Jill's September schedule

As summer winds down, my schedule is heating up. I will be giving the following presentations in September:

• Sept. 9: Practical Digitizing Series: Planning & Management of Digitization Projects (workshop), South Central Regional Library Council, Ithaca, NY -- SCRLC is conducting another series of workshops on digitization. This series will occur in the fall in Ithaca and is geared specifically towards their members and the direction that SCRLC is taking. I am pleased that SCRLC again has asked me to kick-off a digitization series for them.
  


• Sept. 10: Using Digital Collections to Expand Your Audience (panel), 2008 American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY -- Myself and three others will present during this session. Each of us will address this topic from a very different point of view.
  


• Sept. 12: Web 3D & Virtual Worlds (presentation), Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) Forum on Federal Information Policies, Washington, D.C. -- I'll be talking about the work that government entities are doing in Second Life and what libraries need to be considering/doing. My co-presenter in this session will be talking specifically about the Swedish embassy in Second Life. Yes, governments are among those investing time and resources in virtual worlds.
  

For more information on any of the events on my calendar, please contact the sponsoring organization or me. If you would me to speak at your event, please give me a shout.

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Technorati tags: Digitization, Second Life, Social Networking Tools

Meme: Passion Quilt

This meme has been circulating around the Internet. The (almost) Bald Trainer did a general tagging of people, and I decided to participate.

I truly believe that kids of all ages need to exercise their imaginations. When you imagine, you wonder what and why, as well as where and how. You imagine how it could be as well as how it once was. Your imagination leads to you ask questions and seek out answers. It pulls you into new directions and helps you grow.

3 Simple Meme Rules:

• Post a picture from a source like FlickrCC or Flickr Creative Commons or make/take your own that captures what YOU are most passionate about for kids to learn about…and give your picture a short title.
• Title your blog post “Meme: Passion Quilt” and link back to this blog entry. (Known origin of the meme is here.)
• Include links to 5 folks in your professional learning network or whom you follow on Twitter/Pownce.

Tag! You Are It: Although this meme has been circulating among librarians, I'm including a couple non-libraries in my "tag" because I think they will have an interesting perspective.

• David Fulton
• Mitch Mitchell
• Kelvin Ringold
• Polly Farrington
• SLA IT Division bloggers

If you are curious, feel free to read other responses to the meme.

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