Category: Ideas
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How to embed a MeeboMe widget on your desktop
Hey, I’m excited about this one! At a meeting yesterday we were considering additional places we could stick our MeeboMe widget (you may recall we’ve had it embedded in our catalogue since the beginning of October, 2007). Someone wondered if we could embed it on the desktop, and I recalled that Microsoft has something called…
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Online Workshop: Building a Community that Values Academic Integrity
You might be interested in this online workshop from the Center for Intellectual Property at UMUC ($150) Building a Community that Values Academic IntegrityDates: February 25 – March 7, 2008 (early registration by February 8 )Moderators: Gary Pavela, M.A., J.D., Director of Judicial Programs and Student Ethical Development, University of Maryland — College Park &…
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Utilizing WebQuests for Information Literacy Instruction in Distance Education
Haven’t actually looked at this article myself… Author: Blummer, BarbaraSource: College & Undergraduate Libraries, Volume 14, Number 3, 18 December 2007 , pp. 45-62(18) Abstract:The increasing use of problem-based learning in higher education affords librarians new avenues for promoting the development of information literacy skills among students. Information literacy instruction supports problem-based learning activities by…
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EZProxy Find and Replace: when the vendor says they can’t…
Earlier this week we switched to the new interface for OvidSP (an attempt, I believe, at integrating the Silver Platter (SP) platform into Ovid). It’s nice, but the default configuration includes a Basic Search table, an Ovid Syntax tab, and a SilverPlatter Syntax tab. Ovid Syntax and SilverPlatter Syntax don’t mean anything to our users,…
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Followup on Facebook Advertising
A month ago I offered my initial thoughts on the University of Calgary’s experiment with placing social ads within Facebook. Here are the results of our second round of advertising, where we switched the content of the ads to see if students seemed to be responding more to the type of ad or the content…
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MIT Lecture Browser
From Carolyn Kotlas at TL INFOBITS: This fall researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology released the MIT Lecture Browser, “a web interface to video recordings of lectures and seminars that have been indexed using automatic speech recognition technology.” Users can search on terms or phrases and then play the video at the point(s) in…
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InfoLit with a sense of humour
The University of Alberta Augustana Library has made their award-winning DVD, It Changed the Way I Do Research – Period: Augustana Talks Information Literacy, available for free online. Here’s a promo teaser from YouTube: This isn’t something to show to your students; it’s much more a multimedia explanation of how the InfoLit program runs at…
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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…