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Transferring Knowledge: Making Technology Work for Your Library Presentation Materials

Posted by Karl Kapp on August 17, 2010

Here are the materials for my presentation related to making technology work for your library. Here are the slides: Bridging the Boomer/Gamer Knowledge Gap in the Library View more presentations from kkapp. Here is a link to 50 Library Related Blogs Social Media and Student Success Social Media Tracking the Nation’s Mood Educational Games for […]

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You Want a Job?…I Give you the F…B…I

Posted by Karl Kapp on January 7, 2009

One area of the United States economy that is hiring is the FBI. In fact, due to retirments of the boomers and attrition…they need more than a few good men/women. They need a lot! This is just the first of many agencies in the Government that are going to need a lot more people because […]

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Consider Generational Learning Styles and Tools

Posted by Karl Kapp on November 5, 2007

Teachers, trainers and other educators tend to teach in the same style and format in which they have been taught. For the Greatest Generation, the Boomer generation and much of Generation X, this included a linear step-by-step approach with little technology in the classroom or room for discussion. The teacher or trainer was right and […]

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There They Go….

Posted by Karl Kapp on October 23, 2007

Earlier this month (on October 15, 2007 to be exact) the first baby boomer in the United States became eligible for Social Security. The article, First U.S. baby boomer applies for Social Security describes how retired school teacher Kathleen Casey-Kirschling became the first ripple in a “silver tsunami” of retiring baby boomers applying for pension […]

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