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Random Tuesday Tech Tip #3: Keep it Clean
If you use any kind of electric toothbrush – make sure you turn it off before you take it out of your mouth, or you’re going to spray the toothpaste all over the mirror, which is a pain to clean, and if you’re already wearing your work clothes, you may get them messy too. Don’t…
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Wetpaint Education Wikis Are Now Ad-free!
I really like the interface and options at wetpaint, one of the free wiki-hosting companies. Like most free services, they embed ads on pages that you create. Except now, if you create an education-based wiki with them, you can email them and they’ll remove the ads! Visit http://www.wetpaint.com/category/Education–Ad-Free for more details. They say: Who qualifies…
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Random Tuesday Tech Tip #2 – No more bleeps while adjusting audio
Here’s one for the Mac users, and I’m surprised more people don’t seem to know about it considering the "bloops" I hear as people adjust their volume during podcasts. As I don’t use a desktop, I can only vouch for this on the Apple laptops, where the volume is adjusted using function keys. Quite a…
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Two more Interview Recommendations
A couple of library-related interviews from Jon Udell’s Interviews with Innovators series: Stuart WeibelOn this episode of Interviews with Innovators, host Jon Udell invites Stuart Weibel to reflect on his leading role in the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. They also discuss how databases like the Online Computer Library Center’s WorldCat – which consolidates bibliographic data…
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Social Dynamics of Online Games – Highly Recommended Interview
Just finished listening to one of Jon Udell’s Interviews with Innovators podcasts and would like to recommend it to anyone who’s paying attention to the idea of gaming in education, or anyone who’s not understanding the concept. I mostly fall into the latter camp, especially when it comes to gaming in libraries. I understand the…
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