EDUCAUSE | Podcasts, Social Computing, and CNI2006spring

An interview with NITLE's Bryan Alexander and Michael Richwalsky

mpasiewicz — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:09:00 -0500

In this 29 minute recording, I sit down with Bryan Alexander, Director of Research at the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education and Michael Richwalsky, Web Administrator at Allegheny College. We'll be discussing their presentation at CNI's 2006 Spring Task Force meeting about Gnosh. We'll also chat broadly about social software, web 2.0, microcontent and podcasting.

If you haven't seen Bryan's recent article about Web 2.0, check it out at:
http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm06/erm0621.asp

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An interview with the University of Tennessee's Barbara Dewey and Julie Little

mpasiewicz — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 09:46:00 -0500

In this 19 minute recording, I sit down with University of Tennessee's Barbara Dewey and Julie Little. We'll learn about their information commons and touch briefly on the concept of a virtual commons, and highlight some potential challenges associated with designing systems so that they're usable on a variety of mobile devices.

An earlier interview with Julie at last year's EDUCAUSE Annual Conference is also available, as is a recent one hosted by Jarrett Cummings. Julie has also published a podcast introducing their information commons.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

An interview with NCSU's Kristin Antelmann

mpasiewicz — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:13:00 -0500

In this 22 minute recording, I'll sit down with Kristin Antelman, Associate Director for Information Technology @ the North Carolina State University Libraries to get a feel for what shaped their selection of Endeca's Information Access Solutions. If you haven't seen their new catalog, you've got to check it out! We'll also chat a bit about the potential for social software, the final report of the University of California's Bibliographic Services Task Force (PDF), and the use of Segway Human Transporters at the library.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Spring Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity. You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org.