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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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