Today I got out of the room early and headed for the first session on the Jesse Lee Home in Seward. A local historian (Jackie Pels) was telling stories from her book (Family After All: Alaska's Jesse Lee Home). She collected oral narratives, slides, pictures, documents, and stories from descendants to tell the tales of the children and adults who populated the orphanage. It was fascinating, touching, and a great session. Now I need to go buy her books...
Program abstract: Children’s Voices, 1925-1965: Portraits from the Jesse Lee Home, Seward "The story of Alaska’s boarding schools and orphanages is only beginning to be told,” Alaska bibliographer Bruce Merrell wrote in 2008. In this presentation from Family After All: Alaska’s Jesse Lee Home, the stories are firsthand, accompanied by photographs that First Alaskans called amazing, a rich visual context. The Qutekcak Native Tribe of Seward called the collection a
testament to the survival and persistence of today’s Alaska Native elders. Pels will talk about the project and the book."
After being misled about where the breakfast was, I finally rendez-voused with Melinda and the rest of the librarians to attend the session by Daniel Russell from Google. First this guy was fascinating and there was so much info in the talk that I was unable to capture everything. Here are some of my highlights:
TED: Ideas Worth Spreading a website of riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world. http://www.ted.com/
Baby Name Wizard/Voyager - http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager
Google SketchUp - http://sketchup.google.com/
Google "What's That" feature for phones and searching google
Google.org - Technology-Driven Philanthropy
Google Trends - http://www.google.com/trends
Maybe subscribe to the blogs: google, searchengineland, searchresearch
You cannot pay attention to evevrything
Look up the study of rats devfeloping religious postures
Good Searchers ...
1. Choose good search terms
2. Understand info sources
3. Domain (subject) knowledge
4. Search strategy (when to change, to narrow, to widen and how)
5. Assessment of the results and the information
6. Know how system works (search site, database)
Basic skills lots of people don't know about
control F
Using tabs to organize results
Keyword choice /synonimization
Tactics for searching
And
How to detect authority / crap
Hemingway's crap detector quote
Staying on task
Discovery
Notetaking
Data integration
Representing of info
Librarians need to:
Show the info landscape
Teach how to paddle the canoe and dodge the bears
Research is more than 'search'
Learn
Google Scholar is 4 guys and one is only part time. They do not have a "catalog" because it changes all the time with publisher putting things in and pulling things out.
Program Abstract: Breakfast Keynote: The Mind of the Researcher
Research is complicated and has changed significantly over the past century. Search engines have significantly changed our conception of what constitutes research, and yet how common is research literacy? Russell will argue that research is a fundamental skill that we need to understand, and he’ll talk about some of the findings gathered through his research at Google. The range of research skills is broad, and yet not widely distributed. Russell will discuss what we can do to help disseminate these basic and increasingly important skills.
Next we visited the exhibits. My session was next and it was a packed program with approx 65 people there. I think it went very well. At least I got a few laughs, some interaction, and a few questions. We had lunch in the hotel (Arlene was working). Grilled tuna with a side of conversation from the the WorldBook vendor who attended BYU in the 60s/70s. He knew the gorgeous Suzy South.
I attended the session on Games and Instruction by Jenny Levine. Her presentation is fully online (complete with links) at http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/presentations/2010/20100305AkLA-Gaming4Instruction.pdf
I had thought it would be about incorporating game ideas into library workshop sessions. NOPE. It was about games and how they teach and what games to bring into the library, and how students think now and... It was still useful and interesting.
I also now have a list of games I might want to buy to play with friends and family.
Program Abstract: Using Gaming for Instructional Purposes
Modern games teach kids important 21st century skills such as managing resources, problem solving, analyzing data, and synthesizing information. Is it possible to harness gaming principles to make instruction more interactive and engaging for today’s students? Hear how some libraries are incorporating gaming to teach a variety of social, literary, and curricular skills.
Games that inclcude reflection and strategy
Cool looking games: Flux, Bananagrams, 10 days in Asia, Qwerty warriors.
Someone has mapped HALO to information literacy standards
Look for "research quest" blog
Board gamesQuiddler, ticket to ride, numbers league, carcassone
"Libraries Got Game"
University of North Carolina Greensboro: Infolit game that is open source and customizable for your libray
"Quarantined" by ASU West Campus
"Head Hunt" by Ohio State
Here are a few notes I took... Just in case
Carnegie Melon: Arcade games i.e. shelve book and I'll get it
Game Maekr Academy and Scratch from MIT
"Librarians guide to gaming"
Trading cards nintendo wii characters of staff and students had to get them all to get a cookie, and they did
Geocaching in the library that freshmen can register to play when the register for classees
Fantasy football research lesson plans
Old Bridge Library serivces for seniors - nintendo wii's with teen mentors
The last session of the day that I attended was on making Book Enclosures with Mariecris and Arlene. It was a fun hands on session where we actually made archival quality book boxes. They'll be posting a video to youtube where we can see a full demonstration of the process.
Program Abstract: Do you have worn books that you need to keep? Can’t repair them? Need to protect some of your rare volumes? This hands-on training will show you how to make quick and simple book enclosures from sheets of folder-weight paper. We’ll provide the supplies and books. You bring your ability to use scissors and to draw lines along a ruler.
Dinner in the hotel room then lots of NCIS followed by a chaser of the movie "The Game Plan" with Dwayne Johnson.
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