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 [...]
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 [...]
Posted in Blogs, Podcasting, Wikis, community, learning, librarians, library 2.0, profession on August 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Today I teach the Blogs, Podcasts and Wikis workshop at RRLC in Rochester. Participants are from the Rochester, NY region and come from public, special, academic, school and medical libraries. Tell me what you hope to gain or learn from this workshop!
Posted in Podcasting, Web 2.0, Wikis, collaboration, flickr, learning, librarians, library 2.0, rss, teaching, technology on August 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This very cool story about the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County gives me hope for libraries and relevancy in the 21st century! The IT director charged her staffers with finding and using Web 2.0 technologies in the course of their jobs. The results? They developed a program called Learning 2.0 which is being [...]
Posted in Blogs, Web 2.0, learning on July 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve subscribed to Jane’s eLearning Pick of the Day for some time, and it is a great blog to find scores of learning and instructional technologies — some useful in the classroom, others not so much. Today’s post was a slidesharing tool called Slideshare, where you can upload your powerpoint presentations and other slides [...]
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