At #web2untangled in Oxford today (where I’m speaking later) the third talk is from Helen Clough at the Open University. For those outside the UK, the Open University is the major distance learning university in the UK. Elluminate is one of the online learning platforms that they use, and the OU library is using it [...]
I just updated my “Web 2.0″ Netvibes page (I’m using it in a class tomorrow). It has links to some “what is …” items, some items relevant to learning about Web 2.0 (I particualrly recommend the Cambridge University 23 Things blog) and some automatic searches on Web 2.0. It’s at http://www.netvibes.com/sheilawebber#Web_2.0_in_general I also updated the [...]
Over the course of this summer and fall, I have worked with a student researcher to create a video game experience that will help demonstrate information literacy skills. I will go into more detail about the project in the coming posts, but I wanted to start off with this video mapping out our character interactions.After [...]
Over the course of this summer and fall, I have worked with a student researcher to create a video game experience that will help demonstrate information literacy skills. I will go into more detail about the project in the coming posts, but I wanted to start off with this video mapping out our character interactions.After [...]
Everyone seems to be linking to this, so I might as well do so too: people are encouraged to leave comments to counter some of the “but we don’t need libraries now everyone has the internet” nonsense that has been posted so far.Bennett, C. (2010) “Without libraries, we will lose a mark of our civilisation.” [...]
Call for Posters: Instruction Section (ALA Annual Conference 2011)2011 Instruction Section: Call for PostersThere is a call for posters for the Instruction Section, at the 2011 ALA Annual Conference, which will be held on June 23-28, 2011 in New Orleans, USA.”How can we incorporate opportunities for student creativity into our teaching? … The 2011 ACRL [...]
At the #web2untangled Lucy Power (Oxford Internet Institute) talked about Scientific social networking and open notebook science today. The conference is organised by COFHE and UC&R and takes place in Wolfson College, Oxford.She said that scientists are using the existing Web 2.0 tools to practice open science, communicating with the general public, and to interact [...]
At #web2untangled in Oxford today (where I’m speaking later) the third talk is from Helen Clough at the Open University. For those outside the UK, the Open University is the major distance learning university in the UK. Illuminate is one of the online learning platforms that they use, and the OU library is using it [...]
Eric Davies talked about Web 2.0: Weaving ethics and law at the #web2entangled conference in Oxford that I am attending today. This presentation identified how may issues there were, and how few of them were really resolved. He started by asking us to talk amongst ourselves about what ethics meant. He defined it as “moral [...]
Today I’m at the #web2untangled Web 2.0 Untangled conference in Oxford, organised by UC&R and COFHE. Peter Godwin started off the day with a talk entitled Library 2.0: bah humbug?. He began by highlighting how the number of older (50+) users has increased dramatically, and that we are finally entering a phase where e-books are [...]