Stump the Chump, BarCamp in Addlestone Library Friday, 27 October 2006 4:03 pm
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SEE! The Two Headed Librarian!
EXPERIENCE! The Thrill of Research!
WATCH! As Answers are Revealed!
Free research help November 2 in Addlestone Library from 3-4:30 in Room 120.
Share your favorite uses of new technologies with other students. Do you use a wiki, Flickr, blog, del.icio.us? What do you wish the librarians knew more about?
For more detail, go to the BarCampStumptheChump wiki: http://barcamp.org/BarCampStumptheChump
Imagine! customized Google search engine Wednesday, 25 October 2006 5:38 pm
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Google unveiled a new service, Google Co-op (http://www.google.com/coop/). Users can create customized searches of specific Web sites and even generate advertising revenue, see the whole story here.
Gary Price pointed out on his Resource Shelf that Yahoo and Microsoft have recently released similar services. Also Rollyo is online for almost a year and Swicki from Eurekster all offer these types of tools.
(check it out http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/10/24/briefs-google-launches-customized-search-engine-tool/)
Wiki-based Earth Sciences Encyclopedia Friday, 6 October 2006 3:20 pm
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Encyclopedia of Earth
(about this encyclopedia)
“Welcome to the Encyclopedia of Earth, a new electronic reference about the Earth, its natural environments, and their interaction with society.
The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other’s work. The articles are written in non-technical language and will be useful to students, educators, scholars, professionals, as well as to the general public.”
Interestingly, unlike other, well-known wikis, such as Wikipedia, access is restricted to approved experts and all content is reviewed and approved by Topic Editors prior to being published from the wiki to this public site.
(Thanks Gerry McKiernan for sharing this on STS-L)
