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five weeks to a social library

I’ve been silent, so silent, for the past few weeks, but I’m hoping that what I have to share with you to-day will make up for that silence! You might remember Meredith Farkas’ post from some time ago on the topic of access to free, online, educational opportunities. Well, toward the end of that post, [...]


teaching social software

Heads up: if you have any interest at all in teaching social software, you should read Teaching Social Software with Social Software by Ulises Mejias in the current issue of Innovate: Journal of Online Education (free registration required for full-text). Mejias describes a course he taught at Teachers College, Columbia University, called Social Software Affordances [...]


del.icio.us libraries?

From Joanne, a blogwithoutalibrary.net reader: Do you know of any public libraries using del.icio.us as an alternative to list of recommended websites? We’re thinking of doing this and are curious to know if/how others are doing it. A great question! I’m curious about academic libraries using del.icio.us too. If your library is on del.icio.us, do [...]


on course-planning

It’s not very nice to put out a little teaser on something, promise to tell you more about it, and then just about disappear for three weeks, now is it? Of course, I’m speaking about the course I mentioned. The truth is, I haven’t buckled down to work on it nearly as conscientiously as I [...]


LIS course in Social Software

Remember that LIS course I mentioned that I’d be teaching on social software this Fall? Well, it’s now become priority #1, the next few months will be devoted almost exclusively to developing the content and getting it in shape for the Fall term. Here’s the syllabus, slightly modified since I first submited it to the [...]




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