Category: Electronic Reference
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36,000,000 IMs per day
Yeah, it’s a big number, but it’s just the drop in the bucket that Meebo processes every day – imagine how many more Instant Messages are sent in the native interfaces! The number comes from an interesting writeup of a meeting he had with Meebo by Tim O’Reilly. Lots of little interesting “new ways of…
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Instruction via Instant Messaging reference: what’s happening?
An article from the most recent issue of The Electronic Library: Title: Instruction via Instant Messaging reference: what’s happening?Author(s): Christina M. Desai, Stephanie J. GravesJournal: The Electronic LibraryISSN: 0264-0473Year: 2006Volume: 24Issue: 2Page: 174-189DOI: 10.1108/02640470610660369Publisher:Emerald Group Publishing Limited Abstract: Purpose – The purpose of this study is to analyze one Instant Messaging (IM) reference service to determine to what extent instruction is or can…
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Is Screencasting coming to SafariU?
I’m recommending another Jon Udell production to you; this time a 43-minute interview with CJ Rayhill of SafariU about their product, and technology in education in general. SafariU is an O’Reilly customized textbook product that allows profs to pick and choose content to create a customized copyright-cleared textbook for sale to students, and that also…
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An Article on integrating library information into Course Management Systems
The most recent issue of Innovate, the Journal of Online Education, has an article by John Shank and Steven Bell called A_FLIP to Courseware: A Strategic Alliance for Improving Student Learning Outcomes (you’ll need to register with the site to be able to read it – it’s free). Basically this brief article discusses ways librarians…
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Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model
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How’s that for an ear-catching title? Brian Mathews at Georgia Tech is working on a really interesting project. OK, so we know some libraries have created pages in places where patrons hang out, like MySpace. I use a Pubsub feed to look for anyone who’s blogged about the University of Calgary, and on rare occasions…
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Window of Opportunity for DE Librarians?
The New York Times reports that “Colleges will no longer be required to deliver at least half their courses on a campus instead of online to qualify for federal student aid.” Wonder how many new DE Librarian positions will be created to help with the expected increase in distance education programs across the nation? This…
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Unyte has some real potential!
Over the past couple of days I’ve had a chance to briefly try out a couple of co-browsing tools I mentioned last Friday. Vyew doesn’t look like it’ll be of use to me – no opportunity for co-browsing that I can see – it just allows me to share a whiteboard and files, but Unyte…
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Co-browsing tools to try
These have been taking up space in a couple Firefox tabs all week, and I have yet to get around to trying them. First up, theory.isthereason points to Vyew.com, a free, browser-based web meeting application. They tout “Unique real-time photo charing, One-click screen & file sharing, Whiteboarding for all participants, No downloads, and Unlimited use.” …
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LiB has concerns about the QuestionPoint Flash Interface
We’re not a QuestionPoint user here at the U of C, but I’m sure some of you out there are. Sarah, Librarian in Black, has some concerns about the upcoming release of the Flash interface to the product. Worth a look if you use or are considering using QuestionPoint… Technorati Tags: VirtualReference, QuestionPoint