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Last updated: October 28, 2009 - 4:33pm by shirley

Complete Guide To Twitter via @ALA_CRO

Check this out!  For those of you who want to know "what's so great about twitter anyway" here is your guide! Also includes: how to use twitter, who uses twitter, what we call people who use twitter (twitterers, tweeters, or twits?).Complete Guide to Twitter http://tinyurl.com/ylf6k4l  

Last updated: October 23, 2009 - 4:17pm by amy

phones, iPhones, and other technology in the classroom (or library!)!

Abiline Christian University in Texas started a project two years ago to give iPhones and iPod Touches to their students. The results are that the students felt more positive and maintained better relationships with their faculty: http://www.acu.edu/technology/mobilelearning/index.html

It's a cool idea to do, but what about for classrooms where the students have cell phones already? Mobile learning is an interesting new trend. If you attending Idaho Library Association's conference in Burley this year and saw Chris Haskell's presentation on mobile devices in the classroom you already know that students can use twitter and cell phones for learning, compiling data, recording data, searching for information, and communicating with their professors/teachers. Check out all of their resources posted at coolteachers.org: http://coolteachers.org/

Check out this one below about SlideRocket and Twitter in the classroom!

 

 

 

 

Last updated: October 20, 2009 - 11:51am by amy

Innovation knows no age

Two things I love: innovation and the NextGen column in Library Journal. NextGen in Library Journal has a great short article about how innovation knows no age limit and cites an academic library that is redefining library services for students and faculty: http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6695145.html?q=it%27s+not+genera...

Last updated: October 6, 2009 - 2:47pm by melody

What do we want from an OPAC?

There's an article in today's Chronicle of Higher Education online that talks about how academic libraries are struggling to get OPACs supply what their users need.  If Google can do it ...  (But, Google doesn't struggle with a complex "integrated" system and perennial budget cuts!)In any case, it's an interesting read:  http://chronicle.com/article/After-Losing-Users-in/48588/?sid=wc&utm_sou...

Last updated: September 28, 2009 - 3:27pm by ruth