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Creating a Library App: Things to Know Before You Go Mobile
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 11AM-12PM PDT
Registration link: http://www.cla-net.org/?861
Mobile apps are a popular topic in libraries. But what does it take to create one and what kind of programming can you do with apps? Is an app the right solution, or should you create a responsive website? What is the process like, and what resources are needed? How do you manage privacy, security, and legal concerns? Who do you need to get the job done, and what skills should they have?
These are all important questions that should be asked (and answered) before you think about creating a mobile app. Learn from expert panelists from libraries and nonprofits who have created, developed, and managed mobile apps for their organizations. Panelists will share practical advice and information based on experience, as well as helpful tools and resources.
Participants will learn:
- The difference between a mobile app, a mobile site, and a responsive site
- Three important considerations when deciding whether or not to create a mobile app.
- Five tips for approaching the design of a mobile app, mobile site, or responsive site.
About the Presenters
- Stacey Watson is the Senior Librarian and certified scrum Master in the Digital User Experience Department at the Denver Public Library. She oversees the user experience and content strategy for the library’s websites, online catalog, and digital services. Most recently she and her team developed Volume, a responsive website featuring hand selected albums by local artists.
- Anna Jaeger and her team at Caravan Studios create mobile apps that are designed in partnership with nonprofit and community-focused organizations to meet the needs of their constituents. Anna has been a frequent speaker on nonprofit and environmental technology since 2007. Prior to her work with Caravan Studios, Ms. Jaeger was a founder and co-director of TechSoup Global’s GreenTech initiative and the director of TechSoup Global’s IT Engineering department.
- Ani Boyadjian has been a working librarian since 1990. An LAPL staffer since 1996, she is now Research & Special Collections Manager at the Los Angeles Public Library, where she also oversees the Library’s Digitization efforts. She most recently spearheaded the development of the ARchive LAPL app in a partnership with USC and app developers Neon Roots, to use augmented reality to tell stories about the historic Central Library.
7th Annual Teaching & Learning Colloquium
Learning Space Innovation: here, there and anywhere
April 17, 2015. Guest Speaker Bryan Alexander
http://facultycenter.stonybrook.edu/events/StonyBrookColloquium2015
A new LITA webinar focused on Youth Programs:
Technology and Youth Services Programs: Early Literacy Apps and More
Tuesday May 20, 2015
1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Central Time
Register now for this webinar
A brand new LITA Webinar on youth and technology.
In this digital age it has become increasingly important for libraries to infuse technology into their programs and services. Youth services librarians are faced with many technology routes to consider and app options to evaluate and explore. Join Claire Moore from the Darien Public Library to discuss innovative and effective ways the library can create opportunities for children, parents and caregivers to explore new technologies.
Claire Moore
ThingLink: http://www.thinglink.com/scene/644927186335170560
Zaption: http://zapt.io/t85wrmg5
Similarly to Grass Umberto Eco urges flexing the muscle Brain versus using electronics only
http://espresso.repubblica.it/visioni/2014/01/03/news/umberto-eco-caro-nipote-studia-a-memoria-1.147715?refresh_ce
http://bashny.net/t/en/104967
http://www.iht.com/2014/03/07/those-who-forget-history/
Ontology of “ePortfolio”
http://www.aaeebl.org/blogpost/1008436/Batson-Blog
Is it a genre, or a set of practices, or a showcase, or a technology? Or all four and other descriptions? What we see most commonly is a definition of the technology affordances that, as I have argued in a previous blog, tend to be minimalist and therefore misleading.
Definitions do tend to be minimalist so that all can agree, at least, on the definition as a starting point. But, a starting point is not sufficient to convey the cultural and historical significance of “eportfolio.”
from the Association of Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning
Webinar, April 17 registration at https://aaeebl.site-ym.com/store/ViewProduct.aspx?id=4259880
Presentation for the the 2015 MN D2L Ignite Conference.
Please take the survey. Please share your ideas, suggestions, recommendations, corrections
http://www.brightspace.com/events/regional/minnesota/
Academy of distinguished teachers, Innovation
University of Minnesota, McNamara Alumni Center – Twin Cities Campus. April 8, 2015
Full program available here: https://guidebook.com/g/adt/
Randy Bass
Randy Bass
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/randall-bass/14/94/77
flipping disruption into Design
there are two type of universities: the ones that are in control of change and the ones, which are pressed to change.
what kind of education is needed at this moment of history.
Assumptions: 5-10 years will be for a first time outcompeted in terms of delivering information and degrees. What is that the university can do distinctively well that WWW cannot do: mentored learning and the arc of learning (beyond collection of granular separate learning)
book: The New Division of Labor. http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Division-Labor-Computers/dp/0691124027
External forces of potential disruption: 1. MOOCs, nearly free education, 2. skilled-based learning (Codeacademy, Udacity), 3. data analytic 4. public pressure on access, metrics of impact.
Gartner group (http://www.gartner.com/technology/home.jsp) hype cycle : overvalued in a short term and undervalued in a long term. MOOC is excellent example.
