Category: Web/Tech
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Bibliography on Mobile Devices in Distance Education
Michele Reid posted the attached bibliography from the Midwinter Discussion Group session to the OFFCAMP list, and it’s reposted here with permission.
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Incorporating Screencasts In Online Teaching
From The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 8, No 3 (2007), ISSN: 1492-3831 – Incorporating Screencasts In Online Teaching by Elaine Peterson. I’m linking to the abstract page instead of the full text because from there you can choose HTML, PDF, or to listen to the article as an mp3,…
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Running Meebo as an application (no web browser needed!)
OK gang, the biggest strength of Meebo, that it’s web-based, has also been the biggest strike against it. For those of us who are using it as a service, it’s a bit of a pain to remember to fire it up, and to have the web browser open. Accidentally shut down the page or have…
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How to embed a MeeboMe widget on a Mac desktop
Yesterday I posted a screencast about how to embed a MeeboMe widget right on the desktop using ActiveDesktop. While surfing around to see who else had made use of this, I found a link to a Flickr page from late 2005 where someone was using ActiveDesktop to show their Meebo account, and in the comments…
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How to embed a MeeboMe widget on your desktop
Hey, I’m excited about this one! At a meeting yesterday we were considering additional places we could stick our MeeboMe widget (you may recall we’ve had it embedded in our catalogue since the beginning of October, 2007). Someone wondered if we could embed it on the desktop, and I recalled that Microsoft has something called…
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Watch how Molly McDonald makes a screencast
A neat post from Molly McDonald of DemoGirl.com showing exactly how she creates a screencast using Camtasia Studio 4.
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Call for Proposals for Access 2008
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, CanadaDate: October 1-3, 2008 (Hackfest: Oct 1; Conference: Oct 2-4)CFP Deadline: Friday, February 22, 2008URL: http://access2008.mcmaster.ca Access is Canada’s premier library technology conference, featuring a single stream of sessions that deal with technology planning, development, challenges and solutions. We are now accepting proposals for prepared talks on the following topics (other ideas…
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David’s Favorite RSS Resources and Tools
David Rothman just posted a wonderful list of his Favorite RSS Resources and Tools. You’ll get links on explaining RSS, Resources to help you choose a feed aggregator, RSS Plugins for Outlook, Google Reader Tips and Plug-ins, RSS-to-Email tools, Publishing RSS content on Web Pages, Web-Based RSS-to-Web-Page tools, Hosted RSS-to-Web-Page Tools, Feed mashing and filtering…
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EZProxy Find and Replace: when the vendor says they can’t…
Earlier this week we switched to the new interface for OvidSP (an attempt, I believe, at integrating the Silver Platter (SP) platform into Ovid). It’s nice, but the default configuration includes a Basic Search table, an Ovid Syntax tab, and a SilverPlatter Syntax tab. Ovid Syntax and SilverPlatter Syntax don’t mean anything to our users,…
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NewsGator now free
“…NewsGator also announced that all of its client RSS reader products are now available free of charge and include free synchronization along with other services.” Full press release here. Might have to give them a looksee – I seem to recall that one of our databases only allows RSS feeds to work within Newsgator –…