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The 'Next Big Thing' in School Computing?
eSchool News has put out a report on Tablet Computing. I wonder if this will really take off in the way they predict. If we make computing devices that work the way our old, non-computing devices did, aren't we holding back both ourselves and the technology? I really like the look of these things, but I wonder if it isn't just because I still like to write with a pen. Do my students feel that way?
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Oh the Things We Could Do with WorldCat!
Wow - ... a heck of a post by Tim Bray about OCLC's WorldCat database! "In recent months, I've been having serious fun on the job working with OCLC WorldCat data. WorldCat is big - about as big as the Web, and in some respects richer. It is also amazingly under-utilized (what was the last time you did a large-scale search on anything but Google?), and we'd like to fix that. Herewith some notes on who OCLC is, what WorldCat is..." [The Shifted Librarian]
I agree with this one totally about what a great resource WorldCat is. Maybe it's because I feel a little bit of ownership -- I put some of those records into OCLC back when there were only a couple million. We have access at our school through the NICI Virtual Library, and I've started showing it to IB students when they start work on their extended essays. I can see lots of other ways it could be used as well.
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Additional ways to evaluate websites
The following came from Londa Brown, the Virtual Library Librarian.
When you explain the kind of website you would like to see your students use, take a little side trip and explore with them who is posting the web site and if it is a paid site. If you go to: http://www.overture.com and type in the term you are interested in, you discover how much people are paying to post their business information on the web.... Now, click on "View Advertiser's Max Bid" in the
upper right-hand corner of the screen.... Once you find out the price per click at some of the sites, you can then find out who owns the site by typing: http://www.register.com. The other week, I used the Martin Luther King.org site as an example. If I do a search for the .org site, I find an e-mail address with "stormfront" as part of the address. If you search for "stormfront," you will find the search results description: "White supremacist organization seeking to advance Western culture and ideals, and freedom of speech." This can be a powerful tool when teaching search strategies with your students.
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