What To Look Out For In Tech In 2015
http://www.npr.org/2015/01/04/374780916/a-shadow-economy-lurks-in-an-electronics-graveyard
notes under the NPR article and on its Facebook posting most interesting, as usually. E.g.:
I wrote my final paper in college english on this subject. I believe that ultimately it is the producers of electronic devices (like apple) responsibility to rebuy and recycle older electronics. especially whwn they come out with a new device every year
I did a report on this kind of thing in college, just for a basic writing class. First world pollution of the third world is a big and nasty problem that’s not given great focus.
http://www.npr.org/2014/12/30/373783189/talk-sing-read-write-play-how-libraries-reach-kids-before-they-can-read?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=2056
My note: it takes a village to raise a kid. It does not matter if it is public library, or pre-school kids or students; it matter that the library does not “serve,” but takes to the heart their education. The academic library must go beyond “assisting,” and get engaged as deep as possible with the students’ assignments.
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/03/three-mind-mapping-tools-that-save-to.html
MindMup
Lucidchart
Mindmeister
7 Tools for Creating Flowcharts, Mind Maps, and Diagrams
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/11/flowcharts-mindmaps-diagrams.html
Coggle
MindMup
Sketchlot
Connected Mind is a free mind mapping tool that you can find in the Google Chrome Web Store.
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2014/12/shelfies-holiday-gift-will-last-lifetime
My note:
LRS can have the same initiative of students’ selfies with the LRS book, which served them best during the semester and post their selfies @SCSU_Library.
If it picks up, it can be taken further with tweeting the class and the instructor and then, respectively work with the instructor on further involvement.
To encourage participation, the entire initiative can be put on competitive ground (e.g., the 100th participant gets a reward or something of that sort)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20141210080103-64875646-the-free-big-data-sources-everyone-should-know
European Union Open Data Portal, click here.
The CIA World Factbook, click here.
NHS Health and Social Care Information Centre, click here.
Amazon Web Services public datasets, click here.
National Climatic Data Center, click here.
Million Song Data Set, click here.
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2014/12/04/stratasys-launches-free-3d-printing-curriculum.aspx
Here is a link to the first unit: web.stcloudstate.edu/informedia/3dprint/U01.zip
The documents are big (up to 400MB). Please let us know, if you want to work together.
One common trend, however, is that several of the library directors who have left their jobs in recent years have done so after long-term disputes with other groups on campus about how the academic library should change to better serve students and faculty.
In the
Ithaka S+R Library Survey 2013, released this March, almost 90 percent of survey respondents named financial constraints the primary obstacle facing their institutions.
“My sense is that administrators look at libraries as something that is easy to cut or easy to subsume under an IT department, because it feels as though when library materials become electronic, they are best managed by, say, an IT department instead of being managed by the library,”
Other institutions have created positions that combine IT and library director duties, but those efforts haven’t always been successful. At two such institutions, senior administrators introduced the idea, but after faculty members and staffers grew concerned that the directors were emphasizing digital work over books, both lost their jobs. Some of those involved discussed these developments on condition they not be identified.