1) TinEye - http://tineye.com/login
Ian Benton demonstrated this tool that can be used to search for images that are identical, derived from, or similar to a given image. The search universe is several hundred million images, and is expected to grow considerably.
2) Universal Digital Library http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.web/FindMLNativeByID?repl1=UWI27188
Jill Rosenshield showed this collection of digitized texts. If you click on the link “progress report” you can see a summary of the topics and languages included. It has a particularly strong collection of Chinese texts.
3) Doodle - http://www.doodle.de/main.html
Nancy McClements demonstrated this useful scheduling tool open to everyone, not just WiscCal users. (Useful for planning meetings with colleagues off campus.) Users of this scheduling tool can be sent a link and added or removed from the schedule very easily.
4) PicLens - http://www.piclens.com/
Kelli Keclik demonstrated this promising looking image search tool. It gives a user an interface similar to the iPhone. “PicLens transforms your browser into a full-screen, 3D experience for photos and videos across the web.”
5) CoolIris - http://cooliris.com/site/ie/
Kelli also mentioned this helpful related tool that allows you to preview a webpage without having to visit the site. It is “a free browser add-on that lets you preview links and rich media without clicking or leaving your current page, so you can browse the web faster than ever. Simply mouseover your link or our Cooliris icon, and a preview window instantly appears with your content.”
6) Wikis from DoIT – Ian Benton also mentioned that staff at College were investigating a new Wiki application that will be available from DoIT via MyWebSpace soon. It has no project name(that we know of) quite yet, but the possibilities for tying into MyWebSpace are very intriguing!
7) Jott - http://jott.com/
Jim Jonas demonstrated this tool that you can use in coordination with your cell phone to “convert your voice into emails, text messages, reminders, lists and appointments.” There are several different options, but here are two of the more mind boggling: you can set up a group list of email contacts, then call Jott to interact with the list by leaving a voice message which is automatically transcribed to text and then emailed to the list of email contacts. Furthermore, you can leave a voice message with Jott that can also be automatically transformed into a calendar appointment.
8) Retrievr - http://labs.systemone.at/retrievr/
Jim also demonstrated this amazing image search tool that allows you to draw a picture, which the system will try to match up to a real photograph from Flickr.
9) Skitch - http://skitch.com/
Tom Durkin demonstrated this still-image capture and editing application, similar to Jing’s image editing capability.
10) FireShot - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5648
Jim also mentioned this FireFox add on that “creates screenshots of web pages. This plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify captures and insert text and graphical annotations”
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Thursday, June 5, 2008
We have a twin
Catherine Stephens stumbled across this today:
Library Emerging Technologies Group
http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/29/library-emerging-technologies-group/
They say everybody has a twin. I guess ours is "down under."
Library Emerging Technologies Group
http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/03/29/library-emerging-technologies-group/
They say everybody has a twin. I guess ours is "down under."
Friday, May 30, 2008
40 years ago - the "Mother of all Demos" the first mouse, etc
A little computer history for you:
A movie of Douglas Engelbart I found on Google Video, recorded in 1968. The demo of the first mouse, and text editing like cut/paste etc:
"Doug Engelbart: The Demo" also known as the "Mother of all Demos"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097&q=engelbart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
"The Mother of All Demos is a name given to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968 demonstration at the Convention Center in San Francisco. At the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC), Engelbart, with the help of his geographically distributed team, demonstrated the workings of the NLS (which stood for oNLine System) to the 1,000 computer professionals in attendance. The project was the result of work done at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center. The demo featured the first computer mouse the public had ever seen, as well as introducing interactive text, video conferencing, teleconferencing, email and hypertext."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
"He is best known for inventing the computer mouse (in a joint effort with Bill English); as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs..."
A movie of Douglas Engelbart I found on Google Video, recorded in 1968. The demo of the first mouse, and text editing like cut/paste etc:
"Doug Engelbart: The Demo" also known as the "Mother of all Demos"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8734787622017763097&q=engelbart
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos
"The Mother of All Demos is a name given to Douglas Engelbart's December 9, 1968 demonstration at the Convention Center in San Francisco. At the Fall Joint Computer Conference (FJCC), Engelbart, with the help of his geographically distributed team, demonstrated the workings of the NLS (which stood for oNLine System) to the 1,000 computer professionals in attendance. The project was the result of work done at SRI International's Augmentation Research Center. The demo featured the first computer mouse the public had ever seen, as well as introducing interactive text, video conferencing, teleconferencing, email and hypertext."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart
"He is best known for inventing the computer mouse (in a joint effort with Bill English); as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs..."
