Logo Contest Entry – Andy Woodworth

[tweetmeme source=”librarianbyday” only_single=false]Our latest logo contest entry comes from Andy Woodworth. Andy has written about transliteracy several times on his blog Agnostic, Maybe.

Visual Learning and Mind Mapping

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Visual Learning & Mind Mapping was created and originally presented by Roger Hannon and Kaitlyn Mesley of Adult Learning Centres Grey-Bruce-Georgian for Transliteracy Conference 2010 in Owen Sound, Ontario. These videos give you a great visual representation of mind mapping, immersive learning, and how we are primarily visual learners. They also go into explaining how to use Power Point and mental models to educate adult learners.

These presentations will give you some great tools and ideas for your adult technology/non-technology programs and help you understand how they learn and retain information.

Citizen Media Law Project Laments Loss of Libraries

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The Citizen Media Law Project, a “research center founded to explore cyberspace, share in its study, and help pioneer its development,” points out, in a recent blog post, the contradiction between the FCC upgrading the broadband standard and communities facing library closures.

The prevalence of broadband-capable infrastructure is unimportant, so long as a main method of Internet exposure is dying. Dwindling library access, rather than stagnant Broadband penetration, is a far larger threat to the nation’s Internet access.

The post notes that libraries are the main source of Internet access for poor communities, especially noting how important this access is for job seekers during the recession who may no longer be able to afford Internet access at home to conduct job searches.

Part of the mission of The Citizen Law Media Project is “to build a community of lawyers, academics, and others who are interested in facilitating citizen participation in online media and protecting the legal rights of those engaged in speech on the Internet.” It is no surprise that they are concerned about “the tens of millions of Americans who are gradually losing their only avenue to a wealth of online resources.”

Logo Contest Entry – Nate Hill

[tweetmeme source=”librarianbyday” only_single=false]This entry is from Nate Hill. It says

Librarian design information architectures that create context across media platforms.
Transliteracy is neither and express of or a reference to any particular medium.
rather it is blurring, connections, facets, and transference.
it is not paper, screens or gadgets.
it is ligaments, tendons.
communication

Infowhelm and Information Fluency

[tweetmeme source=”librarianbyday” only_single=false]An interesting look at the amount of information we as a society are producing each year from the 21st Century Fluency Project

via Information Literacy meets Library 2.0