Tancer, Bill. (2008). Click: What millions of people are doing online and why it matters. New York: Hyperion.
This book is great for the techy in me. Anne showed it to me the day after the AIKCU conference. The is about using the terms, phrases, and words put into search engines to determine what is going on in the world and society and how to take that data and use it in some way (marketing, informing results in the future, trends, etc.). The book forces you to think beyond the data and look at the context to see what the possibilities are for how people think and how that information can help up to do something. I am doing that with the data I am working with. I am going to look at the context, answer questions, debate questions, and try to figure out what the students are thinking and what we can do to teach them what we think is important for them to know. As a side note, I think examining what is being put into search boxes for databases and library catalogs is a great idea, as long as the context is looked at and the minds of the students can be seen in them.
McAdoo, Monty. (2010). Building bridges: Connecting faculty, students, and the college library. Chicago: ALA.
This book has some great ideas to remember when trying to build bridges. It reminds me of the book: Lencioni, P. (2002). The five dysfunctions of a team: A leadership fable. San Francisco, CA: Jossey–Bass. The main or bottom of the pyramid is trust. Trust or the lack of trust is the foundation of a team, of cooperation. Without it, the team does not function. McAdoo's book is the same. The librarians have to put forth the effort to go to meetings and talk to the professors. Trust has to be established before the bridges can be built and everyone can work together for the betterment of the students.
Angelo and Cross's book, " Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers," was given to me by Julia. She told me that all librarians have the book and it is in every office in the building. I took a look and loved it. The book is great. It has checklists, steps, and many techniques in it. The book has a lot of information to offer on how to make assignments, what a teacher should be looking to do, and breaks it down. It also has the techniques broken down. I will have to go through them and tell Julia about them so we can both learn about them all. Maybe it will spark something. If not, it will be a great learning tool I can take with me anywhere.
The rest of time this week has been taken up by cloud computing in the library and RPS data.
I have been helping Julia test the cloud computing for the upgrades this summer. We need to make sure the images are right and get the bugs out. We will be talking with Adam about that next week. It is fun to be on the tech side again. I can be a boundary spanner for them both. I was able to explain and some up with some things when Julia and I were going through it. It has been fun, especially when we had our Lethal Weapon moment (Martin Riggs: On three, what do ya say? Roger Murtaugh: Okay. Martin Riggs: One... two... Roger Murtaugh: Wait, wait, wait! Martin Riggs: What? Roger Murtaugh: Do we do it on three? Or one, two, three, then do it?) (Me: Wait. Do we go 1, 2, 3 then click or 1,2, and click on 3?)
I have been trying to figure out how to attack the RPS data now. I have been going through the best answer questions first since they are the application component and are the most important right now. I am going through one at a time and seeing where I can put them on the importance scale. Julia and I will be comparing notes on this later. I have only just begun. I will need to keep track of my thoughts here so I can let Julia know what my thought process was.
The other big thing this week had been me playing with delicious. I have only heard research about the social tagging, but I have never tried it. Julia mentioned that I should. I have to say that I was quite surprised. I love it. It has changed the way I think about bookmarking. Not only is it great for taking your bookmarks with you anywhere, but it is a new form of thinking when it comes to the organization. I do not have to deal with folders. I deal with my own tags (I do not do the social tagging part) and notes. The notes are great and the tags help me understand what the site is better than the folders ever did. Delicious is now my world. ;)
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