Archive for February 7th, 2006
Are We Welcome At The Party
Kathryn Wymer’s Chronicle piece took me back to a recent discussion on COLLIB-L about online social communities such as MySpace.com and Facebook. Bill Drew announced that he was going to create a profile for his library in these spaces. That led to some discussion about the relative merits of placing a profile (tantamount to an [...]
Posted: 7 February, 2006 in Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Comments: 9
Invasion of the Technology Snatchers
Kathryn Wymer, who teaches English at UNC, has some interesting things to say in this week’s Chronicle about adapting new technologies to teaching and learning, an issue we’ve dicussed here many times. She heard from students that e-mail is just so yesterday and decided she should join them in IM-space – and found that students [...]
Posted: 7 February, 2006 in Student Issues, Technology Issues.
Comments: 2