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24 Mar 2006

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CiL: Virtual Teaching Moments

Clara Hudson, University of Scranton; and me! Again with the poor note-taking since I was up on stage. Clara got our session going by outlining the research she’s been doing with the virtual reference logs for her VR consortium. The part that stood out the most was that her initial assumption, going into the project, [...]


CiL: Online Teaching Skills

Missy Harvey, Carnegie Mellon University Through some unfortunate slip of the back-button, I lost all my notes for this session.  I’m blaming the lack of wifi in the conference rooms — this wouldn’t have happened if I was connected!  The really unfortunate part of this is that Missy presented an excellent session, with all sorts [...]


CiL: Information Literacy & Instruction

Kathleen Stacey, Montgomery College; Chad Boeninger, Ohio University Kathleen discussed the “one-shot” information literacy session and the limitations of such sessions: we have too much information to present so we have to choose what to include and what to leave out. Interesting. I’ve never thought of it that way. For Kathleen, a successful one-shot session [...]


CiL: Planning for a Handheld Future

Megan Fox, Simmons College A great session for gadget junkies. A few takeaways: the growth of the gadget/consumer electronics market is not slowing down e-book readers are back, and bigtime ultra personal PCs and ultra mobile personal computers (Microsoft’s Origami – just launched) accessing content via these devices is what libraries should be thinking about [...]


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22 Mar 2006

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CiL: Building Communities with IM

Michael Stephens, Dominican University; Aaron Schmidt, Thomas Ford Memorial Library; and me! Truth is, I didn’t really blog this session. I still haven’t figured out the art of blogging a session of which I am a part, I can’t seem to get away from the double-edged sword of note-taking assisting in my general comprehension of [...]




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