Wired Campus Article
I’m very excited to be the subject of an article by Jeff Young in the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Wired Campus blog called “Embedded Librarian on Twitter Served as Information Concierge for Class.” The experience I had being the “Twitter-based librarian” to Dr. Gardner Campbell’s New Media Studies classes is really the highlight of my...
The schizo structure of research
I should be posting on the Sherry Turkle essay, since that is what we’re reading this week and I’m even presenting on it with Blaine today. But as I sat down yesterday morning and scanned through Twitter, a post by @wedaman caught my eye, about reading Engelbart to kindergarteners. (Which… fascinating, yes?) So I clicked...
Teaching With Twitter
[iframe http://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=ddzmkrn5_453hdjm7p93&size=m 555 451] The LITA BIGWIG Showcase will be happening at ALA this year on Monday, June 28, 2010 from 10:30am to Noon at the Renaissance Washington Grand BR South/Central. Come join us for some great discussions! Here are the topics and presenters: Libraries MUST Have A New Electronic Content Access and Distribution Infrastructure...
Web Search strategies
Commoncraft has done it again with a great short video on a few common web search strategies which will help to target the results you get while searching. [vimeo 1799104 400 300] For more search strategies, see the Google advanced search page, the Google cheat sheet and the Google advanced operators reference....