I just wanted to make sure you all caught today’s article on CNN.com “Wikipedia: No Longer the Wild West“. It could make an interesting teaching point when discussing online communities, accuracy of reporting, and evaluation of information.
Archive for August, 2009
Wikipedia News: Usable, Accurate, and Edited
Posted in Uncategorized on August 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No Good News is…the News
Posted in Library Instruction, Teaching and Learning, Technology, Uncategorized on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The year is 2015 and “the press as you know it, has ceased to exist…” forewarns the speaker in the “Sci-fi” video clip Epic 2015 by Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. Epic 2015 is a great tool to use in the classroom when discussing new technology and the media. A mixture of historical truth and [...]
Augmented Reality and Libraries: Possible Uses
Posted in Ken's Tech Update, Technology on August 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
On Tuesday I had a quick post introducing augmented reality(AR) applications. In this post I wanted to talk about some ideas on how libraries can take advantage of this kind of technology.
Image/facial recognition
The first two examples show the most common use of AR, where a computer recognizable image or facial recognition allows the AR software [...]
Augmented Reality and Libraries: Introduction to AR
Posted in Ken's Tech Update, Technology on August 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Augmented reality is an up and coming mobile technology that seems to have a lot of potential in the library field. The basic concept is to use a portable video devicethat can add information to what is being displayed on the screen. Its bit difficult to explain just in words, so here are a few [...]
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