Tools for Teachers: Using Primary Sources as Instructional Tool
Michael Gallagher The Library of Congress is making good inroads into the realm of primary sources as instructional tools. This is a real opportunity area for institutions that have large collections of…
Technology
Webinar: Digitizing Islamic manuscripts from Timbuktu
This video outlines Aluka’s efforts in 2006-2008 to digitize the Islamic manuscripts being held in Timbuktu, Mali in private libraries. The narrator is Harlan Wallach, Director of NUAMPS. The presentation…
Twinverse: Precursor to Google Waves or IMing for the Google Maps generation?
I have been playing around a bit with Twinverse and I do see some possibility here. As per usual, I am going to don my teaching cap and think of…
Kiva: Microlending for Americans as well
Great news and an indication that we acknowledge that poverty is poverty the world around. According to the Kiva website: “Today Kiva got a little closer to its mission of…
Vue: Tools for teachers
I stumbled across a project called Vue recently through a friend’s Twitter feed and am intrigued by it. According to its website: “The Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) is an Open…
Google in Kenya
When I went to the eLearning Africa Conference 2008 in Accra, Ghana, we noticed Google (looking by the way, exactly what one would expect Google people to look-young, healthy and…
Google Social Graph
From Google Labs, those fine folks that brought you everything from Street View to every other application of any merit in the universe (only slight exaggeration) comes Social Graph. Tired…