Well, I guess we get the idea: I'm not a blogger. I can't seem to get here every day or so and post the things I'm working on... But...our library has made a decision not to support web pages for librarians - and I've been tussling with myself about moving all my stuff and getting something set up on my university's student/faculty web space... not sure I'm up to that though I did save myself some space there...! (Also too lazy to rummage around and find a good non-university web space to use..) .So I'm going to try using this as a way to stash links to interesting things... Not perfect, but let's see what happens. I'm going through my email and saving things... (I listened to McPhail's post about Tumblr.com - Went to look.. .That's a possibility... de.li.cious? Doesn't quite seem like it'll do it either... Maybe... Oh well - Here's some interesting things:
Open Learning Resources:
Connexions
http://cnx.org/
The ability to create free customizable textbooks? Now there's an idea!
OER Commons
http://www.oercommons.org
I like idea of this... but I've noticed in the past that at repositories like Merlot the creators don't keep their modules updated. Buyer beware!
Blogging IT and EDucation (List of 3D worlds)
Emma Duke-Williams
http://www.tech.port.ac.uk/staffweb/duke-wie/blog/2007/03/09/virtual-worlds/
Damaka
http://www.damaka.com/
Another IM tool.. We're looking at various chat software at the library. Our web person is pushing Meebo which looks soooooo... incredibly basic... that we'll be giving up some capabilities we have right now with our RNT software. (I'd try adding it to a personal web page if I had one.) The main "pro" seems to be that users would not even need an account on another IM service - They can just start typing. And we'll have NO information about the chatter - No option for them to put in their email address unless we ask and save the transcript - no automatic statistics gathering. No easy way to save and search transcripts that I can see. Why not try something like Trillian that might make chat easier on many many of our users and allow us to try some additional functionality for at least SOME users? One of these days users will stop being shy about using VoIP, etc...
7 things you should know about virtual worlds
http://www.educause.edu/LibraryDetailPage/666?ID=ELI7015
I like the non-hysterical approach in this short piece. Virtual worlds - interesting - might do some things well - might not always be the answer - keep an eye on them - sort of tone.
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