Category: Scholarship
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Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources
Got an email from Jimmy Atkinson of the recently-launched Online Education Database, a site that’s attempting to collect information about institutions offering degrees online. I don’t see anywhere in the few profiles I checked where the library’s mentioned, but Jimmy was asking me to take a look at a research guide he’d just posted called…
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Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award
Connie Hildebrand writes to the OFFCAMP List: Distance Learning Librarian Conference Sponsorship Award Librarianship for distance students is often neglected but this award is an opportunity to show the world what we do. Since many librarians are too modest to nominate themselves, each of us should take the responsibility to nominate an outstanding librarian. Here…
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IL2006 Lightning Talk
No, there are no lightning talks at Internet Librarian, but during my presentation with Meredith yesterday I thought I’d do something fun since I wasn’t going to be using my laptop. I turned it around to face the audience and used the built-in iSight along with Gawker to record a time-lapse movie of the "crowd"…
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Netspeed 2006 Handout
Just got back from speaking at Netspeed 2006, where I spoke on the topic of Building Better Relationships through Blogging. I wanted to get the electronic version of my handout up for those who were in attendance and wanted to follow the links. This won’t make much sense w/o the actual presentation, but that should…
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CFP: What is the role of distance education in the implementation of the right to education?
This might be an interesting idea for some of you: The Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks, in collaboration with 5 international journals, is launching a call for research and “effective practices” papers to be published in 2008 concerning distance education and the right to education (in particular reference to article 26 of the Universal Declaration…
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Just what am I looking at?
I have been increasingly interested in how flat the world of research literature seems to appear to the average undergraduate student. I say "seems to appear" because I haven’t actually talked to any students about this, so it’s really just a wild theory. Here goes. I think students who have only researched through their computer…
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Zotero launches
Well, Zotero has launched, and I’m all bummed to learn that it requires Firefox 2.0, which is a release candidate (beta) build, which means many of the extensions I rely upon are not likely to work, which means I’m not installing it yet, which means I can’t install Zotero yet. Lemmie know how you like…
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The Fall of Screencasting
Ha! Got you with the title of this post, didn’t I? No, screencasting’s not heading downhill; quite the contrary. That’s just me being witty, see, ’cause it’s Fall, and there’s lots going on with screencasting. First up, both Adobe and Techsmith have new versions of their screencasting products out this month. Adobe is now shipping…