A colleague of mine at work forwarded information about this to our reference librarians, but I just read about it on Jenny Levine’s blog: the idea of using Meebo’s IM widget in the library catalog to create a user-librarian interaction at the point of need. Our library has gone back and forth about using IM [...]
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Second Life concerns
Posted in Second Life, Web 2.0, communication, community, ethics, students, teaching, technology, virtual worlds on September 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’m currently taking a class in Second Life and we posted our first impressions of the virtual world to the class forum today. One of my classmates posted this interesting article about a professor’s “second thoughts about Second Life”, which raises some important legal and ethical concerns about institutions of higher learning using and requiring [...]
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 [...]