Physics simulator "phun"
I just ran across this application called "PHUN."
It is a 2D physics simulator created by a Swedish grad student named Emil Ernerfeldt. It is very interesting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5g9VS0ENM
http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki
http://www.vrlab.umu.se/research/phun/
It is a 2D physics simulator created by a Swedish grad student named Emil Ernerfeldt. It is very interesting!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5g9VS0ENM
http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki
http://www.vrlab.umu.se/research/phun/
Friday, April 25, 2008
LILI IT Interest Group Meeting – April 24, 2008
Emily Wixson and SLIS student Lexy Spry demonstrated the video they created for YouTube to teach search techniques to high school students.
- http://www.youtube.com/user/emilyatchemlib
- They used iMovie, the built in microphone in a laptop, and a digital video-camera checked out from the College CMC to build the video.
- http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
- They found that the training offered at the CIMC in how to use iMovie was very good, and in particular Matt Jabaily was very helpful with choosing the correct frame rate and keyframe rate.
- Emily and Lexy created a pre/post test which may or may not be used depending on further experimentation.
- Suggestions from Mark Beatty: record audio as mono, and a low audio sampling rate to further reduce file size. The keyframe rate can be set manually and should be selected at the beginning of stretches of video where the image changes little for number of frames.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_frame
- Emily, Lexy, and Mark all found that the older version of iMovie works better than the newest version.
Group discussion of Carl Berger’s presentations
- http://www.carat.umich.edu/carat/presentations (choose “Wisconsin, The Millennial Instructor”)
- Carl Berger presented a great deal of very interesting data, in particular information about the tech-learning preferences of “digital native students” and students in general, in comparison to faculty/”digital faculty.”
- Mr. Berger posits the existence of “millennial faculty” who combine features of “digital faculty” and “digital native students.”
- Our discussion was very interesting but too much to record...! see Carl Berger’s slides for more information.
Bob Sessions noted that he has been investigating Wink
- http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
- “Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software”
- Bob mentioned that it is a good competitor to Camtasia
- http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
Mark mentioned that Photo Express is a good free photo editor
Tom briefly demoed Google SketchUp
- http://sketchup.google.com/
- This can be used to create realistic-looking 3D models of practically anything; though learning how to use it is not very easy.
Friday, March 28, 2008
LILI IT Interest Group Meeting - March 27th, 2008
Attending: Jim Jonas, Emily Wixson, Karen Dunn, Anne Rauh, Jon Jeffryes, Meridith Thompson, Ian Benton, Bob Sessions, and Tom Durkin.
Bob Sessions – brought in a number of very interesting gadgets to pass around.
1) SanDisk Sansa e200 Series MP3 Players, with 2GB Storage chiphttp://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1166)SanDisk_Sansa_e200_Series_MP3_Players.aspx
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3402959&CatId=2476
a. Storage chip
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?ID=2354
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3402910&CatId=3610
2) Logitech 980409-0403 Headphones with noise canceling circuit
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Logitech%20980409-0403%20Headphones:1993713125
3) Centon 1GB MP3 Player w/ Voice Recorder
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3491935&Sku=C10-1062
Emily Wixson and Karen Dunn – Ever since Emily and Karen gave a presentation top the Advanced Biology class at West High School, Emily has pondered how to engage high school students in library orientation sessions. In the Fall of 2007, Emily was working with a SLIS BI field placement student on collaborative writing with Endnote when she stumbled upon a Goggle Docs YouTube video. Thinking YouTube might be a good medium for high school, she decided to pilot a YouTube video on Boolean operators. Emily's spring 2008 SLIS BI field placement student (Lexy Spry) is creating a 1.5 minute video using equipment from the CIMC and iMovie. The project also included a pre-test and post-test to assess learning. She has arranged with Eliot Finkelstein at College to test the video with upcoming high school visits. Emily and Karen will use the video next fall at West High.
