Over the weekend I was scouting around for a grant for a project I'm considering. Most everything I've found so far is US-related/restricted, but I thought someone down there might find this useful. Good luck!
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Over the weekend I was scouting around for a grant for a project I'm considering. Most everything I've found so far is US-related/restricted, but I thought someone down there might find this useful. Good luck!
Posted at 10:38 AM in Ideas | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
This is an extension for Firefox that supposedly also works in IE 6. I have this installed and would like to try it out - anybody care to be a guinea pig with me? Tried to connect to a colleague upstairs, but he couldn't connect for some reason (obviously this isn't ready for prime time yet). I'm out of the office this afternoon, but drop me an email if you want to try this out and we'll set up a time...
" Jybe is an extension for Firefox that allows you to link your browser together to one or more friends' browsers and allows you to chat and browse the web together. Initial features included full frames support, chat, and a powerpoint presentation system, with more to come. Additionally, our plugin for Firefox is cross compatible with our identical plugin for Internet Explorer. Users of Firefox in Windows, Mac, Linux etc. can collaborate with users on any OS, and even users of Internet Explorer."
Link: Jybe Beta Released
Posted at 01:38 PM in Electronic Reference, Ideas, Web/Tech | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
I'm cleaning out some older posts today... This certainly fits in the category of linking... This utility (and accompanying bookmarklet) will allow you to create a link to a page on the NY Times website that they promise will never break.
Link: New York Times Link Generator.
Posted at 02:37 PM in Linking | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
Hmm, this would seem a natural fit with the recent discussion of Embedded Librarians...
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Subject Guides, the Folksonomic Way
“Del.icio.us, the bookmarking website with tags that I discussed on January 6, seems like the perfect tool for creating course-specific subject guides. Just agree on a tag, like the course number, and the subject librarian, professor, and students can build a subject guide cooperatively, on the fly.
I just tagged the two resources I identified for my Digital Libraries class with the course number. So they are now easily found by myself, and anyone else in the class, at del.icio.us/tag/sislt9409.” [Wanderings of a Student Librarian]
Joy Weese Moll demonstrates another way in which librarians and librarians-to-be can take advantage of tagging and folksonomies! It will be interesting to see if her teacher or her fellow students begin contributing to the tag. Here’s hoping….
Posted at 02:19 PM in Electronic Reference, Ideas, Linking, Web/Tech | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
I used to subscribe to Jon Udell's blog and for some reason I stopped. I think I'm going to start again. Jon isn't a librarian on paper, but you may remember from a nifty little tool called Library Lookup.
I just learned that he's starting to push a concept he's dubbed as "Screencasts", which seems to me to be a generic term for these Viewlets and Captivate projects I've been going on about for so long. In a nutshell, he says, "show, don't tell". And he's got 22 of these things up here to prove his point. No, they're not all library-related, but you will learn something by watching them, and they will convince you you should be considering this form of instruction to reach your distance students!
Posted at 11:17 AM in Tutorials | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (1)
Last November I wrote a little bit about the potential for podcasts in education (well, I linked to someone who thought the same thing I did...). Earlier this week librarian Greg Schwartz emerged from his intellectual cocoon having transformed from a print blogger to a podcaster. Well I'm sure he reserves the right to continue to type too, but I have to say I really enjoyed listening to his take on an article about folksonomies, a topic I had been purposefully not been paying attention to over the past few weeks. What was great about hearing him discuss the concept was 1) I got to listen and learn during my commute rather than at the office, and 2) he did a really good job summarizing the whole concept and the issues around it. I hope he continues, and I hope you give it a listen. Oh, and if the term "podcasting" is new to you, he does a good job of explaining that in a non-threatening way too :-)
Posted at 09:02 AM in Ideas | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
Don't see this program listed on the Weatherhead Programs page yet, but this marketing announcement would seem to indicate that Syracuse and Case Western Reserve are teaming up to offer an MLIS degree via distance learning starting this summer. Follow the link for all the details: Weatherhead School of Management.
(thanks for the tip Ken!)
Posted at 02:14 PM in Scholarship | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
Course Description:
This seminar will provide you with the information you need to design a
plan for library support of distance education at your institution. The
seminar will cover administrative issues, services/resources, and how
your home page can be developed to support your distance education
program.
More information by following the link: ALA | All Users Are Local.
