April 2007 Archives
Yesterday I attended the TLT Engage Symposium at the Penn Stater. Allan Gyorke, Cole Campelese and their staff did an excellent job putting this together. I'm sure there'll be more informative and insightful comments on the symposium than the following but some things I got out of the day:
1. A much more holistic view of the Web 2.0 or Social Computing ecosystem. Up to this point, I'd seen demos of individual technologies or applications but didn't see them as Generation Web 2.0 does.
2. Realized what the point of Twitter is. Thanks Cole.
3. Was interviewed by Jim Leous for the Symposium vodcast. He does look like David Letterman.
4. The Pew Internet & American Life Projectis a great source of data on technology and Internet trends. Useful as we get ready for the next generation of freshmen. (We're not ready!). Question about whether multi-tasking makes us more or less productive; teenagers seem to "toggle" between tasks with less effort than the rest of us or is their ADD more refined?
5. A good way to grab the audience's attention is to show a video. Lee Rainie from Pew showed this one -- a really effective look at the evolution of the web from 1.0 to 2.0 by a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State.
6. Some really excellent work with instructional technology going on in the classrooms at Penn State. Are we ahead of the curve? I know some institutions have invested a lot in infrastructure and networks; educational technologies have lagged. Certainly doesn't seem to be the case here.
And I'm wondering how all this Web 2.0 content is going to be collected, managed and preserved, etc. And what about backups? (Wayne Stump made me ask that question.) What are the implications going to be in terms of infrastructure support?
After a bit of a break, I'm inspired to get back to blogging by doing something similar to what Kevin did after his bit of a break: list some of the things I've been up to in the meantime.
On the road: OCLC and RLG Workshop: Discovery to Delivery in New Contexts at the New York Public Library, mini-conference at Rutgers on the RUcore Fedora Workflow Managment System, and DPubs meeting at Cornell University Libraries.
Meetings included IT Strategies (3), weekly meetings with Lisa German and Mike Furlough, DLT Staff (4), DLT Management (2), DLT Directors (5), Shibboleth project (2), meeting with the ITLP group I'm mentoring, SIRSI steering committee, Knowledge Commons (3), CMS status meetings, meeting with Steve Herb from Center for the Book, UL IT Services Analysis kick off, Deb Ellenberger (3), Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing (1), Gang of Five (German, Freivalds, Garrison, Saussure, Martin) (4), budget meetings with Pam Fuller (5), TLT Leadership Group meeting, FACAC (2), DLT Infrastructure/operations with Mark (quite a few), network security (a few), Dean's Library Council (2), Library Department Heads (2), Library Tech Updates (2), ITS Senior Directors' half day meetings (2), TrackITS demo/meeting (2), Epic demo (2), meeting with Mike Halm (2), meeting with Lee Giles and Mike Halm, Digital Preservation Steering Committee, repository discussion with IT Strategies group and Kevin Morooney, John Harwood and Jim Leous, DLT/ITECH Identity Sharing (2), Ann Snowman (2), UL printing (2), Sally Kalin (3), Jack Sulzer (2), Phil Devan (1), Nancy Eaton (3), Jack Orlandi (3), TLT Engage Symposium at the Penn Stater.
Bought a house (1).
Ok, that's enough. I don't know if I think this is a great idea anymore.
