John Willensky gave the keynote address on June 21 at JCDL 2007 while waving a sheaf of paper notes to emphasize his departure from Power Point presentation technology in the interest of communicating directly with the audience assembled in Vancouver. He referred to this style as, “An homage to openness.”
Willensky, a professor in the Department […]

JCDL 2007 is being held at The Westin Bayshore on Coal Harbor in Vancouver.
The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2007 got underway with blue skies overhead as sea planes taxied along Coal Harbor on the edge of Stanley Park in Vancouver, British Columbia. Daniel M. Russell, Uber Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness […]

Please excuse this diversion — the following post doesn’t have anything to do with what we’ve seen recently at conferences — but the post “Shrek Gets Fired” (May 23, below) opens a can of worms, and I can’t resist. In a free society where delicious food is cheap, plentiful, and heavily advertised, how should we […]

I attended a preview of Shrek the Third last week in Syracuse, NY with about 200 delighted school children and their adult companions. Shrek 3 did not disappoint. Sophisticated, humorous asides coupled with sparkling animation techniques, stunning artwork, appropriate teachable moments, and fast-paced storylines kept both young and old audience members enthralled. This powerful animated […]

Posted for Robert Payo who is on the road at the 2007 EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference 2007.
So you’re stranded on a boat with multiple generations of learners: a baby boomer, a “gen x’er”, and a millenial “gen y’er”. The baby boomer looks for the manual to fix the boat while the the gen […]

NOTE: Audio from  a public dialogue between researchers and long time collaborators Jim Gee and Henry Jenkins held on Wednesday, April 18, 2007 at Cornell University is now available.
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I have to admit that the eight life-sized video projections around a dim room populated by clusters of two or three people at computers flying their […]

During each day of big meetings like NSTA every person comes away with a different view of what’s going on. Here are a couple of notes from my day.
Brennan Sapp, Kyla Hawkin, Mary Louise Pozaric and Rosemary Brown from Northern Kentucky presented a CSI-type simulation that they were using in Dixie Heights High School classrooms […]

The contrast in weather from coast to coast on February 14 and 15, 2007 was dramatic. On the way to the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Francisco many conference-goers found themselves stranded in airports among thousands of other travelers prompting Congress to introduce a passenger’s bill of rights. The legislation could make it easier for […]

The centuries old exchange of culture and commerce along the San Antonio River is an apt metaphor for The Second International Open Repositories Conference in San Antonio held at the River Center Marriott. The conference theme, “Achieving Interoperability in an Open World” echoed objectives of early settlers who came to the riverbanks in the […]

Abstract: In a world of technical and social innovation–from the proverbial high school student who cobbles together a killer app in a basement, to institutional leaders who go out on a limb promising end-to-end solutions on tight deadlines–the National Science Digital Library’s (NSDL) development strategies fit somewhere in the middle. NSDL made the decision to […]