{"id":34,"date":"2008-09-19T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T18:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/?p=34"},"modified":"2008-09-19T11:34:58","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T18:34:58","slug":"serious-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/2008\/09\/serious-toys\/","title":{"rendered":"Serious Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a couple of weeks, the Library IT team at Imperial is running a couple of sessions where library staff can come and play with &#8216;new technology&#8217; &#8211; we are focussing on &#8216;kit&#8217; rather than software or services in this session.<\/p>\n<p>The session is both a chance for staff to see things that the library has for staff use, and also to see some of the latest &#8216;toys&#8217; that students may be using, or a relevant to libraries.<\/p>\n<p>So far, the list is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smart Board<\/li>\n<li>Digital Cameras (SLR and point-and-click)<\/li>\n<li>e-book reader<\/li>\n<li>Portable PA system<\/li>\n<li>Video Camera<\/li>\n<li>Laser pointer\/mouse<\/li>\n<li>Dictation microphone (plus Audacity recording software)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;ve suggested we also show<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Samsung Q1 Ultra (Palmtop)<\/li>\n<li>Asus EeePC<\/li>\n<li>iPhone<\/li>\n<li>eBeam (Smartboard type tech, but without the board)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If anyone has any other suggestions of things we ought to be showing people, please leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a couple of weeks, the Library IT team at Imperial is running a couple of sessions where library staff can come and play with &#8216;new technology&#8217; &#8211; we are focussing on &#8216;kit&#8217; rather than software or services in this session. The session is both a chance for staff to see things that the library [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.meanboyfriend.com\/overdue_ideas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}