Category: Miscellaneous
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The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.”
Educause Review has a short editorial called The Myth about Student Competency – “Our Students Are Technologically Competent.” The article seems to bounce back and forth a little between what I would call technology literacy and information literacy, but the overall points are the same; that while students coming in to higher education today are…
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2006 ACRL Distance Learning Librarian – Monica Craig
As reported by Michael at The Information Literacy Land of Confusion, Monica Craig as been recognized as the winner of the 2006 ACRL Distance Learning Librarian Award. Congratulations Monica! Technorati Tags: ACRL, Librarians
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Intuitive Revelations: The Ubiquitous Reference Model
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How’s that for an ear-catching title? Brian Mathews at Georgia Tech is working on a really interesting project. OK, so we know some libraries have created pages in places where patrons hang out, like MySpace. I use a Pubsub feed to look for anyone who’s blogged about the University of Calgary, and on rare occasions…
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A little more on EBSCO updates
Got an email from marketing at EBSCO on Friday; apparently I scooped their big announcement at PLA about the interface enhancements 😉 They weren’t upset, but did pass on the full press release, which I still don’t see up on their news site. There are a couple of additional enhancements I didn’t notice my first…
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EBSCO Updates – Visual Search and RSS Feeds
Two months ago I noted that EBSCO was going to offer a visual search interface to their products courtesy of Grokker. Either they just kind of slipped it in with a recent update, or I missed the big announcement, but Visual Search is now one of the tabs at the top of the EBSCO search…
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Learning without boundaries – Campus Calgary Digital Library
This press release was just sent to all staff at the U of Calgary (click for full size): I was trying to figure out if the marketing people created an entirely new planet for the model to gaze through, but then I figured out the camera is inside the globe – it’s just a different…
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Squeet – best RSS to email yet?
OK, it’s definitely too soon to proclaim Squeet the winner of the RSS to Email services, especially since I just started playing with it this AM, but on first look it’s very impressive! Here are the highlights: You can choose the frequency with which you will receive posts (as they become available, once per day,…
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Statistics Canada to make all electronic publications available for free
I couldn’t find this announcement on the StatsCan website, but this press release was sent to the Data Liberation Initiative listserv on Monday: As of April 24, 2006, all electronic publications available on the Statistics Canada website will become free of charge. The purpose of this message is to inform you about this change in…
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Writely aquired by Google
Huh, I had seen speculation in the tech blogs that this was about to happen, but didn’t think I’d actually seen it reported, but I just visited Writely and saw on their front page that they have indeed been acquired by Google. They assure us that it’ll be business as usual, but eventually better. My…
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Jon Udell’s Screencasting Advice
Jon Udell, who coined the term screencasting, has some advice for those who are using Camtasia Studio to precisely edit narrated video. Technorati Tags: screencasting