Category: Ideas
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Controlling Intellectual Property: The Academic Community and the Future of Knowledge
The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) is presenting a conference in Ottawa Oct 27-29, 2006 on the future of Intellectual Property: From Friday, October 27 to Sunday, October 29, 2006, academic staff, students, policy makers and members of the general public will gather to discuss and debate the place of intellectual property in the…
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Podcasts about Podcasts and Podcasting
This AM on the way in to work I finished listening to a podcast version of Greg Schwartz’s SirsiDynix session, A Beginner’s Guide to Podcasting: Part 1 – A Consumer’s Guide, and if you’re at all interested in learning about podcasts I recommend it. I’ve been on the podcasting bandwagon since it left the station,…
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CFP: Academic Exchange Quarterly articles on Online Learning
A Library Writer’s Blog has another DE-related CFP for you – The Academic Exchange Quarterly is soliciting articles for an issue dealing with Online Learning. Submissions are accepted until the end of August. Technorati Tags: Distance_Education
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iPod has new role as educational tool
I love it when my tech/gadget fetish crosses over into my everyday world of education. For example, Engadget reports that Pearson Education has just announced plans to release downloadable study guides for their textbooks. Technorati Tags: ebooks, iPod, audio_books
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Finding a Screencasting Tool for Mac OS X
I have been asked several times if I knew of a solid screencasting tool for the Mac, and while for a short time Qarbon offered a version of ViewletBuilder for the Mac, there didn’t seem to be any packages nearly as nice as the Windows heavyweights. Duane points to a package called ScreenRecord that looks…
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New Peer-Reviewed Journal: Journal of Web Librarianship
Library Writer’s Blog reports the announcement of a new peer-reviewed journal called the Journal of Web Librarianship. Examples of topics appropriate for the Journal of Web Librarianship include but are not limited to: web page design, usability testing of library or library-related sites, cataloging or classification of Web information, international issues in web librarianship, scholars’…
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Internet Librarian 2006 program announced
The program for Internet Librarian 2006 has just been posted. To be held Oct 23-25 in Monterey, CA, I attended for the first time last year and found it to be one of the best conferences I’ve ever attended. Full of cutting-edge ideas and interesting people. I’m honored to be speaking with Meredith Farkas on…
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Some thoughts on ‘Scan This Book’
Other people have dissected Kevin Kelley’s Scan This Book! article from the NYT much more effectively than I ever could, but I still wanted to jot down some random thoughts and quotes I lifted from the article. If you still haven’t read it, I think you should. Here are some of the quotes/figures I found…
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Introducing WISPR – Workshop on the Information Search Process for Research
OK, here’s the final post about OffCamp 2006 in Savannah; I saved the best for last ;-), as this was the presentation I gave with Shauna Rutherford, my colleague from the U of C. The paper was actually written by three of us (though mostly by Shauna and Alix), but Dr. Alix Hayden wasn’t able…