LIS Courses
I am an Adjunct Faculty member at Long Island University's Palmer School of Library Science, a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, and a Lecturer at San Jose State University. I teach both face-to-face and online graduate-level courses in emerging Web technologies with a focus on their applicability to libraries.
Current Courses
Web 2.0 for Information Professionals
With the advent of Web 2.0, an explosion of new social software tools has emerged enabling users to create, organize, share, and collaborate in an online space. Today's Web users are organizing their favorite bookmarks, collaborating on shared documents, cataloging their personal collections, and sharing their information with others. This hands-on course will explore the features and functionality of Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, RSS, social bookmarking, media sharing, tagging and folksonomies and more. We will look at how libraries are implementing these various tools as well as their potential uses.
For this course, students participate in a custom-developed social networking community created using Drupal technology. Each student has their own detailed user profile and blog, can upload videos, photos, tag items, bookmark items, chat in chat rooms, sign up for events on the course calendar, send private messages, add buddies, and subscribe via RSS feeds. A series of 6 3-minute webcasts teach students how to utilize the website.
- Scheduled for Long Island University's Palmer School of Library Science Fall 2008 in NYC
- Currently being held at Pratt Institute SILS Summer 2008 in NYC
- Currently being held at San Jose State University SLIS Summer 2008 online
- Taught at Long Island University's Palmer School of Library Science Fall 2007 in NYC