NMC: competing models of education.
learning analytics. adaptive learning, intelligent tutoring etc. Open Learning Initative. http://oli.cmu.edu/
In the 19th century, railroads companies which were in the business of railroad companies went under; the ones which were in the business of transportation survived. Parallel, universities, which are in the business of delivering information will die out; the ones, which will survive must look to a very different picture.
formative wider outcomes
integration and dis-integration
high impact integrative curriculum
what makes high inpact practices high impact
formal versus informal
Selected sessions:
The Value of Assessing Outcomes of Teaching Methodologies to guide instructional design
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10594685/
game-based learning:
Upping your Game – Best Practices in Using Game-Based Learning
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10594684/
Implementing Game Dynamics in Moodle
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10693434/
visuals:
Engaging Students through Video Integration
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676389/
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676375/
Using Flipgrid Video Commentary to Share Student Learning
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676361/
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Enhancing learning with online narrated presentations using VoiceThread
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676372/
flipped:
Essential Technology & Tools for Flipping Your Classroom
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676385/
Improving Delivery of Technical Course Content through Incremental Use of Classroom “Flipping”
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676376/
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10594850/
The Pros and Cons of Flipping the Classroom
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676323/
Using Google Forms for Student Group Evaluations
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10734863/
Library:
The University Libraries Partnership for Affordable Content – Enhance Student Learning and Save Them Money!
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676358/
CRS Tophat:
Using Classroom Debates as an Interactive Learning Tool in a Course on Companion Animal Ethical Issues
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10676369/
online:
Adapting the Harvard Case Method for Online Courses
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10595018/
Readiness Assessment for Online Courses
https://guidebook.com/guide/33541/event/10595040/
technology showcase general view
RE.WORK Deep Learning Summit, Boston
May 26-27, 2015
Boston, Massachusetts
802.11AC
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.11ac
Campus Technology Whitepaper
Dear Plamen,
In the mobile era we live in, your students expect more from their institution’s wireless capabilities.
In this informative whitepaper, you’ll learn how deploying the first wireless standard (802.11 AC) where the speed of wireless is faster than a wired connection can empower your institution to meet the growing, technology driven landscape of today’s higher education environment.
My Note: Campuses are gearing up to the challenges of the Millennials and Gen Z. So do, allegedly, the SCSU IT. BOYD is now a term, which (finally, after 3 years of IMS proposing it to CETL) is waved forth and back at the SCSU campus in a lipservice attempt to convince stakeholders and public how much SCSU is with the times.
Once details transpire, however, one can see that 802.11AC allows 1GB connection and for the last 15 years, the SCSU IT never made it transparent (discussion? forget it), when 1 GB LAN will come to the campus. How can SCSU IT wave the BYOD flag, if older and more important issues are not resolved? Even if they are resolved, how does SCSU IT expect faculty to embrace the technology, if it is sold by the IT people? The sound pedagogical approach to new technologies must be done by faculty not by IT folks.
In order for BYOD, for that matter any other technology on campus to work (work means to a very large degree “accepted by educators,” the second most important stakeholder after the students – faculty – must be on board. Are they really on board controlled and dimmed by the SCSU IT?
Creating a Library App: Things to Know Before You Go Mobile
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 11AM-12PM PDT
Registration link: http://www.cla-net.org/?861
Mobile apps are a popular topic in libraries. But what does it take to create one and what kind of programming can you do with apps? Is an app the right solution, or should you create a responsive website? What is the process like, and what resources are needed? How do you manage privacy, security, and legal concerns? Who do you need to get the job done, and what skills should they have?
These are all important questions that should be asked (and answered) before you think about creating a mobile app. Learn from expert panelists from libraries and nonprofits who have created, developed, and managed mobile apps for their organizations. Panelists will share practical advice and information based on experience, as well as helpful tools and resources.
Zeth Lietzau is the Manager of Digital User Experience and the Community Technology Center at the Denver Public Library. He’s the leader of their Virtual Services initiative, which defines the direction of DPL’s online services, mobile & otherwise, including the Volume Denver project which is available as a mobile-responsive site.
A303_Lietzau Makers, Hackers, and Badges at the Denver Public Library
Anna Jaeger and her team at Caravan Studios create mobile apps that are designed in partnership with nonprofit and community-focused organizations to meet the needs of their constituents. Anna has been a frequent speaker on nonprofit and environmental technology since 2007. Prior to her work with Caravan Studios, Ms. Jaeger was a founder and co-director of TechSoup Global’s GreenTech initiative and the director of TechSoup Global’s IT Engineering department.
https://cc.readytalk.com/cc/s/meetingArchive?eventId=li2t1jz4hoy6
Ani Boyadjian has been a working librarian since 1990. An LAPL staffer since 1996, she is now Research & Special Collections Manager at the Los Angeles Public Library, where she also oversees the Library’s Digitization efforts. She most recently spearheaded the development of the ARchive LAPL app in a partnership with USC and app developers Neon Roots, to use augmented reality to tell stories about the historic Central Library.
More on mobile apps in general on this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=mobile+apps
