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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Sep 9, 2008
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Who Owns Ideas is a great introductory documentary about the history of copyright and current controversies in copyright. I wished however, that it had gone more into depth about downloading music and movies. I was reading a blog post of someone who attended a techy conference and was very...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Mar 24, 2008
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That’s been one of my mottos these past few weeks. I’ve been busy trying to speak with organizations in town about the school library and I’m hoping that my efforts here will help convince the powers that be that the school needs a librarian. I’m finding one of the...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Feb 24, 2008
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I’ve finally wrapped up a 2 week run of “student interest sessions” up north to gather a snapshot of the media usage of students in the school and to get some student feedback on what types of materials they would like to have in the library, possible changes to the decor etc. I...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Feb 16, 2008
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Information literacy is something I take great interest in and it wasn’t until I came up north that I began to think of this type of literacy as having many tiers. For one thing, it never even occured to me that before one can become “information literate” one must be...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Feb 5, 2008
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I made a new commitment! It's sort of a cop out b/c I'm currently in a library project working to improve access to information in areas that have barriers to information, and have worked in research projects regarding the issue... But I looked for a similar one in search and couldn't find one....... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Nov 13, 2007
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This post is meant to be a follow up to Michael Wesch’s video The Machine is Us/ing Us . I titled it “part 1″ because there’s probably more I’ll have to say about this in the future.
There is no such thing as pure content . The information highway is for...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Dec 1, 2007
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The Canadian government is passing a new restrictive copyright law that in the words of Cory Doctorow’s BoingBoing post , “promises to be the worst copyright law in the developed world. It will contain an “anti-circumvention” clause that prohibits breaking the locks...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Jan 16, 2008
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I know I haven’t updated in awhile, but I am posting bearing major news. As some of you may know, I’ve moved to a very remote community, north of 60. I’m working part time for their local youth center as well as volunteering full time in a public school. On my third day at...... [view]
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Sep 26, 2007
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$100 laptop to sell public (BBC)
One Laptop Per Child’s G1G1 XO Plan is Punting to the Pilots (OLPC News - independent site)
official XO Laptop site
No commentary this time. I just really want one.
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Posted By: esum
Posted On: Sep 13, 2007
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I had a chance to volunteer for this conference today which was about e-learning and accessibility to information with a strong focus on users with perceptual or physical impairments although other marginalized user groups were also discussed (e.g. language and economic barriers).
Some...... [view]
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Submitted By: esum
Committers: 33
Date Created: 2008-02-05 |
Description: There are many barriers youth face in accessing digital information from technical problems, to information literacy levels to something as basic as reading comprehension levels. There are lots of things we can do to help overcome these barriers such as improving IT infrastructure, or teaching others information related skills.
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