Writely

Another collaboration tool I've recently signed up for is Writely, which lets you share word processed documents. You can import a document from Word or create it in Writely and invite whoever you want to view and/or edit it. It beats sending files back and forward as attachments via email.

As you may have guessed from recent posts I'm experimenting with ways of writing a paper with someone in another location - a university 'down the road a piece' from here.

Seething with life

Suddenly there are alot of people about. What was, until last week, a quiet, almost deserted campus is suddenly seething with life.

I get an odd idea, at this time of year, that someone might actually read this blog. I'm not sure that a librarian's blog is all that appealing in terms of reading matter but sometimes, when you know you really should be reading the set text, almost anything is more appealing, so you never know. Anyway, if you are a new student and you're reading this - hello and welcome!

Gliffy!

I found something that's both fun and useful. It's called Gliffy and it's a way of creating and sharing diagrams, flow-charts, floor-plans, mindmaps etc. The benefit of sharing diagrams created in Gliffy is that you can work collaboratively on them, from any pc.

Conference : The International Learner: Enhancing the student experience.

I was lucky enough to spend the last two days out of the office at a conference put on by the Business School. We were looking at the international student experience. This left me mulling over the usefulness of generalisations. It can be useful, in terms of providing services, to know that students from other parts of the world may be more likely to have problems with this or that or the other thing, but generalisations are positively unhelpful if we start trying to apply them to individuals. No one likes to be treated as a 'type' rather than as a person.

Something else it left me mulling over is that no one else in the world seems to like English food.