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It’s a … CMS! (Isn’t it cute…)

Published by Iris on Monday, May 29th, 2006

After two years of deliberations, testing, talking, and not a little hair-pulling, my campus has finally decided to adopt Moodle rather than Sakai. This decision, which was made just about 20 minutes ago, is the culmination of weekly meetings for the last 10 weeks. I’ve spent literally hundreds of hours in the last couple of months sifting through surveys, usability studies, and pedagogical issues, and I can say with full sincerity that I’m very pleased with our decision. Sakai has so much potential but is just not as polished as Moodle.

I’m flying pretty high right now. It’s going to be quite a job to keep my concentration going today (yes, I am at work because my college doesn’t take today off), but I’ve got to just grit my teeth and do it. My presentation won’t organize itself…

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All the Fascinating Blogs

Published by Iris on Friday, May 26th, 2006

The more I read, the more cool blogs I find. This is GREAT! It’s like being at a conference every day all day. (BTW, see Meredith’s awesome post on online education for librarians. This IS a great time to be a librarian.) So here’s what’s new to me recently.

There are lots more on my bloglines account. And to all you bloggers out there that I learn from every day, thanks. I’m having the time of my life learning about my profession from people who are so engaged and passionate about their work.

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Planning the World From My Shower

Published by Iris on Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006


While showering (which is when most of my wild ideas get hatched) I wondered about integrating the catalog and other library resources into my students’ workflow. If we ever get our research portal up and running I’d love to have a firefox extension built into the lab computers that would put “Search the Libe” or “Libe It” (here on campus our library is referred to as “The Libe”) into the Firefox browser search box. I’d like to get “Libe It” into right-click menus all over the place!

Wouldn’t it be great if you could “Libe It” from a document you’re authoring, and a little application would run to analyze your document and suggest search terms? And maybe it could even presearch some databases to point you toward those databases that might be fruitful?

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