Information Tyrannosaur

On Friday, my colleague Sarah Cohen and I delivered a presentation about mobile phone polling in information literacy instruction at the New England Library Instruction Group annual conference in Lowell, MA. The slides are posted below. The Librarian Says. “Turn Your Cell Phones On!”   View more presentations from Andy Burkhardt

Bryan Alexander, a Senior Fellow for the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), sums up very well in the video below a lot of the debates and issues that are going on around the use of mobile devices. These are a few that jumped out at me: Developing for mobile devices With the introduction of [...]

Twitter has been working pretty well at our library. It is coming up on two years since our first tweet. I have been thinking a lot lately about how we use Twitter and our successes and shortcomings with it. Looking back on tweets, conversations, and interactions from the past year and a half, I noticed [...]