This (linked from the title above) is a brief case study that I thought people might be interested in. It contains a useful collection of tips for making blogging work.
They claim to have used blogging successfully at all levels of study, not just the 3rd and 4th years - which is something we debated the feasibility of at an earlier session - but the case study concentrates on higher levels.
Wednesday, 5 March 2008
Using Blogs to encourage reflective learning
Tuesday, 26 February 2008
Some interesting thigs I learned about blogs today
Sarah Boxer has written an aricle in the February 14 copy of The New York Review of Books. Here are some interesting snippets from the first page:
The term 'blog' was coined by a chap called Jorn Barger who writes (is that the correct verb?) a website devoted to James Joyce called 'Robot Wisdom'. He first used the term in 1997. http://www.robotwisdom.com/
The verb blog apparently comes from another guy (!) called Peter Merholz who used it in his weblog in 1999. His weblog is called Peterme. http://www.peterme.com/
There are more than 100 million blogs in the world. 15 million of them are active.
The Japanese have a word for unused blogs - ishikoro - which means pebbles.
Questions which spring to mind are:
- I wonder if there is a gender bias? Notably both people cited as responsible for the first stirrings of blogging are men.
- I have thought before that there is something possibly egotistical about all this public outpouring. The fact that Peter's blog is called Peterme seems significant.
- The fact that there is such a small percentage of active blogs and that Jim told us this morning that of all the entries on Wikipedia there are only 1000 active writers, I wonder just how many people there are creating all this online stuff ... who are they and what are their blogs for??
Lynn
Internet Librarian International 2008
Okay...so now you are blogging...do you want to take things a stage further and attend or speak at the Internet Librarian Internation Conference later this year in London?
" CLICK HERE to submit your proposal! Deadline: 28 March 2008
Information Today invites proposals for presentations at Internet Librarian International 2008, to be held at the Novotel London West Hotel in London, UK, 16-17 October 2008 (with preconference workshops on Wednesday, 15 October).
We welcome dynamic speakers from all countries willing to share their knowledge and experience about information tools, techniques, processes and management. How do information professionals translate various 2.0 technologies so they provide real value to people in all types of information environments? "
Possible topics (but don't let this limit your imagination):
Web search tips
Relating new technologies to libraries' purpose
Libraries as place/space
Search as platform
User generated content
User needs analysis
New tools
NextGen libraries
Federated search
Digital libraries/collections
Evaluating web resources
Social software, networking & media
Blogs, wikis, podcasts
Libraries as publishers
Taxonomies, folksonomies
Evidence-based librarianship
Gaming, libraries & learning
Information policy
Web site usability
Intellectual property rights and protection
Collaborative working
Search as service
Internet resources
Communicating value
Managing e-resources
Mobile technology
Library 2.0
Open access; open source
Distance learning, e-learning
Marketing techniques
Multimedia searching
Innovative projects
Business intelligence
Portal designs
Managing digital projects
Incorporating new technologies
Web design
Content management
Training and teaching
Aidan
Getting New Books info on a blog
How can the new books data on Sirsi be linked to a blog so that students can easily access which new books have been added recently to the library catalogue. Currently there is a New Books feature on the opac but the titles cannot be sorted in a useful order e.g. by subject, so this new feature has not been publicised to staff or students since it's fairly useless in its present format.
Does anyone have any suggestions how to export the news books info each week, for example, to a blog or as an RSS?
Sylvia
green policy for the saltire centre
Hi All,
We need to form a group to look at being more'green' and environmentally aware eg. recycling computers and paper, turning down the heating, draught exclusion,running fewer electrical appliances. What other issues should we include?Are you interested? Open to all students and staff.
ec / kw
keeping it clean
I think the idea of using a blog for a subject guide is interesting. It might be something that could be done as part of one of the i-learn pilots and we could ask some of the academics on the course to work on it in partnership. (Jan)
Web 2 - Jim
Students use Wikipedia - why?
*Barriers could be simple things such as the need to log in. If the Oxford dict was available in the saltire without the need to log in, would students use it more than Wikipedia?
* Validity of information on Wikipedia? Control of information? Authority of information?
"The bulk of the content is produced by around only 1,000 people."
* Contribution to Web 2.0 sites is low (except social networking sites such as beb0)- most use is browsing. (when were these stats collected and how?)
* The blogs at GSA tend to be visual -is this to meet their student 'art' - based population or is it a better way to deliver content/
*Can SIRSi be adapted to provide rss feeds of new library books currently 'hidden' away in the OPAC? Can the content be targetted to School blogs?
Links from the session
Jim's Facebook:
Jim's del.icio.us:
Kathy's del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us/ktrinder/sublibs
Kathy's Facebook: http://caledonian.facebook.com/profile.php?id=711118104
Librarian & Blog = ?
Are we alone?
Are any other Librarians blogging?
Be sure to check out the Librarian Blogs and Sites.
Happy reading!
Aidan
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