Category: Electronic Reference
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Library Journal – IM me
Personally have never been able to get off the ground with IM, but definately an option for staying in touch with the distance students… (thanks for the link Shelly)Link: Library Journal – IM me.
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Elluminate to Support Microsoft Office Communicator
I was a little confused by this press release at first, thinking somehow MS Office was going to become integrated with Elluminate, but closer inspection revealed it to be the other way around, and it’s not integrated with MS Office, but with MS Office Communicator. Never heard of MS Office Communicator? Me neither, and I…
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EdTechPost: Thin-Client Desktop Viewing with VNC
I played with RealVNC once and couldn’t get it to work, but this sounds like a compelling reason to try again. Scott says using TightVNC (Virtual Network Computing) "you can share a view of your desktop (and any running applications) with multiple other users simultaneously using the VNC server without your viewers having to install…
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RSS ROCKS! — The Learning Web – Central
Was just exchanging email with Shelly in Texas and noticed she had recently blogged about a novel implementation of the Chatango tool I mentioned way back in August. What she’s done is instead of having that application appear on her library service page, she’s integrated it into WebCT, so it appears right in front of…
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Call for contributors – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
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Hello reader! (I’m kidding, I know there are at least three of you out there!) I’m looking for your help. I recently agreed to assume the editorship of the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, and I’m looking for contributors for the column. I have several…
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brief jybe update – good customer service
Just wanted to let you know that I posted a link to yesterday’s post about our jybe test in the jybe support forums, and within a couple of hours got an email from Brian at the company asking me if we could run through the same scenerios so he could see what was happening. We…
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jybe – not ready for library prime time
Last Friday I posted about a co-browsing extension for Firefox called jybe, and asked if anyone wanted to test it out. I got a couple of takers (thanks Greg and Shelly) and we gave it a try this morning. Summary: not gonna help you with your distance students. We were all able to join the…
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Co-browsing on the cheap? – Jybe Beta Released
This is an extension for Firefox that supposedly also works in IE 6. I have this installed and would like to try it out – anybody care to be a guinea pig with me? Tried to connect to a colleague upstairs, but he couldn’t connect for some reason (obviously this isn’t ready for prime time…
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Tagging LIS Course Resources
Hmm, this would seem a natural fit with the recent discussion of Embedded Librarians…——————— Tagging LIS Course Resources Subject Guides, the Folksonomic Way “Del.icio.us, the bookmarking website with tags that I discussed on January 6, seems like the perfect tool for creating course-specific subject guides. Just agree on a tag, like the course number, and the…
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Search Engine Users – PEW Report
You’ve probably seen this already, but this is how your distance students think they do with search engines… No significant mention of libraries, just some user demographics. Search Engine Users Internet users are very happy with their experiences searching the internet, but many are naïve about how they search and the results they find. [via…