Posted at 12:06 PM in Scholarship | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
You've probably seen this already, but this is how your distance students think they do with search engines... No significant mention of libraries, just some user demographics.
Internet users are very happy with their experiences searching the internet, but many are naïve about how they search and the results they find.
Posted at 11:44 AM in Electronic Reference, Web/Tech | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
There's an interesting thread on the OffCamp listserv right now about how best to become an embedded librarian.
Posted at 10:02 AM in Ideas, Web/Tech | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
Tangential to distance education (or at least library support of), but it was easy to build so I thought I'd post it here.
Back in November there were a couple announcements about multimedia search engines. Well today the 300LB Gorilla came to the door in the form of Google Video Search (beta of course). Right now you can only search the transcripts of a limited number of channels, and the video isn't available to watch, but they obviously have the video, as they show screenshots all through the show. For instance, here's the result for the Seinfeld episode of "The Library".
Ok, 'nuff about the product, you can learn more about it here and here.
Here are the bookmarklets to search Google Video (what are we going to call this one, Voogle?:
Mozilla / Firefox / Opera: Google Video
IE: Google Video
Safari: Google Video (thanks to Steve DiDomenico)
Just drag it up to your personal toolbar folder (Mozilla etc.) or add to favorites (IE) and you should be good to go.
Please let me know if you learn that these don't work as expected with your browser...
Posted at 09:20 AM in Web/Tech | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
Internet Librarian 2005 runs from October 24-26 in Moterey, CA. Call for speakers has a deadline of March 15, 2005. I've always wanted to go to this conference, will this year be the year?
Posted at 03:36 PM in Scholarship | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
Interested in mentoring a librarian in the research process? Right now, librarians have an opportunity to submit a proposal for the Off-Campus Library Services Conference in 2006, and the conference organizers are very interested in seeing more research-related proposals. If you would like mentor a librarian, email me at [email protected] and I will pair you with a research "mentee". For more information about the expectations for mentors and mentees, see the following:
To promote research in the area of library services to distance learners, the Research Committee in the Distance Learning Section of ACRL is facilitating a research mentoring program to support up-coming professional librarians who are interested in conducting research in this area and reporting their research findings at the Off-Campus Library Services Conference in 2006. Experienced researchers who volunteer to participate as mentors will be paired with new professionals interested in conducting research.
Broadly, the mentoring guidelines will be as follows:
Mentors will guide a mentee they are paired with in the areas of:
• Content
• Research methods
• Pointing mentee to experts who have conducted similar research
• Helping mentee on how to present and communicate ideas
• Providing feedback on research in progress
• Pointing mentee to relevant/key literature
NOTE: Mentors are not intended to be editors of papers!
Mentees:
• Have a good idea of what they want to research
• Have a keen interest in the research topic
• Conduct a literature review
Thanks!
Johanna Tuñón, Chair of the DLS's Research Committee
Head of Distance and Instructional Library Services
Nova Southeastern University
Fort Lauderdale, FL
[email protected]
Posted at 12:17 PM in Scholarship | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
The following showed up in my email box today - oddly enough not on any of my DE lists:
Library Instruction Publications is seeking contributions for a forthcoming publication: Empowering Distance Learners with Hands-on Information Literacy Activities.
Empowering Distance Learners will be a bit different from prior works published by Library Instruction Publications. It is designed as a "textbook" for use by distance education students. The book itself will introduce key information literacy concepts and give instructions for hands-on work. The instructor's version will be accompanied by two disks, one for the instructor who elects to use the text and the other with hands-on work for students to complete. The student version will include the one disk with the hands-on work.
The text will consist of brief (3-5 page) explanations of concepts and instructions for hands-on work. Each of these sections will be supported by accompanying instructor's notes and students' activities on the disks.
If you would like to contribute to the text and its supporting materials, please submit a brief proposal in which you address the following: the topic of the lesson; your approach to this topic; and why this topic should be included.
Proposals should be submitted to Kate Manuel ([email protected]), by 31 January 2005. Notification of acceptances will be sent by 15 February 2005, with completed lesson plans due by 15 April 2005. Multiple submissions from individuals, groups, or institutions will be considered.
Posted at 12:22 PM in Scholarship | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)
More from our friends at U of Windsor (who continue to do my work for me :-)
Posted at 10:36 AM in Linking | Permalink | 0 Comments | TrackBack (0)