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 * What each person might take out of social media **
 *  "How 11 intrepid users get the most out of social media" @ http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6716598.html?nid=3270 **
 *  Library 101 is a project that attempts to answer: “What do libraries do well now and what do we need to change in order to remain vibrant and indispensable?” **
 *  And to quote Rheingold: “The difference between seeing Twitter as a waste of time or as a powerful new community amplifier depends entirely on how you look at it—and on knowing how to look at it. The use of Twitter to build personal learning networks and communities of practice involves more than one literacy. The business about tuning and feeding, trust and reciprocity, and social capital is a form of network literacy that we discuss in my classes.” **

http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2011/03/18/infodocket-and-fulltextreports/ A site rich with news that librarians and teachers can use. It is on twitter and can even be accessible on iphones and similar media.
 * InfoDocket & FullTextReport **

**Most Influential School Librarians (or influential TO School Librarians) ** http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/neverendingsearch/2011/03/24/the-seven-keynote-mls/ A list of intelligent and influential people with good things to say.

**Gale Offers Six Free Databases During National Library Week ** http://www.slj.com/slj/home/890088-312/gale_offers_six_free_databases.html.csp Gale believes that free use of resources will help users explore and become inspired.

**The Angry Librarian ** [] This librarian is fun to read and has a lot of fire in her entries.

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Teen Booklist ** <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Aside from YALSA, here's another good one.

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">How to Use Skype Effectively in the Classroom ** <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Apparently, it can be done!

**<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dipity ** <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;"> Free digital timeline website. This social media is available to any user.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Memolane** <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">This site help users create respective timelines of their online life.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">http://myfakewall.com <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Allow users to create fake profiles for fun.
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">My Fake Wall **

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Mobile Technologies for Libraries: A List of Mobile Application and Resources for Development** <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Libraries could create their own application for cell phones, ipads, or these new devices that allow patrons to know library address, phone number, hours of operation, and enable them to access the online catalog. It's a good idea to connect with patrons (literally... or electronically, rather...). This article has a list of resources to help librarians creatively use and navigate with in the technologically connected world.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cutting corners by making more online classes and less classroom classes means it's less expensive, but also less beneficial for students.
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Rise in Online Classes Fuel Debate About Quality **
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<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;"><span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|http://www.users.muohio.edu/brinkmwj/ar] / <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Dr. Bo Brinkman's system that he will be talking about at the ACRL 2011. It's an application on a Samsung Galaxy tablet (but I imagine it can soon be uploaded to androids, iphones, ipads, and so forth). It's for accurate shelf reading... wow, pages might be going out of style, soon.
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Augmented Reality App for Shelf Reading **

**<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Glogster as a Web 2.0 Tool for Tweens and Teens ** <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; color: #ff00ff; cursor: pointer; font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[] <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Glogster is a web 2.0 tool to make interactive online posters... you can even print it out (sans sound effects and movements). I made one for the YA room in a public library, although the head librarian decided not to use it. Tweens and teens will be attracted to the art and interactive displays. Very easy to use and make.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">http://royal.pingdom.com/2011/03/31/internet-1995/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+RoyalPingdom+%28Royal+Pingdom%29 <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The face of the internet and its users changed quite a lot from 1995 to now. Craziness. What is crazier is that I remembered first being exposed to it in middle school, 7th grade.
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">The Rather Petite Internet of 1995 **

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Unpaid College Internships** <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/opinion/03perlin.html?pagewanted=2&_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">This hit close to home. " <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 11px; line-height: 14px;">Colleges shouldn’t publicize unpaid internships at for-profit companies. They should discourage internship requirements for graduation. They should stop charging students to work without pay — and ensure that the currency of academic credit, already cheapened by internships, doesn’t lose all its value. " <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">In some ways, it is true that internship is certainly a way to "network" and get your "foot in the door". But students are paying for the privilege of working for free. In the meantime, they also have no way to pay for their food, shelter, and transportation other than taking out loans. Unpaid internships are such a sad state of affairs.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Google's efforts to make a digital library for profit (see [] ) was denied by court, but it paved way for others to make a universal digital library free and accessible to the public. Here's hoping it would work, but lets not abandon other forms of mediums because electronic systems can still fail.
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A Universal Digital Library **

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**NJ Teacher Suspended Over a Post on Facebook**
<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/02/nyregion/02facebook.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">A public position requires discretion.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; line-height: 20px;">**My Digital Library** <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Mobile growth and the importance of social media.

<span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[] <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Informative school media blog.
 * <span style="color: #ff00ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">MS Library Blog **