Name the topic of your discussion and the date you led it. Also describe your process of preparing and how you feel the discussion went. (minimum 250 words)
This Is My Response To A Walk Through Presentation At Baker Library At Dartmouth...
The presentation was put on by group called Dimensions of Open and was about having free information for everyone. Dartmouth College is at the forefront of this movement, but only has ten percent of it's publications open to the public. They are trying to make it possible for everyone to be able to access all information that has been published, calling it a human right for people to be able to have all the knowledge available. They also talk about subscriptions to magazines and how it costs money for information, when it should be free to the public. They are working on making magazines that are free and cost very little to make. They also had information on what percent of works are published and available to the public in certain sections of the world: North America: 37% South America: 10% Europe: 34% Africa: 1% Middle East: 2% Asia Pacific: 16% That means that only about 17% of all the works in the world are published and available to the public. That means 83% of all works are hidden from the public eye. The goal of this is to make that seventeen percent into a one hundred percent. Places like Africa and the Middle east are going to be the hardest, but there goal is for all information to be available and free to all of their citizens.
My discussion was on the second half of the book "Of Mice and Men." I enjoyed creating the questions for my discussion. It helped me look deeper into potential hidden meanings in the book, as well as too think about the hard decisions the characters in the book were faced with in in a deeper way. I do wish that the class had participated in answering the questions a bit more. I tried to create interesting and thought-provoking questions, but perhaps they fell short in some way. Overall, I enjoyed this experience, and it helped me to delve further in to potential hidden meanings and messages of the book, as well as feel more comfortable speaking in front of my peers.
This Is My Response To A Walk Through Presentation At Baker Library At Dartmouth...
ReplyDeleteThe presentation was put on by group called Dimensions of Open and was about having free information for everyone. Dartmouth College is at the forefront of this movement, but only has ten percent of it's publications open to the public. They are trying to make it possible for everyone to be able to access all information that has been published, calling it a human right for people to be able to have all the knowledge available. They also talk about subscriptions to magazines and how it costs money for information, when it should be free to the public. They are working on making magazines that are free and cost very little to make. They also had information on what percent of works are published and available to the public in certain sections of the world:
North America: 37%
South America: 10%
Europe: 34%
Africa: 1%
Middle East: 2%
Asia Pacific: 16%
That means that only about 17% of all the works in the world are published and available to the public. That means 83% of all works are hidden from the public eye. The goal of this is to make that seventeen percent into a one hundred percent. Places like Africa and the Middle east are going to be the hardest, but there goal is for all information to be available and free to all of their citizens.
My discussion was on the second half of the book "Of Mice and Men." I enjoyed creating the questions for my discussion. It helped me look deeper into potential hidden meanings in the book, as well as too think about the hard decisions the characters in the book were faced with in in a deeper way. I do wish that the class had participated in answering the questions a bit more. I tried to create interesting and thought-provoking questions, but perhaps they fell short in some way. Overall, I enjoyed this experience, and it helped me to delve further in to potential hidden meanings and messages of the book, as well as feel more comfortable speaking in front of my peers.
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