The Tipping Point on Power Point?

Research from the University of New South Wales explains why those power point slides may not be getting the job done. How often do you rely on Power Point for your instructional classes or presentations?

MS Office v.7 and File Compatability

You may already be aware of this, but older versions of MS Office will not read files (Excel, Word, etc.) created with the updated version. If your office or campus is upgrading to Word 2007, you can go here for Microsoft's program that fixes the problem. Hat tip: GTCC's Library Blog.

Online Education

Here's a list of online education tools, tips, and resources from the Alberta Distance Education and Training association; worth taking a look at if your job intersects with the Distance Education department at your campus.

Google Book Project at U-M

Interesting article about the Google Book project and the collection at the University of Michigan library.

Bibliographic Citation Software

If you fall into the camp of making things easy for students, you may be interested in adding one or more of the following bibliographic citation software links to your library's web pages:

• OttoBib - Generates citation by ISBN number
• NoodleBibExpress - Generates MLA and APA citations
• Son of Citation Machine - Generates MLA, APA, Chicago Style citations
• EasyBib - Free version generates MLA citations
• KnightCite - Generates NLA, APA, Chicago style citations; from Calvin College (MI)
  

Other citation products may require software downloads, the creation of a user account, etc. All of the above only require the student to go to the web page, create the citation, and copy the citation into their document.

Google Book and Academic Research

I doubt many of our CC students will use Google Book to this extent, but here's an interesting article from a blogger who is using it for dissertation research.