The presenters included a set of websites that would be of interest to the authors of the state of Florida, so I am including a few here. Check back later as I may have forgotten one or three and will update this page.
Oh, and I wasn't at that particular presentation but there was a class promoting the hell out of NANOWRIMO.
Duotrope
Poets & Writers dot Org
New Books Network
..
This wasn't at the conference but I came across it on the web:
Florida Literary Links via Sawpalm
Tweet me at @PaulWartenberg or comment here if you can if you remember the other website services talked about at this year's conference!
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Saturday, October 17, 2015
Friday, January 4, 2013
What Is Digital Literacy?
Digital literacy is one of the trends in librarianship. What exactly is it?
It is the ability to read, understand, rework, redirect, and sometimes create brand new digital information in a shared digital environment.
It means more than just receiving and sending emails. It means more than just getting an ereader and downloading ebooks. It means taking every raw bit of data floating in the Internet 'verse (once considered a series of tubes but in the current context the Internet is now a cloud), text and images and sounds and movement (yes even that) and working with all that data to create new information with its own context for sharing and further use.
A digital environment that exists as an interactive environment.
It requires an understanding of social media, of expectation of action response and reaction.
As libraries are a point of learning and education, digital literacy's importance to libraries and librarians can't be overstated. Librarians have to be adept with digital information, online resources, sharing of resources, creative input and output. As libraries are becoming less a source of print media (and even AV media as more and more audio and visual materials are online), libraries are becoming more a workplace, an open table shop where people can gather to work on projects. I'm seeing local colleges clear out reference shelves - reference books now made obsolete by digital resources - and creating more study areas. Libraries are now opening coffee shops inside the buildings as draws, when once before we frowned on food and drink because spills would affect our book collections.
Being literate with digital information - being creative with information - is now a major requirement for public support librarians.
Just remember: Tweeting shorthand is only good for Twitter. Please write in proper Anglish for all other communiques. Smileys still optional. :-)
It is the ability to read, understand, rework, redirect, and sometimes create brand new digital information in a shared digital environment.
It means more than just receiving and sending emails. It means more than just getting an ereader and downloading ebooks. It means taking every raw bit of data floating in the Internet 'verse (once considered a series of tubes but in the current context the Internet is now a cloud), text and images and sounds and movement (yes even that) and working with all that data to create new information with its own context for sharing and further use.
A digital environment that exists as an interactive environment.
It requires an understanding of social media, of expectation of action response and reaction.
As libraries are a point of learning and education, digital literacy's importance to libraries and librarians can't be overstated. Librarians have to be adept with digital information, online resources, sharing of resources, creative input and output. As libraries are becoming less a source of print media (and even AV media as more and more audio and visual materials are online), libraries are becoming more a workplace, an open table shop where people can gather to work on projects. I'm seeing local colleges clear out reference shelves - reference books now made obsolete by digital resources - and creating more study areas. Libraries are now opening coffee shops inside the buildings as draws, when once before we frowned on food and drink because spills would affect our book collections.
Being literate with digital information - being creative with information - is now a major requirement for public support librarians.
Just remember: Tweeting shorthand is only good for Twitter. Please write in proper Anglish for all other communiques. Smileys still optional. :-)
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Dropping An Old Website
I've decided I shan't keep up with an old html-based website any longer.
If anyone's got a link to it, wittylibrarian.com is no longer a functioning site. If you keep getting its pages, it's only because it hasn't been fully decommissioned yet.
Please use the blog here for keeping up with my general off-kilter observations of librarianship, writing, and cats. Thank ye.
If anyone's got a link to it, wittylibrarian.com is no longer a functioning site. If you keep getting its pages, it's only because it hasn't been fully decommissioned yet.
Please use the blog here for keeping up with my general off-kilter observations of librarianship, writing, and cats. Thank ye.
Thursday, July 15, 2010
I Write Like... Paul Wartenberg! ...Nah...
So there's this new website that the bloggers and twitters are chirping aboot called I Write Like. As a writer I was tempted to submit my short stories for comparisons...
"Banging the Pipes," The earliest short story that I have the most love for came back as writing like... James Joyce.
Whew. Previously I submitted just the first few paragraphs but that came back as Dan Brown (AUUUUGHHH)
For "Fifth Annual Office Golf Showdown," the short story that actually won Second Place for a contest, I wrote that like
Who is actually a name I recognize but never read (the short story is entirely dialogue, I wonder if that has an effect).
For the last short story in my story collection Last of the Grapefruit Wars, "Snipe Hunt," that came back as
Which is weird: when I submitted just the first three pages it came back as Stephen King.
You know what? All this inconsistency. I write like Paul Wartenberg. So there.
"Banging the Pipes," The earliest short story that I have the most love for came back as writing like... James Joyce.
Whew. Previously I submitted just the first few paragraphs but that came back as Dan Brown (AUUUUGHHH)
For "Fifth Annual Office Golf Showdown," the short story that actually won Second Place for a contest, I wrote that like
I write like
David Foster Wallace
David Foster Wallace
I Write Like by Mémoires, Mac journal software. Analyze your writing!
Who is actually a name I recognize but never read (the short story is entirely dialogue, I wonder if that has an effect).
For the last short story in my story collection Last of the Grapefruit Wars, "Snipe Hunt," that came back as
Which is weird: when I submitted just the first three pages it came back as Stephen King.
You know what? All this inconsistency. I write like Paul Wartenberg. So there.
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