Category: Miscellaneous
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Demotivator Lithographs on Sale
It’s Friday, it’s raining, and the end of the summer is in view already. It’s time for some Demotivators. Despair.com has a sale on all their Demotivator Lithographs ("they’re like posters, only swankier") until August 15th. Not familiar with them? Here are a few of my faves: $9.95 for 24"x30" – what’s not to…
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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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Room Change: LITA Distance Learning Interest Group meeting at ALA
FYI, from Karen Wetzel, co-chair of the group, this is the updated room information for this meeting – the information in the printed guide is incorrect: What: LITA Distance Learning Interest Group MeetingWhere: Renaissance Washington – Room 2When: Saturday, June 23rd, 10:30 a.m. – 12 noon These meetings have been fairly informal in the past,…
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How many distance students do YOU support?
Diana Oblinger of Educause is currently visiting China, and in a recent post about just how many people there are involved in Higher Education in China she notes: “Distance education in China also takes on amazing dimensions. Two million students are enrolled in their distance education programs. The day I visited Beijing Normal University, historically…
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Comments restored
Just a quick note that there was a glitch preventing comments from being left on my Commercial Librarian post from last Friday – it’s been resolved. Thanks for letting me know David!
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Alberta Distance Education & Training Association (ADETA) Newsletters
Yeah, I know you’re not in Alberta, but the resources discussed in the monthly ADETA newsletter will still be of interest to you if you have anything to do with distance education. The newsletters are published through Google Docs, and once you’re a member of ADETA (free) you can contribute to future newsletters via the…
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ACRL’s top ten assumptions for the future
At their recent annual meeting, the ACRL Research Committee released a list of their top ten assumptions for the future of academic and research libraries. Coming in at #8: "Distance Learning will be an increasingly common option in higher education, and will co-exist but not threaten the traditional bricks-and-mortar model." If you visit that link…