The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 3,500 times in 2013. If it were a cable car, it would take about 58 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the […] Lire la suite

I love this TED Talk by Jane McGonigal on Massively multi-player thumb-wrestling: [ted id=1866] It is a great conference or classroom hack, to break the pace of a lecture while creating an awesome atmosphere. As Jane mentions in her talk, oxytocin, the “bonding hormone” which plays its part in intimacy, is secreted by the brain […] Lire la suite

UNESCO, it seems, is quite interested in media and information literacy (MIL). It just released an “Assessment Framework for Media and Information Literacy” to assist countries in devising effective MIL strategies. According to the United-Nations agency: A central component of UNESCO’s Media and Information Literacy strategy, the Global MIL Assessment Framework would enable Member States […] Lire la suite

A great video from PBS’s Idea Channel taking a more critical view at “digital natives” a meme coined by Mark Prensky during the turn of the century: [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WVKBAqjHiE&w=560&h=315] This being said, Prensky later coined the phrase “digital wisdom” Here is the comment I left on the PBS Idea Channel’s page for this video: Having been […] Lire la suite

Interesting article about prof. Geoffrey Rockwell at U. Alberta on gamifying learning. For exmaple, using location based games and playbooks to entice learners. He is working on a gamified writing game. Lire la suite

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uQ0NXxORyg&w=420&h=315] Noted this project from the USA fly by my twitter feed: Project Information Literacy is a national study about early adults and their information-seeking behaviors, competencies, and the challenges they face when conducting research in the digital age. They have a cool infographic: As well as a channel on Ypoutube. Lire la suite

This just in: The MAGIC of Web Tutorials: How One Library (Re)Focused its Delivery of Online Learning Objects on Users Amanda Nichols Hessa Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning Volume 7, Issue 4, 2013 pages 331-348 DOI:10.1080/1533290X.2013.839978 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1533290X.2013.83997 Abstract Oakland University (OU) Libraries undertook an assessment of how to leverage its resources […] Lire la suite

I like to think that this blog is read by a steady and eager group of colleagues… but really, I blog for myself. I use it to keep track of ideas, tidbits and interesting stuff. If you find it useful, great, else, well… see you around. I liked this study from British colleagues about why […] Lire la suite

I like big ideas. I really like big ideas that solve some of the theoretical issues that I worry about. That’s why I had to follow a thread that come through my RSS feeds… “Unified Theory of Information” – has a nice ring to it, no? Like leafs blown onto my yard by a chance […] Lire la suite

Great TED Talk by Stuart Firestein called The Pursuit of Ignorance: [ted id=1827] He gives a course at Columbia called Ignorance and I love how in his model, knowledge leads to “better” ignorance and not the reverse. In this age of readily available facts on Google and Wikipedia, the role of universities is to articulate […] Lire la suite