We successfully recorded the Information Management Workshop.  It ended up in two parts.
 Part 1
Part 2 
We covered using Google Reader and RSS Feeds generally, EndNote Web, del.icio.us, and Zotero.

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This is primarily for all the local faculty.  Here are the instructions for archiving your courses in Blackboard.
I. EXPORT PACKAGES
A Blackboard course or organization can be exported into a .zip file which can be downloaded to the instructor’s computer. The export file can be used as a vehicle to transfer content to another course, and [...]

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I’m watching the video from Abilene Christian University about how their new iPhone initiative might be used academically.  I’m thinking about the infrastructure necessary for implementing such a program.  I like the way surveys can be sent in class, but what apps are they using? What’s the back end?

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Here is the presentation from our session on using blogs. It’s also available as a video from iTunes U.

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Google has announced the ability to use spreadsheets combined with a form to collect data.  Let’s try it out.  Here’s a link to my form.

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Via the Wired Campus Blog, I found Pronetos, a facebook-like app for sharing research and connecting with scholars. I like the look and feel of it. It’s missing some of the more fun elements of social networking, but it’s definitely got potential. Of course, I set up an account. Like I needed another social networking [...]

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Via eHub, I found this great source for documentaries online.  Many documentaries don’t make it to local theaters, only playing at film festivals or in large metropolitan markets. This gets those films out there.

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First, there’s this video on the Information R/evolution:
[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/-4CV05HyAbM" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /]
I’m in the middle of reading Everything is Miscellaneous, which I highly recommend to anyone who regularly creates, stores, uses, or interacts with information of any kind–which is almost all of us. This video in combination with the book are really hitting home. [...]

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These are my notes for our Video Workshop held on October 17, 2007.
Some questions we need to think about to start off with.

Why use video or multimedia in your course?
How do you use it? How do you want to use it?
What about student-created media?

Answering these questions for each instance can help you decide on such [...]

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bFree is an application that allows you to browse your Blackboard archives offline so you can see what’s in there before you upload it into Bb.  I just discovered this app a couple of months ago and now they have a new version out.  It’s free and it’s pretty easy to use.  Check it out.

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