EBSCO ANNOUNCES INTERFACE FOR MOBILE USERS
EBSCO has announced the release of their new interface for mobile users: EBSCOhost Mobile <http://www.wiscat.net/homepages/CustomerWide/ValidateGlobalIP.asp?cuid=stwi&lid=stwi&dataid=1447&term=>  The new EBSCOhost application is tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices, and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality, right in the palm of your hand! To get started on using your mobile device to access your EBSCOhost resources, simply click on “Service List” or “Mobile” found in the EBSCO section of the BadgerLink Homepage <http://www.badgerlink.net/>  For more information, please go to http://support.epnet.com/support_news/detail.php?id=582&. 

If you require further technical assistance, please visit EBSCO's Support Site <http://support.ebsco.com>  or contact BadgerLink Technical Support at http://dpi.wi.gov/rll/wiscat/bl_sup.asp - Channel Weekly, Vol. 12, No. 18 -- February 4, 2010

How to build a more beautiful blog
Matt Silverman writes: “Whether you’re blogging for business or pleasure, now is the time to take your little corner of the web to the next level. Social media makes your blog more visible and valuable than ever, and the amount of resources available to beautify and streamline your blog is enormous, and ever growing. The best part is, you don’t have to be a designer or a programmer to create a great-looking blog, but you should know where to find the right resources, and how to align your blog’s design with its purpose.”...Mashable, Jan. 28 - American Libraries Direct 2/3/2010

Ideas you can use in book discussion groups
Angela Hanshaw writes: “Recently, Nancy Opalko, a children’s librarian at a public library who has paired with a local alternative school for the Great Stories CLUB, asked the program’s electronic discussion list two good questions: ‘How can I promote more interest in the book and get a discussion going?’ and ‘How do the rest of you handle disruptive behavior?’ Her questions immediately got a number of responses, many of which can be adapted and expanded beyond the Great Stories CLUB to work in your library.”...Programming Librarian, Jan. 28 - American Libraries Direct 2/3/2010

10 steps to promote learning in your conference presentation
Peter Bromberg writes: “If the goal of a library conference is that attendees will learn, what do conference presentations have to look like to achieve that goal? I believe the goal of presenting should be to create a change in the listener—a change of behavior, thinking, and/or feeling. Any good teacher or trainer will tell you that to be effective in creating that change, you must begin with the learning objective(s) in mind, and work backwards from there to design the lesson or the talk.”...ALA Learning, Feb. 2 - American Libraries Direct 2/3/2010

Cool Science [Flash Player] - http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/index.html
Science is quite cool, but you don't need to tell this to the dedicated team at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.  Their website, Cool Science, entertains questions of all kinds, encourages young scientists to "get their hands dirty", and also provides educators with a range of resources, including interactive media features, lesson plans, and lab exercises. These materials are contained with six primary sections: "For Educators", "Biointeractive", "For Curious Kids", and "Ask A Scientist".  Educators of all stripes can use the "For Educators" area to focus in on resources organized by type, topic, grade level, and also to sign up for the resources RSS feed. Moving on, the "Biointeractive" area features archived video lectures, virtual labs, and another series of animations on stem cells, cancer, and immunology. There's a great deal to explore here, and it's a site that anyone with an interest in science will want to share with others. [KMG] - The Scout Report -- February 5, 2010

Nature Online Video Streaming Archive - http://www.nature.com/nature/videoarchive/index.html
Nature is an international, interdisciplinary, weekly peer-reviewed journal of science that has an impressive website that conveys its information in
written, audio or video formats.  The video offerings here "feature interviews with scientists behind the research and analysis from Nature editors."  Nature also has a YouTube channel that can be used to "upload and share our videos across the Internet through websites, mobile devices, blogs and email."  Visitors will note that most, but not all, of the videos in the video archive have "free access" next to the title of the video.  Some of the pay videos are available via iTunes.  When visitors click on a video in the video archive, they will find that they can choose to watch the video in high or low quality and they can download the required Flash Plugin, if needed.  Additionally, visitors will find a section entitled "Background Information", which gives links to Nature podcasts and articles about the research presented in the video. [KMG] - The Scout Report -- February 5, 2010

Whitney Museum of American Art: Watch & Listen - http://www.whitney.org/WatchAndListen
As 2010, the Whitney Biennial, approaches, the museum has mounted Watch & Listen, a collection of both current and archival online audio and video.
There is a wide selection of material to browse, including previews of 2010, such as <i>Ari Marcopoulos: FIFA 10</i> - a movie showing one of the 2010
curators, Gary Carrion-Murayari, visiting Marcopoulos at home, where they play FIFA 10, while ambient noise plays in the background. Other materials
include a video of artist Aki Sasamoto talking about the ways in which Japanese fishcakes and donuts inspire her art, filmed at a Brooklyn coffee
shop, Building on Bond and curators Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion- Murayari announcing the artist list. Videos not related to the Biennial
include interviews with photographer William Eggleston on the opening of his retrospective Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008, conducted between late 2008 and early 2009; and footage of recent events and performances at the Whitney Museum. [DS] - The Scout Report -- February 5, 2010

2010 Census -- http://2010.census.gov/2010census/how/index.php -- 
The U.S. Census counts every resident in the United States, and is required by the Constitution to take place every 10 years. According to the web site, the 2010 Census will help communities receive more than $400 billion in federal funds each year for things like hospitals, job training centers, schools, senior centers, bridges, tunnels and other-public works projects, and emergency services. The data collected by the census also help determine the number of seats your state has in the U.S. House of Representatives. Channel Weekly, Vol. 12, No. 18 -- February 4, 2010

How To Deal with Unintended Acceleration
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/09q4/how_to_deal_with_unintended_acceleration-tech_dept
While Toyota owners nervously wait for their accelerators to be fixed, this tells them what to do if their car does start running away with them. Also, the Consumer Reports Cars Blog says "the warning signs of trouble... may include the accelerator pedal being harder to depress, slower to return to its upper position, or simply not operating smoothly" <http://blogs.consumerreports.org/cars/> - Neat New Stuff I Found This Week, http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html, Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2009.

Mental Mishaps - Psychology Today - http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/mental-mishaps
An intriguing blog about our "errors in perceiving, remembering, and thinking." - Neat New Stuff I Found This Week, http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html, Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2009.

Kickbully.com - Your Guide To Fighting Workplace Bullying - http://www.kickbully.com/
Shows you how to recognize that you are being bullied, and offers strategies for fighting back. - Neat New Stuff I Found This Week, http://marylaine.com/neatnew.html, Copyright, Marylaine Block, 1999-2009.