Monthly Archives: April 2013

Embedded librarianship notes from an ACRL webinar

robinna/ April 30, 2013/ Libraries, History of Technology/ 0 comments

Getting started with Embedded Librarianship 1. Define partners 2. goals – priorities 3. How to embed a. traditional classroom : co-teacher model; works well with 1st year students b. embedding in LMS/ Course Manageemnt Systems “virtual” librarian c. Project teams – business programs, student groups, etc. d. liaison – student groups(?) e. curriculum (accreditation, new departments, new programs, reorganization) f.

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Switch gmail back to old interface (and review the new features, too)a

robinna/ April 1, 2013/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

 at least for now… hopefully, they will continue to improve it before Google pushes it out as mandatory,  but hey what do the users know? The “new” blogger interface still kind of sucks (tho it does have some enhanced design features). Click>Compose At the bottom of the compose screen> click on More Options.Choose Temporarily switch back to old compose Learn more

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usability testing mobile for cats

robinna/ April 1, 2013/ Technology, usability, Blog posts/ 0 comments

Other common sources of irritation were the pointless presence of instructions as well as any other use of the English language. While human users rarely read instructions, the users in this study didn’t read at all. (there are definitely some user experience and usability points being made here… despite the obvious fun of the whole article – enjoy!) http://www.nngroup.com/articles/mobile-usability-cats/