Posted in Higher Education, Library, Podcasts, Student Placements, Web 2.0 on June 30, 2007 | No Comments »
My student (Minzah) has been moving right along with her learning, and a fair bit of it is self driven as I like to see my students become independent in the workplace. As this is what it will be like for them when they hit the real world.
Minzah was given a task to create an [...]
Posted in NLS4 Melbourne 2008, Professional Associations on June 28, 2007 | No Comments »
As a result of one of the many interviews I was involved in a few weeks ago, our team has selected ICMS as the PCO (Professional Conference Organiser) for the NLS4 Melbourne 2008 Conference. (NLS=New Librarians Symposium) The PCO will take alot of the headache out of organising the conference for us newbies. It can [...]
Posted in Intranet, Launch on June 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Donna - ex Intranet Chick - has made a great comment on my site about our intranet launch. And I agree with her, people are busy, and the intranet is just not seen as important to them, in terms of their everyday work. The intranet seems to seemlessly intergrate into their work, and a new [...]
Posted in Photos on June 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Billabong in the NT taken at a cashew farm next to Kakadu. I just love the effects created by the sky and the water…
Posted in Higher Education, Library, Podcasts, Student Placements, Web 2.0 on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
I thought it would be a good idea if you heard from my student. She has also given permission for me to put her name on this site.
Here’s what she has to say about her placement so far…and, it’s her first blog…
Minzah Hussain, RMIT, 2nd year…
My first week is already over and it feels like [...]
Posted in Intranet, Web 2.0 on June 23, 2007 | No Comments »
My Library Intranet Portal was a relatively static page until about a month ago. Currently I receive about 8 to 12 emails a day from various news sources, then staff need to send me an email and sign up to each individually and manually, and when staff leave, I then need to take them off [...]
Posted in Podcasts, Student Placements, Web 2.0 on June 22, 2007 | No Comments »
…has been a success. She has been involved in a range of activities. Many of them are self driven, which includes the library induction podcasting activity.
Today I showed her how to use our Wiki to ensure collaboration with Katy and myself with regards to filling in the gaps on her podcasting activity. Meaning, she can [...]
Posted in Photos, Rainfall on June 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is not one of my pics, but a friends, taken in March, of the bottom of our dam. I know many people have seen images like this, but for me it’s a record of how bad things have been on our property during the long dry spell, that we are now coming out of. [...]
Posted in Photos, Snow on June 20, 2007 | No Comments »
…it’s time to get away from it all, here’s a pic of high country hut up at Dinner Plain…
Posted in Intranet, Launch, Technology on June 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Okay, so all motions were set in place for the Intranet Launch this morning.
My email informing our 270 colleagues of the new intranet was sent at 6.30am (thanks to outlooks’ abilities to schedule when my email will be sent). With a login script ensuring everyones browser opened up with the new intranet address, and all [...]
