Category: Social Networks
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Nature launches open collaborative space for Undergrads
From boingboing comes word that Nature has launched a collaborative learning space for science Undergraduates called Scitable. "Scitable brings together a library of scientific overviews with a worldwide community of scientists, researchers, teachers, and students. Use Scitable to: Learn about a range of scientific subjects Collaborate online with other students and teachers Publish your activities…
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Recommended Reading from portal: Libraries and the Academy
Well I guess I can't actually recommend them since I haven't read them yet, but the latest issue of portal: Libraries and the Academy just came out and here are the articles I plan to read (almost the whole issue!): Google Scholar Search Performance: Comparative Recall and Precision William H. Walters pp. 5-24 HTML Version…
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Wiki to Discuss Canadian Educational Response to Bill C-61
Scott Leslie has thrown up a framework wiki intended to help Canada's post-secondary institutions draft a collective or concerted response to Bill C-61. Initial topics of suggested discussion include: What uses can educators in Canadian higher ed make of copyrighted (and DRM protected) materials under *current* copyright laws? What are the implications to these uses…
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The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2008.
Educause has published the latest results of their survey of Undergraduate students and IT. The main report is 124 pages long, but the Key Findings is only 11. Libraries and the use of library websites are mentioned several times, but I don’t think there’s anything earth shattering along those lines. A couple of the things…
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2010 Off-Campus Library Services Conference – Cleveland
Timothy Peters writes to the OFFCAMP mailing list: After having reviewed proposals from nearly forty hotels in eight different cities in the United States and Canada, the decision has been made to hold the 2010 Off-Campus Library Services Conference at the Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center in Cleveland, Ohio from Wednesday, April 28 through…
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A pretty popular explanation of screencasting
I have an RSS feed to monitor delicious for new tags on the term "screencasting", and of course I often find interesting nuggets as a result. Never, though, have I seen this many people tagging the same page: They're all saving Screencasting: How To Start, Tools and Guidelines, from Smashing Magazine. It's a nice overview,…
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$250 PBwiki account available to librarians and teachers for free!
The Krafty Librarian blogs that PBwiki is having a Back to School Challenge which will give you, librarian or educator, a free one-year premium PBwiki account ($250 value). What’s that premium account get you over the free free account? I’m not sure since I couldn’t find a page discussing premium accounts for educators, but here’s…
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Specifying privacy amongst your Facebook friends
Well that's annoying, ScribeFire ate my original post :-/ At the beginning of the month I mentioned a keynote called Social Networking in the Academy. During the Q&A session someone asked if it was possible to limit how much of your profile is shown to different "levels" of friends, and I didn't think it was. …
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Social Networking in the Academy
I had the pleasure this morning of speaking on a keynote panel at our annual Faculty Technology Days here at the U of Calgary. My fellow panelists were D’Arcy Norman, Dr. Maria Bakardjieva, and Todd Andre, and we were billed as "experts" on social networking as a communication and learning tool. You can see the…
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Digsby for Social Media Concatenation
A few weeks ago I started using Digsby on my work machine to tie in all my IM, email accounts and Twitter. It seems quite stable, and I think it’s a keeper. Major bonus that I haven’t even explored yet is that just like Meebo, it offers a flash-based embeddable chat widget that then connects…