Category: Miscellaneous
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DistLib LinkDump
Gosh I hate to do a link dump; each of these deserve their own post, but I’ve just had so little time over the past couple of weeks, and see no real openings in the next few that I’ve got to clear these "to blog" tidbits out. Lots of good stuff here, and I’m sure…
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Who wants paper tickets?
OK, I know the airlines prefer not to issue paper tickets anymore, but have you seen what they actually charge if you decide you do want them? Holy Cripes! I just booked my flights to Monterey for Internet Librarian, and happened to glance at one of the confirmation pages as it flew by. Can you…
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PowerPoint tips
It’s the beginning of the semester and you’re likely to be making at least a few ppt presentations in the coming weeks. Next time you’re giving one, why not try one of these nifty tricks? You can get this help box by pressing the F1 key while your presentation is running. I particularly like the…
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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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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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A distraction-free desktop
Uh-oh, it’s going to be one of those days! One of those neat days where one idea leads to another, and lots of thoughts fire in my brain. As soon as I finished that post about continuous partial attention, I switched over to my aggregator and saw that Jon Udell is thinking about the exact…
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Wiki Webcast Week
In addition to Meredith’s wiki webcast this Thursday, the authors of Uses and Potentials of Wikis in the Classroom, S. Pixy Ferris and Hilary Wilder, will be participating in a free webcast for Innovate, the Journal of Online Education. This is a neat idea in that Innovate invites people to interact with the authors of…
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I’m currently #6…
The other day I was poking around on the Haworth website trying to answer a question about the current status of the Journal of Library and Information Services in Distance Learning, when I stumbled across this page showing the top ten articles that have been downloaded from this title (any institution with a paper subscription…