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Mac Screencasting Tips
Still no perfect all-in-one package, but Miraz Jordan has a nice post with tips and tools for screencapture and screencasting on the Mac. Technorati Tags: Screencasting, OSX
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UNC Greensboro Information Literacy Game
This may be well-known in the InfoLit circles, but it was new to me. UNC Greensboro has a nifty little Information Literacy (board)Game you can play, and download for use at your institution! Go ahead and give it a try – it’ll only take a few minutes – think your students will go for it?…
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Find X
Couldn’t wait until Friday to post this one – nothing to do with libraries, but it’s a rare thing that makes me laugh out loud so I thought I’d share it. A colleague forwarded a half-dozen funny responses to physics and math questions written by frustrated students. This gem was right in the middle: Maybe…
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Interview with BookSwim
I mentioned BookSwim a couple of months ago. Being sold as Netflix for books, it’s still not available to the public, but Joe Wikert has a brief interview with co-founder George Burke that you might find interesting. Technorati Tags: Books, NetFlix
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LJ on Federated Searching
Jonathan Rochkind has a really good article in Library Journal on the current state of Federated (Meta) searching, with Google Scholar as the catalyst. In it, he explains why Google Scholar seems more attractive than library solutions – they index information locally instead of searching it live each time. Good examples of a couple of…