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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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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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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For the last two days, I’ve been at NITLE’s Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in the Digital Age conference.  It’s been a great conference so far.  Both Tim and Kathleen have been liveblogging the panels and have really good notes and commentary on each of those sessions.  Here are what I think are some key [...]

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As it turns out, those who are computer literate are more likely to use the library than most others.  Young people between the ages of 18 & 30 who are internet savvy, those that some in older generations complain are less interested in such things, are twice as likely to use a library as those [...]

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Everyone should read this article in The Chronicle.  It’s some food for thought for many of us whose work often blends between home and work and vice versa.  How hard a line should one draw between work use and home use?

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A couple of people sent this to me and I’ve already printed it out and put it on my door (come see it and more!).  It’s also blog worthy.

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