I'm sitting in a booth with the sun hitting me through the window of my new second home... Panera Bread. I feel like I live here. Free WiFi and good food, but most importantly, free refills on coffee! The future mother-in-law and brother-in-law are in town on Thursday and with two "big" assignments due Friday, I'm trying to get as much done as I can. Unfortunately, my digital library class is not being my friend right now as I contemplate the "biggest problem" I'm facing in writing my DL plan and trying to find literature to back me up or help me with it, as well as my solution. I guess my biggest problem I'm facing is how much freedom to give the students. I'm not even thinking about how the DL, if it were ever created, would be hosted as the district now only wants schools and teachers to only use their (the district's) website hosting and not link to outside (personal) sites. It seems that the district is leery of giving students freedom to post, etc, which really is what my biggest problem is. I can cut it out of the DL, but what is being lost? The true communicative nature of the internet. If it's a DL to help foster a sense of community within the school, then wouldn't something be lacking by doing that? Maybe my brain just doesn't want to function right now. I was so exhausted all day today that I got home and ended up taking a 2 1/2 hour nap - NOT what I had intended. Hopefully I'm able to tackle this and my usability testing and research for the information architecture class. We'll see...

Labels: digital libraries