Category: Ideas
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Trillian Astra to include web option
One of the nicest features of Meebo is that it can be used w/o any installation – if you’ve got access to the web you can use it. One of the nicest features of Trillian is that it also includes Google Talk in its stable. I just saw this video of the upcoming release (no…
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Buy O’Reilly Books by the Chapter
Yesterday Tim O’Reilly posted about a new option for O’Reilly books – buy them by the chapter for $3.99 each! Keeping in mind that many of O’Reilly’s offerings are techie references, this might just work well for them. Personally, $3.99 is a little steep for me to consider it, but personally, I don’t buy songs…
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Conference: m-libraries Information on the move..
This is way beyond what we’re currently playing with at the U of C, but there’s a conference coming up in November in the UK that “aims to explore and share work carried out in libraries around the world to deliver services and resources to users ‘on the move,’ via a growing plethora of mobile…
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Lat/Long Bookmarklet for Google Maps
Not your typical distance education-related posting, except you might want to know where your students are – yeah, that’s the connection! 😉 Last week my family started geocaching – great fun and I highly recommend it if you don’t live deep in a big city. Even then it can be done, but it’s different. Anyhoo,…
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What does “Library services for distance learning” mean to you?
Laurie has a thought-provoking post wondering if the concept of “library services for distance learning” has died. She cites primarily the lack of participation in regional and national distance education interest groups (CLA and COPPUL here in Canada, and the OFFCAMP listserve). She and I briefly kicked around this question last week, and one group…