New Horizons Presentation - Google Docs

New Horizons Presentation - Google Docs - so you can see the presentation, go to http://docs.google.com/View?id=dfs58668_338g56dr4hr

making your facebook pages more engaging

http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/197503?utm_source=smt_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter

Boook on higher ed - Marketplace of Ideas

Joshua Kim gives us http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/10_questions_for_discussing_menand some questions to start a discussion about Louis Menand's The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University.

KCTCS New Horizons Attendees

How are you going to make your classes more engaging?

Any thoughts / ideas / criticisms you want to share.

The comments are yours.

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com

When in doubt, just watch Sir Ken Robinson on schools kill creativity | Video on TED.com and try to make it better.

Possible metaphor - information distribution like water systems

An still-forming metaphor to help talk to faculty about the growing communication gap.

Let's imagine that information is distributed like water.

When most of our faculty were growing up, water came from the well at the center of town. The mayor and government made sure the well was working and good.

Then came the early days of the Internet, which was described as the firehose. It provided raw water at astounding rates, but was not very useful.

Then came the time of living near the ocean, where water was plentiful and fascinating, like the World Wide Web is today. But it is not good to drink, but very fun to play / swim / surf in.

Then comes the time of rain: the ubiquitous, mobile Internet. Where all information is available wherever you are on your smart phone.

And the people who grew up only drinking from the town well have trouble imagining drinking rain (is it safe?), and the people who have grown up in rain can't imagine why you would want to go to the well: all you need is always available.

Who's talking about you or your school?

You might want to look into Online Reputation Management, here are is a posting that points to some possible tools http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/21/tools-manage-online-reputation/ - thanks to PJ Bentley in Meredith Farkas's class for reminding me to think about this.

I've already got a Google Alert set up for my college & library. A Google alert on my too-common name (I would get the White Sox pitcher and Stone Cold Steve Austin, as well as a science fiction artist long before me) might not be useful, but maybe in conjuction with "librarian" or "education".

Golf Cart Lecture Circuit: Building Community Online | LIBR 246-04/13 Web 2.0 (Spring 2010)

Lots of great stuff from Meredith Farkas's LIBR 246-04/13 Web 2.0 (Spring 2010) class, here PJ Bentley points to an interesting Golf Cart Lecture Circuit: Building Community Online video.

Find a great e-book to read online with these sites | Webware - CNET

Find a great e-book to read online with these sites | Webware - CNET for your summer reading needs.

What administrators think of libraries

Here is an interesting article on what administrators think of libraries.

Weblogg-ed » Teach. Facebook. Now.

Will Richardson urges educators to Weblogg-ed » Teach. Facebook. Now.

I agree. The students want to learn about it, and don't realize how much they don't know.

Cognitive biases - watch out for them

From Boing Boing, a reminder of cognitive biases.

Link didn't work extremely well for me, but I'm guessing it is swamped because it is a new bb link.

Making good PR videos

Via iLibrarian, this post gives 16 tips for successful online video marketing

Old-school Collaboration Tools That Rock

From web worker daily, a reminder that not all collaboration has to be web 2.0, there are some Old-school Collaboration Tools That Rock

Community College 2.0

Community College 2.0 from Center for American Progress.

The IT Infrastructure in Education -- THE Journal

The IT Infrastructure in Education -- THE Journal might have some interesting suggestions for IT support of education. Might be K-12 oriented, but surely ideas for higher ed as well.

CC in Education - Creative Commons

CC in Education - Creative Commons is an overview of more nuanced, shareable copyright in education.

People seem to like the short video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FMnVIofuE0 as a quick intro.

Blog U.: First Thoughts on "Frontline" - Confessions of a Community College Dean - Inside Higher Ed

Dean Dad raises some interesting ideas based on his watching of the Frontline episode on for-profit colleges:

Abandon the ridiculous "tenure or adjunct" model in favor of something closer to regular employment.
And for the love of all that is holy and good, abandon the credit hour and go to outcomes-based measures.

Blog U.: First Thoughts on "Frontline" - Confessions of a Community College Dean - Inside Higher Ed