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...it would sit between Japan and Mexico in terms of population - (106 million registered users)
This staggering presentation of statistics and superlatives relating to technology in education is really worth a look and left me with a slightly panicked feeling at the end of the slides!

It comes from Dr J S Euh of Samsung and was delivered at the Handheld Learning Conference 2007 in London. What strikes me as worth exploring is the role that library and information professionals can… Continue

To my mind it sells itself as a tool for library staff to get out there. Anyway in my continuous quest to keep on top of stuff I am looking for examples of current practice that people know work well in their libraries.

Tomorrow (Wednesday) I am delivering a session looking at the social web to a group of Art & Design librarians and would welcome any comments or suggestions that I may be able to add to my present… Continue

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here in the UK, the JISC have recently announced the launch of free access to 36 taught course texts for the Higher Education community for a two year period as part of their National e-Books Observatory project part of the project's aims will be to evaluate the use of e-Books in the educatio… Continue

I have been asked to be involved in a consultation event for a teaching support project - Subject Learning Coaches where one of the questions to be addressed is 'Building a learning community - how do we develop a strategy to turn the 90% of lurkers in online forums into occasional or active participants?

Is this realistic to aim for more than 10 active participation? We all know of some forums and communities that work better than oth

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At risk of starting to obsess about Facebook, but I read this post yesterday about a case of online bullying close to home - the library at my University. A library staff member has been on the receiving end of bullying from a group of students via Facebook. Pretty distressing for him by all accounts. It has been argued that this sort of intimidation would happen through other means, but social networks, IM etc seem to offer an

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