Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Outliers

I am listening to the book Outliers in my car and it is blowing my mind.

watch this:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/mpd/permalink/m363KIRPC7BAK

then check the book (or audio book) out.

update from 5/21/09
I keep re-playing and re-playing some passages:
"...when the world changed, they were ready."

"plane crash are most often the result of 7 errors, SEVEN!
and not errors due to lack of skills or knowledge, but failures in teamwork and COMMUNICATION... someone knew something and didn't tell someone else..."


Outliers Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell


My review


rating: 5 of 5 stars
I loved the audio read by the author. (hachette audio) Every chapter was more interesting than the one before and the 1st one about birth dates and hockey players blew me away... Definitely eye opening, very smart and clear about what it means to teach. Made me appreciate my family and the environment in which I grew up so much.loved it.



note. I kept wanting to stop the car and write down brilliant one line quotes, which of course, I never did. that's the problem with audio.

about opportunity and practice and luck: "...when the world changed, they were ready." stuck with me still.










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Friday, May 15, 2009

friday ramblings

yea yea, i am just re-posting, but mind your links, there are some cooooool things here:

innovation ingredients (stone soup anyone?)



I love a good cheeseburger



OMG lessons I needed:



thanks to meg from pointing this out:
http://www.the350project.net/home.html

Good news from San Jose.
I especially like the bit about funding other child safety priority, and restoring the libraries' open hours to their 2000 levels.
yay!



webcat, worldcat, localcat...!?



WorldCat Local for circulation
For libraries that catalog their collections with WorldCat and use WorldCat Local as their public interface, the local ILS serves primarily for circulation and acquisitions. The next logical step in OCLC’s strategy moves these remaining tasks into WorldCat Local, making it possible for a library to phase out its local integrated library system.
WorldCat Local for circulationFor libraries that catalog their collections with WorldCat and use WorldCat Local as their public interface, the local ILS serves primarily for circulation and acquisitions. The next logical step in OCLC’s strategy moves these remaining tasks into WorldCat Local, making it possible for a library to phase out its local integrated library system.


Everyone who's cool already knows about drop box. this screencast covers it well.


why weeding is good



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