What’s all the fuss?  Is this another new shiny thing, or does it have the potential to cause serious change in cultural, library and learning environments?  This is the Symposium for you if you want to hear about what’s happen, learn about scholarly research and investigations and have great conversations.

Creative Making in Libraries & Museums iSchool Symposium

University of Toronto iSchool Institute Symposium in partnership with Dysart & Jones Associates and the Ontario Library Association

REGISTRATION & WEBSITE NOW OPEN

Early bird discounts and Special Rates for OLA Members

Monday & Tuesday July 22 & 23, 2013, Toronto

Visit the website to learn more and register:

http://www.creativemaking.org/

One of the hottest trends today is FabLabs, 3D printing, Makerspaces, Arduino and the connection of libraries and museums to creation and invention.  It’s time for a symposium on the current landscape and a look at the opportunities for research, learning alignment, programs, practices and experiences of pioneers in this space.  Dysart & Jones Associates have assembled a stellar crew of the leading thinkers and innovators in the fields of critical making.  Attendees will tour the University of Toronto iSchool Semaphore Research Lab, hear of international innovations in FabLabs and Makerspaces in libraries, explore the use of maker technology in museums and cultural institutions, and learn the connections to strategies for research, community and education.

When one of Time magazine’s top 100 thinkers, Chris Anderson, a famed journalist, and editor of Wired magazine and entrepreneur, writes his third book (following librarians’ favorite, The Long Tail) on Makers: The New Industrial Revolution  in 2012, you know the maker revolution is on the way!  The book describes how entrepreneurs using open source design and 3D printing as a platform are driving a resurgence of American manufacturing.  The innovations portrayed, crowdsourcing of ideas, utilization of available lower-cost design and manufacturing tools, and reviewing options to outsource capital-intensive manufacturing were also highlighted in the February 2012 Harvard Business Review article, “From Do It Yourself to Do It Together”.

Many industries, libraries, and museums have embraced the maker revolution.  This two-day symposium illustrates the breadth and depth of the revolution, puts it into the context of libraries and museums, shares exciting programs already being pioneered and suggests areas for future endeavours.  It features leading edge thinkers, scholars, and practitioners, includes a tour of the University of Toronto’s Critical Making Lab and focuses on strategies for libraries, museums, K-12 and other education and academic institutions.

Speakers:

• Matt Ratto, iSchool Professor; Director, Critical Making Lab, and Director, Semaphore Research Cluster on Mobile and Pervasive Computing University of Toronto  http://www.ischool.utoronto.ca/faculty/matt-ratto

• Susan Considine, Executive Director, The Fayetteville Free Library FabLab; ALA LAMA Division Councillor, NYLA PLS President, NYLA Councillor at Large

• Richard Hulser, Chief Librarian, Natural History Museum Los Angeles County

• Nate Hill, Assistant Director for Technology & Digital Initiatives, Chattanooga Public Library

• Jason Griffey, LibraryBox

Other innovators will be video-conferenced in as well

Lunch and coffee/snacks included

Conference Co-Chairs:
·         Jane Dysart, Senior Partner, Dysart & Jones
·         Stephen Abram, Consultant, Dysart & Jones

Sponsorship
For sponsorship opportunities or a chance to demonstrate technology please contact:  Juanita Richardson, Juanita@dysartjones.com

Register at http://www.creativemaking.org/

The 2 day symposium fee is $349.00 and $299.00 if you register before July 5^th.  Students are eligible for free limited volunteer roles or a half price registration.

OLA members get a 15% discount on registration fees.

Location
University of Toronto, Faculty of Information, iSchool Institute
140 St George Street, 7th Floor, Toronto, ON

Stephen

Video: A Brief Introduction to 3D Scanning at the Smithsonian Institution

25% find company training/e-learning of no importance – according to the Learning in the Workplace 2013 survey results.

The Red Flags of Quackery

Via: The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science (Official)

Stephen

Teens, Social Media, and Privacy

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-Social-Media-And-Privacy.aspx

“The Pew Research Center’s Internet Project has just released a brand new report on Teens, Social Media and Privacy. The full report is available here: http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2013/Teens-Social-Media-And-Privacy.aspx and I have pasted the press release in below for your reference.

Teens are sharing more details about themselves on social media profiles, but few do so publicly; 60% of teen Facebook users keep their profiles private   

Teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-party access to their data;  just 9% say they are “very” concerned  

Teen Twitter use has grown significantly: 24% of online teens use Twitter, up from 16% in 2011.  

WASHINGTON – (May 21, 2013) – Teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past, but they are also taking a variety of technical and non-technical steps to manage the privacy of that information. Despite taking these privacy-protective actions, teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-parties (such as businesses or advertisers) accessing their data; just 9% say they are “very” concerned.

These are among the new findings from a nationally representative Pew Research Center survey of 802 youth ages 12-17 and their parents that explored technology use. Key findings include:

Teens are sharing more information about themselves on their social media profiles than they did when we last surveyed in 2006:

• ·        91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 2006.
• ·        71% post their school name, up from 49%.
• ·        71% post the city or town where they live, up from 61%.
• ·        53% post their email address, up from 29%.
• ·        20% post their cell phone number, up from 2%.

