Archive for April, 2008

2008 State of Oregon Training Summit: Connecting our Training Communities

Posted April 27, 2008 * Comments(0)

Web 2.0 - Your Online Productivity Toolkit
Anne-Marie Deitering

Anne-Marie’s del.icio.us bookmarks

Tools to try

Google Documents & Spreadsheets - online productivity software

“Picnik - online photo editing

Meebo - online instant messaging

SurveyGizmo - online survey development tool

Flickr - online photo sharing

Flickr badge generator (requires a Flickr account)

LibraryThing - catalog your books online

LibraryThing tools & widgets

MeeboMe - chat widget

del.icio.us

CiteULike

How-to: creating tagrolls of content from del.icio.us

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Examples

Geography 314 (WOU) class VodPod page

Oregon State University Libraries homepage using MeeboMe and LibraryThing widgets

BI 199 course page using del.icio.us and VodPod widgets

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Further reading
Treat it like the Village Pub and You’ll be Fine, Honest (Richmond, shane. Nov. 18, 2007. Telegraph.co.uk)

Sayonara Super-Size — It’s Bite-Sized on the Web. (Kroski, Elyssa. June 13, 2006. Infotangle)

EDUCAUSE’s “7 Things You Should Know About…” series. (short fact sheets on emerging technologies).

The Del.icio.us Lesson (Joshua Porter. May 2, 2006. Bokardo)

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To find more

TechCrunch

TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies.

Infodoodads

Six librarians from OSU’s Valley Library contribute to this blog, which “reviews and discusses existing and new tools, services, and technology for finding information on the internet.”

Jane’s E-Learning Pick of the Day

A daily item of e-learning interest selected by Jane Hart of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

Solution Watch

This site “surveys the new generation of the Web, reviewing and providing in-depth walkthroughs of today’s best products and services.”

Tutorials 2.0

Posted April 9, 2008 * Comments(0)

OLA/WLA Joint Conference
Vancouver, Washington
April 16, 2007

Rachel Bridgewater
Anne-Marie Deitering
Karen Munro

Further Reading

Mashing up the once and future CMS. (Brown, Malcolm. March/April 2007. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 8–9).

Sayonara Super-Size — It’s Bite-Sized on the Web. (Kroski, Elyssa. June 13, 2006. Infotangle).

EDUCAUSE’s “7 Things You Should Know About…” series. (short fact sheets on emerging technologies).
Web 2.0: A new wave of innovation for teaching and learning? (Alexander, Bryan. March/April 2006. EDUCAUSE Review, vol. 41, no. 2, pp. 32-44).

Jon Udell’s screencasting bookmarks on del.icio.us

Fadde, Peter J. Producing Video Learning Objects for E-Learning. (Fadde, Peter J. eLearn Magazine).

Software, Tools, and Widgets to Try

Jing — http://www.jingproject.com/
Picnik — http://picnik.com
Flickr — http://flickr.com
YouTube — http://youtube.com
Diigo — http://www.diigo.com/
Webslides — http://slides.diigo.com/
del.icio.us linkrolls — http://del.icio.us/help/linkrolls
del.icio.us tagrolls — http://del.icio.us/help/tagrolls

Facebook applications — http://www.facebook.com/apps/

IM widgets

  • MeeboMe - http://www.meebome.com/
  • Plugoo — http://www.plugoo.com/
  • Hab.la — http://hab.la/

Examples from the Session

LibGuides — http://www.springshare.com/libguides/

ICAP - Interactive Course Assignment Pages at OSU — http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/about/index.html

Orange County Library System’s YouTube video on downloading music — http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvrzstc-caE

Berkeley’s Congresearch (Screencast/wiki) — http://sunsite3.berkeley.edu/wikis/congresearch/

U of Texas at Austin useful widgets page — http://www.lib.utexas.edu/tools/