Technology Ideas for Librarians AND Others...

In my opinion, college and university libraries are the most important departments on campus. Usually librarians are very progressive in terms of technology adoption and are always seeking new ways to reach students. As a result, many librarians collaborate with one another using such technologies as blogs, wikis, facebook, and twitter.

Here is an article focused on technology and libraries, "10 Technology Ideas Your Library Can Implement Next Week" - http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/features/02092010/10-technology-ideas-your-library-can-implement-next-week

One of the most important tips (for me) is the SMS delivery of patron alerts and notifications. If I could receive patron alerts, etc. via text message, I would never had an overdue book!


I hope you can use this website!

Millennial Professor
Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Digital_Nation: Life on the Digital Frontier" - Millennials and the Digital Environment

Recently, PBS provided one of their documentaries, Digital_Nation: Life on the Digital Frontier, to visitors on their website. This is a very interesting documentary that enables viewers to become exposures to the lives of digital natives (today's high school and college students AND some entry-level employees).

This documentary websites features a quiz titled, "What's Your Digital Parenting Style" and lesson plans for parents and teachers.

Millennial Professor
Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

Hippocampus - A Video Resource for K-12 Educators

My husband, a high school science teacher, uses various websites to engage his students in the classroom. One of the websites he really likes is hippocampus.com. 


This wonderful website provides users with videos of each of the following subjects: Algebra (English and Spanish), American Government, Biology, Calculus (English and Spanish), Environmental Science, Physics, Psychology, Religion, Statistics, and US History.


I hope the website works for your educational needs!


Millennial Professor
Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.

The Flat World Knowledge Textbooks - Free E-Textbooks for College Students

I know the economy is not the best and I strongly believe professors should provide students with affordable textbook options. I am strongly considering the e-textbooks from this website (http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/) for some classes that I will teach in the fall semester. Personally, I think this option might be appropriate for a few of the courses I teach (Business and Professional Speaking and Organizational Communication) - http://www.flatworldknowledge.com/pub/1.0/organizational-behavior/28781. I am interested to see what the students think about the e-book option, because some of my students do not have a laptop computer and/or do not embrace new technological developments.

I know that I will supplement these e-textbooks with scholarly articles and engaging activities, but overall I think it is a good option. In addition, I think that this website may be a good outlet for some supplemental books that I plan to write in the near future.




Millennial Professor
Jennifer T. Edwards, Ed.D.