Sunday, August 13, 2006
A swicki as a "search 2.0" tool for the library staff
I just added a swicki to one of my other blogs today and I'm pretty excited about it. A swicki is a search engine that learns from your community's search behavior (it's been referred to as "Search 2.0" and quite different from a Google search engine).
Here's a link to the Eurekster swicki page if anyone would like to take a look.
I'm wondering how the library staff would feel about a collective swicki of sorts on this blog? We can add additional keywords based on each person's areas of interest in the library world. Maybe we can all explore this new tool together and collectively decide whether it's useful for our purposes?
(Since no one knows about this blog yet, I think I'll assume that everyone thinks it's a great idea and get it started.)
Here's a link to the Eurekster swicki page if anyone would like to take a look.
I'm wondering how the library staff would feel about a collective swicki of sorts on this blog? We can add additional keywords based on each person's areas of interest in the library world. Maybe we can all explore this new tool together and collectively decide whether it's useful for our purposes?
(Since no one knows about this blog yet, I think I'll assume that everyone thinks it's a great idea and get it started.)
PennTags
I really like this idea. It seems like there's so much potential here. It will be interesting to watch as their official release date is this fall. I will be tracking this, most definitely.
What is PennTags?
"PennTags is a social bookmarking tool for locating, organizing, and sharing your favorite online resources. Members of the Penn Community can collect and maintain URLs, links to journal articles, and records in Franklin, our online catalog and VCat, our online video catalog. Once these resources are compiled, you can organize them by assigning tags (free-text keywords) and/or by grouping them into projects, according to your specific preferences. PennTags can also be used collaboratively, because it acts as a repository of the varied interests and academic pursuits of the Penn community, and can help you find topics and users related to your own favorite online resources."
Penntags was developed by librarians at the University of Pennsylvania.
What is PennTags?
"PennTags is a social bookmarking tool for locating, organizing, and sharing your favorite online resources. Members of the Penn Community can collect and maintain URLs, links to journal articles, and records in Franklin, our online catalog and VCat, our online video catalog. Once these resources are compiled, you can organize them by assigning tags (free-text keywords) and/or by grouping them into projects, according to your specific preferences. PennTags can also be used collaboratively, because it acts as a repository of the varied interests and academic pursuits of the Penn community, and can help you find topics and users related to your own favorite online resources."
Penntags was developed by librarians at the University of Pennsylvania.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Shacklelton's Expedition / Google Earth
This is one of my favorite mashups. So much could be learned from studying this. I would like to learn more about how to create educational applications of this sort.
Shackleton's Expedition
Shackleton's Expedition
An Experiment
This is a blog for the Watzek Library Staff. It's a place to post anything related to the academic library world. To share our knowledge of what's developing in this world - to learn from each other.
So much is happening and there's such rapid technological change. This could be a place to discuss new programs, share ideas, what's working, what isn't and why. Brainstorm, collaborate, seek solutions to problems or ineffective practices. Or just think out loud. So long as it has something to do with libraries or higher education.
And besides posting our individual thoughts, perhaps we could begin to collectively develop new ideas, to impact what's happening in higher education, particularly our own campus community here at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
So much is happening and there's such rapid technological change. This could be a place to discuss new programs, share ideas, what's working, what isn't and why. Brainstorm, collaborate, seek solutions to problems or ineffective practices. Or just think out loud. So long as it has something to do with libraries or higher education.
And besides posting our individual thoughts, perhaps we could begin to collectively develop new ideas, to impact what's happening in higher education, particularly our own campus community here at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon.
