Posts from ‘June, 2008’

Viewzi takes your search terms, tries to figure out what you’re looking for and get the most relevant results. Sounds like every search engine, right? Viewzi’s twist is in the variety of different “views” within the search results and the highly visual presentation. The results are grouped into categories or “views” like shopping, weather, photos, [...]

From Jan Tunison at Scotia Glenville High School (NY):
Scotia-Glenville BC Calculus Wiki
Our BC calc students created a wiki for future classes to use. The students did a great job, especially with adding math content and the editing of math symbols, etc. The awesome teacher of this class allowed her students the freedom to create content, [...]

One of the things I love about traveling all over to teach is hearing about new projects and ideas from the library staff in my classes. I always come back with a bunch of scribbled notes on pieces of paper that eventually sift out of my notebooks, folders, pocketbook and who knows where in my [...]

Curtis Rogers’ post The Library’s web site shouldn’t be a PUZZLE to Patrons (which is in part a summary of a post from The Marketing Blog) makes some great points about our how we can use our library web sites to engage our customers.

Is your web site cluttered?
Does the navigation make sense to customers?
Is their [...]

My laptop came back today and still doesn’t work. It did work for a few minutes. Enough to lull me into nice feelings towards Dell. They did the work in a hurry and got it back to me in speedy time, but it still doesn’t work.I once again had a long call to Dell tech [...]

If you haven’t already heard, Encyclopedia Britannica is launching a new wiki-based web service. Scholars will be encouraged to contribute content. And users will be able to contribute as well.  Content meeting the EB’s publishing standards will be labeled with “Britannica Checked” to distinguish it from other content. What an interesting tool this [...]