Category Archives: Information Technology and Information Literacy

NITLE Reflections

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Timothy Burke

One thing I did notice at the NITLE meeting is a big variation even within the universe of small liberal arts colleges about the level of interest and investment at an institutional level in collaboration through digital media. I’m willing … Continue reading →

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Delayed Liveblogging of NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration”, final session

Posted on January 14, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Session on digitization. Eric Luhrs, Lafayette University, “Maximizing Digitization Efforts at Small Liberal Arts Colleges”. Small institutions have low barriers to digitization: bureaucracy is very informal, collaboration is easier, faculty are more accessible to IT and library staff engaged in … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in the Digital Age”, 6th panel

Posted on January 12, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Andrea Nixon, Joel Cooper, Egohsa Awaah, “Ethnographic Study of Visual Materials Use at Carleton College”. Trying to extend the work of Foster and Gibbons on resource usage in libraries and archives. Student and faculty interviews. Students: they wanted to see … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in the Digital Age”, 5th panel

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Dan Schnaidt, Wesleyan University, “Repositioning the Academic Media Studio”. Building infrastructure of faculty collaboration in digital contexts at Wesleyan, “back-end engine”, since 2000. Focus on creating “learning objects”: usable anytime, reusable content, cost-effective. Schnaidt notes that the term is kind … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in the Digital Age”, 4th panel

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Panel on faculty collaboration. Scott Williams and Adam Johnson (Scripps and Harvey Mudd) on the IONiC/VIPEr (Virtual Inorganic Pedagogical Electronic Resource) project, collaborative project in inorganic chemistry. Decided to look at how to improve pedagogical and collaborative approaches to inorganic … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in a Digital Age”, 3rd panel

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Third panel is on the use of Web 2.0 in the classroom. Alexandra Juhasz of Pitzer College is talking about her use of YouTube in a class, both viewing and production work. (You can see the work under the tag … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in a Digital Age”, 2nd panel

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Timothy Burke

The panels split into two different sessions, so I’m in a session on developing open-source collections and resources. First presentation is Robert Kieft and John Anderies talking about putting a reference source of Quaker biography into a wiki format. Bob … Continue reading →

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Liveblogging NITLE, “Scholarly Collaboration and Small Colleges in a Digital Age”

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Timothy Burke

Some notes from a NITLE meeting on scholarly collaboration and digital resources that I’m participating in today. First panel, the panel I’m presenting on, is on collaborative writing of scholarship in online formats. Kathleen Fitzpatrick started it off with a … Continue reading →

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Traveller IQ Challenge and Learning

Posted on December 20, 2007 by Timothy Burke

The Traveller IQ Challenge, besides being a great little bit of casual-game design, strikes me as showing how potentially useful certain kinds of instant-feedback quizzes and games could be in a fully wired classroom, while also showing the limitations of … Continue reading →

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FaceBOOK

Posted on November 12, 2007 by Timothy Burke

Last spring, when I was at Google, I threw out a sort of off-the-cuff idea that what we really needed was a Facebook for books, a more intentional, extensive and non-profit-driven version of Amazon’s tools for connecting books through search … Continue reading →

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