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11 Dec 2008
Adults and Video Games
It's not just kids who play video games! Another PEW Report came out this week - this one focused on adults who play video games. There are some very interesting statistics from the report, one of them being that 53% of adults play video games of some kind
08 Dec 2008
National Gaming Day: Call to Action!
On Saturday, November 15th, 2008, libraries across the country participated in the first annual National Gaming Day @ your library initiative. Hundreds of libraries joined together in providing a variety of gaming events, including board games, card games, roleplaying games
09 Oct 2008
Learn Anytime, Anywhere with SPLAT 101
Official registration for SPLAT 101 has closed, but you can still participate in this self-paced online course! Join others and learn about these six technology-based resources that can save you time and money at work and home.
20 Sep 2008
Greetings from ALSC in Salt Lake City: Getting Graphic…
09 Sep 2008
Google Docs Forms
A colleague alerted me to the new Google Docs forms and I tested it out. It was really fast, you can embed the survey into web sites, get the responses instantly fitted into a spreadsheet. I sent out a test submission and watched the replies appear magically into the spreadsheet. I can then share the
04 Sep 2008
“Que és un wiki?”
I imagine that this would be helpful to anyone in a library setting with a number of Spanish speakers. I found this in youtube when I was searching on wikis. Please pass it on to anyone that might find it useful and share it with colleagues! I know we
03 Sep 2008
Google Chrome
Have you heard the buzz? Well, until yesterday I hadn't either. Yesterday afternoon Google released its new web browser Chrome. I was a bit hesitant to download it, but after reading about it and hearing positive reviews from Dylan and my dad I decided to give it a try today - and I'm liking it! The pluses:
27 Aug 2008
Google Reader via CommonCraft!
Yay! The good folks at commoncraft have created another one of their simple yet impressively informative videos, this time about Google Reader: