I finally started loading some of my presentations at slideshare. Hopefully, I will add audio at some point.This presentation was for GLA 2007 and focused on web tools for blogs.Sorry, the links work within slideshare, but the movie does not. ;-( ————–Brief introduction to Web2.0, mashups, RSS, youtube, flickr del.icio.us, and how those tools can be incorporated into a library’s
http://www.webware.com/html/ww/100/2008/winners.html By popular vote and includes some of the big faves: flickr, youtube, lots of google apps, pandora, etc. To see little previews> http://www.webware100.com/To catch a peek at some of the new upcoming stuff, check out inviteshare.
Just like American Idol (maybe not!), Tiobe ranks the popularity of programming languages (this month PHP is up 1.69% as compared to last year….) An interview with Paul Jansen, director of Tiobe, explains more about overall trends reflected in the rankings at http://www.ddj.com/development-tools/207401593 Tiobe is located at tiobe.com.
I’m not one for product endorsements — for one thing, technology products are rarely as good as they seem they should be (Littermaid self cleaning litterbox, cool mp3 stuff that only works with ipods, etc.), but I think I love my new vacuum cleaner. Yes, I &hearts a vacuum cleaner. In case you haven’t seen/heard about it, the roomba is
Honestly, what can’t duct tape fix?http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/21apr_ducttape.htm?
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I actually heard about this from my sister. 😉We were talking about watching television series while traveling and elsewhere. She mentioned that my niece only watches “TV” on her computer — kind of a teen’s version of Tivo, in that she can watch what she wants, when she wants. It’s true that many networks are starting to stream their series
Very nice annotated list of articles relating to educational uses of second life, second life and pedagogy, as well as second life resources of a more educational nature.http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mpepper/slbib Another very useful resource of a more broad nature is the official second life blog; the blog covers just about everything including lots of howtos and tutorials.http://blog.secondlife.com/ Also, John Lester out of
Author, Here Comes Everybody … The Power of Organizing Without Organizations Moira speaks with CLAY SHIRKY about the relationship between social networks and technical networks. Now with texting, and digital photos and cell phones, everything from politics to socializing will never be the samehttp://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3596.html
David Noah of UGA Center for Teaching & Learning recently did a workshop on Web2.0, Emerging Technologies, and more. His materials are online at http://ctl.uga.edu/et/