Librarian in the Cloud

Twitter Daily Digest for 2010-07-31

Heather Braum — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 09:59:00 +0000

Twitter Daily Digest for 2010-07-30 http://ff.im/-owAYm # @gohomekiki waving hello from stillwater; i'm in town for #uncoiled wish i cld come down to OKC & say hello but wont be possible this trip # @technolibrary there's a flipchart app? ? what??? what's it called?? in reply to technolibrary # @gohomekiki i know i hope it [...]

Overall summary of unCOILed experience

Heather Braum — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:55:09 +0000

Overall, I was quite thankful I came down for unCOILed. Always good to meet librarians from other areas and states. As continuing education moves more and more toward a distance or online environment, workshops like this one, focusing on distance education for academic librarians, are really needed for those in continuing education or who do [...]

Teaching with Chat

Heather Braum — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:50:11 +0000

Using the IM reference exchange to teach information literacy skills Kathryn Plunkett, SOSU “give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime” -chinese proverb I took some notes on this session, but I honestly was tired by the time this [...]

If You Widget It: They Might Use It

Heather Braum — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:45:19 +0000

Building Library Widgets for your Online Learning Platforms Amanda Lemon, OCCC & Toni Hoberecht, OU-Tulsa Presentation webpage From the presenters’ setup, it looked like it would be fun, even though we’d be talking about HTML some. Presenters are at two different institutions; two different learning platforms. Widgets are small boxes of code that can be [...]

A New Look at COIL: Customizing Online Information Literacy

Heather Braum — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:26:52 +0000

Went to this session; honestly, I don’t like being critical of session, but I’d hoped it had been a lot more than it turned out to be. Presenter focused on using a hardcoded tutorial and talked a lot about code. More fruitful discussion was when she started talking about direct contact with students. Point mentioned [...]