Google Sites Success

Three academic years, three different tools and finally a web content creation tool that paralegals can use to make an online portfolio.
First, there was Weebly– extremely easy to use with it’s drag and drop formatting. The wide variety of themes appealed to the paralegal students (especially when compared with PBwiki 1.0– the other option [...]

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Workshops Out of the Box

Linda Slusar, former Mover & Shaker, coordinator for our college’s Library and Information Technical Assistant program and project director of the remarkable Soaring to Excellence teleconference series, has created, in her tenure here, a couple “Workshop in a Box” training packages.  The formats allow libraries to get their hands on everything they need to conduct [...]

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Male Pregnancy Is Good for a Laugh, but…

I’m generally pretty sure that every single student, instructor and staff member at my college has already seen http://www.malepregnancy.com.  I show it to every Study Skills class that I see in the library, I use it every time anyone ever even mentions evaluating web sites.  It’s easy to find, it’s graphically interesting and it gets [...]

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Outside Interests

It’s pretty obvious that the semester is drawing to a close.  Students have that slightly-crazed look in their eyes, they wander the stacks clutching books, journals, iPhones and very big coffees, snarling if you come too close or look like you might ask them to take their poorly concealed Pringles to the cafe.  Plus, all [...]

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EBSCO could use some cutening up

Unfortunately, Tico the IT fairy doesn’t teach us how to use article databases, an assumption I immediately jumped to when I saw this book cover. Too bad, because I think manga could give Common Craft’s information literacy initiative a run for its money. Nevertheless, read the summary in Amazon– the narrative is oddly [...]

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Your Library Instruction Session (beta)

This is the week when my library instruction session season really kicks in. From yesterday through till Thanksgiving break, I have 50-minute Speech 1110 classes, 2-hour Study Skills classes and ESL sessions, plus a random collection of SOS Workshops and a 3 hour hands-on workshop on Facebook for faculty and staff. Of all [...]

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The CommonCraft Show can just start doing my job for me now

more about “The CommonCraft Show can just start d…“, posted with vodpod
Finally! Web Search Strategies in Plain English from CommonCraft. If they’re getting into the information literacy business, I might just have to send them a laundry list of topics for future videos.

How to send an email attachment in Plain English
Which desk to [...]

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Start the year off with a snazzy new wiki

PBwiki is running a Back To School Challenge promotion– sign up and get a free Premium wiki.  I’m not sure of the details (is this a perpetually free Premium wiki?  probably not), but hey, I can find something to do with a free wiki with all the extras.
I’ve used PBwiki my social software and wiki [...]

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Incoherent Thought Friday: The Cephalonian Method, 12 football players, plenty of coffee and a measure of bravado

I’m pretty sure I just convinced 12 college football players that I’m completely insane.  This could be
a.) good– my insanity might just be the thing to make them come back and see if I go even crazier!
b.) bad– why would anyone want to return to a library that is full of crazy ladies?
Either way, I [...]

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Incoherent Thought Friday: The Cephalonian Method

It sounds like some sort of strange birthing technique to me and I opted not to go to the session on this topic at LOEX of the West, but today is Cephalonian Friday because I have not done a thing outside of research this today.
Did anyone go to the LOTW presentation by Nigel Morgan?  Is [...]

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