Jason Paul Michel

Do you have a computer programming class in your high school? If so, computer teachers may be teaching teens how to creat apps for iPhones and Android devices that they can sell. Another form of programming is an API that is something like an app but it resides on your library’s website and collects data or items of interest that can be integrated automatically into your site such as photos, tweets, videos and many other tiems. It is something like building an automatic library carefully selected from out there in the cloud. Well, as a part of your virtual learning commons, your programming class could take on a project that would build a part of the library resources for everyone to use. This is an oversimplified idea, but ask your computer teacher if the class or some smart kids could have a conversation around this book to see if something could happen. It is the kind of interaction with groups or individual geek kids that could set them on a path to a great career and do the learning commons a great service at the same time. This is an idea book instructions; a cook book, that will get the conversation and the programming going.… (more)