Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for July, 2007

• Pedagogical Value of Podcasting
  Posted July 11, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

  Pedagogical Value Depends On How The Technology Is Used from The Kept-Up Academic Librarian by steven bell A bevy of recent studies on students’ experience listening to recorded lectures via podcasts confirms what many lecturers already know: that the pedagogical value of podcasts depends almost entirely on student motivation and the learning “context” of the [...]

• Summary of July Meeting
  Posted July 6, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

  Today in our meeting we discussed RSS Feed Readers.  Gerrit Van Dyk did a wonderful presentation on Google Reader and the Mozilla Reader Sage.  We learned how to sign up for accounts, how to add feeds, how to remove feeds, and how to sign up for the TLC blog feed and the library catalog feeds. [...]

• Text a Librarian
  Posted by Rachel Wadham

  Here is a very interesting blog post from the ALA TechSource about texting reference questions. The example is for a service from Australia and it’s very interesting. Is their anyway we could use this in our library? Take a look and post any comments or ideas you may have. Can U TXT the LBRY? http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/06/can-u-txt-the-lbry.html