Archive for the 'Features' Category
This week ABC News on Campus ran a story about PhD student Joe Sanchez’s Working in Virtual Worlds class on Second Life. Watch it on abcnews.com.
Furthermore, Joe’s class has been selected by the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Foundation to host their first Carter Academic Service Entrepreneur Grant in a virtual world. Read more about the [...]
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Capstones allow for networking
The Fall 2008 semester has been going strong for a little over a month now and with it comes a new crop of students working on their Capstones. These can be great opportunities for students to network with professionals both in Austin and beyond, as organizingdesign found out.
One of the LibraryThing users stuck out to [...]
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ellie blogs about her week
This week ellie < libraries participated in “A day in the life of a librarian” week.
All of her days sound really interesting and include little tidbits on how she uses different technologies to help manage some of her work.
Get in, turn on my computer and go start water for tea. Open Firefox and Twirl. [...]
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iSchooler blog about ALA
ALA 2008 has come and gone and a number of iSchoolers were there.
ALA President for 2007-2008 Loriene Roy posted the talk that she gave at Jim Rettig’s inaugural banquet on July 1.
Good moments became good days, months, until a good year passed. It was a good year to be an ALA President.
Read her whole speech, [...]
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