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Universities I have visited
I was just reflecting on my “study/working tour” of UK universities ;-D, which began in 1995, starting with the University of Sunderland, when I thought that perhaps it would be a nice idea for someone to create a Facebook app along the lines of ‘Universities that I have visited’, similar to the ‘Places I have [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )More on Journal Articles: Ratings and Comments
This post is further to my earlier post on Journal articles: ratings and comments (7th November, 2007).
Yesterday I attended the JIBS workshop: “Is Library 2.0 a trivial pursuit”. The presentations were all excellent. They included one by Dave Pattern, Library Systems Manager at the University of Huddersfield: “Making the catalogue a good place to be: [...]
Podcasts and indexing
Brian Kelly’s post “The Future As Today, But More So” started me wondering whether today’s university students, who audio/video record their lectures (or whose lecturers provide them with recordings) bother to take full handwritten notes. Perhaps it is down to the individual student and the quality of the recording/accessibility/reliability of the technology. If [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Google for Universities
Google is providing universities with “Google Apps for Education” - gmail, google calendars and google document sharing/collaboration tools. Trinity College Dublin appears to be the first UK University to sign up. An advantage to students (and staff!) is that they can still have access to their email account when they leave. See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6741797.stm
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