Teaching for the Future: Episode 40: Librarians in the Future?

News:

Scientists recommend educational gaming from Joystiq: This story gives some interesting evidence that educational gaming can be very useful as an educational tool. This is one of the articles that I sent to Irene at No One's Listening before I interviewed her and Colin.

MySpace Predator Caught by Code from Wired: Police in Suffolk County, New York use about 1000 lines of code to catch a sexual predator. The code was used to scour MySpace user profiles for users who had profiles that matched known sex offenders. The code allowed the authorities to identify the actions of over 744 known sex offenders.

UC Merced Podcast: I recieved an email from Alex Kang, a senior at UC Merced, who started a podcast for his school. It is not yet syndicated because they are trying to do it in house, but I'll let you know when it goes up. Until then check out the first episode.

Wikiversity from
Wikiversity Reports: "Wikiversity: where teachers learn, and learners teach from Information." This is a podcast by Teaching for the Future listener John Schmidt about the new Wikimedia project that explains what the project is all about and how to get involved in this new community.

Mark Frydenberg talks at the Berkman Center: I met Mark at Podcamp when he did a presentation about how he used podcasting in his IT 101 class at Bentley College. He recently spoke at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School. Mark may be the first person in higher education to assign podcasts in the course work.

Congratulations to Brian Conley from Alive In Baghdad who won something at the Vloggies. I can't figure out where the winners are listed or it just may be too early but I found a photo of Brian with a novelty check so I figure he was honored some how.

Commentary:
Librarians in the Digital Age(Part 2): David Warlick discusses how libraries and librarians will change and I try to give my "2 Cents Worth."

Intro: Thanks to Chris Brogan for the great Intro

If you have a podcast I'd love to hear about it, so feel free to email at teachingforthefuture@gmail.com or send me an audio message through Odeo

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