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What are people's experience with virtual classrooms ? WiZiQ offers a virtual Classroom that doesn't cost $100,000 for a site license. That's what attracted me to the WiZiQ VC platform. Mark www.WiZiQ.com is an online teaching platform, which provides a free virtual classroom environment… Continue

Just found this wonderful post by David Weinberger on the ways the Boston Public Library is digitizing and sharing their holdings, cleverly titled Scan and Release: Digitizing the Boston Public Library. They have been putting a number of these up on flickr as well -- http://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/ Continue

Several people have inquired about the name of the library highlighted in the 'music video' shown by Alan and Rachel at the end of their NMC/Horizon Report presentation. The library was Weigle Information Commons at the University of Pennsylvania. The video can be found posted on their web site. Continue

During the discussion part of our presentation yesterday, I did a quick series of photos to make a panorama- see the full sized version on flickr Continue

LibTechConference_FinalProgram.pdf

Final conference program which will be handed out during registration is also attached to this post as a pdf document. Continue

participants.pdf Approximately 235 people have registered to participate from Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Wisconsin and Iowa. Participants come from all types of library backgrounds including academic, public, K-12, special, corporate, medical, as well as multi-types and other library-related organizations. Continue

The Horizon Report, which will be discussed during the afternoon keynote session, is released annually by the New Media Consortium and Educause. It describes six areas of emerging technology that will have significant impact on higher education and other learning environments over the next one to five years. The six selected areas for 2008—grassroots video, collaboration webs, mobile broadband, data mashups, collective intelligence, and social operating systems. You can view/download the… Continue

All conference presenters are being encouraged to post their presentation materials and links here in order to make it easy for everyone to access these materials. Please continue to monitor the "group" space that was set up for each session for these materials and any ongoing discussions. Continue