Academe Links May 16, 2007

Wired but not Web 2.0: A Brief Look at the Pew/Internet Study on Adult ICT Use http://eduspaces.net/csessums/weblog/170349.html

Schools told to shun Vista and Office 2007 http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/01/11/221126/schools-told-to-shun-vista-and-office-2007.htm

Re-contracting author rights

http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/05/10/re_contracting_author_rights

Current Complete List of Commencement Speakers

http://chronicle.com/free/speakers/index.php?handler=search&year=2007

MIT Media Lab H2.0 webcasts online

http://www.educationfutures.com/2007/05/15/mit-media-lab-h20-webcasts-online/

Applications and Theory of Educational Social Software http://halfanhour.blogspot.com/2007/05/applications-and-theory-of-educational.html

Harvard Faculty Approve New General Education Curriculum For Undergraduate Students http://www.fas.harvard.edu/home/news_and_events/releases/gened_05152007.html

‘College Prep’ Without ‘College’ or ‘Prep’

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/05/16/act

Higher Ed and 2008

http://insidehighered.com/news/2007/05/16/election

Tool: Huddle

http://huddle.net/

Setup a multimedia computer lab without purchasing software http://kairosnews.org/alternative-multimedia-computer-lab

Tool: BibMe

http://www.bibme.org/

The Dangers of Popularity in Online Communities http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/index.php/2007/05/15/the-dangers-of-popularity-in-online-communities/

RFID Tags to Track Exam Cheaters

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2069/using-rfid-to-track-exam-cheaters

Teaching for Transformation: From Learning Theory to Teaching Strategies http://amps-tools.mit.edu/tomprofblog/archives/2007/05/797_teaching_fo.html

Resource: Open-Access.Net (German only for now) http://openaccess-germany.de/de/startseite/homepage/

User Generated Presentation

http://socialmediagroup.ca/2007/04/13/the-first-ever-user-generated-presentation

Tool: Orgoo

http://www.orgoo.com/

Newly Re-Designed Copyright Website

http://www.copyright.com/ccc/home.do

Resource/Tool/Distraction: Flickrvision http://flickrvision.com/

R. C. Rybnikar

Babson College Archives

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http://www.babson.edu/archives

"You might want to send someone to take a pulse – I believe the archivist is dead."

Comment from researcher to Horn Library staffer.