September 10, 2010 by Rachel Wadham
In our Sept. 10th meeting we discussed e-book software.
The following software was presented:
MobiPocket http://www.mobipocket.com/en/HomePage/default.asp?Language=EN
MicrosoftReader: http://www.microsoft.com/READER/
Adobe Digital Editions: http://www.adobe.com/products/digitaleditions/
Amazon Kindle Software: http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=kcp_pc_mkt_lnd?docId=1000426311
Stanza: http://www.lexcycle.com/
Join us in Oct. for a presentation on iPads.
August 30, 2010 by Rachel Wadham
Welcome everyone to a new semester and a great round of Technology Learning Community meetings. We have some exciting topics for the rest of the year. For this semester we are going to be having our meetings 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 me know.
September 10 – PC and MAC E-Book Readers
October 8 – Productivity tools
November 12 – Firefox extensions
December 10 – Programs for quickly authoring web content
Please join us for some time to play with and learn about a variety of technologies.
March 3, 2010 by Rachel Wadham
Please join us for the Technology Learning Community This Friday March 5th at 10:00 in Room 2231.
We will be discussing internet media beyond YouTube. The internet has created an explosion of the opportunities to media in all its forms including music, other sound files and video. We will be looking at a variety of media sites, how these sites change how we view information and the world and the role libraries may play in the future of this type of information. If you have a favorite media website please bring it so we can share it with everyone.
This should prove to be a very interesting discussion, so please join us.
August 24, 2009 by Rachel Wadham
Interested in sharing photos online? Ever wonder what flickr and other photo-sharing tools have to offer to libraries?
Come learn about flickr, Google’s Picasa, Facebook, and Photobucket.
If you want, try opening an account and uploading some photos before Friday or just bring a jumpdrive with some you would like to upload.
Join us this Friday, September 4th at 10:00 am in room 2233 for a great presentation. We will talk about privacy, sharing, geotagging, editing photos and more!
June 29, 2009 by Rachel Wadham
Due to holiday’s, travel, and other wonderful summertime fun we will be canceling the Technology Learning Community for July. Join us on August 7th for a discussion on Flicker and then again in September for a special presentation by a new presenter Cory Nimer.
April 30, 2009 by Rachel Wadham
Please join us for the Technology Learning Community, tomorrow, Friday May 1 at 10:00 am in room 2234
We will be discussing web search tools. Here is some more information –
Is Google your search engine of choice? It is for most of us, but there are other great search tools out there that can help you find specific types of information or help you find things by serendipity. Join us for this discussion of a variety of search tools including tools for academic searches like RefSeek and InfoMine, Family and Kid friendly ones like Ask Kids and Quintura for Kids and ones that will help you discover the web in new ways like StumbleUpon. Please bring some topics or ideas of what you would like to search and find on the web as we play with these tools and compare and contrast them. We hope you can join us for this in depth and interesting discussion.
April 2, 2009 by Rachel Wadham
Join us tomorrow, Friday April 3rd for the Technology Learning Community at 10:00 am room 2234. We will be discussing Mashups. Here is a definition:
A mashup is a Web application that combines data from one or more sources into a single integrated tool. The term Mashup implies easy, fast integration, frequently done by access to open APIs and data sources to produce results that were not the original reason for producing the raw source data. An example of a mashup is the use of cartographic data from Google Maps to add location information to real estate data, thereby creating a new and distinct Web service that was not originally provided by either source.
We have some great examples and of special interest will be one that deals with citation data about authors.
Come join us for this excellent discussion.
Looking forward to what is coming up:
May 1: Stumble and other interesting web search tools
June 5: The RefWorks Vs. Zotero debate
July 10: Flicker
August 7: “To Do” Tools We All Use
Any questions, ideas, or things you would like to talk about – let me know.
March 16, 2009 by Rachel Wadham
A great Educause article:
QR codes are two-dimensional bar codes that can contain any alphanumeric text and that often feature URLs that direct users to sites where they can learn about an object or place (a practice known as “mobile tagging”). Decoding software on tools such as camera phones interprets the codes, which are increasingly found in places such as product labels, billboards, and buildings, inviting passers-by to pull out their mobile phones and uncover the encoded information. QR codes link the physical world with the virtual by providing on-the-spot access to descriptive language and online resources for objects and locations. In this way, the codes support experiential learning, bringing scholarship out of the classroom and into physical experience. Read more at:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ELI/7ThingsYouShouldKnowAbout/48210?time=1236984517
March 3, 2009 by Rachel Wadham
Please join us for the Technology Learning Community This Friday March 6th at 10:00 am in room 2234. We will have a presentation by Gerrit van Dyk:
It can be exhausting managing multiple social networks! Come to the Technology Learning Community to learn a few of tools to help you engage multiple communities simultaneously. We will look at Ping.fm for synchronized status updates and link sharing, netvibes for multi-network RSS updates, and FriendFeed for lifestreaming with friends and colleagues.
Also coming up in April Ben Crowder will be presenting on a time management tool, and in May we will be looking at a web search tool called Stumble.
If you have any ideas of something you would like to see presented or have knowledge of some technology that you are willing to share with us, please let me know!
January 7, 2009 by Rachel Wadham
Join us for the first Technology Learning Community of the New Year this Friday Jan 9th at 10:00 am in room 2234.
Ryan Combs will be demonstrating Google SketchUp, which is a free 3D modeling software. This software has broad application, in fact Ryan has used this software to help visualize how the library might able to renovate the Ancient Studies Room. The software will be on all the computers so there will be time for everyone to try it out as well.
Join us for this interesting presentation.
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