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/
iMovie - http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Anne Rauh/Jon Jeffryes – mentioned the use of YouTube for preserving the videos taken at UW Madison’s Innovation Days in the College of Engineering.
http://studentservices.engr.wisc.edu/innovation/index.html
Ian Benton – Reports that College has been experimenting with the “Twiki” wiki application. This is a free open-source application without required add content. College is using it for creating student circulation training materials, and an accompanying knowledgebase. This wiki has been very useful so far, and includes the unique “TwikiWords” tagging/linking feature. Twiki also allows the administrator to grant different levels of editing rights to each user.
http://twiki.org/
Jim Jonas – The CIMC did a session on “stop paying for software.” A series of sites were referenced here one can get access to free and open source applications to download and use:
Open Source Software Alternative - http://www.osalt.com/
Open Source Windows - http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
Open Source Mac - http://www.opensourcemac.org/
Karen Dunn – This site (KillerStartups) is also great for finding new applications. These additional sites are where I go to find new information about IT developments:
KillerStartups - http://www.killerstartups.com/
Gary Price’s Blog: Resource Shelf - http://www.resourceshelf.com/
Gary Price’s DocuTicker - http://www.docuticker.com/
Jim Jonas – Don’t forget these very good sites for learning about new technology trends:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/
http://flickrvision.com/
http://twittervision.com/
Tom – Also, don’t forget: http://www.download.com/ for finding free software.
Bob Sessions – brought in a number of very interesting gadgets to pass around.
1) SanDisk Sansa e200 Series MP3 Players, with 2GB Storage chiphttp://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1166)SanDisk_Sansa_e200_Series_MP3_Players.aspx
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3402959&CatId=2476
a. Storage chip
http://www.sandisk.com/Products/ProductInfo.aspx?ID=2354
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3402910&CatId=3610
2) Logitech 980409-0403 Headphones with noise canceling circuit
http://shopping.yahoo.com/p:Logitech%20980409-0403%20Headphones:1993713125
3) Centon 1GB MP3 Player w/ Voice Recorder
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3491935&Sku=C10-1062
Emily Wixson and Karen Dunn – Ever since Emily and Karen gave a presentation top the Advanced Biology class at West High School, Emily has pondered how to engage high school students in library orientation sessions. In the Fall of 2007, Emily was working with a SLIS BI field placement student on collaborative writing with Endnote when she stumbled upon a Goggle Docs YouTube video. Thinking YouTube might be a good medium for high school, she decided to pilot a YouTube video on Boolean operators. Emily's spring 2008 SLIS BI field placement student (Lexy Spry) is creating a 1.5 minute video using equipment from the CIMC and iMovie. The project also included a pre-test and post-test to assess learning. She has arranged with Eliot Finkelstein at College to test the video with upcoming high school visits. Emily and Karen will use the video next fall at West High.
YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/
iMovie - http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/
Anne Rauh/Jon Jeffryes – mentioned the use of YouTube for preserving the videos taken at UW Madison’s Innovation Days in the College of Engineering.
http://studentservices.engr.wisc.edu/innovation/index.html
Ian Benton – Reports that College has been experimenting with the “Twiki” wiki application. This is a free open-source application without required add content. College is using it for creating student circulation training materials, and an accompanying knowledgebase. This wiki has been very useful so far, and includes the unique “TwikiWords” tagging/linking feature. Twiki also allows the administrator to grant different levels of editing rights to each user.
http://twiki.org/
Jim Jonas – The CIMC did a session on “stop paying for software.” A series of sites were referenced here one can get access to free and open source applications to download and use:
Open Source Software Alternative - http://www.osalt.com/
Open Source Windows - http://www.opensourcewindows.org/
Open Source Mac - http://www.opensourcemac.org/
Karen Dunn – This site (KillerStartups) is also great for finding new applications. These additional sites are where I go to find new information about IT developments:
KillerStartups - http://www.killerstartups.com/
Gary Price’s Blog: Resource Shelf - http://www.resourceshelf.com/
Gary Price’s DocuTicker - http://www.docuticker.com/
Jim Jonas – Don’t forget these very good sites for learning about new technology trends:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/
http://flickrvision.com/
http://twittervision.com/
Tom – Also, don’t forget: http://www.download.com/ for finding free software.
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