03.27.07

Changing Roles of Academic and Research Libraries

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:32 am by letc

 Read this essay from a Roundtable on Technology and Change in Academic Libraries.

–Pam

03.18.07

Brief video on SJSU’s SLIS Second Life campus

Posted in Uncategorized at 10:14 am by letc

Wondering what Second Life is and how it can be used in higher education?  Take a look at this video from San Jose State’s SLIS program.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-9zt3Sd7oc  (note:  the sound on this video is very low so crank it up!)

[sent to us by Jim Julius].

–Pam

03.14.07

Five Weeks to a Social Library

Posted in Uncategorized at 2:03 pm by letc

Sent to us by Bruce Harley:

http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/
Some of the library world’s pioneers in “Library 2.0″ offer
understandable explanations of blogs, RSS, social bookmarking, wikis, and
other tools, and offer assignments to give you hands-on experience.

–Pam

03.08.07

Teaching with Video Games

Posted in Gaming at 6:54 pm by letc

Check out the latest Why Files (I used to work there) article about using video games as teaching tools: http://whyfiles.org/255videogame/

–Pam