Week11:Never stop learning!
Finally finish 23 things this week (stumble upon) looks a lot like pinterest.
I enjoyed doing 23 things I knew most of the things but learn about creative commons and scoop it which I did not like.Was always curious to see what the next week will be, now all done.
DRUM ROLL I finished 23 things and did my happy dance Gabrielle was my witness
DONT STOP ME NOW-QUEEN
And even at my age I was surprised that I could learn new tecnologie AND WE CAN LEARN THESE THINGS TOGETHER. KEEP LEARNING FOREVER.NOTHINGS GONNA STOP US NOW.
Tuesday, 25 March 2014
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Is a library without books the future?
Friday, January 24, 2014 |
(Photo credit: Associated Press/Eric Gay)
A bookless library sounds like a paradox but in San Antonio, Texas, it's a thriving reality. America's first digital public library, BiblioTech, opened in Bexar County in the fall.
There are no paperbacks or hardcovers here, but e-readers, tablets, rows of iMacs, touch screen tables, and even Xbox 360 Kinects.
Nora Young, host of CBC Radio's Spark, spoke with head librarian Ashley Eklof about the services the library offers and the benefits of a digital library over a traditional one. "I'm able to focus on providing what the community needs," Eklof said. "We're able to step away from the desk, the back room and interact with the community."
The library deals primarily in e-books but if you don't have your own device, you can borrow one of their 600 basic e-readers. Download up to five books at one time and you have two weeks to read them. Their collection has 10,000 titles and counting.
And late fees are a thing of the past.
And late fees are a thing of the past.
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"By providing e-books we eliminate fines for the book. It will disappear off the device. The next person has access to it two minutes later."
For Eklof, there are benefits to the digital library but she still sees a future with a mix of paper-based and digital libraries. Other attempts at the digital library have failed in the U.S. but there are a few possible reasons it's working in Bexar County. One factor could be that they are the first library in a low-income area that most businesses have shied away from.
"This model works now because people are ready. We weren't replacing print books with e-books. I wonder if people wouldn't have been as receptive if we were throwing out print books to make way for e-books."
Do you think a bookless library has more advantages than a traditional library? Let us know what you think about the future of digital libraries in the comments!
Kansas Boy Gets New Hand, Created at a Library Makerspace
By on February 11, 20141 Comment
By Carolyn Sun
Nine-year-old Matthew is the owner of a brightly-colored prosthetic Robohand that was created several months ago in the MakerSpace of the Johnson County Library in Overland Park, KS. Matthew, who is adopted, was born with partial fingers on his right hand due to a birth condition called limb difference.
He’d always been a self-confident kid, according to his mother, Jennifer, whose father had been born with the same condition. But, after they moved to Miami County, KS, two years ago, Matthew endured the spotlight of being the new kid as well as relentless questions about his hand from classmates.
“Social stigma was starting to creep in on him,” she says.
However, Matthew didn’t want a commercial prosthetic hand, which can cost up to $18,000. Even with insurance, Jennifer, a single mother of three children, could not afford it.
The genesis of Matthew’s prosthetic hand came from one of Matthew’s teachers who’d sent Jennifer a link to Robohand, a cost-effective model of a prosthetic hand co-created by South African Richard Van As, who’d lost his own fingers in a workshop accident, and theatrical artist, Ivan Owen back in November 2012. A 3-D printer version was designed in January 2013 with how-to instructions available online.
When Matthew first saw photos of the Robohand, “He was immediately excited, says his mom. “I think it was the fact it was colored and looked like something that could be made from LEGOs.”
The Johnson County’s Central Resource Library boasts a 3-D MakerBot printer in its MakerSpace located right next to the library’s information services desk. The MakerSpace opened last March, and in addition to the MakerBot, contains Apple desktops and audio and digital recording equipment. On the library’s MakerSpace website, the suggested projects for MakerSpace are diverse and DIY, from websites and musical recordings to shower curtain rings and chess pieces.
When Matthew’s mom went to work studying the prosthetic hand design, she soon realized it was beyond her skills. She reached out to 16-year-old Mason Wilde, a family friend’s son who’d helped her eldest son with computer programs in the past and had, last year, built a computer from scratch.
Mason, a student at Louisburg (KS) High School, had coincidentally been sitting out football season due to a concussion and had been encouraged by his doctor to “seek enrichment—and the opportunity to enrich others—outside of football” according to his mother, Kelly Wilde.
“I’ve always been fascinated by machines and engineering feats,” he says, “so when I was given the opportunity to work with a 3-D printer and build a hand, all while helping a family friend, I jumped on it.”
All in all, the Robohand project took Mason five hours of labor over a span of three weeks.
