Archive for the ‘RSS’ Category

The kids are curating

Sunday, October 9th, 2011

We eased into teaching curation, getting our feet wet by introducing it as a search tool a couple of weeks ago.

This week we decided to jump in completely and we chose Paper.li as a platform for curating senior project research.

(Decision digression: I went back and forth between Scoop.it and Paper.li, finally… Read More

ERIC gets social (5 new ways to do ed research)

Saturday, August 13th, 2011

While many of us weren’t watching, ERIC, the granddaddy of education research, has grown a lot more social.  As we prepare for a fall filled with professional development, it might be a good idea to share some of ERIC’s new coolness with the faculty.

In case you never had the pleasure . . .

Sponsored by… Read More

Guide for TLs (and on curating digital content)

Saturday, April 23rd, 2011

Lately I’ve been reading a bit about digital content curation, also referred to as human editorial curation or aggregation.  I think we’ve been doing this type of work for a long time in the form of widget-based pathfinders, but now folks seem to be talking about it.

In a recent Mashable post, blogger, author, and NYU professor Clay Shirky

INFOdocket and FullTextReports

Friday, March 18th, 2011

Gary Price alerts me.

I’ve been following his work as editor of ResourceShelf for more than ten years   Now, he and his scouting and writing partner Shirl Kennedy, continue to feed me tasty information leads, in two new information spaces:  INFOdocket and FullTextReports

A flake-free future :-(

Sunday, December 5th, 2010

There’s no free lunch.  Don’t keep all your eggs in one basket. Always back up your work.

I should have learned those lessons years ago.

But when PageFlakes died and came back and died again over the past couple of weeks, I was devastated.  Right now, the site seems most sincerely dead.

I loved Pageflakes… Read More

New views of news

Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

One of the things I find most challenging and most exciting is sharing with my students the growing number of options for examining the news and for discovering that not all news is western.  I practically jump up and down like a crazy person when I see my students habitually returning to the same limited site for current events.

I point to many news sources in my newsy pathfinders… Read More

On research transparency and inadequate containers

Thursday, September 30th, 2010

Yesterday, I walked around the library watching our seniors work.  They are two weeks into their graduation projects and it occurred to me that things look very different from the way they looked a few years back.

This year the prop I am using to illustrate the shift towards research transparency and interactivity is the loose leaf… Read More

Hooray, the feed is back!

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

Please excuse this very quick post tagged “shameless self promotion.”  I am happy to announce that SLJ has resolved its feed issue.  If you’d like to have this blog sent to your feed reader, the RSS feed is once again working: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch

(For other SLJ RSS feeds, check out this page.)

To those of you who continued as loyal readers since May, despite the arduous trek… Read More