A good review of trends in ebooks, e-readers and tablets...also talks about what publishers are doing

"What is it like to be a college student in the digital age? Alison Head - lead researcher for the national study, Project Information Literacy, Berkman Fellow, and Research Scientist in University of Washington's Information School - presents a working typology of the undergraduate information-seeking process, including students' reliance on and use of Web sources."

Great article that's about ethics of online technologies. Many of the analogies stuck me as similar to making sure technology enhances learning and not using it just for technology's sake.

Nice comparison view of e-readers!

Just learned about this nifty thing and heard that EMS may be getting one? Lots of possibilities with this!

" 11% of U.S. adults now own a tablet computer of some kind. About half (53%) get news on their tablet every day,"

This event wasn't even on my radar, sorry to have missed it. Did anyone from PSU attend? Two of the themes align closely with this year's Summer Camp (classrooms & globalization).

Join me Tuesday, September 27th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Cecilia d'Oliveira, Executive Director, OpenCourseWare (OCW) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Cecilia was the technology director for OCW since 2002, and in 2008 was named executive director. She was also a winner of a 2010 WISE Award.

This was a great radio documentary that aired this Sunday on WPSU. Did anyone else catch it? Really great info about how professors are changing the ways they teach, moving away from lectures to techniques like peer instruction even in large classes. I was also excited to hear it mention the classroom idea we are implementing in the Knowledge Commons in the library. A classroom where there is no "front" as another way to change up traditional teaching.

"Created by Wolfram Research, makers of the Wolfram Alpha computational search engine, the Computable Document Format (CDF) enables users to interact with online documents, input their own data, and generate results, live." Wonder if these will be usable on e-readers?

This is basically a platform agnostic ebook model...libraries buy the content and users can place them on whatever device they want. It's in beta and they have 100,000 titles so far. Seems like the way to go to me!

Here's a libraries' created basic guide to using the reference manager Mendeley. Have you tried Mendeley yet?

The Libraries' Citation Tools team has created a new page to help the community choose a citation tool. There's also a comparison between Zotero, endnote, endnote web, mendeley & refworks

This is an initiative of the Obama administration and is meant to be a hub of resources for those who deliver digital literacy training.

This FF extension lets you read ePub files right in your browser...this way the file is processed for you without additional software/devices/