Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by Camille
I’m trying to live blog Connect@NMC: Michael Wesch and Digital Ethnography. I’m coming in late but ETA: here’s the discussion template (http://ksudigg.wetpaint.com/page/NMC+Discussion). He’s talking about the exploration phase of the course and the infrastructure on NetVibes (http://www.netvibes.com/wesch#Digital_Ethnography) using Diigo, ZohoCreator and other tools. They did initial exploration on topic (anonymity), had to find 5 articles [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2006 by Camille
Daniel Greenstein
Experience comes from Open Content Alliance (content partners like UC, Internet Archive; tech partners like HP Labs, Yahoo, etc.; funders).
Interesting notes from talk:
Melvyl (UC library catalog) has three recommender systems in place (a "more like this" feature, recs produced by an algorithm run on their circ data, and recs from Amazon)
UC has found that [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2006 by Camille
Susan Herzog of BlogBib and Susan's Blog gave a presentation on blogging in academic libraries. At the beginning of the session she asked a series of questions of the participants: less than half of the people in the session read blogs, about a quarter had their own blogs, and strangely enough, even fewer people had [...]
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Posted on April 20th, 2006 by Camille
As a member of the ACRL Professional Development Committee, I've been on the committee helping to put together the ACRL/CNI/EDUCAUSE Virtual Conference. It's been a really interesting and valuable experience being a part of the process–seeing how the call for proposals is issued, getting to look at all the really great proposals that came in, [...]
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Posted on April 14th, 2005 by Camille
Benjamin Harris from Trinity University gave an engaging presentation based on his contributed conference paper, which was more theoretical in tone and style, and used the theory to start discussion about the practical side of things.
Why should we talk about images in relation to IL?
* because students are media driven–from TV, music, comics, graphic novels
* [...]
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