Category: Web/Tech
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Wow!!! It’s Google Scholar
Well this is likely to be all over the library web today, but Google Scholar has just launched and will have a big impact on our distance students. I predict they will find it easier to use this less comprehensive tool and will for the most part start trickling away from our quality full text…
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Who needs libraries?
The other day I was pointed by LIS News to an interesting documentary at Soundprint called Who Needs Libraries? It’s a half-hour streaming audio piece that takes a look at the relevance of libraries in today’s Webworld. There’s nothing in here you haven’t read in a dozen other places, but it’s neat to hear it…
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Are we there yet?
Back in 1999, Judith Boettcher made a number of predictions for what the world of distance education would look like in 2007 (21st Century Teaching and Learning Patterns: What Will We See?). In the most recent issue of Campus Technology (formerly Syllabus), she takes a look at those predictions in an article called, "Are We…
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Podcasting in education
Here’s another person interested in the idea of Podcasting for education… Podcasting in education I have been thinking a lot of the potential of the medium. I really think there is something here for education! In my opinion Podcasting is a great tool: for distance learning to facilitate self-paced learning for remediation of slower learners…
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A list of websites for electronic resource reviews
On RefCan-L there was recently a call for a list of sites that reviewed electronic resources, and I have just received permission to reproduce that list here. The Gale Group at http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/reference/peter/index.htm Online ISSN: 0146-5422 Publisher Information: Information Today Inc. http://www.onlineinc.com/ Research Buzz – (http://www.researchbuzz.com) Charleston Advisor — peer reviewed, subscription-based. http://www.charlestonco.com Technology Electronic Reviews…
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Podcasting for Education
I’ve been listening to Podcasts for about six weeks now, and every once in a while the thought occurs to me that they could be useful in Higher Education, if not the library world. Never got around to drafting my thoughts on the subject, but my colleague D’Arcy just did, so I’ll drop you off…
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Google Cheat Sheet
I hadn’t seen this Google Cheat Sheet before. There are a couple of operators (like the ~ for synonyms) that were new to me, so I thought I’d share in case you found them interesting too…
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Library Lookup Bookmarklets – Frequently Answered Questions
Rebecca Hedreen, Distance Education Librarian at Southern Connecticut State University, has started a blog of Frequently Answered Questions for her students, and has a post about the new Library Lookup Bookmarklets that have been tweaked to search Worldcat through Google. The bookmarklet has been mentioned in several places this week, and Rebecca provides a few…
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Man on the rug
Just read something that made me laugh out loud and wanted to share. You know all the famous mis-heard lyrics out there? You know, Man on the rug instead of Band on the Run, ‘Scuse me while I kiss this guy… I was reading a transcript someone had typed of a meeting I was in…
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NPR Online Auction
Almost absolutely nothing to do with library support of distance students, but it is online, and it’s at a distance from me, and I think it’s a great idea, so I’m letting you know that NPR is having a week long online auction starting next week. NPR is one of the things I miss being…