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  • Facebooks Goes Back to School
    Posted 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 [...]

  • iPads and iPods for Education
    Posted 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 [...]

  • WordPress Blog Helps and Tips
    Posted March 19, 2008 by Rachel Wadham

    This is a fairly comprehensive list of the best WordPress tutorials, hacks, help files, and cheat sheets. They are written to make life easier, to help us expand WordPress functionality, and to give us a better understanding of WordPress and how powerful a blogging tool it is… Speckyboy, Mar. 8 Word Press Hacks and Helps

  • LibGuides
    Posted September 19, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    Something new on the horizon that has lots of potential, LibGuides: “LibGuides is a library 2.0 online publishing system. It combines the best features of social networks, wikis, bookmarks and blogs, to help librarians share information and promote library resources to the community. LibGuides is fully integrated with Facebook, and LibGuides widgets enable the distribution [...]

  • September Meeting Minutes
    Posted September 7, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    This month we discussed instant messaging.   Peter Zuber discussed how they use IM in science.  You can check out their client through any science subject page.  Science uses PLUGOO as an interface.  You can find more about it a www.plugoo.com.  Peter said that they have had moderate success with this showing sometimes several questions a day.  Andy Spackman discussed how [...]

  • Text a Librarian
    Posted July 6, 2007 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