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LIS768 Group Projects Day 2

We have two more projects today. First up:

Social Networking Tools & Marketing

Slides: http://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AUckRKXNEbDYZG5jNDQ5Yl8yZmM3dmN0ZDU&hl=en

This group used the Geneva Public Library’s Web presence to frame their presentation about marketing. They created a Drupal site for the library: http://librarylasso.com/geneva/ Wowza!

Social Networking for School Libraries

This group created a Ning for librarians and teachers, presenting [...]

April 11th, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, LIS Education in the 21st Century | One comment - (Comments are closed)

LIS768 Group Projects Day One

It’s that time again! Today and tomorrow we have group presentations for LIS768.

Personal Learning Networks:

Karen’s Word Cloud of her own PLN

This group created a Ning for students in our program and explored all the possibilities for PLNs, including the fact that a good PLN is not just digital resources but [...]

April 10th, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS | Comments are closed

Social Media Best Practices for Libraries

This post was written by Kasia Grabowska for last semester’s LIS 768: Library 2.0 & Networking Technologies class. Kasia has allowed me to repost it here.

After doing brand monitoring research for the past few weeks, looking closely at Skokie Public Library (and not so closely at several other libraries), I decided to put together a list of [...]

March 18th, 2010 | Category: Best Practices for Social Software in Libraries, Dominican University GSLIS, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Library 2.0/Web 2.0, Library Innovators, LIS Education in the 21st Century, TTW Guest Posts | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Online Education & Blogging

http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology_and_learning/online_education_and_blogging

Joshua Kim writes:

The best preparation I received for blogging was teaching online. One of the most important elements for running a successful online course involves presence. The instructor must be “present” in the course discussion boards and blogs. Teaching online gave me tons of practice in writing rapid, hopefully thought provoking, discussion and [...]

March 18th, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, LIS Education in the 21st Century, LIS Weblogs Rule!, Teaching & Learning | Comments are closed

LIS768 Context Book Report Media

An Army of Davids (Podcast)

http://lis768.tametheweb.com/ahbraincramp/files/2010/02/AnArmyOfDavids1.mp3

Born Digital

Community: The Structure of Belonging

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Googeled: The End of the World as We Know It

Grown Up Digital

Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out

Tribes

http://animoto.com/play/JmI0BkZymqMdeclKOXcyzg

Twitterville

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February 28th, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Libraries of the Future in Plain English

I am loving this! Great stuff from Down Under. I’ll be adding this to my Intro to LIS course.

February 18th, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, Librarian 2.0, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, Library 2.0/Web 2.0 | 8 comments - (Comments are closed)

Utilizing Emerging Tools to Extend the Classroom

Links from my Dominican “Technology Bytes” session tomorrow:

Finding My Tribe at EDUCAUSE LI

WordPress as a Learning Management System – Move Over, Blackboard

Slides: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/239835/TechnologyBytesSessionStephens.pdf

Links from ALA Techsource Post:

Born Digital: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/BornDigital/196238 ELI2010 Presentations: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/Browse/ELI2010/37186 Gardener Campbell’s Blog: http://www.gardnercampbell.net/blog1/ Google Moderator: http://moderator.appspot.com/ Michael’s Hyperlinked Campus:http://www.educause.edu/Resources/CreativeCollaborationandImmers/196260 Twitter Symbiosis: http://www.educause.edu/Resources/TwitterSymbiosisALibrarianaHas/196234

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February 3rd, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, LIS Education in the 21st Century | One comment - (Comments are closed)

WordPress as a Learning Management System – Move Over, Blackboard

Don’t miss this interview with the Kyle Jones all about the WordPressMU/BuddyPress sites he’s developing for my classes at

http://wpmu.org/wordpress-as-a-learning-management-system-move-over-blackboard/

Q: What are the pros and cons of using BuddyPress in an educational / classroom environment?

A: No other LMS that I’m aware provides such a human touch on learning. We really see the students [...]

February 3rd, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, Librarians, Libraries & the Profession, LIS Education in the 21st Century, Open Source Software | Comments are closed

Thomas Brevik on iPad

Thomas and I have worked together at Internet Librarian International 2008 and back in the day doing a podcast or two about Library 2.0. He’s one of the good thinkers in LIS who I wish I had more of a chance to sit with and talk. Glad to see his take on the iPad this [...]

February 1st, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS, iPhone, iPods in Libraries?!? | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Dominican GSLIS Student’s Blog Highlighted at BestBizWeb

Allow me to gush a bit. One of my students from last semester has had her LIS768 blog highlighted by BestBizWeb:

SITE: Megan Mulherin’s Blog

URL: http://classes.tametheweb.com/meganmulherin

CATEGORY: Blog

PURPOSE: This is a blog about news, trends, and tips related to information, research, online searching, and library issues.

FEE/FREE: FREE

SOURCE CHECK: This blog is [...]

January 29th, 2010 | Category: Dominican University GSLIS | Comments are closed
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