Oboube

 Looking Back, Looking Ahead Source Image: Tiny Budda It has been quite an adventure. I don't know about you, but it took me a lot of courage to sign up for this MLIS and particularly for the emerging technologyies aspect of it. I grew up in the software era and was entirely intimitated by the digital world. As I decided to pursue the degree, i had promised myself to stay clear of anything related to social media and new technologies. I am a staunch believer that Truth that needs to be instilled to our students does not change and therefore old methods are still relevant no matter what people say The application of Truth changes, but Truth itself does not. We all need our points of views to be challenged. But then I worked up a little bit of courage and thought it was about time to know a little more about this technological monster I was encountering everywhere in classrooms, at the library, and in my personal life. After taking three classes, including LIS 776, I found that I cou...

  YOUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT This week we are looking into one of the scariest topics for people like me who are on the fringes of social media culture: the topic of digital tattoos, better known as digital footprint or digital shadow. A quick internet search revealed that digital footprint is defined as “the unique trail of data that a person or business creates while using the internet.” Just like other topics specific to the digital space, it seems that there is a veil that covers the topic of digital tattoo. The average internet user does not stop to think about the fact that she/he leaves a data trail on the internet that can come back and haunt them in the future. Furthermore, we do not have control over how and to whom our data is disseminated or for how long  yet the internet is replete with the drama caused by the trails left by internet users in their private and professional lives. Most of us did not ask ourselves these questions when we all jumped into the digital wo...

  YOUR DIGITAL FOOTPRINT This week we are looking into one of the scariest topics for people like me who are on the fringes of social media culture: the topic of digital tattoos, better known as digital footprint or digital shadow. A quick internet search revealed that digital footprint is defined as “the unique trail of data that a person or business creates while using the internet.” Just like other topics specific to the digital space, it seems that there is a veil that covers the topic of digital tattoo. The average internet user does not stop to think about the fact that she/he leaves a data trail on the internet that can come back and haunt them in the future. Furthermore, we do not have control over how and to whom our data is disseminated or for how long  yet the internet is replete with the drama caused by the trails left by internet users in their private and professional lives. Most of us did not ask ourselves these questions when we all jumped into the digital wo...

  Digital Accessibility in the Library Source Image: US Department of Education ALSC Blog When reading the materials this week about accessibility in the library, I was reminded of Chen (assumed name). Chen is a young boy whom I met when he was in 2nd grade. Chen had a challenging road ahead because he had limited sight.  Even though I was a substitute teacher and was not given Chen's exact medical condition, I could tell that while Chen was a bright and kind boy, what he needed most was that websites, the documents, the books, all the learning materials needed during the day to be accessible to him. Watching Chen, day in and day out, made me realize how important it is that our schools and libraries be accessible to all children at all times. It is that accessibility that makes us a democracy and the library a universal educator. For Chen, this accessibility meant that his classroom work computer was enhanced with a tool that allowed him to zoom in and out of the material the...

COPYRIGHT FOR LIBRARIES Image source: bytescare As librarians, it is important to understand the implications of work copyrighted by authors and which we share with our customers. Why must we always give credit when we cite work we are present to customers? how is it that customers can copy only a certain percentage of printed books? how does a library make sure that its clients understand their responsibilities and the library's responsibility when it comes to copyrighted material? Such are the questions we will find answers to in this section. I first came across the idea of libraries and copyright issues when I was doing a Storytime at my public library.  As a children's Associate, we use a lot of information that we have not created such as music, books, pictures etc... In our team, there was a woman who always made sure she wrote, the author's name, the singer's name, the illustrator's name etc...This piqued my interest. I knew that if I had been the author of ...

  ACTIVE LEARNING METHODS Source Image: Apprendoo I was to be a substitute teacher in a 5th grade class and I was nervous. The instructor had shared his plans with me at 7:45 am and I was still looking it over and trying the connect the projector for the morning meeting when the 5th graders started trickling in. Thank God they had two specials that day: PE and Music. Looking over the plans, though I noticed that in social science, we were to discuss the Transatlantic Slave Trade. And then I had an idea. I would use an active learning method to deliver the course today. Source Image: Anabaptist world and Met Exhibition and Museum of Fine Arts Boston Students today learn differently. Gone are the days when concepts were expounded in a one-directional way. The days of mental mathematics, daily dictations, and memorization. The modern student must learn with images , concepts, and collaboration. The scholastic method of learning with its “rational discussion and clear understanding”...