business of changing lives ignite pp
DESCRIPTION
Ignite Presentation for LIS 201TRANSCRIPT
Josh GilbertsLIS 201
(ANS)
Nonprofit
Fall 1990
Network
Social Network
Any group of people who provide one another with
mutual assistance and support
Middle Ages
Industrial Age
Cold WarInformation Era
Social Networks
Memex
Vannevar Bush
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
World Wide Web
ThinkQuest: 1995
Less than 1/3 of schools had internet access.
3% of teachers used internet in classroom
ThinkQuest went Global in 1997
In 1998 the ThinkQuest library averaged 20 million hits a week
ThinkQuest
Technology
Push
Pull!
Technology Pull
Change
Information has multiple sides
Information LiteracyINFORMATION
INFORMATION
INFORMATION
INFORMATION
INFORMATION
INFO
RMAT
ION
Largest and fastest growing program
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ThinkQuest
Chem101
Examples of early contest winners
1900’s the library was the information highway
Information Age
700,000 plus young people from ANS-supported organizations mentoring peers by 2010.
CHANGING
LIVES