Category: Ideas
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Amazon for home delivery of items to library users?
Sarah passes on a great idea from Helene Blowers to use Amazon Library Processing to ship books to the end user, and when s/he’s done, the book will be returned to the library and thus be entered into the circulating collection. I like that idea a lot. It’s very similar to what we’ve been trying…
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PrinterAnywhere for Document Delivery?
Amit posts about a new product/service called PrinterAnywhere (beta), that allows one to send a print job to any printer that’s connected to an online WinXP computer. Interesting idea. Got an international student? Why not send a print job consisting of a requested document directly to her printer? The service is free, but requires Windows…
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How important is audio quality in Screencasting?
Is good audio quality for your screencasts worth $100? I’ve never had a student complain that they couldn’t understand what I was saying in one of my screencasts, but the other day I was experiencing some techno-lust and wondered if D’Arcy’s fancy microphone would make a measurable improvement to the quality of the audio in…
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Screencasts on your Tivo?
We only oficially got Tivo here in Canada earlier this year, so this won’t be a good distribution method up North for a little while yet, but Bryan Zug is reporting that it may be possible to post a video, including a screencast, to a service called Brightcove, and then have it available on your…
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Effectively incorporating instructional media into web-based information literacy
Just finished reading the following article: Title: Effectively incorporating instructional media into web-based information literacyAuthor(s): Li ZhangJournal: The Electronic LibraryYear: 2006 Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Page: 294-306 I read it with WISPR in mind, to see how we stacked up, and I think we’ve done a pretty good job so far. The article started a…
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Be here now – My Monkey Mind
"Your thoughts are scattered; your mind jumps from one thing to another like a monkey. It helps to learn and to practise concentration strategies, to harness your monkey mind, so that it works at your will." I think I’m going to change the title of this blog to, "Hey you! Pay Attention!" what with all…
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DRM through cartoons
Two related items in the same week must be a sign, so check ’em out if you haven’t seen ’em yet. Thing #1) The Pig and the Box. From the site: The Pig and the Box is about a pig who finds a magic box that can replicate anything you put into it. The pig…
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A fancier way to say that
One of the first and still best reasons I blog is to keep an outboard brain – a place to jot down ideas, in this case related to my job. I’m about a third of the way through Getting Things Done, The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (recommeded on some other blog I read), and have…
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Rice University Relaunches University Press – Online Only
Tim O’Reilly reports on a Wall Street Journal article about the online-only relaunch of Rich University Press. An excerpt: Although the new press will solicit and edit manuscripts the old-fashioned way, it won’t produce traditional books. The publishing house will instead post works online at a new Web site, where people can read a full…