Last year, my colleague and I started a new tradition of hosting a Madden tournament during the weekend before the Super Bowl. This past Saturday, we held the 2nd annual Skokie Madden Bowl and it turned out great! We had about 20 participants (though a couple had to leave early) competing for the top prize, [...]
Categories: Gaming, Libraries, Videos
Tagged: madden
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- February 3, 2010 – 11:29 pm
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- By Rich
I’ve had the opportunity to talk a lot about the Digital Media Lab to both patrons and professional colleagues in recent weeks. Whenever I start explaining why we created the space and the context in which we did so, I always find myself starting with incredible growth of YouTube and digital video. Even though the [...]
Categories: Digital Media Lab, Social Media, Videos
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- December 26, 2009 – 2:44 pm
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- By Rich
I created this short video for my library’s staff day. It was shown in our auditorium right before our director went up on stage to give her “State of the Library” address. The idea was to make my colleagues feel good about the awesome work they accomplished during this past year and have a little [...]
Categories: Libraries, Skokie, Videos
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- December 14, 2009 – 8:21 am
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- By Rich
Recently, I gave a presentation on YouTube at mpow. It was a lot of fun and I even had the audience attempt to do the wave for a short video I uploaded. At the start of the class, only about a quarter of the attendees indicated an interest in both watching and sharing videos on [...]
Categories: Instruction, Technology, Videos
Tagged: youtube
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- October 19, 2009 – 10:23 am
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- By Rich
I’m sure many of you have already seen the recent video called “The Crisis of Credit Visualized” (see below). In just over 10 minutes, the video manages to explain something very complex in pretty simple terms. Even I understood it (well, most of it…I think)!
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
I saw [...]
Categories: Art & Design, Videos
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- February 28, 2009 – 9:20 am
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- By Rich