Nina McHale (University of Colorado Denver) discussed the hype of federated search engines and discovery interface tools. These high levels of overblown expectation have led to consistent disappoint with the performance and lack of features of these systems, hence the title. [Unrealistic expectations, I might add.]
The lack of features is in comparison to the native [...]
Why Reference and Instruction Librarians Hate Federated Searching and NextGen Catalogs
Tom, October 5th 2009
Improving Teaching and Learning
[Session at Educause Southeast Regional Conference, Jacksonville, FL June 2-4, 2008]
Description of the University of South Carolina’s development of teaching excellence and tech training
big take home: MOU, bulleted lists of who does what, and who is responsible for what
don’t assume faculty know something in particular
establishing communities of practice
seminars/colloquia, bring in people from on campus and [...]
Tom, June 29th 2008
Collaboratively Transforming an Abandoned Swimming Pool into an Experimental, Interactive Classroom
[Session at Educause Southeast Regional Conference, Jacksonville, FL June 2-4, 2008]
Clemson University renovated an old YMCA building to support engineering and an innovative classroom.
3 projectors that can display 3 different images, instructors station or any of the students
wired and wireless networks
process has been unique in that multiple disciplines are represented and participating, working together [...]
Tom, June 29th 2008
Shakespeare 2.0: The Feasibility of Wikis in Student Research
[Session at Educause Southeast Regional Conference, Jacksonville, FL June 2-4, 2008]
groups of students (3-4) created wikis based on the identities that recur in Shakespeare’s works (also did Milton)
create an online resource for Shakespeare studies, ongoing research guides
gauge effect this medium has on critical thinking in lit, info lit.
Why Wiki?
maximize creative freedom…we learn as the students [...]
Tom, June 29th 2008
Libraries in the Age of Cyberinfrastructure-enhanced Knowledge Communities
Dan Adkins, Director, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, NSF
Emerging Libraries in the Content of “x” in Transition
Libraries=institutions that will step up to provide services for participatory communities in the digital age
Institutional forms:
libraries in transition
universities in transition
research/discovery in transition
learning/education in transition
Context: openess, cultures of contrbution, open participatory infrastructure, CI-enabled knowledge communities
Threads of opportunity (inflection point)
International e-science movement
Openness movement
Concepts, [...]
Tom, March 7th 2007
From Tinkering to Thinkering
John Seely Brown
To meet the demand for higher education, we would need to build a new university every week. But even if we could, many would not be able to afford it.
Our intuitions are driven by linear scales. Do we really understand the nature of the exponential curve of a doubling phenomenon over [...]
Tom, March 6th 2007
