Week 5 Searching and Communicating

Hello everyone this is Brian’s week 5 blog for LIS 568. This weeks topic is searching and communicating. One of the most interesting things I read this week was found at the 21^st century Information Fluency website and was a blog written by Dennis O’Connor it is called Teach Your Kids the Secrets of Smart Web Searching. It includes 4 sections 1)Helping Your Child Search Like a Pro, 2) Why it [searching] Matters, 3)Tips for Effective Online Searches, and 4)Great Google Searching Shortcuts. This blog describes great tips to help students do searches faster and more effectively and many I had not heard of before

The two Google Game articles I found to be very useful and effective. In fact I may try employing a similar game to get my students excited about searching. However, for the winners I might give away prizes like pencils, erasers, or books as rewards

Lastly I found the Google Squared site to be a little complicated. I don’t know if I’ll actually try it. That’s it for now I’ll write again next week.

Brian's Week 4 blog

Hello everybody this is my week 4 blog for LIS 568. This week we focus on copyright law especially those that fall under “Fair Use” (and Richardson’s chapter on blogging) Fair Use is such a complex thing but I feel Simpson does a pretty good job of explaining the law behind it. Obviously there is no easy solution to explain to teachers how the law works every time. Instead as the book explains each case requires a weighing of the pros and cons and only then can a decision about its legality be made.

As always the Richardson chapter does a great job of showing why blogging can be so useful and how to get started. For anyone unsure about what blogs are or how to use them they should read this chapter.

I also watched the Lawrence Lessig presentation. Its kinda long (about an hour) However he raises some important questions about how copyright law has changed and the inherent problems that we as librarians will continue to face.

Blog for Week 3

I’d like to discuss this weeks readings. As always I loved the Richardson’s chapter. He has a knack of making complicated things seem understandable. I especially liked how he showed how to integrate blogging into a typical class. If you read my post I discuss this a little bit more.

I was looking for the “Living and Learning with New Media” web site (found on the syllabus) but I could not find it in this weeks reading so I figured it must have been dropped. It’s a shame because I enjoyed reading it.

I have to admit I found Gordon’s article hard to understand. It might have been because the topic was so complicated but reading it was kind of a chore.

Listening to Eli Pariser was interesting and fascinating how different forms of media send different messages to different people was something that I didn’t even know happened.

Lastly the Alan November questionnaire was a good source (and while I only got a few of the questions) it was very informative and the answers were easily found and accessible.

Cant think of anything else so hope to talk to you again next week.

Hello everybody this is Brian Caiola's first blog for LIS 568 For this week I'd like to focus specifically on the Richardson and Simpson readings
In Richardsons first chapter Richardson hits upon some highly interesting things. He talks about how the worldwide web was created, how its changed and why it is so important. I found it to be very easy to read and entertaining. It gives an account that made me better understand why its important to librarians to know about the Web and all its assets and shortcomings.
The Simpson readings are about US copyright law and the Public Domain. I found it to be very technical not just in its explanations but in the specific cases that it sets up and answers.