Films on Demand from Films for the Humanities and Sciences

The SUNY system now has a consortial deal for Films on Demand .  It includes the entire academic package of just over 5000 films.  The service will be useful to us. I just learned the following from Films On Demand:

• 300 kbps is the only rate available for films still in windows format.
• Moving files over to Flash format for higher resolution/higher bit rate. No date as to when that will be done.
• There are NO MARC records available from them.
• The information on the support site is out of date and inaccurate.
  

I am disappointed in Films on Demand but still think it is worth the money.  Almost every other vendor that we get e-books or other online media from provides MARC records, usually at no additional cost.

Films on Demand

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Bloom's Taxonomy applied to Web 2.0 tools

I thought this might be of interest. According to Wikipedia:

“The Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, often called Bloom's Taxonomy, is a classification of the different objectives that educators set for students (learning objectives). The taxonomy was proposed in 1956 by Benjamin Bloom, an educational psychologist at the University of Chicago. Bloom's Taxonomy divides educational objectives into three "domains:" Affective, Psychomotor, and Cognitive. Like other taxonomies, Bloom's is hierarchical; meaning that learning at the higher levels is dependent on having attained prerequisite knowledge and skills at lower levels (Orlich, et al. 2004). A goal of Bloom's Taxonomy is to motivate educators to focus on all three domains, creating a more holistic form of education.”

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Newsweek: A Twitter timeline of the Iran election

You have probably seen some of the coverage in the news about the use of Twitter by Iranians recently.  This time line from Newsweek clearly shows the power of such social networking technologies.  It reminds me of the use of fax machines and cell phones during other upheavals around the world.  It has now gotten impossible to limit people reaching out to others  when there is the need.  Twitter is truly much more than a 140 text characters.

 

Newsweek: A Twitter timeline of the Iran election:

 

http://bit.ly/aITkT

 

2010 Census: A New Portrait of America

2010 Census: A New Portrait of America

This is a very interesting video from the US Census Bureau. It describe why the 2010 census is probably the most important one in US history.  It explains how the census is used by all levels of government to allocate funds for services.  This would be appropriate for use in many classes and groups.

 http://tinyurl.com/krqqwv

 

 

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Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S., A.S.

Assistant Professor

Librarian, Systems and Tech Services/Electronic Resources/Serials

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E-mail: dreww@tc3.edu

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Brief Analyis of Five Twitter Analysis Tools

This morning I got a link to a good article on "Top Five Twitter Analytical Tools."  The five tools are: 

1. TwitterAnalyzer
2. Twinfluence
3. TweetStats
4. Twitter Grader
5. TweetPsych

Here are the tweets I sent after trying the services:

TwitterAnalyzer:  My tweet: Confusing analysis tool Twitter Analyzer http://twitteranalyzer.com Tweeting of results doesn't work?

My first look at the results of this tool turned me off.  It only looks at the current date and does not offer an easy to find way to put in a date range.  It shows lots of confusing data with little explanation and no real analysis.

Twinfluence: My tweet: One of the better analysis tools! RT @twinfluence: 06/24/09 http://twinfluence.com score for @billdrew4: Reach=2,051,270, Rank=#30,702

This is one of the quickest and easiest ones to use.  The results are clearly explained. It is concise and to the point.  My score with explanation is at http://twinfluence.com/?u=billdrew4 .

TweetStats: My tweet: Good analysis tool. My TweetStats! http://tweetstats.com/graph... @tweetstats

I like this site because it is fast and provides easy to understand charts.  It also can give you a very interesting and useful word cloud of your tweets. The site also keeps track of trending topics and graphs them.

Twitter Grader: My tweet: Easiest 2 use. gd way 2 decide 2 follow/unfollow ppl @billdrew4 got a grade of 97.1/100 on @grader. Check it out: http://bit.ly/9skc5

Twitter Grader is clearly my favorite.  It can be slow but does give you an easy to understand analysis.  It is a simple ranking.  The site does provide and explanation.

TweetPsych: My Tweet: Interesting as a curiosity. Real Value? not sure.Psychological Profiling Via Twitter: http://TweetPsych.com?name=...

This service in interesting as a distraction but has no real value as far as I can see as an analytical tool. 

My analysis is my own opinion and is subject to change.  It is also very subjective.  Your mileage may very from mine.

Twitter, tweetpsych, twittergrader, tweetstats, TwitterAnalyzer, twifluence

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