Category Archives: users

Practise your search-fu with Library IT Tips

29 January 2009 – 11:10 am

Did you know that you can bookmark items in the Melbourne University Library’s online catalogue? Would you like to add a Library search to your web browser’s toolbar and get single-click access to PubMed and similar resources?
The Library Systems team can help you become a ‘power user’ of the University Library’s online catalogues and resources.
The [...]

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Social media and education

4 August 2008 – 6:30 am

During the Information Futures Commission’s consultation process we found anthropology lecturer Michael Wesch’s short videos were a terrific way to introduce the topics we were trying to tackle, about how digital technology is changing the scholarly communication process and the way people interact with each other in broader society. I blogged about the videos in [...]

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Towards an integrated ‘knowledge environment’

10 July 2008 – 6:39 am

Staff at Cornell and Bates (both in the US) are in the early stages of a collaborative project, looking into how they might provide a seamlessly integrated knowledge environment (IKE) for their students, alumni, academic and professional staff, and other constituencies of their respective institutions.
In particular, the project aims to:
“Envision, identify, and promote integrated online [...]

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Good writing essential, but email doesn’t count

2 May 2008 – 6:53 am

Introducing a new research report, the Pew Internet and American Life Project observes that:
“Teens write a lot, but they do not think of their emails, instant and text messages as writing. This disconnect matters because teens believe good writing is an essential skill for success and that more writing instruction at school would help them.”
The [...]

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Learning new information literacy skills

24 April 2008 – 6:44 am

Henry Jenkins (MIT) and Howard Gardner (Harvard) are each leading projects investigating how to teach information literacy skills to the current generation of university students.
The New Media Literacies project at MIT takes what we might call an ‘embedded’ approach to teaching information literacy:
“How does digital copying relate to legacy notions of property? What do [...]

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