Tag Archives: tri-it

Notes: Progress Update: UNCG University Libraries “Library Resources” Tool

Richard Cox, Lynda Kellam
Yay! My former classmate, Lynda, is presenting!

Realize the big picture: the students aren’t going to come to us…. we need to go to them. And they’re not necessarily interested in us in their social space. So, they integrate into the academic environment.
Left nav side: a Library Resources button. Added [...]

Notes: Imagining an Interdisciplinary Game Activity: A Collaborative Effort

Libby Evans

Games for Learning initiative at UNC about games in the curriculum.
We brainstormed a game… created a story to frame the game.
Identified disciplines and skills needed to complete the challenges. Start really broad, then narrow down to focus.
List ways to assess participation. This can happen in game and in the classroom.
List ways that classroom [...]

Picture: Our Presentation

Giz Womack, Kevin Gilbertson, and I talked about “Situating Blogs and Wikis: The Value Added Proposition of the Library as Service Provider.”

Notes: Getting Connected with Google Apps

Pam Howe

University email to Gmail.
Google Calendar
One mobile device that lets you do email, calendar, etc.
iGoogle
Presentation software
Google Reader
Google Pages
Google Groups
Mentioned that every day you go to Google and something is different. She says that’s something hard to adjust to with the static feeling of Microsoft.
Said she chooses Picasa over Flickr because of single sign-on.
Not sure [...]

Notes: Tri-IT Meeting

Today I’m at UNC-G with a few of my coworkers and we’re at the Tri-IT meeting. This group meets to talk about what’s going on in technology and instruction, the library, etc. It’s my first meeting.
We started with introductions and favorite technologies. Some of the useful things we heard about included:

Duke is [...]