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Winter Break Reading List

Dec 15th

Posted by Heather Braum in Informational

Now that the fall semester is over, I have about five weeks before the Spring Semester begins in my current grad program. After a rough fall, I’m glad to see this semester end and look forward to a new one and a new calendar year. Meanwhile, I’ve had quite the reading stack pile up physically and virtually, especially virtually, thanks to Amazon Kindle’s One-Click button that’s far too easy to click when I see a good book someone recs. So in the spirit of public accountability, here’s the reading list I hope to reduce significantly over the next few weeks. More >

7 Things You Should Know about Personalized Digital Magazines

Aug 8th

Posted by Heather Braum in Informational

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In the one of the latest Educause Learning Initiative (ELI)’s 7 Things You Should Know About series, ELI explores Personalized Digital Magazines (direct link to PDF document). These are tablet applications such as Flipboard, Zite, and Taptu that aggregate users’ social media network connections such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google Reader, transforming the information into an interactive magazine format. The guide answers several questions about the technology, including who’s using it, its implications, its downsides (including copyright questions), and its significance and provides a scenario for a student’s use of this technology in a college program.

I’ve actually heavily used Flipboard and Zite since getting an iPad, and found both apps More >

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Blogs I Read Regularly

May 19th

Posted by Heather Braum in Informational

Someone was asking on Facebook in the last week for recommended blogs and websites to read. Here’s the list I sent her. It’s not an exhaustive list (I currently have 200 different sites I follow in Google Reader), but here are the 18 blogs and websites I pay attention to on a regular basis.

  1. Free Technology for Teachers
  2. iLibrarian
  3. LibrarianbyDay
  4. Libraries and Transliteracy
  5. The Unquiet Librarian
  6. LibrarianinBlack
  7. Swiss Army Librarian
  8. Stephen’s Lighthouse
  9. Educause: It’s difficult to put a single link here, but they have all kinds of great resources for keeping up with technology; it’s higher-ed focused, but still worthwhile looking at.
  10. Lifehacker
  11. Read Write Web
  12. Mashable
  13. What I Learned Today
  14. Unclutterer
  15. Ubiquitous Librarian
  16. Agnostic, Maybe
  17. Designing Better More >

Work in Progress

Feb 10th

Posted by Heather Braum in Informational

This blog continues to be a work in progress. One of these days I’ll get around to finishing it up, including completing my different links lists, getting caught up on 23 Things Kansas lessons, and creating pages and resources for all the presentations I’ve done in the past 18 months. (Maybe if I’d get the web sites at work redesigned, I’d have time to play with my own. Ha!) Thanks for your patience.

Photo from Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumaxart/2365527490/.

T is for Training Challenge Meme

Jan 14th

Posted by Heather Braum in Informational

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I met a bunch of the T is for Training crew at Computers in Libraries last year through Bobbi Newman. I finally joined the T is for TrainingGoogle Group last summer, but it’s taken me this long to pay attention to the messages. My attention was caught at the right time, apparently, because a Challenge Meme was posted, asking members to post answers to 27 Questions. Here’s my lengthy response, so I won’t mind if you just skim or skip.

  1. Your one sentence Bio: I’m a lifelong Kansan, diehard Kansas Jayhawks basketball fan, mom of two ornery cats, and love to teach people, especially More >
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