Archive for January, 2006
Monday, January 30th, 2006
Online Collaboration
Here is another example of how people are collaborating online to help each other in education. Email and websites (even without RSS feeds) are building community and being used to share specialized information to help other people. Below is an example:
StrongBad is a character on the famous Homestar Runner website, a Shockwave-based site that is […]
2 Comments » - Posted in Technology, Miscellaneous by pfitz
Thursday, January 19th, 2006
Tax Forms
The U.S. Postal Service has announced that they will no longer be offering tax forms in their local branches. This is due to budget cuts, I believe, plus a lowering demand for the printed forms. They say that the “standard” print forms will still be available in public libraries.
Academic libraries have already begun discontinuing carrying […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Libraries by pfitz
Wednesday, January 18th, 2006
Interesting Reference Question
Here is an interesting reference question I got today.
A couple of students had an assignment where they were supposed to find the most recent article about child abuse by someone. The name they were given was D. Chicketty and they were told it was written phonetically, like they might have written it if they’d only […]
1 Comment » - Posted in Technology, Libraries by pfitz
Saturday, January 14th, 2006
Adams Quote
Here’s a very cool quote from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, which was written over 25 years ago. Even though the book was comedic, or at least tongue in cheek, it was also rather prophetic. Douglas Adams had a good eye for where technology could lead us.
A computer terminal is not some clunky old […]
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Wednesday, January 11th, 2006
News as a Social Software Catalyst
Social software is a term used to describe those kinds of programs that are popping up all over the place that allow people to meet and interact with each other online. Usually these types of interaction are based on common interests. I plan on doing a post in more detail, listing exciting new programs that […]
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