Results tagged “innovation” from Sound Bytes

You will find a wealth of information on helpful tools for educators and learners at Jane Hart's page on the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies website.

Information provided includes background information on learning and technology tools, but also links you to useful tools for learners and learning professionals.

Check out the Top 100 Tools For Learning 2008.  You can also  contribute to her current list of Top Tools for 2009.

Facebook Connect launches today.  It allows users to bring their Facebook identities to third party sites and then track any activities on those sites in their Facebook profile.  You can try it out a CNN, one of the beta partners.

Virtual Reference is getting a face lift at many institutions and librarians are starting to take notice of the fact that students are constantly using their cell phones for texting.

Here are some examples:
California State University Monterey Bay
University of Pittsburgh
Southeastern Louisiana University
College of Charleston

Technology that can be used to create a texting service:
Text A Librarian (fee)
Digsby
txtDrop
Pidgin

For unique ways of using texting to market the library see the Library Bytes Blog.

This Code4Lib article takes a look at the creation of LibraryH3lp  at several libraries in North Carolina and provides background of how virtual reference services have progressed over the years.  Note how successfully they increased chat (300%) when they added a widget to their web pages and that even before the new LibraryH3lp was unveiled. What could a widget do for online reference at UNLV?