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Sunday, March 7th, 2010Last Thursday, the state winners of the new Federal education reform plan–Race to the Top–were officially announced. Not surprisingly, Michigan did not make the cut. The list of winning states that qualified for the next round includes Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, [...]
Some of my Favorite Sites and Tools, 2009
Sunday, December 20th, 2009It’s the end of the year, and, depending on how you count, the end of a decade. That means it’s time for a little reflection on things gone by. Cue Auld Lang Syne, and take a look at some of my favorite sites and services. Not all were created in 2009, but all were new [...]
Library as Social Network, Version 2.0
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009Yesterday, I went to the first meeting of the library planning committee. The meeting was informative and inspiring: the new library, or more accurately the Mary Idema Pew Library and Information Commons, is going to be amazing. If you have not seen the video introducing the library, it’s worth taking a look: The SHW Group [...]
More on Prezi: My Vampire Literature Course, Conceptualized
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009I’ve been fiddling with Prezi these last few days, and I’ve gotten to know the software pretty well. It has a few holes: it would be nice to have the “place” tool light up when it is selected; importing audio would be a plus; the line tool needs to be more sophisticated; and a text [...]
Some New Presentation and Search Tools, Courtesy of NCTE
Sunday, November 22nd, 2009I’m in the Milwaukee airport, on the way home from the NCTE conference. My stay at the conference was shorter and less involved than in previous years (fewer meetings, only one presentation, and more sight-seeing), but I still picked up a few new ideas and materials. I was geeked to buy a number of young [...]
More on the Library of the Future
Thursday, October 8th, 2009I went to an informative meeting yesterday that was all about the new GVSU library. I am not at liberty to talk specifically about the tentative blueprint for the library, but the conceptual movies I saw looked very, very promising. The building aims to be LEED certified, which is not a surprise given GVSU’s commitment [...]
Seeing the Library as a Social Network
Saturday, September 26th, 2009I was recently asked to be part of the planning committee for the new library, set to break ground in 2010-2011. I’m pretty excited about it. Geeked would be a better word, perhaps. In any case, a big chunk of my dissertation speculated on the future of libraries, so it’s fun to be involved in [...]
Put Grooveshark on iGoogle (GrooveGoogle)
Sunday, September 6th, 2009I am a big fan of iGoogle, the customizable Google home page that lets you plug in all sorts of widgets–Facebook Feeds, Google Reader, the weather, and much much more. Here’s a screen shot of my iGoogle page: As you can see, I’ve added a Grooveshark widget of sorts on the right side. This allows [...]
Desktops are Dead. But Are Netbooks the Answer?
Friday, August 28th, 2009Once again, my Dell Inspiron 620 has crashed. I believe this makes four times in the last three years that I have had to have it re-imaged, courtesy of GVSU IT. Not that I blame it for crashing–I use it about ten hours a day and it runs some pretty heavy-duty programs. And it’s not [...]
Coming Soon: Google Operating System
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Full disclosure: I am a huge fan of Google. Beyond just using the basic search engine, I routinely use Google Blog Search, Reader, Scholar, Books, Documents, and even Chrome, their newish web browser. So, I’m pretty geeked that Google is working on a new operating system to challenge industry baddie Microsoft. Apparently, this has been [...]
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