Video excerpt on digital video repositories
Video excerpt of last week’s webinar in second life. This segment deals with digital video repositories.
1810, 2008
Category Archives: Blog posts
0110, 2008
Conversation (voice) lessons in second life
Just passing along! Interesting — gives virtual office a whole new meaning! Subject: Looking for Colaborators? Need content development? Hi everyone, It’s Fire Centaur here from English Village. I am sending this message in a search for Collaborators!Are you looking for a venue to bring your students? Interested in teaching English or another Language publicly? Or need an educator/programmer for
2307, 2008
Library news roundup: nexgen catalogs, institutional repositories, and more
Well, since I have so many little library related tidbits floating around in my reader, I’m just going to do a roundup: Over at the shifted librarian, she has a nice blog post about the new startup project, bibliocommons @ the Oakville, Ontario library, to build a library catalog interface from scratch. The interface includes things like reviews, tagging, faceted
2106, 2008
Second Life Shakespeare
Now this sounds coool — if only I get my avatar out of theocean (I’m just as clumsy in SL as I am in real life, APPARENTLY) 😉 sLiterary, Second Life: Of shipwrecked twins separated in a foreign land, lovetriangles mixed with identity confusion, and girl masquerading as guy falling inlove with her noble… The SL Shakespeare Company takes a
2004, 2008
Second Life — Resources for educators and more
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
1107, 2007
DIY google maps (maplets)
Okay, I don’t have a personal use for this YET, but I can see all kinds of fun applications. Got family or friends visiting for a week? Create a map of fun stuff to do. Got folks coming to a conference? Create a map of activities and places to eat. Campus tours? Art about town walking tours? Hmm…. Next vacation,
1511, 2006
cataloging images on the web
Researchers teach computers how to name images by ‘thinking’ http://live.psu.edu/story/20538 Excerpt: University Park, Pa. — Penn State researchers have “taught” computers how to interpret images using a vocabulary of up to 330 English words, so that a computer can describe a photograph of two polo players, for instance, as “sport,” “people,” “horse,” “polo.” The new system, which can automatically annotate
0911, 2006
the new cataloging code: an RDA overview
http://www.mlaforum.org/volumeV/issue1/article2.htm very good examples and a good overview.
0805, 2006
Umm… reference service? (includes links)
Ok, I don’t know if this is cool or scary. ————————————- Atlanta’s own Brian Mathews has come up with an innovative way to create unobtrusive library presence in the world of social software. Brian, the Distance Learning Services and Mechanical Engineering Librarian at Georgia Tech, runs his “ubiquitous reference model” by searching GA Tech students’ Xanga and LiveJournal pages for library-related
1503, 2006
Open Access Project from UT
http://www.lib.utk.edu/newfoundpress/ Newfound Press is a new digital imprint from the University of Tennessee University Libraries. All its publications will be Open Access. From the site: Today’s scholarly publishing environment presents a strategic opportunity or academic libraries to expand their role in the publications process. Universities are both creators and consumers in the information economy. A digital library press offers the potential for