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Practicum: Teaching & Using Flickr in Libraries

Flickr Tutorial 

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I am also serving as faculty advisor with a student for a practicum experience at Schaumburg Township Disrict Library. Carrie has been working this semester on STDL’s Flickr presence, staffing the Reference Desk and she just taught a class on Flickr for the public.  Checkout her blog [...]

Info Architecture for Libraries – Two Independent Studies

I’m working with two students this semester on individual independent studies. They’ve chosen to chronicle their work via a blog, This is one of the ways we check in and I can see their progress. We also meet for lunch every other week to discuss readings and have some genral [...]

Illinois Digital Library Survey

Are you from a library or cultural institution located in Illinois?  Do you have a digital collection? 

Please participate in this Illinois digital library survey!

The survey consists of 25 questions, takes 5 to 10 minutes to complete, and is available between March 16 and April 6, 2009 on SurveyMonkey.com. The results will be posted [...]

LIS768 Student Survey: User Centered Libraries & Personalization

Three students at Dominican’s graduate School of Library and Information Science invite you to participate in an online survey asking professional librarians to discuss the importance and aspects of personalization of the Library. As future librarians we are continuously learning and looking for ways to strengthen and improve the programs and services that we will [...]

Visiting the Second Life Reference Desk

 Each semester in LIS768 we take an hour and talk about Second Life and log in to see what it’s like. This is the first semester that we have actually chatted with a Reference Librarian and I was very happy the class got to participate. The librarian spoke with the class [...]

Twitter in the Classroom

http://silverinsf.blogspot.com/2009/02/this-replaces-those-twitter-in.html

David Silver writes:

this semester, twitter is the main mode of communication used by my students and me. twitter has replaced at least three classroom technologies, and has streamlined our outside-the-classroom conversations and collaborations.

twitter has replaced the class listserv. for years, i’ve used a listserv (alternatively called a mailing list or discussion list) to extend [...]

Collaboration in the Classroom

http://thefischbowl.blogspot.com/2009/01/i-just-want-to-say-one-word-to-you.html

So, if you’re an administrator, what are you doing to foster collaboration among your staff, and especially your teachers? And I’m talking more than just PLC’s, although that’s not a bad start. What are you really doing to fundamentally change the structure of your school(s) from one of isolation (close the door and [...]

3rd Annual eChicago

For further information about the Third Annual eChicago symposium Thursday April 2nd (evening) and Friday April 3rd please see the attached flyer.

To register go to www.echicago.illinois.edu

Please email any questions to echicago@dom.edu

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Upgrading Mid Semester – Are You Nuts?

Just posted this on my course sites:

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Dear LIS768ers:

We have a decision to make. There is a new version of the blog software that runs our site. My provider has suggested we upgrade and I agree – BUT – it means some change in the look and use of the back end interface [...]

LIS768 Spring 2009 Blogs

Welcome to the Biblioblogosphere!

Bill: http://classes.tametheweb.com/spiderman/

Brett: http://classes.tametheweb.com/bkochendorfer/

Chris: http://classes.tametheweb.com/shelfless/

Christina: http://classes.tametheweb.com/elephantseathay/

Claire: http://classes.tametheweb.com/cjsteiner/

Danielle: http://classes.tametheweb.com/tracingisfun/

Ellen: http://classes.tametheweb.com/efogelman/

Emily: http://classes.tametheweb.com/emily/

Eric: http://classes.tametheweb.com/catalogerkid/

Jeff N: http://classes.tametheweb.com/jeffnowak/

Jeff W.: http://classes.tametheweb.com/wavrjeff/

Jessica: http://classes.tametheweb.com/jessweb/

Jiachen: http://classes.tametheweb.com/lujiachen/

Joanna: http://classes.tametheweb.com/jlb84/

Kristy: http://classes.tametheweb.com/choreograph999/

Laona: http://classes.tametheweb.com/laona/

Leslie: http://classes.tametheweb.com/leslieb/

Mariela: http://marris116.wordpress.com/

Mary: http://classes.tametheweb.com/dietmary/

Matt: http://classes.tametheweb.com/stuz/

Renee G.: http://classes.tametheweb.com/rgrassi/

Renee S.: http://classes.tametheweb.com/eener/

Sarah: http://classes.tametheweb.com/sarahc/

Tracie: http://classes.tametheweb.com/tracie/ [...]