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Twitter Library Community

After reading Amber Naslund’s blog post, “I am a Material Girl and want to live in a Twitter World” in which she discusses how helpful it is to have twitter followers who can relate to and aid in a problem we might have.  It got me thinking about the connectivity of librarians via twitter; I [...]

LIS768 Group Projects: Dominican

This is our last weekend for LIS768. Most of the time is devoted to group projects.

One group explored Twitter and its uses. The used a blog to gather the lit review, examples, and more. I learned about companies and organizations using Twitter in some very cool ways.

One group explored transparency, opening a discussion with the [...]

Excuse me, Prof. – Can I Twitter that?

I take notes, share those notes, and build a community with my peers – just by using twitter -it’s really quite simple.

This is how I feel about Twitter in the classroom.  But the 9/18/08 article over at Techdirt, and the comments in particular, paints some different hues (see: “Should you live blog/twitter a class?“).

Last weekend [...]