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With RefWorks users can create their own personal database by importing references from online databases. They can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds. As a web-based product, RefWorks is available to users across various platforms including Windows, Mac, Unix, etc. 30-day free trial available [Peter Scott's Library Blog]
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AuthorPlaywright Paul Zindel dies at 66. San Jose Mercury News story Paul Zindel won a Pulitzer in the 1970s for his play The Effect of Gamma Rays on Maninthemoon Marigolds. He was also a celebrated writer of books for young adults including My Darling My Hamburger, The Pigman and The Pigmans Legacy and Pardon Me Youre Stepping on My Eyeball . The New York Times reports that he succumbed to cancer and also talks about the troubled childhood that inspired his work [LISNews.com]
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And that P word raises its ugly head...(hm..., sorry for the mixed metaphor)
Plagiarism--Web logs potentially add a whole new headache to the plagiarism problem. ... [weblogged News]
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Web log as school portfolio -- an interesting thought.
Knowledge Management in Schools. Jim McGee raises some interesting points about knowledge management that I think relate to schools very appropriately.
Craft workers exist to share the fruits of their creating. A true knowledge craft product embodies something of the soul and personality of its creator. You share it with others not so they can copy it but so that they can find inspiration in using it in their own craft. Weblogs hold so much promise in the organizational realm precisely because they amplify this connection between craft and creator. Your record is there to be seen and to be shared.
It's an interesting line of thought, one that makes me see some very interesting potentials in schools. In the grand vision, the Web log becomes the school portfolio. It's informative, and its main goal is to share knowledge about the school, but it's also a collection of selected best practices of craft and thinking. It could be a place where teachers and community members and parents and others have a collective space to share and develop ideas. And in a community like ours in which most have access, the whole idea of using syndication to push content and in turn increase involvement just increases the possibilities.
The big question of course is whether or not schools really want community. Do we really want to share what we do inside the classroom with the outside world? Like our student writers, that's a scary proposition. It's potentially more hassle and means greater accountability. And more work. As always, a lot to think about. [weblogged News]
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Here's one that makes me think of the ISB Extranet, which is really a web log used as a web site. It sounds as though some schools are doing this deliberately, and perhaps we can learn how to use ours better.
Selling Web Log as Web Site.
Here is a good examples of a basic teacher portal, and Tim's got his principal generating some really relevant content for parents. ... It'll be one thing to get the idea approved, it will be another to get teachers and administrators and parents to start contributing.
Also pretty cool is that Tim's got them using RSS to feed content to parts of the pages. [weblogged News]
And I need to look into that RSS idea as well.
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Adding to the List (Con't). ...
Not 100% sure what this is, but the site name, bloggingcourse.com is intruiging enough. (No contact information that I could find through Internic either.) Looks like a class site, but not sure where or why.
It did lead me here, however, to a site out of Australia that looks like it's carrying on a relevant discussion of e-learning at least with some mention and reference to Web logs. ... [weblogged News]
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I can't help thinking how my father, a newspaper editor who died before the Internet came onto the public scene, would be so interested in this phenomenon.
Weblogs: Facts Are in, Spin Is Out. (via JD) Title refers to a section on the third page of this NY Times story titled "Reporting Reflects Anxiety." Quote:
But media experts say the rapid evolution of the form over the last week underscores a popular thirst for information that at least appears unfiltered by the anchors and editors of the traditional media. Bloggers are casting a wide net for information, drawing from radio, television, newspapers and even other bloggers from around the world.
I don't think I've mentioned how absolutely cool it's been to be able to introduce Web logs to my students as a quickly becoming legitimate tool of news gathering and reporting. It may sound corny, but I think Web logs may do a better job of serving the gatekeeper function that the First Amendment gives the press if for no other reason that there is something less "produced" about the content. I know opinions abound, and that contradicts good journalism. But in this age of the message being owned by huge media conglomerates, we've been seduced into accepting mainstream news coverage as fact, when in fact it's all spun through the filter of corporate politics.
If you don't believe it, witness the recent censoring of Kevin Sites by CNN, Josh Kucera by Time, and the news that Clear Channel has been behind the Pro-Bush/War rallies that have been cropping up lately. I'm more prone to believe the unfiltered, unpampered reporting that independent journalists are now able to accomplish. And the best part is that even though they may not have editors per se, there are hundreds of Web loggers cum editors out there just waiting to fact check and poke and burn their butts if they happen to be wrong. That's what should be happening in "Real" journalism. [weblogged News]
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Starting out
Blogging is a term that has come up on my screen often in the last several months. I decided to look into it and see what implications it has for me and for school libraries. Along with lots of web
searching and reading, I've read a few articles recently, including ones by Anne Clyde and Theresa Ross Embrey in Teacher Librarian,
and one by Jo Ann Oravec in the April 2002 issue of Journal of Adolescent & Adult
Literacy that was especially interesting.
So here I am, trying this out. One comment I have read and heard about blogs is that they are mainly for egotists and exhibitionists. It's true that there are plenty of journal blogs out there by people who seem to be convinced that the whole world wants to know how much they had to drink last night, but that is not who I am. I have started a personal blog in another
place, using a different method. Not only does this let me do a little more
experimenting, but it may even keep me in better touch with my family and
friends, since they know how I hate to write emails. J
This weblog will be, I hope, a way for me to organize the
huge amount of information that I try to sift through every week. If others
read it and find it useful, I will be happy, and I really hope that other
people will post comments, critique, and other sources of information. The
success and popularity of LM_NET
show that we -- school librarians, school library media specialists, teacher
librarians, or whatever we call ourselves -- are a group that wants to connect and
share. Maybe this weblog will become another communication tool in that large
community. At least it will force me to try and stay current.
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