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After two months, my graduate class is finally drawing to a close.  Today is the last day, and the final assignments are piling up.  The next week will consist of grading.  I have been very pleased with this group of students, and have seen an amazing amount of progression from each of them.  Here’s to you ITED 7900 class of aught eight, on a job well done!

In other news, I will be doing the keynote speech at this year’s GOLD/GALILEO conference.  I’ve been very impressed with their marketing, and have surprised to find people mentioning it to me (nervous much?).  I’m also doing a session on user-centric services, so if you happen to be at the conference on Friday, drop by and say hi!

With a pile of 500+ unread blog posts, as well as being behind on FriendFeed and Twitter, don’t expect anything too cutting-edge out of me until I catch up.  But I must say, biblioblogosphere, it’s good to be back!

This survey is being undertaken on behalf of the Committee of Inquiry into the Changing Learner Experience for all the UK funding agencies. The survey’s specific remit is to report on the changing use of Web 2.0 technologies for teaching, learning, support and administration purposes in higher education. This survey is being undertaken in five countries to help inform an international comparison. The survey has 4 pages and should take about 20 minutes if you have use of Web 2.0 examples to share.  If you leave your email address they will send you the draft report for comment and the final report.

If you have been using Web 2.0 in your practice, just complete the survey at http://tinyurl.com/65ub2s .

If you have any questions please contact Tom Franklin of Franklin Consulting.  Pass it on!

I found the contact information on the information pages of the website!  Right where you would look for it…

Silly of me, anyway, since they don’t have usage stats available since they’re “changing systems”.  Alas.

Can everyone tell that my vendor fuse is shortening due to end-of-fiscal-year-stats-gathering? :)

This message was sent to Taylor & Francis:

Greetings!

I need to get usage statistics for Valdosta State University’s subscription to the Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science (through Dekker).  I would have called Dekker, but that is impossible due to the shameful disregard shown for customer service by a lack of proper contact information: http://www.dekker.com/sdek/contact~db=enc

Please let me know how I can get usage statistics for this database from 07/01/2007-06/30/2008.

Thank you for your attention.

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Oh wait, that’s right, I didn’t send that message b/c when I tried I got this response:

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/common/generic/contact_form.asp, line 222

Invalid ProgID. For additional information specific to this message please visit the Microsoft Online Support site located at: http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

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Way to go, guys.  Glad to see all my users’ tuition is being well spent on customer care.  Maybe we should drop that title since there’s no way to find out if they’re using it….

First, I hope everyone has a blessed Litha today!  With Sunna at the height of her power, I’m definitely feeling full of energy and excitement (and words…which my coworkers have been subjected to today).

The big news for the Summer is that I’m teaching an 8-week graduate class in research methods for the Department of Curriculum, Leadership and Technology.  This is the second time that I’ve taught this course, and despite the heavy workload, I enjoy it more each time I teach it.

Most exciting for me is seeing students truly grasp the concepts presented in their readings, and then watching them turn around and teach those concepts to each other!  I also love teaching graduate students how to research because their theses and dissertations are just around the corner (which definitely helps with their buy-in to the course)!

This week I’ll be traveling to New Orleans, Kennesaw and Atlanta (all for fun, for a change).  I know I’ll be exhausted by the end of it, but I figure I can sleep when I’m dead.  I’ll do my best to take pictures!

In the mean time, however, teaching this course does not leave much time for blogging, so many of the exciting things I’m seeing in LibraryLand will have to be covered by the other bibliobloggers.  I’m sure everyone will get by without my opinion for the next couple of months!