The release of a new Horizon report is a happy day for me. Of no surprise to anyone is the time to adoption one year of mobile computing and ebooks. We are still waiting for students to adopt ebooks at the library... it can be difficult to wait for even the early adopters when we are paying so much for the books as well as access fees. Its still a device driven problem.
I am excited to read about game based/driven learning and gesturing. What a world we live in!
What stuck out for you in the report?
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Monday, February 7, 2011
PearlTrees
Each time i teach my cataloging class I want students to understand the differences between tags and subject headings; not just the process but how they are similar and yet different. With the news that Delicious may not continue when Yahoo sells the website I decided to explore other options.
I tried PearlTrees. I really like it.
1. easy to set up
2. can import bookmarks from delicious
3. its visual and easy to follow
4. less restrictive in creating hierarchies within trees.
take a look at my tree and let me know what you think. then give it a shot and post your comments!
I tried PearlTrees. I really like it.
1. easy to set up
2. can import bookmarks from delicious
3. its visual and easy to follow
4. less restrictive in creating hierarchies within trees.
take a look at my tree and let me know what you think. then give it a shot and post your comments!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Delicious, social networking and teaching
Each semester I include a discussion /exercise for experimenting with Delicious as both a bookmarking and social networking site. Students are required to create an account and then tag 20 sites. Since this is a cataloging class the objective is to compare the intellectual process of tagging to subject analysis and then use the cloud tag to compare. Its a great way to introduce students to a non-threatening social network site.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Quiz
I created an assessment tool for my cataloging class using ProProfs quiz maker. It was very easy to create and required that I plan ahead for the types of questions I wanted to ask! I liked that I could time the quiz and select various types of questions.
The things I did not like about Proprofs are:
Inability to give a varied grade.
Inability to force students to answer the question.
Inability to control open ended questions - the entire answer was checked versus part of the whole.
Then I created a survey in Zoomerang which I liked much better for this type of survey!
The things I did not like about Proprofs are:
Then I created a survey in Zoomerang which I liked much better for this type of survey!
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