Category Archives: ideas

Notes on Plagiarism Tutorials

I’m about to get started on a new tutorial project, and wanted to get a lay of the land.  This one will be a lot different from the Toolkit, since the topic is plagiarism and can’t be covered in 2-3 minutes. And what better way to do that then to ask your Twitter friends what [...]

Content Creators and Consumers (and the iPad)

One of the coolest things about today’s internet is that we all can be creators of information as much as we are consumers of it. It’s something I like to make sure we talk a lot about in my information literacy class. Old internet=read only (unless you were geeky enough to understand HTML and how [...]

My Nook’s First Fieldtrip

As you might know, I got a Nook for Christmas last week. (I actually had to look it up to see that it was that recent… I just finished my first book on it last night!)
One of the features I was really interested in is that Barnes and Noble promised additional content/features when at the [...]

My Nook Has Arrived!!

I have been interested in the idea of a dedicated ebook reader for some time. The first ebook I bought was to read on my old Palm. That worked great for my Dad, but I didn’t really enjoy that particular reading experience. I also thought the book was way too expensive (I think it was [...]

Lauren’s Top Tech Trend

Now that Top Tech Trends has happened, I can post about my trend. But before I get to that, I just want to say that I was especially honored to be part of a panel that included Amanda Etches-Johnson, Jason Griffey, David Walker, and Joe Murphy. It was a great group and I really enjoyed [...]