Web/Tech – Page 24 – The Distant Librarian

Lat/Long Bookmarklet for Google Maps

Jun 11, 2007

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in Ideas, Linking, Miscellaneous, Tutorials, Web/Tech

Not your typical distance education-related posting, except you might want to know where your students are – yeah, that’s the connection! 😉 Last week my family started geocaching – great fun and I highly recommend it if you don’t live deep in a big city. Even then it can be done, but it’s different. Anyhoo,…

Viddler – video hosting and quite a bit more…

May 22, 2007

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Paul R. Pival

in Linking, Social Networks, Tutorials, Web/Tech

I’m increasingly frustrated by the crappy compression YouTube uses – that’s what makes everything so fuzzy when you upload something. Since YouTube is so popular it seems unlikely to be unseated as The Place To Stick Your Videos any time soon, but it’s neat to see who’s out there trying to innovate. Today I found…

Shared Browsing in Meebo

May 18, 2007

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Paul R. Pival

in Electronic Reference, Social Networks, Web/Tech

Sarah at LibrarianInBlack points out that the new chat rooms launched by Meebo this week can in fact be used as a rudimentary shared browsing tool. I tried it and she’s right – it’s better than nothing. What is nice is that it’ll work when you’re on Meebo and your patron’s on a native client…

Two more screen sharing tools

May 18, 2007

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Paul R. Pival

in Linking, Service, Web/Tech

I’ve had each of these on my "to-try" pile for a week and haven’t gotten around to it, but they each look promising and you might want to give them a go. Both offer web-based cross-platform (Mac, Windows, Linux) compatibility. Both appear to be free. LiveLook – http://www.livelook.net/ Easy as 1-2-3(1) Click "Show My Screen"…

Blended Learning Guide for Libraries – Web Junction

May 8, 2007

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Social Networks, Tutorials, Web/Tech

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…

Google Book Search: is it Good Enough?

May 3, 2007

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Paul R. Pival

in Books, Scholarship, Web/Tech

Good post at the American Historical Association blog called Google Books: What’s Not to Like? In it, a historian points out three big things not to like: Poor Scan Quality, Faulty Metadata, and Truncated Public Domain. Well-supported with examples, it gets even more interesting in the comments where people point out that crappy though it…

Oh, Georgia Tech

May 1, 2007

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Miscellaneous, Scholarship, Service, Social Networks, Web/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…

RSS Alerts in EBSCO Databases

Apr 27, 2007

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Paul R. Pival

in Linking, Tutorials, Web/Tech

Earlier this week I got a mailing from EBSCO in which they claimed they were re-launching RSS alerts for searches. I tried to follow their instructions but had no success, and assumed this must be a feature we had to manually enable in our admin module, but Ken Varnum at RSS4Lib pointed out that the…

Yugma for screen-sharing

Apr 26, 2007

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Paul R. Pival

in Electronic Reference, Service, Web/Tech

Another link from Sarah at LiB (this one via the lo-fi librarian): Yugma. I haven’t tried it, but it looks to be a solid option if you’re considering tools to share the desktop (co-browsing). The basic service is free and cross platform. It doesn’t offer voice over IP, so you’re stuck texting with whoever’s on…

Olive Software ActiveMagazine

Apr 23, 2007

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Paul R. Pival

in Web/Tech

I received email from two of my U of C colleagues about the inaugural issue of Blogger and Podcaster magazine. Personally, I wasn’t terribly impressed with the content – doesn’t seem like a needed publication, but if there’s a market I guess why not? What I was impressed with is the Olive Software used to…

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