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Library Video tour example (SUNY Potsdam)

Posted in YouTube, higher education, librarians, marketing, video, tagged librarians, libraries, tour, video on November 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

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Value-added libraries

Posted in Blogs, Web 2.0, book discusions, books, community, higher education, librarians, library 2.0, social networking, social software, students, technology on October 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Today I have been thinking a lot about book discussions and libraries, particularly academic libraries. My library is sponsoring a faculty book discussion next week, around the book The View From the Center of the Universe, and it got me thinking about why my library doesn’t do more book discussion projects. Time is, of course, [...]

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EDUCAUSE releases new study

Posted in higher education, information technology, learning, software, students, teaching, technology, undergraduates on September 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »

EDUCAUSE Centre for Applied Research has just released the latest report in its longitudinal study of undergraduates and their use of information technology. It is called, “The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2007” and is,

“…based on quantitative data from a spring 2007 survey and interviews with 27,846 freshman, senior, and community [...]

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More social networking blogs

Posted in Blogs, MySpace, Web 2.0, Wikis, YouTube, applications, collaboration, higher education, learning, library 2.0, social networking, social software, technology, tools on August 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A couple of social networking blogs that caught my attention tonight. One is from a colleague over at the University of Rochester who actually attended my workshop last week. Cynthia’s blog is Long time listener, first time caller – I love the title! Cynthia works in IT at the library and is [...]

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Who’s interested in Second Life?

Posted in Second Life, Web 2.0, communication, community, higher education, learning, marketing, public relations, services, technology, undergraduates on August 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Many campuses of higher education are dealing with budget and staffing issues, as well as a lack of time. Thus, Second Life has enormous appeal for all academic and student life departments, not just the academic library. collegewebeditor.com is a web, PR, and marketing blog for higher ed institutions, aimed primarily to admissions and marketing [...]

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Web 2.0 apps for students

Posted in Web 2.0, applications, community, higher education, librarians, services, software, teaching, technology, tools, undergraduates on August 23, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Great compilation of 2.0 tools for students. The tools are aimed at mostly college students, but I suppose the list could be adapted for elementary and secondary ed students. Tools like Zoho Office Suite which has a whole cadre of free word processing, spreadsheet and presentation applications. JotCloud and ShortText for taking notes, Facebook and [...]

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