How NOT To Do a Power Point

A good laugh...well said. We can all relate.

Open The Debates!

More voices are better than a few. Unfortunately Nader is right, there isn't much difference between the Republicans and the Democrats...and if by chance there might be, those differences would be better highlighted with more voices involved in the debates. At the very least, Ralph Nader, Libertarian candidate, Bob Barr, and Green Party candidate, Cynthia McKinney, ought to be allowed to debate. Frankly, our election process needs to change. Our future is too important to limit to two groups. Our news outlets ought to step up to the plate and play their part...or we're all headed to the internet. Obama’s site and McCain’s site.

Links of interest follow:

Citizens Debate Commission aspires to host OPEN debates. George Farah and others.

Here’s a link to a CSpan interview of author George Farah.

Sign a petition to open the debates. At OpenDebates.org

Here's a link to a book by George Farah RE the lack of open debates. Interesting review & comments. No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates.

Here’s an essay about the debates by John Nichols at TheNation.com.

I love YouTube. 2 good clips follow.

George Farah on Nightline. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVeD2NmV2kU&NR=1


This is a YouTube entry found via the Dandelion Salad Blog.

Another link of interest: DebateThis.org

OnceUponASchool.org

Once Upon A School website:

http://onceuponaschool.org/

Dave Eggers, publisher, philanthropist, and creative community advocate for school students asks people to engage with local public schools. Ask teachers how to help, he advises, they'll know what they, their students and their schools need. Great presentation. 24 minutes.

MLIS 2600 projects - Summer 2008

My Website Link

University of Pittsburgh
School of Information Sciences

• Thoreau_index1.html (without hyperlinks)
• Thoreau_index2.html (with hyperlinks)
• Jing Thing à la Del.icio.us
• Google Docs assignments

ePrints
RefShare: Connotea, Del.icio.us, Zotero
Carol's Connotea
Carol's deli.cio.us account
Carol's Zotero
RefShare: Scopus & Google Scholar
Citation Alerts: 7 from Web of Science
RSS feeds: 11 from Scopus
WorldCat

• KOHA
  

Kevin Kelly - All of us at one with the Web

An appropriate TED.com clip with which to conclude our tech explorations through LIS 2600.

Web of Science Citation Alerts Guide

SO...I won't forget. For future reference - by myself and others.

Web of Science Citation Alerts – How To Guide

Register for End Note Web at http://www.endnoteweb.com/

Click into UPitt - ULS Digital Libraries,

Click “Find Articles”

Click “ Databases A – Z”

Scroll Down, Click on “Web of Science” line

Click “Connect to Database”

Search “Digital Libraries” or whatever

Click on “Citation Report” Top Right corner above 1^st listed reference.

Click on one of the references.

Click on “Create Citation Alert” in right hand blue column (Cited By report)

Highlight/Copy Record through Orange RSS XML feed.

Paste into word document.

Record: Audic, S. The significance of digital gene expression profiles Send Me E-mail Alerts: Yes

E-mail address: infoevangelist@gmail.com E-mail format: Plain Text Expiration date: 2009-08-01

RSS Feed:

Right Click on XML, click on “Copy Link Location”

PASTE onto word document, then edit as noted below.

javascript:openWindow('http://rss.isiknowledge.com/rss?e=f69f34c574c49e06&c=0d1201ec691674297ee2433de247552a','_WOK_RSS_')

Edit as follows:

javascript:openWindow('

http://rss.isiknowledge.com/rss?e=f69f34c574c49e06&c=0d1201ec691674297ee2433de247552a ','_WOK_RSS_')

Copy the edited link, paste it into your Google Reader's green subscription line.

Repeat till done!

Technology in Education

I was directed to this 5:37 minute clip by Jim Gates, our local Capital Area Intermediate Unit Technology educator.
It's a good clip. Dr. Tomer has certainly tried to expose us to a variety of the technological tools available to us. It's going to take more time & practice for me to become comfortable with the website work. I am, however, comfortable with the blog and the internet exploration. The latter has been pure joy... the fun part of this summer's tech exploration. I can't wait to explore and dabble in courses offered online...oh wait, I should be taking a break from that! :) Along with all those other hardworking FastTrackers!

Enjoy!