Joining the rash of "2.0" adopters, I saw this morning an article coining University 2.0. They are basically getting rid of in-class lectures, relying heavily on podcasting; students ask questions via email and are answered on a blog. The professor states that the reason for doing this is that he found large lectures to not [...]
Archive for May, 2006
College 2.0
May 27, 2006Google Librarian Center
May 26, 2006In an effort to work more closely with librarians, Google created the Google Librarian Center. They have a cool poster to show users how to more effectively use the search engine to produce better results. It would be nice if we had one for our catalog…
A new hope
May 25, 2006Tasked to find ways to keep the staff abreast of trends in technology, we thought, "why not a blog?" OK, you're right, a blog is hardly new, but, you have to start somewhere. Within this blog we will report on what we've read, seen, are doing, might do later, hope to never do, and [...]