Le ministère de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche met en ligne aujourd’hui un nouveau site: www.universitenumerique.fr. Il est défini dans sa page de présentation comme un blogue:Ce blog doit permettre d’engager une réflexion collective etconstructive sur la problématique de l’usage du numérique dans lesétablissements de l’enseignement supérieur. Il doit être l’occasion decomprendre l’origine du [...]
Thanks to A source of inspiration blog (www.asourceofinspiration.com/2007/10/ ) for highlighting a new video from Michael Wesch. It comes out of an exercise where 200 of his students were ask to contribute to a Google Document (i.e. shared via Google Docs) about a students’ life (by implication, in the USA). The video mostly consists of [...]
Institute for Multi-Sensory Education30-Hour Comprehensive Orton-Gillingham TrainingJanuary 14-18, 2008Milwaukee, WIhttps://orton-gillingham.com/ More: continued here
On Wednesday, October 24th, the Middle Atlantic Region sent over 340 hospital librarians an e-mail message encouraging them to talk with their hospital administrators about MLA’s Health Information Literacy Survey for Hospital Administrators and Health Care.The Medical Library Association (MLA) in cooperation with the American Hospital Association (AHA) Society for Health Care Advocacy (SHCA) has [...]
The latest discussion in Second Life, the virtual world, was What is important for librarians to learn about Second Life and what role should they be taking? This discussion was led by Maggie Kohime (Lyn Parker in real life) yesterday in the Centre for Information Literacy Research, Eduserv Island. We had some people from the [...]
Septième volet de cette série d’articles sur la méthodologie de recherche en scinfo.Sridhar, M. S. (2007), Research Methodology Part 7: Data Collection Methods and Techniques.(Déposé sur E-LIS) (Source: pintiniblog) More: continued here
Thursday afternoon from 1 to 3 pm was the Exploratoruim. This event is similar to poster sessions at other conferences. There were 55 tables ranging from assessment, to reading incentives, to information literacy and including library advocacy.My favorites were;TRAILS (Tool for Real-Time Assessment of Information Literady) www.trails-9.org — I have used this site before but [...]
The room is full! AASL President, Sara Kelly Johns, announced the new “standards for 21st century learning”. At the end of this session the standards will be available for download.The main part of the session is the keynote speaker Dan Pink. His book “A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future,” is the [...]
State: MinnesotaThe University of Minnesota Libraries seek two enthusiastic,innovative, service-oriented professionals who have both subjectknowledge in the sciences/engineering and digital expertise to join astaff of seven librarians in the Science & Engineering Library(http://sciweb.lib.umn.edu). The library supports the research,knowledge management, instructional and life-long learning needs ofundergraduate and graduate students, faculty and staff in thephysical sciences (astronomy, [...]
Learn what the Mississippi Valley meant to people in the 1800s and how these meanings influenced Mark Twain’s interpretation of the place. Read essays on economic development, politics, race, religion and culture, and the idea of “the West.” Find full texts of several works online. More: continued here