Teaching With Technology: An Academic Librarian's Guide

摘要

Teaching with Technology: An Academic Librarian's Guide is one volume of a series of specially commissioned guides aimed at the practising' information professional, containing useful information in an easy-to-read, compact format. The purpose of this particular title is to examine methods to combine library instruction with new technologies including hardware such as laptops, personal digital assistants (PDAs) and cell-phones and software including really simple syndication (RSS), wikis and weblogs.rnThis book is a practical guide, packed with useful information over seven chapters, each authored by different information professionals aimed at introducing various aspects of technology to librarians to allow them to incorporate them in their everyday work. Topics covered include video-conferencing, wireless computing and online video tutorials. Chapter 2 describes using technologies such as wikis (RSS for web feed formats), podcasts, vidcasts and weblogs in library instruction. While most librarians have some knowledge of these concepts, they have not explored them in a library setting in any depth, so this handbook provides a very useful introduction to the processes.