Category: Miscellaneous
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Educause – 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Editing Tools
Found via the Kept-up Academic Librarian, the latest in the Educause series of "7 Things You Should Know About": 7 Things You Should Know About Collaborative Editing Tools (2 page PDF). Collaborative Editing Tools include things like wikis and Writely, but this factsheet doesn’t mention any tools by name; it starts with a scenerio and…
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CIT Infobits and Distance Education
“CIT Infobits is an electronic service of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ITS Center for Instructional Technology. Each month the CIT’s Information Resources Consultant monitors and selects from a number of information and instructional technology sources that come to her attention and provides brief notes for electronic dissemination to educators.” – http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/…
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Skype on a handset
As far as I know, it’s not yet possible to call a Skype account from a landline phone, but Voice Over IP (VOIP) is definately a way for you to reach your distance students on the cheap. IPEVO is now offering a handset for $30 that plugs in to your PC or Mac and allows…
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Canadian libraries play a key role in e-learning
A new report has just been released by the Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL). Here’s the press release: LIBRARIES TO PLAY A KEY ROLE IN E-LEARNING OTTAWA December 19, 2005 – The use of electronic learning in Canadian institutions has increased by as much as 30% over the past five years – and library…
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Annals of Cool Library Innovations
While Peter is a pretty technologically advanced guy, he’s not a librarian, so it’s really nice when someone like him appreciates minor innovations: Annals of Cool Library Innovations.
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ACRL/DLS Haworth Press Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award
FYI: This conference sponsorship award honors any individual ACRL member working in the field of, or contributing to the success of distance learning librarianship or related library service in higher education. — $1200 to help defray the costs of travel to and participation in the ALA Annual Meeting and a citation plaque sponsored by Haworth…
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Location of Librarian Bloggers
Via Steven at Library Stuff, a link to librarian bloggers on the Frapr mapping service (indicate your location on a Google Map). Man, I had forgotton how far south Chicago is! 😉
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RIP ResearchBuzz Extra
Got an email last week from Tara Calishain informing me as a subscriber to the ResearcBuzz Extra newsletter that she’s discontinuing this paid version of her incredibly useful ResearcBuzz weekly newsletter. Extra was one of the few subscriptions I ever bought, and it was well worth it. Won’t bore you with all you missed if…
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Monterey Multimedia
Well I’ve landed safe and sound in Monterey, and while it’s been mostly foggy since arrival, I’ve done a lot of walking and thought I’d share some of the sights and sounds (the conference doesn’t officially start until tomorrow 🙂 The California sea lions are abundant and pretty noisy out on the breakwater (15 minute…
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Things are going to be busy around here…
Neat stuff brewing on my campus – not sure if we’re going to be providing additional services to this new constituency, or if they just get access to all the online resources. Link: In The News: U of C to break ground on Campus Calgary Digital Library. The Campus Calgary Digital Library (CCDL) is a…