Meredith Nelson,a reference librarian at Johnson County’s Central Resource Library, has been teaching introductory MakerBot classes (on alternating Mondays and Wednesdays) since the MakerSpace opened last March. She teaches the basics of how the MakerBot works, how to download and slice a file, and how to 3-D print.
Nelson, a self-proclaimed “Maker-Librarian,” had no prior experience with 3-D printing before the MakerBot’s arrival. She mastered it through trial-and-error.
“I took [the printer] apart about 75,961 times,” she says, “The first time it jams, you freak out and don’t know how or where to open everything. After that, you just roll your eyes and do it.”
Nelson says MakerSpace and its advanced equipment and skills software has attracted new patrons to the library who’d previously thought they had little use for it.
“Many people, who only saw the library as a place for books or quiet study, have realized we can be more.”
At present, Matthew is able to pick up a pencil and is working on writing legibly. He refers to his hand as “the future.”
“The main thing that Matthew can do with the hand is be a center of attention for a cool thing,” says his mom, “not a what-happened-to-your hand thing.”
Mason, who plans on pursuing mechanical engineering career in the future, intends to make more Robohands for Matthew as he grows.
Nine-year-old Matthew is the owner of a brightly-colored prosthetic Robohand that was created several months ago in the MakerSpace of the Johnson County Library in Overland Park, KS. Matthew, who is adopted, was born with partial fingers on his right hand due to a birth condition called limb difference.
He’d always been a self-confident kid, according to his mother, Jennifer, whose father had been born with the same condition. But, after they moved to Miami County, KS, two years ago, Matthew endured the spotlight of being the new kid as well as relentless questions about his hand from classmates.
Meredith Nelson (right), reference librarian at Johnson County Central Resource Library, teaches classes on the MakerSpace tools including how to use the MakerBot printer.
However, Matthew didn’t want a commercial prosthetic hand, which can cost up to $18,000. Even with insurance, Jennifer, a single mother of three children, could not afford it.
The genesis of Matthew’s prosthetic hand came from one of Matthew’s teachers who’d sent Jennifer a link to Robohand, a cost-effective model of a prosthetic hand co-created by South African Richard Van As, who’d lost his own fingers in a workshop accident, and theatrical artist, Ivan Owen back in November 2012. A 3-D printer version was designed in January 2013 with how-to instructions available online.
When Matthew first saw photos of the Robohand, “He was immediately excited, says his mom. “I think it was the fact it was colored and looked like something that could be made from LEGOs.”
The Johnson County’s Central Resource Library boasts a 3-D MakerBot printer in its MakerSpace located right next to the library’s information services desk. The MakerSpace opened last March, and in addition to the MakerBot, contains Apple desktops and audio and digital recording equipment. On the library’s MakerSpace website, the suggested projects for MakerSpace are diverse and DIY, from websites and musical recordings to shower curtain rings and chess pieces.
When Matthew’s mom went to work studying the prosthetic hand design, she soon realized it was beyond her skills. She reached out to 16-year-old Mason Wilde, a family friend’s son who’d helped her eldest son with computer programs in the past and had, last year, built a computer from scratch.
Mason, a student at Louisburg (KS) High School, had coincidentally been sitting out football season due to a concussion and had been encouraged by his doctor to “seek enrichment—and the opportunity to enrich others—outside of football” according to his mother, Kelly Wilde.
“I’ve always been fascinated by machines and engineering feats,” he says, “so when I was given the opportunity to work with a 3-D printer and build a hand, all while helping a family friend, I jumped on it.”
All in all, the Robohand project took Mason five hours of labor over a span of three weeks.
A MakerSpace class.
Nelson, a self-proclaimed “Maker-Librarian,” had no prior experience with 3-D printing before the MakerBot’s arrival. She mastered it through trial-and-error.
“I took [the printer] apart about 75,961 times,” she says, “The first time it jams, you freak out and don’t know how or where to open everything. After that, you just roll your eyes and do it.”
Nelson says MakerSpace and its advanced equipment and skills software has attracted new patrons to the library who’d previously thought they had little use for it.
“Many people, who only saw the library as a place for books or quiet study, have realized we can be more.”
At present, Matthew is able to pick up a pencil and is working on writing legibly. He refers to his hand as “the future.”
“The main thing that Matthew can do with the hand is be a center of attention for a cool thing,” says his mom, “not a what-happened-to-your hand thing.”
Mason, who plans on pursuing mechanical engineering career in the future, intends to make more Robohands for Matthew as he grows.
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butterfly: week 3
butterfly: week 3: week 3 I already have a Vision account and I already knew how to go on goodreads but Ilike Vision because when I see a book I want to read...
Friday, 17 January 2014
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Hi this is my first blog ever. Please help me ,very hitech for me, I only have facebook, that is how much i know
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