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Importing from MovableType to Wordpress

Today, I figured out how to import from Movabletype to Wordpress. It was actually much, much easier than I thought. This piece on the Wordpress site was all I needed. It is ironic to me that I am posting this using Movabletype, but our goal is to leave Movabletype. My posts within MT are limited.

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Library:: Moraine Valley Community College Library

About Me:: I am an instruction librarian that manages our library Web site, blogs, and Podcasts. I am working on a PhD, and my research interests are information literacy, personal epistemology, game theory, critical literacy, and community colleges. I also organize our library's public events, and manage much of our library's publicity.

Website:: http://troyswanson.pbwiki.com

Blog:: http://www2.morainevalley.edu/default.asp?SiteId=10&PageId=231

Interest in Library 2.0: I manage our blogs, podcasts, and Web site, so I have some practical, on the job-type, interests. But, I am very interested in how first-year students think about information and understand knowledge, so I also have an interest in how 2.0 technologies impact information literacy.

You can find me in these locations:

My Moraine Valley Library Staff Listing
My research site (pretty informal)
My Del.icio.us postings
The MVCC Blog Development Blog
MVCC's other library blogs
MVCC Library Event Podcasts
Green Today, Green Tomorrow: A One Book Blog

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The Future and Past of Information...and Libraries...and Google Books

For over my entire career in libraries, I've been reading about the doom and gloom, end of the world-type stories about libraries, but I wanted to post about this particle, The Library in the New Age in the New York Review of Books. I enjoyed, and there are a number of reasons that it is very relevant to libraries and Web 2.0. First, it takes a historical perspective in understanding the question, "What is information?" here's a quote:… Continue

Posted on June 1st, 2008 at 11:39pm — No Comments (Add)

Using the RSS Feed Parser Tutorial Video

I have put together this short tutorial about taking an RSS feed and using our Feed2JS feed parser and incorporating it into BlackBoard version 8.

Posted on May 9th, 2008 at 12:45pm — No Comments (Add)

New Information Literacy Web site

The Moraine Valley Library is happy to announce a new Web site that we have created in collaboration with our communications department: Information Literacy General Education Expectations and Resources.

Posted on May 7th, 2008 at 2:32pm — 3 Comments (Add)

Slides from Google Map, Second Life Presenation at CIL

We have made our slides from our CIL presentation available in slideshare.

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Posted on April 23rd, 2008 at 4:41pm — No Comments (Add)

Whither the blogosphere?

The demise of the blogosphere has been predicted, as Martin Weller comments in this blog post, Whither the Blogosphere?. More importantly, he notes that blogs are probably not really dying, but the online options are growing: What I think is happening is another example of technology succession. The blog was the primary colonizer for the barren landscape of online identity. The presence of this coloni… Continue

Posted on April 16th, 2008 at 10:47am — 1 Comment (Add)

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At 4:31pm on November 14th, 2007, Israel Yanez said…: Hey, I really like the look of your wiki (pbwiki)... I see they have business and educator plans... I wonder if they have one for students.

I like how you use it for your research ideas. Probably a great way to build and maintain an e-portofolio.