Distance Doesn't Mean Distant

librarian.net/talks/swboces
May 15, 2020

Slides: Keynote, PDF, PowerPoint

cited links

• How to help someone use a computer by Phil Agre (my mirror)
• Pew Research: Digital divide persists even as lower-income Americans make gains in tech adoption
• Pew Research: Digital Readiness Gaps
• Digital Empowerment as a Process for Enhancing Citizens' Participation by Maarit Mäkinen
• What Do We Mean When We Say 'Digital Equity' and 'Digital Inclusion'? by NDIA's Angela Siefer
• Four Essentials for Digital Inclusion Efforts by Colin Rhinesmith
• Pew Research: As schools close due to the coronavirus, some U.S. students face a digital 'homework gap'
• Land O'Lakes, Inc. turning on the Wi-Fi in rural communities
• FB: Baxter Library's Show-off Show
• Quaranzine projects: 1, 2, 3, 4 (workshop)
• Free masks in Little Free Libraries
• Applying a racial equity lens to digital literacy (pdf)
• Digital Technology Adoption in Remote and Northern Indigenous Communities (pdf)

tech resources

• Basic computer terms
• Mousercise
• GCF Global simple computer tutorials
• How to take a screenshot
• Screenshot editing with Canvas
• Free and Low-Cost Internet Plans
• Adding captions to Zoom
• Wikipedia: Comparison of web conferencing software

misc resources

• Facebook: Libraries Step Up (in Times of Crisis)
• Public Libraries Respond to COVID-19 - printable signs
• Keep up with the National Digital Inclusion Alliance
• Tales from Drop-In Time
• Poem by Wendell Berry "What we need is here."

image credits

• Atari 2600 from Wikipedia
• Suzzallo Reading Room on Wikipedia
• computer service by Maxim Kulikov from the Noun Project
• Cell Phone by Chris Kerr from the Noun Project
• mobile data by Ali Coskun from the Noun Project
• equity by Laura Amaya from the Noun Project
• Purina/Land O Lakes wifi sign Password image fromWikimedia Commons
• Computer by Icon Lauk from the Noun Project
• Wifi by Adrien Coquet from the Noun Project
• Zoom background modified from one from Dunkin Donuts because, after all, I live in New England