http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/ Hope Greenberg, Academic Computing, University of Vermont. 2009-05-04T06:21:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/05/get_your_newspa.html The publishing world continues to buzz about upcoming reading devices and the business models that will best exploit them. E Ink, the company that makes the electronic "paper" used in devices like the Kindle, is still a black-and-white-only technology. However,... hag 2009-05-04T06:21:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/05/twitter_and_sch.html A couple weeks ago Dan Cohen decided to try a live Twitter experiment in crowdsourcing during his live presentation at a conference. The experiment is described in his blog post summary. was to use Twitter to "replicate digitally the traditional... hag 2009-05-02T06:52:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/04/what_do_student.html Mary W. George ("Admissions of Another Sort" April 13, 2009) ponders the student library research experience and wonders: "If there is a discrepancy between pedagogical intent and actual student research behavior, how do faculty members address it?" Here are several... hag 2009-04-13T06:30:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/04/digital_humanit.html Just published: a report, including several papers, from the September 2008 symposium held by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the National Endowment for the Humanities, titled:"Working Together of Apart: Promoting the Next Generation of Digital Scholarship"The purpose... hag 2009-04-09T05:18:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/04/loc_and_youtube.html First it was Flickr, now its YouTube. Hoorah for the Library of Congress as they begin to place portions of their vast video holdings on the popular site. First collections include the 2008 National Book Festival author presentations, the Books... hag 2009-04-07T07:20:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/04/reimagining_the.html NYTimes has two articles today related to eBooks and electronic writing. (Brad Stone "Is This the Future of the Digital Book?" and Randall Stross "Small Company Offers Web-Based Competition for Microsoft Word"). I pair them together because they both describe... hag 2009-04-05T06:50:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/04/aap_reports_boo.html Some numbers from the Association of American Publishers from data from major book publishers comparing 2007 to 2008:Overall sales down 2.8% (to $24.3 billion)Trade paperbacks up, trade hardcover way down for an overall decline of 5.2% (to $8.1 billion) Higher... hag 2009-04-02T08:39:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/03/u_chicago_makes.html The University of Chicago will no longer be accepting and archiving dissertations on paper. Furthermore, they will be using UMI Dissertation Publishing's web-based interface for submission of dissertations. What a concept! In the current process, dissertations begin life as digital... hag 2009-03-18T15:42:23-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/03/neh_funded_huma.html 3D modeling for humanities research may finally be coming into its own. NEH has posted the latest round of funded start-up projects, including "creations and curation of 3D virtual objects/artifacts; 3D modeling and virtual re-creation of historic structures; [and] reconstruction... hag 2009-03-16T18:48:11-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/03/ebook_update.html Amazon's release of Kindle 2 was followed swiftly by their release of the Kindle application for iPod Touch/iPhone, letting you read your current and new Kindle ebooks on your iPod Touch. But wait, there's more? Yesterday Thomas Nelson Publishers finally... hag 2009-03-05T06:32:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/02/kindle_fun.html A nightmare to some, a situation devoutly to be wished by others. (Thanks to joyoftech.com, Nitrozac and Snaggy)kindle fun... hag 2009-02-11T13:34:33-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/02/wiki_assignment.html Blackboard's wiki option has made it easier for us to experiment with this collaborative writing application. There are a number of web sites that suggest that wikis can be powerful learning tools, a number of sites that discuss basic wiki... hag 2009-02-11T12:12:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/02/nercomp_bb_sig.html NERCOMP Blackboard Sig Conference at Holy Cross College Session 1: Vincent Ialenti, Ed.D., Assistant Dean, Distance Learning and Instructional Technology, Mount Wachusett Community College Don Westover, Director of Instructional Design, Mount Wachusett Community College 23,000 user accounts (bb course for... hag 2009-02-02T06:45:00-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/01/trip_report_edu_1.html Yesterday I attended a webinar hosted by EDUCAUSE titled Widgets: The Slicing and Dicing (and Splicing) of Sharable Learning Content. The speakers were Mark C. Marino, Assistant Professor (Teaching) of Writing Program, and Susan E. Metros, Associate Vice Provost and... hag 2009-01-28T10:37:48-05:00 http://hag.blog.uvm.edu/archives/2009/01/its_about_time.html hag 2009-01-20T13:11:28-05:00