Just returned from a conference for librarians: How To Grow Your Library, or something. The speaker works at an enormous public high school in a state where librarian/media specialist positions are continually threatened by budget cuts. Therefore she is always looking for ways to make herself not only relevant, but vital to her school. Hence the 'Ten Minutes Of Tech'. Once a month, at staff meetings, she demonstrates how students can use ipods to cheat, cellphones to plagarize, how to use a digital camera, etc.
On a tangent, it made me wonder in what ways all of us try to get our ten minutes with others, though not necessarily to tell them about new technology. How much of our action comes from a desire to be (or at any rate, seem) relevant, vital, to others? Personally I am trying to calculate what portion of my own such efforts are superficial and wasted, and what part actually carry real value.
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