Category Archives: Education

Wide Open Education

Posted on 26 May 2007 by Rick Mason

Wide Open Education is a new blog from the Online Education Database.  Each of these links is well worth following:  you will find great information and resources related to the open education movement on either. from Open Access News

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Encyclopedia of Life

Posted on 16 May 2007 by Rick Mason

The Encyclopedia of Life is an ambitious new project aimed at creating an online reference for all 1.8 million species of life.  The encylopedia would have multiple user levels (from “novice” to “expert”), multimedia, and interactive means of exploring related species. from … Continue reading →

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CC Learn

Posted on 12 April 2007 by Rick Mason

Creative Commons is getting ready to create CC Learn, a new division that will be devoted to “education, broadly defined — from kindergarten to graduate school, to lifelong learning.”  Their immediate need is to hire an Executive Director for the … Continue reading →

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Libraries at the Cutting Edge

Posted on 31 March 2007 by Rick Mason

Inside Higher Ed is running a op ed piece by Pamela Snelson, president of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) titled Libraries at the Cutting Edge.  It is one of the best brief summaries of the value that … Continue reading →

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New York Times – TimesSelect for free*

Posted on 18 March 2007 by Rick Mason

The New York Times is offering it’s TimesSelect service for free – if you register with an .edu e-mail address. You can register here. from Web4Lib post

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Copyright Resources on the Web

Posted on 15 March 2007 by Rick Mason

Copyright Resources on the Web is an excellent and very comprehensive collection of links to, whaddayaknow, copyright resources on the web. from ResourceShelf

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Google Scholar Citations

Posted on 1 February 2007 by Rick Mason

Apparently this has been around for a while, but there is a nifty feature in Google Scholar that is turned off by default. If you follow the Scholar preferences link, you can find an option to export citations into one … Continue reading →

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U.S. Schools Search

Posted on 25 January 2007 by Rick Mason

As part of their real estate search area, Yahoo has debuted a School Search feature that provides information and reports on schools throughout the country. from Search Engine Land

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2006 ECAR study released

Posted on 13 January 2007 by Rick Mason

The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, 2006 (3MB Pdf here), the third annual report, has been released.  These have been very informative reports, containing information on a broad range of student/IT interactions. thanks to Bill Drew for … Continue reading →

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A New Chapter for Librarians

Posted on 7 January 2007 by Rick Mason

An article on the increasing diversity of people seeking their Masters of Library and Information Science (MLIS) caught my eye, as it reminds me of something I have encountered over and over again in my library experiences:  the wider range … Continue reading →

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Noesis

Posted on 13 December 2006 by Rick Mason

Noesis is one of the first Google Co-Op creations I have seen that is more than a “let’s try this out” website. What it does is lets you search for authoritative philosophical resources. If you don’t quite understand why Google … Continue reading →

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Intute: Virtual Training Suite

Posted on 7 December 2006 by Rick Mason

It is British, it is online, and it is free.  It is Intute: Virtual Training Suite. What Intute is is a collection of web tutorials on a wide, wide range of subjects.  Their aim is to give you an overview … Continue reading →

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Library Student Journal

Posted on 2 December 2006 by Rick Mason

There is a new publication out there in libraryland, and it is peer-reviewed and open-access (two of my favorite hyphens)! Library Student Journal is being published by the School of Informatics at the University of Buffalo in New York, and … Continue reading →

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Johns Hopkins Open Courseware translated to Chinese

Posted on 28 November 2006 by Rick Mason

The open coursework offered by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has been translated into Chinese and made available for study in China. The effort was headed by Lucifer Chu (perhaps best known for translating The Lord of the … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive times 3

Posted on 27 November 2006 by Rick Mason

All right then, begin the list: 1) An article spotted in this morning’s paper that offers a great summary for those not familiar with the archive: Content of Dead Sites Lives in Archive . 2) They earned a 2006 Education … Continue reading →

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College class writing their own textbook

Posted on 21 November 2006 by Rick Mason

Social and Cultural Foundations of Education will be an interesting course at Old Dominion University, as the coursework will not be taken from the textbook, it will be the textbook. In what may be a first for an undergraduate class, … Continue reading →

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OttoBib

Posted on 21 November 2006 by Rick Mason

Another web-based option for automatic generation of bibliographic citations is OttoBib, in which you get a MLA, APA, or Chicago style citation by entering a book’s ISBN. from MetaFilter

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LiS Radio

Posted on 15 October 2006 by Rick Mason

The University of Missouri – Columbia is hosting a plethora of webcasts of interest to library-type people under the banner of LiS Radio. These range from interviews to classes, from conversations to meetings.  Browse their site and see what there … Continue reading →

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Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT)

Posted on 12 October 2006 by Rick Mason

The Joint Information Systems Committee, an organization based in England, has launched a tool to help libraries and researchers compare and contrast different online databases. The Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT) lets you quickly see the similarities and differences among … Continue reading →

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Google for Educators

Posted on 12 October 2006 by Rick Mason

It seems to be a Google day:  Google has put some of their offerings together as an educational platform for K-12 teachers to use for their classes.  Google for Educators has nothing that isn’t being offered elsewhere, but it presents … Continue reading →

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