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Archive for May, 2007
Has the concept of “library services for distance learning” died?
Supposedly, I’m the Convener of the CLA Interest Group Services for Distance Learning, but the thing is that I can’t get any of the membership involved. That’s why I say supposedly, I certainly don’t feel like I’m a Convener when it feels like a group of one. I’m rather tired of sending out [...]
Posted by Laurie on May 31st, 2007 under Laurie speaks! | 4 Comments »What about solar panels, would that make a laptop useable while camping?
How about instead of a portable keyboard I use a portable solar panel? Not the rigid kind, but the soft, flexible solar panels that fold up compactly — would they be good to power up my laptop while we’re camping? Afterwards, I could use it to continue to charge my laptop and my [...]
Posted by Laurie on May 31st, 2007 under Laurie speaks! | 1 Comment »If you don’t want to risk taking your laptop on a camping trip and prefer typing to hand-writing but need to work on your thesis, what is your best option?
I type 70 words per minute. You can thank my parents who forced me (and my sister) to take keyboarding in high school. Thankfully, they saw into the future and saw that computers were going to dominate communications and wanted their daughters to be prepared. What has happened as a result of [...]
Posted by Laurie on May 30th, 2007 under Laurie speaks!, Writings | 2 Comments »Lots o’ family this summer!
My parents have bought an RV and are right this minute driving up to Whitehorse to spend 3 months here in the Yukon. They arrive this weekend. No, they’re not staying with us. The street we’re on is very steep and our driveway is even steeper. There’s nowhere safe for them [...]
Posted by Laurie on May 30th, 2007 under Other | 1 Comment »This is how I see the new version of my thesis…
Let’s face it, I’m not going to get my thesis done unless I pick something I’m passionate about. It’s just so hard to work on a thesis and work full-time!
This is a snippet of an email I sent my official Thesis Advisor and my Honourary Thesis Committee (made up of a triumvirate [...]
New Journal — Communications in Information Literacy
Unfortunately, I missed the presentation at WILU on the new peer-reviewed journal called Communications in Information Literacy (CIL) because I wanted to attend my friend Heather Matheson’s presentation (good job Heather! great to finally meet you in person, too!). Yet, no fear, I easily found the website for CIL
http://www.comminfolit.org
Right away I saw that [...]
That’s right, no cycling race for me this summer
I’m breaking a 5 year streak and not doing the Kluane-Chilkat Bike Race this summer. I just need a change so I’m doing the Mayo Midnight Marathon instead, but in the 10km walking category. My health was just so terrible this winter from all the stress from the games between G.I. problems and [...]
Posted by Laurie on May 28th, 2007 under Other | Comment now »Library Association for Retired Folk
Have you ever heard of a library association or group for retired persons? Neither had I! Well, turns out there is one here in Canada and it seems quite active because they were at the BC Library Conference.
http://exlibris.fis.utoronto.ca/
Description from their website:
Ex Libris Association is the Canadian national association for retired persons whose careers [...]
Is there a way to combine needs assessments and educational theories to design instruction?
Having just returned from the WILU conference, my mind is buzzing with ideas!! I saw some fabulous presentations… but it really got me thinking about a lot of things… not sure if that’s good or not.
One thing that I can’t seem to stop thinking about, but haven’t fully formed everything in my mind so [...]
Forget YouTube, switch to Photobucket — it’s powered by Adobe
For those of you librarians who don’t have access to a server to host the wonderful tutorials you’ve been making… and noticed that YouTube won’t accept the type of files you’ve created using Adobe software like Captivate… try http://photobucket.com/
While I haven’t tried it, I’m recommending it because Photobucket’s video editing remix software is powered by [...]
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