Comments on: What I took home from Bridging Worlds

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By: Matthew Hodgson

Matthew Hodgson — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 08:55:13 +0000

That’s a very powerful comment you note here …

“* 13. A quote from Peter Godwin’s Information Literacy and Web 2.0: is it just hype presentation: “We want to change their habits rather than just develop their skills”.

All too often we assume that if we just train people they will have the skills and be able to apply them. Unfortunately, this misses the fact that many people do have the skills, they just don’t want to engage.

Perhaps a user-centred design approach would help the future of libraries to ensure we’re building environments not for librarians but for people.

By: fabienne

fabienne — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:51:51 +0000

thanks for sharing!
i wasn’t able to follow all the sessions or read all the papers or slides that were posted online, but your recap gives me an idea of some of the (very interesting) things that were discussed at the conference.

By: Ideas from Bridging Worlds 2008 Conference…10.20.08 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 20:22:26 +0000

[...] Worlds 2008 Conference…10.20.08 20 10 2008 Kathyrn Greenhill posted the following [http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/10/20/what-i-took-home-from-bridging-worlds/] today as a recap of/take-away from of the Bridging Worlds 2008 conference which seem to be [...]

By: Penny Coutas

Penny Coutas — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:10:56 +0000

And I can’t count. Originally there were two, but then I added the third.

I don’t think I’m ready for the third place, but I’m quite happy to get the “I ran in a race” ribbon!

By: Penny Coutas

Penny Coutas — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:03:58 +0000

I know, I know you don’t need any more links to check out, but these two came to mind as I read your post.

1. MIQDAS : Methodological Issues in Qualitative Data Archiving & Sharing. I like their work – Bella Dicks, Amanda Coffey in particular. They get right into the ethical issues too. Their book is really good, and I really should have bought it when the AUD/USD was better…

2. PlayStation used “The Third Place” as their slogan for a while, remember? I like this clip the most to sum up the concept:

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0DLocZUQNE

We talk about the third place a lot in “intercultural language learning”. But… in always talking about the “inter-s” we forget that “the third place” is more about the “metas”.

3. http://www.omeka.org : this is the archive/db I’m using for my project, and they’re going to be offering a service like WordPress (hosted or self-hosted) next year. Definitely one to keep an eye on.

(Thank goodness for delicious?)