Friday, April 13, 2007

Oklahoma City Community College Spring Writing Symposium: Useful Links

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200704/social-networking
The Web 2.0 Bubble: Why the social-media revolution will go out with a whimper
by Michael Hirschorn

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.02/warwick.html
Warwick, Kevin. “Cyborg 1.0.” Wired. 8.02 (2000). 2 April 2007.

Digital Writing Across the Curriculum: http://www.tltgroup.org/resources/gx/Digital-WAC.htm

Elgg: Learning Network as Social Space: http://elgg.net/

U. Minnesota Library's U-Think Blogs: http://blog.lib.umn.edu/

From I Found It on the Internet: Coming of Age Online by Frances Jacobson Harris, some key observations:

1. Libraries are formal information systems/places.
2. Students' habits are informal.
3. Things do not have to be either formal or informal because the Internet, to which libraries are linked, is an example of an . . .