{"id":2346,"date":"2013-04-23T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2013-09-19T13:51:33","modified_gmt":"2013-09-19T18:51:33","slug":"mobile-learning-the-teacher-in-your-pocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2013\/04\/23\/mobile-learning-the-teacher-in-your-pocket\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Learning: The Teacher in Your Pocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a great new book out on mobile technologies in libraries and I was fortunate to have been asked to contribute a chapter on mobile learning and mobile instruction in libraries. The book is called The Handheld Library: Mobile Technology and the Librarian<\/a> and it was edited by the undeniably awesome Tom Peters and Lori Bell who were into mobile tech for libraries way before mobile was hot.<\/p>\n

My chapter is called “Mobile Learning: The Teacher in Your Pocket” and is available for free via PDXScholar<\/a>, our institutional repository at Portland State. It covers mobile learning in libraries and in the classroom and I’m surprisingly proud of it (given that I usually hate everything I write).<\/p>\n

The rest of the book is fantastic as well and the author lineup reads like a who’s who in library technologies: Robin Ashford, Lisa Carlucci Thomas, Chad Mairn, Chad Haefele, Lili Luo, Sue Polanka, Rebecca Miller and many more. The book includes a great mix of writing from academic, public, and health science librarians.<\/p>\n

That I was able to post this to my digital repository<\/a> as soon as the book came out is evidence that every author should advocate for themselves in negotiating contracts. The implicit message most publishers send when they give you a contract is that this is the contract<\/em>, when, in so many cases, there is wiggle room or alternative options. With ABC-CLIO, I was originally given a contract that afforded me no rights to my work and afforded them the right to sell my work in whatever future products\/content mashups they wanted. After stating that I would not sign a contract like that, they ended up giving me one where I still have copyright and can do what I want with the work outside of the book project. It’s always worth remembering that you’re contributing the most important part of the equation: the content. You could publish your content without them, but they are dead in the water without content. Don’t ever settle for less than you feel you deserve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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