Teaching Web 2.0 with Web 2.0 free the information!, librarianship, library school, online education, social software, tech trends

by Meredith Farkas on 1/23/2010 with 6 comments

After a year off from teaching to take care of baby Reed, I’m getting back up on the horse. I’ll be teaching a class on Web 2.0 and Social Networking Software for San Jose State University’s SLIS program starting this Tuesday. As usual, I’ll be using Drupal for my online classroom (rather than Angel, which …

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Edublog Award Nominations blogging

by Meredith Farkas on 11/24/2009 with 4 comments

In this post I’m just registering my nominations for the 2009 Edublog Awards. My Nominations for The 2009 Edublog Awards are: Best New Blog – In the Library with the Lead Pipe (just over 1 year old; hope that counts as new!) Best resource sharing blog – The Distant Librarian Best librarian / library blog …

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This is not my blogosphere blogging

by Meredith Farkas on 11/22/2009 with 9 comments

One of the things I always loved most about social media was the transparency it created. If a product, service, hotel, etc. was terrible, you could be sure that you’d hear about it from plenty of bloggers. On the other side of things, small companies and talented individuals were able to get noticed because of …

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Day 3 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives librarianship, libraries, librarydayinthelife, Work

by Meredith Farkas on 7/31/2009 with 3 comments

8:00 am – Checked my email. Checked reference email accounts. Answered a few reference questions, forwarded a database error on to our Head of Digital Initiatives and a Norwich history question to our Archives. 8:30 am – Director called me into her office to let me know that she’d heard back from the office that …

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Day 2 in the life of a head of instructional initiatives librarydayinthelife, Work

by Meredith Farkas on 7/29/2009 with 1 comment

With many of my colleagues on vacation and no students around, this isn’t the most exciting time to be recording my time at work. I will definitely do something similar during the Fall or Spring semester when I’m knee-deep in instruction. 8:00 am – arrived at work and checked email. Started creating a basic wire …

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