Social Software in Libraries.
Social Software in Libraries Meredith G. Farkas Information Today Inc. 143 Old Marlton Pike, Medford, NJ 08055 9781573872751, $39.50 www.infotoday.com SOCIAL SOFTWARE IN LIBRARIES: BUILDING COLLABORATION, COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY ONLINE is for any college-level collection catering to library science...

How (and why) to use an RSS feed.
Editor's Note: As Wayne Pugh, MAI, takes over his duties as President of the Appraisal Institute, president-elect Jim Amorin, MAI, SRA, takes over writing the Cool Tools column. In reviewing past articles I noticed a missing Cool Tool that I use every day, one that not only...

The next wave now: Web 2.0.
While many of us are just getting comfortable with the Internet and e-mail, Web 2.0 technologies are already changing the playing field for education. Though definitions of Web 2.0 vary, the one constant is that Internet users are now content providers rather than content receivers. The top-down approach of...

Walking the Web 2.0: if you want change, become the change.
GREG FARR GETS WEB 2.0. The principal of the Shannon Learning Center, an alternative high school in Haltom City, Texas, has started blogging about his school and other points at a couple of different Weblog sites. He's started a wiki for his staff to use as a way to...

Current Science & Technology Videocasts.
Current Science & Technology Videocasts. (2007). Published by Museum of Science, Boston and New England Cable News. http://www. mos.org/events_activities/videocasts. Accessed July 27, 2007. System Requirements: QuickTime 7 to view videos directly from the Web site or to view after download If desired, subscribe...

More podcasting in Minnesota.
Editor: In the March 2006 issue of State Legislatures magazine, you write that Washington is the first state to offer podcasts of legislative floor sessions and committee meetings. This might not be true. The article didn't say when Washington began podcasting, but the Minnesota House...

Podcasting: transforming middle schoolers into 'middle scholars': an innovative seventh-grade teacher has turned her students into expert podcasters by integrating the new Apple technology into her daily curriculum.
WANT YOUR STUDENTS taking on--make that, volunteering for--new assignments? Then round up the following: one creative middle school teacher, an enthusiastic group of young people, and some powerful technologies from Apple Computer (www.apple.com). It's a recipe for success, when the teacher is Jeanne Halderson, the young people are her...

Producing a punchy podcast: podcasting can be a creative, convenient way to get your message out.
In January 1998, a Hollywood gift shop manager with a computer and an Internet connection posted a story to his website that would turn the world upside down. Matt Drudge had broken the story of President Clinton's affair with a White House intern. So began the era of Internet...

WUSF 89.7 now podcasting on iPods, MP3 players!
There's a whole new way to hear WUSF 89.7 programming, thanks to WUSF Public Broadcasting's launch of podcasting. Now you can download WUSF 89.7 programming onto iPods, MP3 players and personal computers, and listen anytime, anywhere. It all happens through the station's Web site at www.wusf.org. Podcasts can be...

Teachers, students experiment with podcasting.
Podcasting--the process of posting short audio programs online so users can subscribe to and download them onto MP3 players--is catching the ears of a growing number of teachers and students, the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. At Wells, Maine's Wells Elementary, for instance, students in Bob Sprankle's third/fourth-grade classroom...