60% of teen Facebook users set their Facebook profiles to private (friends only), and most report high levels of confidence in their ability to manage their settings.

• ·        56% of teen Facebook users say it’s “not difficult at all” to manage the privacy controls on their Facebook profile.
• ·        33% Facebook-using teens say it’s “not too difficult.”
• ·        8% of teen Facebook users say that managing their privacy controls is “somewhat difficult,” while less than 1% describe the process as “very difficult.”

Teens take other steps to shape their reputation, manage their networks, and mask information they don’t want others to see.

• ·        59% have deleted or edited something that they posted in the past.
• ·        53% have deleted comments from others on their profile or account.
• ·        45% have removed their name from photos that have been tagged to identify them.
• ·        31% have deleted or deactivated an entire profile or account.
• ·        Focus group participants report that they are able to manage their privacy on social media sites, usually by deciding what content to post rather than by managing its dissemination via privacy settings.

Teen social media users do not express a high level of concern about third-party access to their data. Focus group findings suggest teens have mixed feelings about advertising practices, ranging from ignorance, indifference, to annoyance. Some teens may not realize how their personal information is being used by third parties. Others see them as necessary to provide the service or even as welcomed content about brands they like. Some teens are annoyed by ads and find them “creepy” when they are targeted and highly personalized.

“Far from being privacy indifferent, today’s teens are mindful about what they post, even if their primary focus and motivation is often their engagement with an audience of friends and family, rather than how their online behavior might be tracked by advertisers or other third parties,” said Mary Madden, Senior Researcher for the Pew Research Center’s Internet Project and co-author of the report.

While Facebook remains the most commonly used social media site, teen Twitter use has grown significantly: One in four (24%) online teens uses Twitter, up from 16% in 2011. But even as nearly eight in ten online teens have Facebook profiles, teen users report mixed feelings about it. The typical (median) teen Facebook user has 300 friends, while the typical teen Twitter user has 79 followers.  And 64% of teens with Twitter accounts say that their tweets are public, while 24% say their tweets are private.

“Our focus group findings revealed complex and often negative feelings about Facebook interactions,” said Sandra Cortesi, Director of the Youth and Media Project at the Berkman Center and a contributor to this report. “Many teens longed for some online place that was free of ‘drama,’ and complex audience management requirements. Instead, some are turning to Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat to avoid these difficult peer dynamics.”

Teens with larger Facebook networks are more frequent users of social media sites and tend to have a greater variety of people in their friend networks—such as teachers, coaches, celebrities and other non-famous people they have never met in person. They also share a wider range of information on their profile when compared with those who have a smaller number of friends on the site. Yet even as they share more information with a wider range of people, they are also more actively engaged in maintaining their online profile or persona.

Teens with more than 600 Facebook friends are more than three times as likely to also have a Twitter account when compared with those who have 150 or fewer Facebook friends (46% vs. 13%). They are six times as likely to use Instagram (12% vs. 2%).

“Teens with larger Facebook networks visit the site more often, share more information about themselves and are friends with a greater variety of people,” said Amanda Lenhart, Senior Researcher, Director of Teens and Technology at the Pew Research Center and a co-author of the report. “But these large networks are also associated with greater engagement in reputation management activities, and these youth are more likely to be spreading their social media energies across a broader portfolio of social media sites.”

The complete findings of the study are detailed in a new report called, “Teens, Social Media and Privacy” that is the result of a collaboration between the Pew Internet Project and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. The data are based on a nationally representative phone survey of 802 parents and their 802 teens ages 12-17, conducted between July 26 and September 30, 2012. Interviews were conducted in English and Spanish and on landline and cell phones. The margin of error for the full sample is ± 4.5 percentage points.

This report includes insights and quotes from 24 in-person focus groups conducted by the Youth and Media team at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University beginning in February 2013. The team interviewed 156 students across the greater Boston area, Los Angeles (California), Santa Barbara (California), and Greensboro (North Carolina). Participants ranged in age from 11 to 19. The mean age of participants is 14.5. Although the research sample was not designed to constitute representative cross-sections of particular population(s), the sample includes participants from diverse ethnic, racial, and economic backgrounds.

In addition, two online focus groups of teenagers ages 12-17 were conducted by the Pew Internet Project from June 20-27, 2012 to help inform the survey design. The first focus group was with 11 middle schoolers ages 12-14, and the second group was with nine high schoolers ages 14-17. Each group was mixed gender, with some racial, socio-economic, and regional diversity. All references to these findings are referred to as “online focus groups” throughout the report.

About the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project

Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan source of data and analysis. It does not take advocacy positions. Its Internet & American Life project produces reports that analyze the social impact of the internet – on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the Internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the Internet and how their activities affect their lives.

About the Berkman Center for Internet & Society

The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is a research program founded to recognize, study, and engage the most difficult problems of the digital age and to share in their resolution in ways that advance the public interest. Founded in 1997, through a generous gift from Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman, the Center is home to an ever-growing community of faculty, fellows, staff, and affiliates. Fundamental to its work is the study of the relationship between digital technologies and democratic values, including civic participation, access to knowledge, and the free flow of information. More information can be found at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu.

Media contacts

Mary Madden: mmadden@pewinternet.org and 202-419-4515

Amanda Lenhart: alenhart@pewinternet.org and 202-419-4514”

Stephen