Nine rules for good technology for librarians, too

Today's educational technology is like a Rube Goldberg* contraption: technology-enabled classrooms are a mish-mash of computers with associated wires, video displays, modems, CD-ROM libraries, tapes and more. To use these tools effectively, teachers [and librarians] must slog through dense operating manuals and avoid being distracted by malfunctions. Does it really have to be so complicated?
Read more at Stephen's Web at with a comment by James Tubb at misterteacher.com

*Best known for his "INVENTIONs" cartoons, which use a string of outlandish tools, people, plants, and steps to accomplish everyday simple tasks in the most complicated way, Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist Rube Goldberg's drawings point out that people are often overwhelmed by over complicating their lives.