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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Shameless self-promotion.  Here’s a podcast I did at ELI with Veronica Diaz.  We talk Web 2.0, faculty support and education.  Enjoy.

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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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Over the weekend (and snow day), I saw the educational blog world aflutter with the news about Blackboard’s win over rival D2L.  Inside Higher Ed covers the story quite well. (Also at The Chronicle.) Blackboard’s patent has long been disputed and many in the educational technology community have been critical over Blackboard’s recent business practices.  [...]

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I’ve been back from the Educause Learning Initiative Annual Conference for a few days now, finally catching up on everything. There were lots of great sessions from ELI that I want to recommend to those who did not attend. All the recorded sessions are available here.
First, I’d recommend George Siemens’ talk on [...]

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First, there’s this video on the Information R/evolution:
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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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I am a devoted evangelist of free office applications that chip away at the hegemony of Microsoft Office. Last week while on duty here in the New Media Lab, a fellow student asked me if I knew where she could get the new Microsoft Office for her Mac- and I encouraged her to instead [...]

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This week, Mark and I talk to Shannon Hauser, a Sophomore at University of Mary Washington who blogs at Loaded Learning. She participated in a Freshman Seminar that incorporated blogging and also works for the Division of Teaching and Learning Technology at UMW. She talks about how blogging has enhanced her education and [...]

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This week, while Mark was basking at the beach, I talked to Lindsay Gold and Liz Newbury, two former Bryn Mawr students who are also gamers. We talked extensively about issues we see surrounding women getting involved in gaming. They did a presentation for our department on the Wii, WoW, and Second Life. I recorded [...]

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