Muddiest Point--Week 7

I don't understand what a DOI directory is.

Assignment #4

http://www.citeulike.org/user/mjohnston85

The three topics I searched:  school librarianship, school library collaboration and RFID in school libraries.  All articles imported to Citeulike are labeled "Zotero," and all articles found in Citeulike are labeled "Citeulike."

Comments--Week Seven

http://lostscribe459.blogspot.com/2010/10/week-7-readings.html?showComment=1287867128914#c2090419670215250988

http://dougappich-informationtechnology.blogspot.com/2010/10/923-notes.html?showComment=1287867435824#c5607574857291973119

http://nrampsblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/comments-for-unit-7-readings.html?showComment=1287867829625#c5022681505882981509

http://pittlis2600.blogspot.com/2010/10/week-seven-reading-notes.html?showComment=1287868104391#c4188212426786349132

How Internet Infrastructure Works

I hope Monday's lecture clears this up for me, because after the first few pages, I really got lost.  Which is too bad, because I did believe I had a handle on it at the beginning.

Dismantling ILS

I don't know a lot about ILS, but there are two things I do know about libraries, whether they are public, school or academic:  they never have enough staff and they never have enough money.  Whatever a library decides to do about ILS, it needs to be cheap and easy to implement, use and maintain.

Inside the Google Machine

Despite how interesting this lecture was, I couldn't pay attention after Larry Page said both he and Sergey had attended Montessori school.  As a teacher, I have always felt the Montessori method was bizarre--how could the children learn all that they needed to learn if they were permitted to do only those things interested them, neglecting everything else?  Yet here are two brilliant minds who have done quite nicely for themselves and their employees, and they are now running their company employing some of these same principles.  If someone out there is more familiar than I with the Montessori method, I'd love to know more.

Also, after seeing that picture of the skiing vacation, I wondered where I could get an application :)

Muddiest Point--Week Six (revised)

So I do have a muddiest point after all--well, maybe not a muddiest point but rather a cry for help.  My family bought a new computer in August.  It did not come with a wireless model installed, so we bought and installed one we thought would be compatible with Windows 7.  We are not experiencing success.  We can connect with the phone line (I should have mentioned this was DSL,) but that requires a 20 foot cable running from the kitchen to the computer in the next room.  Does anyone have a suggestion?  I've contacted our internet provider (Frontier,) and after multiple attempts to fix, it seems like the problem is with the modem.  Thank you in advance for your help.