Category: Web/Tech
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Google gets it… academic affiliation option
Hey, Google implemented my idea to allow students to indicate an affiliation with an academic institution! No, there’s been no acknowledgment from them, and yeah, I suppose it’s possible they thought of this all by themselves, but I’d like to think otherwise 🙂 I just emailed them to see if they’d put the U of…
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Blogs and podcasts: Educause shows the way?
I’ve mentioned podcasts a few times in the past six months. For a little while I’ve been toying with the idea of recording a series of interviews with distance students and making them available as a podcast, but I don’t think I’m going to have the time, so you can do it. 🙂 Anyway, as…
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Always Fresh: Fast Content for Library Websites with Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
More stuff related to blended librarianship – if you follow the link to the ppt presentation you’ll see how USask has fed their RSS feed to the front page of their library site as a "What’s New" section, and there’s also a screenshot of that same feed fed into their campus portal using the same…
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Welcome to Gmail
I think Gmail must be close to opening to the general public ’cause all of a sudden I have 50 invites to give away, and I’ve heard many others have a lot too. If you don’t yet have a Gmail account and you’d like one, send me an email at ppival@gmail.com and you shall have…
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Low Threshold Applications (LTA)
I ran across this site long ago, and could never get the RSS feed to display in my aggregator of choice, so had kind of forgotten about it. They just moved to a new site, and the RSS feed works fine for me now, so now I’ll recommend it to you! A Low Threshold Application …
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Call for contributors – Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning
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Hello reader! (I’m kidding, I know there are at least three of you out there!) I’m looking for your help. I recently agreed to assume the editorship of the eServices in Libraries column for the Journal of Library & Information Services in Distance Learning, and I’m looking for contributors for the column. I have several…
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brief jybe update – good customer service
Just wanted to let you know that I posted a link to yesterday’s post about our jybe test in the jybe support forums, and within a couple of hours got an email from Brian at the company asking me if we could run through the same scenerios so he could see what was happening. We…
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jybe – not ready for library prime time
Last Friday I posted about a co-browsing extension for Firefox called jybe, and asked if anyone wanted to test it out. I got a couple of takers (thanks Greg and Shelly) and we gave it a try this morning. Summary: not gonna help you with your distance students. We were all able to join the…
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Co-browsing on the cheap? – Jybe Beta Released
This is an extension for Firefox that supposedly also works in IE 6. I have this installed and would like to try it out – anybody care to be a guinea pig with me? Tried to connect to a colleague upstairs, but he couldn’t connect for some reason (obviously this isn’t ready for prime time…
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Tagging LIS Course Resources
Hmm, this would seem a natural fit with the recent discussion of Embedded Librarians…——————— Tagging LIS Course Resources Subject Guides, the Folksonomic Way “Del.icio.us, the bookmarking website with tags that I discussed on January 6, seems like the perfect tool for creating course-specific subject guides. Just agree on a tag, like the course number, and the…