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Finishing the year with some screencasting resources
The Nov 2012 issue of EDUCAUSE Review has a couple of nice articles looking at screencasting, specifically how they can be used to enhance the “flipped classroom”. Both are by Michael F. Ruffini, an Associate Professor of Educational Technology at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Screencasting to Engage Learning is the one that ties the concept
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Thinking about available seats
We've got the whole workstation availability thing licked, but I want to be able to show our users which study seats are available here in the TFDL. That's one of the top two most common complaints here; that students spend too much time wandering around looking for a place to sit/study. Here's my stream of
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Spaces and Places: Closing Keynote for Internet Librarian 2012
Apologies for the delay on getting this one up – I had a bit of a time finding a simple solution to host a very large (over 100mb) powerpoint presentation. Slideboom to the rescue!: Here's the whole thing (pptx) if you'd like to download it. In this talk Erik Boekesteijn, Jaap Van de Geer, Jeff Wisniewski and
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Students and Technology – Educause Infographic
Here's an interesting infographic from Educause- 2012 Students and Technology (PDF). One snippet to whet your appetite:
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Tomorrow’s Library Today – Internet Librarian 2012
So you may have noticed I haven't been blogging much over the past year or so. In part, this presentation explains why. At the University of Calgary we (not so) recently opened a new building, the Taylor Family Digital Library (aka TFDL). I was heavily involved not so much in choosing, but in implementing a