Archive for the ‘Creativity’ Category

“(Federal Judge Richard) Posner . . . speculates on how the Internet and other relatively new technologies will shape the future of plagiarism. He takes the counterintuitive position that plagiarism will become much harder to get away with. In fact, ‘student plagiarism may be becoming less common as more colleges and universities adopt plagiarism-detection software,’ such as Turnitin (pronounced “turn it in”), an online service several thousand colleges use.”

Read the review of The Little Book of Plagiarism, by Richard A Posner at the New Atlantis.

Find many more reviews from the Critical Compendium – a daily dose of book reviews from around the world. Pretty neat! A good service addition from your library today?

Take a look at Teen Web a the Nashville Public Library. Flickr images, Teen Web Links on Del.icio.us, and embedded player showcasing the Teen Song Writing contest…and more!

If you’re a teen songwriter, and you didn’t participate in Nashville Public Library’s first ever teen songwriting contest, you missed out!

Finishes with a neat row of avatars, introducing the Library crew. It’s worth taking a look a the Web 2.0 features of Teen Web.

[From: Tame the Web]

Some people say fun does not actually exist. Others bare their teeth and hoot. Nevertheless, the Fun Open Secret Library by Darren Chase is a podcast of fiction and poetry about libraries–not everybody’s idea of a pleasant way to spend time, but it satisfies me. Librarians are a wandering tribe, ranging the best-known and remotest places, moving from job to job. Where are they from? Where are they going? Who are their friends? Do they have fun? The answer to all these questions is Yes.

“Which way shall I fly?” or “Black wind sweeps through the stacks, touching every black book and bound black periodical. Library shadows rock me to sleep.”

Whatever….! You really should subscribe to Fun Open Secret Library and have some fun!

Social networking is about “connecting people to people to people” or in other words, information power to the people long past the era of email! Throw social bookmarking into the mix, and we have ‘human search engineering’. All beautifully Web 2.0.

For the well presented version of Library 2.0 you can’t go past the power of Slideshare. Web 2.0 Kid Style: Social Software and Public Libraries is an excellent presentation from Andrea Mercado. From across the world, check out Going Social: the Librarian’s Bag of Tricks from Bonaria Biancu.

There are many more fantastic presentations in My Favourite Slideshows which I have collected at my Slideshare place at  Heyjudeonline.

Those damned (but important!) security codes – so here I have a blog post instead.

I am a huge fan of Slideshare, and recommend it for any librarians wanting good information and presentation ideas on all things Web 2.0, Folksonomy, Blogging, Wiki and more. I stumbled upon a fabulous presenation from Teemu Arina, who blogged about how he has tranformed his presentations at My Presentation at Online-Educa Berlin.

I wanted to leave a comment for Teemu – tried various browsers – but was refused by the security code. So Teemu, a blog post instead, just to say thanks for the inspiration.

Interestingly, I found the blog post via my Del.icio.us favourites, and my network – in this case Michael Stephens favourites [of Tame the Web fame] – where I saw that Michael had tagged this with LIS573, and blogging.

Synergy in social networking! My latest Slideshare presentation Creative Web 2.0 Learning is inspired in its design by people like Teemu – though it still doesn’t quite make the grade!

Thanks to Vicki Davis for pointing to more tips about presentation design from Garr Reynolds at Presentation Zen:

• From Design to Meaning: A Whole New Way of Presenting
• Read about the rule of thirds and images in this post