Love the addition to Chicago Public Library

What a great way to encourage teen involvement in libraries and media while providing a safe place to gather and learn.

http://youmediachicago.org/

Why is my Delicious Add-on not showing up anymore?

Are we creating more work for ourselves in a traditional desktop setting by trying to incorporate mobile technologies and trendy tricks like Delicious, Twitter, Add-on, Sign-In, and so on? Where are my simplistic toolsets that actually let me research, create content, share-it (add above), and really get work completed. Is it me?

Starting from Scratch

Adding content to an online education system for professional development purposes is an endless track with nowhere in particular to start. I am interested in podcasting, easy directions for a range of skillsets and how-tos that range from creating a blog to teaching classes in digital animation. My searches are long and somewhat frustrating. I think I might keep a physical copy of my work as well as this blog and my Delicious pages to organize my content and thoughts. Finding high quality how-tos, but surprisingly most are out of date. For instance, the podcasting lessons from wikipedia are great, but one detailed version is from 2005. I am printing out a whitepaper from Educause, call me old fashioned but now I can read without sitting in my perch in my office.

LYRASIS

What is LYRASIS and do they have good choices for library pd?

http://www.infopeople.org/workshop/426

Researching Online Library Options for Professional Development, Youth Services

Ohio Library Association is creating an online educational system for librarians. I'm interested in creating a professional development option for librarians who would like to learn about digital animation, video game creation, 3D modeling, and digital movie making. Libraries, especially Youth Service librarians need emerging technology know-how in simplistic, bite size learning pieces.

I'm interested in reviewing what's out there now like, www.infopeople.org and other library resources which feature podcasts, videos, online content, lesson plans, simple curriculums, contesting, literacy ideas, and the like.