CLAU Test
November 11, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
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Facebooks Goes Back to School
March 9, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Facebook Goes Back to ‘Schools’
A long, long time ago–about two years–students filled Facebook and found and “friended” others who were taking the same courses. They shared information and tips. Then in 2006 Facebook was opened up to nonstudents, and class interests got crowded out. A new Facebook program aims to bring it back, allowing members to view their courses and chat with classmates and friends that have opted in to the program. The new wrinkle: the program is going to run through the universities, with information fed into Facebook by the registrar’s office once students give permission. PC World reports that students who join the program, called Schools, can view their course calendar, and if they add or drop a course, changes will be reflected in Facebook as soon as the registrar’s office reports them. Schools also includes communication tools for student groups such as teams and residence halls. Each organization, class, and friend has a page within Schools where students can interact with people. The program comes from a small company called Inigral, which already has a student-controlled course calendar on Facebook called, predictably, Courses. But Schools aims to be more of a social network within the Facebook social network, and the company is now testing it at Abilene Christian University in Texas. –Josh Fischman
iPads and iPods for Education
February 15, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Technology is impacting education in a big way, and the iPad and iPod is only two of those devices that are finding their niche in schools and libraries. To keep up on this developing trend take a look at some of these articles found in ERIC:
Banister, S. (2010). Integrating the iPod touch in K-12 education: Visions and vices. Computers in the Schools, 27(2), 121-131.
Hammond, D. L., Whatley, A. D., Ayres, K. M., & Gast, D. L. (2010). Effectiveness of video modeling to teach “iPod” use to students with moderate intellectual disabilities. Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 45(4), 525-538.
Vess, D. L. (2006). History to go: Why iTeach with iPods. History Teacher, 39(4), 479-492.
Waters, J. K. (2010). Enter the iPad (or not?). T.H.E.Journal, 37(6), 38-40.
You can find them by searching in ERIC or using the Journal search located at the bottom left of the library home page
Or check out these web-resources:
Educause: 7 Things You Should Know About iPad Apps for Learning
http://www.educause.edu/Resources/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAboutiPadA/223289
Blog Posting: Tommie Williams: State Considering iPads for Students
Information from Apple: Learning with iPad
Feb. Meeting
February 9, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Please join us FRIDAY Feb. 11th at 10:00 in room 2234 for this month’s Technology Learning Community. Greg Nelson will present for us on iMacros. For those of you who missed his presentation at the Christmas Conference, this will be a great opportunity for you to see this useful program that can automate tasks. For those who attended in Dec. this will be a much more in-depth look at the program and provide more time for questions and hands on work.
We look forward to seeing you all on Friday!
Winter & Spring 2011 Schedule
January 20, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
We have some exciting topics coming up this year. The Technology Learning Community meets the SECOND FRIDAY at 10:00 am in one of the instruction rooms (exact room TBA). Our tentative schedule is below. If you have any great ideas or topics that you would like to discuss please let Rachel know.
Feb. 11 - Presentation on iMacros by Greg Nelson
March 11 – TBA
April 8 – GPS Instruction by Mark Jackson
May 13 – Mac Basics
June 10 – Note Taking Software
July 8 – PBworks
Link for Jan 2011 Meeting
January 20, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
In our January meeting we discussed the innovative website NetGalley, a distributor for pre-publication e-books. This is an innovative new way for publishers to get their books out for review. Many thanks to Mark for his insights into this website.
Here is a link to the website:
January 2011 Meeting
January 10, 2011 by Rachel Wadham
Please join us this Friday for the start of a new year of the Technology Learning Community. To start the year Mark Jackson will present information about prepublication e-books, including information about an interesting website that provides these and the devices you can read them on. The type of e-book is very unique and an interesting way for publishers to get reviews and readers before a book even comes out. Mark may also have some other interesting tidbits to share, so you never know what else you may learn at the Technology Learning Community on Friday Jan. 14th at 10:00 am in room 2234.
December Meeting
December 6, 2010 by Rachel Wadham
Have you ever wanted to make a fun animated video? If so then join us for the Technology Learning Community this Friday Dec. 10th at 10:00 am in room 2234 where Suzanne Julian will present a fun website that allows you to create and render video in just a few short clicks. Suzanne has used this site in some library instruction so not only will she share with us how to use it but give us some application for our students. If you have any other video sites for either viewing or creation that you would like to share bring them along so we can discuss them. We hope you can join us for this exciting meeting.
Novemeber Meeting Links
November 12, 2010 by Rachel Wadham
Here are all the links to the items we discussed at our Nov. meeting:
Dashboard-
iGoogle: http://www.google.com/ig
To Do Lists-
Remember The Milk: http://www.rememberthemilk.com/
ZoHo Planner: http://planner.zoho.com/login?serviceurl=%2Flogin.do
Wipeelist: http://www.wipeelist.com/
TeuxDeux: http://teuxdeux.com/
Highlighting and Annotating WebPages and PDF files-
A.nnotate: http://a.nnotate.com/
My Stickies : http://www.mystickies.com/home
Awesome Highlighter: http://www.awesomehighlighter.com/
November Meeting
November 10, 2010 by Rachel Wadham
Do the upcoming holidays and the end of the semester make you feel that you have too much to do and too little time to do it in? Well come to the Technology Learning Community this Friday Nov. 12th at 10:00 am in room 2234 to learn about some great productivity tools that can help you keep track, remember and stay organized. From to do lists, to sticky notes to dashboards, and mind maps we have some to present but feel free to bring you own favorite to present to the group. We look forward to seeing everyone on Friday.
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