Category: Ideas
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Listen to why it’s good to give books away
Just finished listening to a short CBC piece in which SciFi author and BoingBoing.net contributor Cory Doctorow ‘splains how much sense it makes for books to be discoverable via Google Book Search and the like, and how he’s more sucessful commercially for having given away copies of his books. He points out that people don’t…
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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…