Category: Social Networks
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Blended Learning Guide for Libraries – Web Junction
From Rod Corbett’s EdTech Review, a link to a huge (45 page PDF) Web Junction report on Blended Learning, a guide for libraries. Here’s the TOC to whet your appetite: Table of Contents1 Introduction Structure of this Guide Defining Blended Learning Advantages Challenges Making the Case for Blended Learning Tips to Get Started Designing Implementation4…
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Oh, Georgia Tech
A couple of years ago Meredith Farkas posted about how impressed she was with all that she saw going on online in Canadian academic institutions: Oh Canada! Everywhere I turn I keep seeing reminders that I think I want to work at Georgia Tech! Ross Singer and Brian Mathews, The Ubiquitous Librarian (both LJ Movers…
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Five non-liblogs
Rachel Singer-Gordon started a meme last week by posting about five non-library blogs, in the interest of promoting a little diversity. Meredith tagged me, so here are five that give me some inspiration outside the library world: Jon Udell, by, um, Jon Udell – I’ve posted about content from this one many times before. Jon…
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Engineering Village does tagging
Maybe a good litmus test to see how hip your institution’s researchers are, you can see what tags have been assigned by researchers at your institution: Disclaimer – there are NO tags currently from my institution – this is actually a shot of the PUBLIC tags currently in the EV system. Neat stuff – makes…
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Talking with Talis – changing library buildings
I’ve only listened to the first 15 minutes or so of this Talking with Talis recording, but was pleased that within the first 10 minutes they were talking extensively about distance education and how different the social requirements are for distance graduate students than they are for traditional undergraduates, who look to the library as…
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5 things
Well it’s been a while since I played, and I think I ignored his last tag, so I daren’t do it again. D’Arcy has tagged me with the 5 things you probably don’t know about me meme. Now I could cop out, since pretty much none of you really know anything personal about me, but…
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The Ubiquitous Librarian questions his ubiquitousness
Bummer of a week for the birthday boy (I know this from his Facebook account)! Brian Mathews explains in his most recent post how everything he knew is wrong (or at least everything he’s been suggesting you do with Facebook is wrong), but while he’s down, he’s not yet out. Stay tuned to see where…
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Conversations With Patrons: Extending Your Library’s Presence Online
Was just on the Library Online website signing up for an upcoming webcast on repositioning the Academic library for the new information age and noticed that Brian Matthews (The Ubiquitous Librarian) gave a session on Oct 31 called Conversations With Patrons: Extending Your Library’s Presence Online in which he expands upon his Intuitive Revelations ideas. …
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Educause Quarterly – Embedded Librarian and Millennial Generational Values
There are two library-related articles in the most recent issue of Educause Quarterly that you might want to read:Disconnects Between Library Culture and Millennial Generation Values, by Robert H. McDonald and Chuck Thomas (PDF 122KB | HTML Format), and The Embedded Librarian Program, by Victoria Matthew and Ann Schroeder (PDF 190KB | HTML Format). The…
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Got something to say to Facebook?
Brian Matthews has a meeting next week with Mike Murphy of Facebook, and is looking for reasons why libraries and other service units on campus belong in facebook. You may recall that several weeks ago, it appeared that Facebook was deleting the profiles of libraries, arguing that Facebook was a place for individuals. If you…