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UNCG Libraries Diversity and Inclusion Blog
UNCG Libraries Diversity and Inclusion Blog. Sunday, November 27, 2016. CACE Call for Abstracts (due Dec 6). Abstracts for the Conference on African American and African Diasporic Cultures and Experience are due by next Tuesday, December 6th for the Spring 2017 conference. Abstracts that include panel presentations as well as individual abstracts are encouraged. Also considering spoken word presentations or performance for the Literary Cafe. More details here (link). Monday, November 14, 2016. This prese...
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Professional Learning @UNCG University Libraries
Professional Learning @UNCG University Libraries. Friday, June 12, 2015. Digital Library on American Slavery. Catalog Stuff - East Coast WMS User Gathering. This week I had the chance to go to the WMS East Coast User Meeting. With a few others from our library. The location was beautiful. And there were several sessions on WorldCat Discovery Services. A few takeaways from my perspective:. Beta testing for WorldCat Discovery will officially end after the July update. Call numbers will be added to the temp...
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UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week One
UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week One. Introduction to Web 2.0. Week One: February 2-6. Class Session 1: February 3, 3-4pm - Room 774. Class Session 2: February 5, 3-4pm - Room 774. What is Web 2.0? When the Internet started to gain momentum as a way to communicate and share ideas, most information was presented on static web pages. Many people who led the curve of these early web sites created “home pages”. New sites appeared daily and the information age took off. Main aspects of Web 2.0:. The co...
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UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Two
UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Two. Week Two: February 9-13. Class Session: February 12, 12-1pm - Room 774. Class Session: February 13, 2-3pm - Room 774. A Short History o' the Blog. Blogging, short for "web log", started in the late 1990s as a high tech form of web journaling. Nowadays, blogs have been integrated into so many websites that you may be reading a blog every day and not even know it. Check out Rebecca's Pocket. For a full history of blogging from an early blogger's perspective.
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UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Three
UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Three. Flickr Intro and Basics. Week Three: February 16-20. Class Session 1: February 17, 3-4pm - Room 774. Class Session 2: February 18, 3-4pm - Room 774. Http:/ www.Flickr.com. Or rather . why I know you are going to like this. There are more reasons to use Flickr than are reasons not too. Here is Michael Stephens' Top Ten reasons. For libraries to use Flickr, and top ten again. Show off for your friends, family and strangers! Or Zombies , Zombies, Zombies. Track...
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UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Four
UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Four. RSS and Newsreaders - The Basics. Yndication (aka Rich Site Summary) is, in a nutshell, a way that you can have content from your favorite sites delivered to you instead you searching for them. Newsreaders or feed readers is a website or software that pulls your feeds together in one place. Here's a short video from YouTube. That gives a really good explanation of the whole process:. Here's some examples of some newsreaders:. FAQs Help and Tutorials. This wee...
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UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Five
UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Five. Online Photo Editors - Big Huse Labs. Today, we will look at Big Huge Labs, http:/ bighugelabs.com/. This site allows you to upload your photos and create works of art. You can also pull images from flickr.com, or photobucket.com. For example, I created a motivational poster from one of my recent photos. Do you want to create a unique gift for a grandparent? How about a precut jigsaw puzzle from a picture of their grandchild? Take a look at this example:.
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UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Six
UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Six. Tagging, Folksonomies and Technorati. Tagging, Folksonomies and Technorati. Week Six: March 9-13. Class Session 1: March 9, 3-4pm - Room 774. Class Session 2: March 12, 3-4pm - Room 774. Playing 'tag' on the web.". This week we look at how 'tagging', the informal classification of information, has made browsing and searching for information easier and more natural. A unique feature of tags is that there is no strict, controlled vocabulary - you can use. In thi...
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UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Seven
UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Seven. Week Seven: March 16-20. Class Session 1: March 17, 3-4pm - Room 774. Class Session 2: March 19, 3-4pm - Room 774. 1 What is a wiki? A web page or collection of web pages:. Designed to enable anyone* to contribute or modify content,. Using a simplified markup language (no HTML expertise required). Differing levels of control, depending on the project. But, as a rule, self-organizing - the community enforces behavioral norms. Wikis can be disorganized and dif...
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UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Eight
UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Eight. Online Applications and Tools. Post the 5th,. Thank you very much to those of you who attended my presentation this Tuesday and Wednesday. I hope everyone had a good time. Below is a list of all the topics that we covered and their URLS:. Http:/ www.rememberthemilk.com. An application that allows you to create, share and have fun with lists. Views real-time tweets based on your keywords. For lazy tweeters.a twitter scheduler. Http:/ www.webnotes.net/. And te...
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UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Nine
UNCG Libraries "Exploring Web 2.0" Week Nine. Podcasts, Video and Downloadable Audio. Sites and Sounds of the Web. No, you dont need an iPod to listen to podcasts! A What is podcasting? It is both a noun and a verb. As a noun. It can refer to the content in an episode. Listen to a podcast." As a verb. It can refer to the action of sending the episodes content out through syndication. Irma Minerva is podcasting.". Here are some terms defined. B Why would anyone want to listen to a podcast? Or, you can jus...
