I have definitely hit that “what am I forgetting before ALA” mode where it is not a matter of if I forget anything, but rather how important the thing I forget will turn out to be. I am deep in the throes of preparing to present this pre-conference workshop with these awesome people while [...]
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On Monday, a new thread appeared on the unfiction forums pointing out a trailhead for a new game that seems to be linked to the Fox series Dollhouse. Given the percentage of librarians who are big damn fans of Joss Whedon + my obvious fascination with Alternate Reality Games the odds were very good [...]
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Last year, Rachel and I reported on a survey we did the year before that looked at how librarians feel about different social software applications like blogs, wikis and the like (is that right? I think so - it’s a really long time ago now). We mainly found out that we [...]
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The word “follow” suddenly looks really strange to me.
A few quick follow-ups from last week’s posts:
The Ryerson student who was threatened with expulsion for administering a study group in Facebook will not be expelled. There will be some fallout from this episode that sticks with him, but he was not found guilty of 147 counts [...]
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I almost wrote about something else today, but I found out in time that something I thought was true was in fact false and therefore not worth writing about.
But there’s some really cool stuff going on in this Find the Lost Ring ARG that has my brain back at the question of what these storytelling/ [...]
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All of a sudden ARG’s are everywhere - it’s like when you learn a new word and suddenly it’s everywhere? It feels like Rachel and I presented on this topic ten minutes before the Internets done exploded with it!
Michael dropped me some great links in my del.icio.us about this — game designer Elan Lee [...]
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I’ve been thinking about this story in Inside Higher Ed all morning — at first because of the academic freedom ideas discussed explicitly, but then the more I thought about the project that the students in this class put together, the more I started focusing on that aspect of the tale –
To recap quickly, about [...]
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