We've been very lucky here at Penn State to partner with our friends in ETS on a variety of initiatives, including the Libraries' Facebook application and the Zotero Hot Team. I know that I'm not just speaking for myself when I say how fortunate I feel to have these opportunities to collaborate with others outside the Libraries.
On that note, I was especially happy to see this note in a post Jeff Swain wrote following a CIC Learning Technology team meeting:
Other CIC schools are very interested in working with their respective libraries to find a common ground when it comes to faculty and student education when it comes to tools such as using library services and free tools such as Zotero and Refworks. This is a great idea because the librarians want to leverage many of the social applications and mobile tools for learning that we do. We've done some similar work with our instructional librarians and should continue to do so.
A common theme that evolved throughout the day was the idea of partnering our internal peers, such as the libraries, with our external resources in the CIC. Toward that end the CIC team is hoping to hold a conference in the fall at Wisconsin whose focus will be on building these partnerships. Details to follow later.
Hooray! Here's to continued partnerships--not just locally, but nationally. It's my feeling that with time, local development is going to go by the wayside as we work collaboratively to develop tools that can be used across a variety of colleges and universities. Sounds like we are on the road to making that happen!
On that note, I was especially happy to see this note in a post Jeff Swain wrote following a CIC Learning Technology team meeting:
Other CIC schools are very interested in working with their respective libraries to find a common ground when it comes to faculty and student education when it comes to tools such as using library services and free tools such as Zotero and Refworks. This is a great idea because the librarians want to leverage many of the social applications and mobile tools for learning that we do. We've done some similar work with our instructional librarians and should continue to do so.
A common theme that evolved throughout the day was the idea of partnering our internal peers, such as the libraries, with our external resources in the CIC. Toward that end the CIC team is hoping to hold a conference in the fall at Wisconsin whose focus will be on building these partnerships. Details to follow later.
Hooray! Here's to continued partnerships--not just locally, but nationally. It's my feeling that with time, local development is going to go by the wayside as we work collaboratively to develop tools that can be used across a variety of colleges and universities. Sounds like we are on the road to making that happen!
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