Posted on July 8, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Last week, Female Science Professor wrote a lovely pair of posts about scholars and scholarship, what it feels like when your work has an impact on someone and what it feels like to meet the people who have influenced you in that particular undefinable way where it’s hard to even express what they’ve meant to [...]
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Posted on June 27, 2008 by Anne-Marie
(cross-posted at Notes and Links)
2008 ALA Annual Conference
Rachel Bridgewater, Reed College
Anne-Marie Deitering, OSU Libraries
Karen Munro, University of Oregon
Links to our examples, and many more resources to browse can be found at our Library a la Carte page: Library Instruction 2.0
Web pages, CMS tools, LMS tools
LibGuides (SpringShare)
Library a la Carte (Oregon State University)
Haiku (web-based LMS, free [...]
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Posted on June 12, 2008 by Anne-Marie
This is the paper Kate and I submitted along with our LOTW presentation, rendered into this gorgeous tagcloud by Wordle, a new tagcloud generator I saw today on Information Aesthetics. I love tagclouds anyway - but this one lets you play with layout, fonts and colors in a way I’ve never seen before. You can [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Kate and I are still buzzing from the great conversation we had with the people who came to our session at LOEX of the West. It’s always an amazing and kind of surreal experience when you find out that other people are excited by the same ideas you are.
And it seems that other people [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2008 by Anne-Marie
Peer Review 2.0: Tomorrow’s Scholarship for Today’s Students
LOEX of the West, Las Vegas
Anne-Marie Deitering & Kate Gronemyer
WEB 2.0 BACKGROUND
Five Web 2.0 themes — from the ACRL Instruction Section’s Current Issues Discussion Forum, Research Instruction in a Web 2.0 World (Annual, 2006).
DANAH BOYD EXAMPLES
{Edit: These didn’t make it into the presentation, but they are examples of [...]
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Posted on May 13, 2008 by Anne-Marie
well, not really bad metadata. More like the wrong metadata.
Dipity lets you build interactive timelines. You can pull in all kinds of information sources — video, text, images — and display them in a nice, linear timeline. The interface is easy to navigate. Each item in the timeline can be viewed [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by Anne-Marie
So, from Encyclopedia Britannica there’s now Webshare - making it easy for “web publishers” (which means - bloggers?) to access premium encyclopedia content, and to share that content with users. From the project site:
a limited program that enables people who regularly publish content on the Internet—bloggers, webmasters, and writers for the Web—to obtain free subscriptions to Britannica Online, [...]
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Posted on April 14, 2008 by Anne-Marie
was said pretty well yesterday at Daily Kos.
Keen tends to claim that the participatory web is destroying traditional media at great cost to our culture. I’ve always thought that the mainstream media has done a great deal to destroy itself. And I don’t think I can say it better than this:
The media — newspapers, radio, [...]
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Posted on March 19, 2008 by Anne-Marie
The word “follow” suddenly looks really strange to me.
A few quick follow-ups from last week’s posts:
The Ryerson student who was threatened with expulsion for administering a study group in Facebook will not be expelled. There will be some fallout from this episode that sticks with him, but he was not found guilty of 147 counts [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2008 by Anne-Marie
CinemaTech pointed this out last year, and again today — the Academy’s attitude towards YouTube is pretty messed up. And I think they’re blowing a terrific opportunity here. Like the Royal Family, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has exactly the kind of content that works on YouTube. [...]
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