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Generalizations of the Digital Natives

I came across this article while traveling(via Mobile Google Reader) and again when I returned to the office (in my mailbox).  As it has to do with generational generalizations (a topic that I have been reading about professionally and personally

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A Typical Web 2.0 Response

During the conversation that spurred this post… Thoughts and Experiments » Google Apps at a Small School Folks got to talking about the details of how a folder structure of organizing messages plays with a tagging structure.  Questions, hypothesis, and

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Awesome!

A while back I posted about picking fights on the term Web2.0 amongst the tech crowd. Yesterday, Scott Adams added another option for using the term Web2.0 – Invoking the Web 2.0 debate to avoid accountability on a project… Awesome!!!

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‘Reality is a Commodity’ – Importance of Information Literacy

Information is not true just because it is on Wikipedia. But it is not automatically false. This tension is the tip of a larger debate looming for educators at all levels. What information is reliable and can be taken as

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Get Creative: Learn about Creative Commons

Copyright frustrates me as I view it as contrary to constructing new knowledge.   This is not to say that creators should not be in control of their works but the fact that everything is copyrighted until permission is granted

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Bush administration to post anti-drug videos on YouTube

I wonder what will happen if DOPA progresses to the stage where it needs to be signed into law… Blog Archive » Bush administration to post anti-drug videos on YouTube [via craigbellamy.net]

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Tagging meets Subject Headings

This post from Thing-ology (LibraryThing’s ideas blog): Tagging meets Subject Headings Got me rethinking what I wrote earlier about do I actually care about the folks vs tax onomy debate. I think the answer is that I do care about

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DOPA has been sent to committee – Good News?

So The Good News is that DOPA* is not going to be fast tracked through the Senate but instead the Commerce Committee is going to review/discuss/muck it up! I mean, I am postive Senator Stevens committee chair and internet expert

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Bias on both sides of the Aisle and from the inside out!

Lately, I have been working on getting a better idea of how reference librarians and instructional technologists can better understand where each fits in the learning process. This stems from a new project were instructional technologists and reference librarians are

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taxonomy versus folksonomy

Last week in a workshop on podcasting, I mentioned something about tagging your podcast and entries. This led to a conversation today with the director of the library on Folksonomies and Taxonomies. An interesting start to a conversation but we

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