in [...]

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SLIM Information Literacy class

Posted on June 27, 2009 by Anne-Marie

LibrarySecrets (and on Twitter) Web 2.0 tools by Bloom’s Taxonomy Levels Toolkit Google Reader Delicious linkrolls Delicious tagrolls WorldCAT WorldCAT widgets Toonlet Vodpod widgets Wordle Library a la Carte LibGuides (SpringShare) Netvibes Scholarship ScienceBlogs ResearchBlogging SciVee Scientia Pro Publica blog carnival On Newspapers as Sources (A Historian’s Craft) The Academic Manuscript (Wicked Anomie) Useful Chemistry [...]

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BBC Memoryshare – visualization + history

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Anne-Marie

I have only spent 7 minutes in here, but I am already in love.  From the BBC – Memoryshare, “a place to share and explore memories.” It’s a totally fun visualization tool – a sliding timeline down the left side of the screen lets you drill down to a year and browse through people’s memories [...]

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comics & copyright, but not comics-specific

Posted on June 19, 2009 by Anne-Marie

I don’t know how many of you are aware of the explosion of copyright discussion surrounding Emily the Strange and Nate the Great (and the alleged intersections between the two).  I read probably more than my share of comics news, and most of it entirely passed me by. At issue, does this character: equal this [...]

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Motivating students in the one-shot (peer-reviewed Monday)

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Anne-Marie

Okay, not really.  And OMG Peer-Reviewed Monday is back!  But there are connections to the one-shot here, really. One thing that came out, over and over, in the research that Kate and I just presented at WILU was the idea that student in information literacy classes aren’t motivated to do the work, and that the [...]

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evaluation – do I care?

Posted on June 6, 2009 by Anne-Marie

if we define “good information” as something that makes you go – “OMG I have to find out more about that” instead of defining it as something that makes you go “wow, I never knew that and this source is entirely trustworthy so it must be true and I don’t have to look into it [...]

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