Scholarly Life of a Committed Technofile

My rants and raves about being a dedicated scholar and technophile in the community college setting.

Entries from October 2006

Sandbox: Bookmarking & Blogging

October 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Although it’s already been over a month since the first Sandbox series workshop, I’m still glowing on how well it went. We had eleven participants, including a handful of CTL members and another group of Librarians. I admit, I pressured the Librarians to coming; I really wanted them to play with the social bookmarking tools. [...]

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Tags: Ocotillo R&D · Scholarly Blogging · Scholarly Life · Teaching w/Tech

Inequality in user participation

October 10th, 2006 · No Comments

I’ve been following Jakob Nielsen’s alertbox postings for a couple years now. One of the things I find fascinating about more “traditional” usability studies (which I associate with Nielsen’s work) is that they are very focuses on business models/websites. The more I read about them, the more I realize that educationally focused websites (specifically “course” [...]

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Tags: Ocotillo R&D · Scholarly Blogging · Scholarly Life · Teaching w/Tech