The Kept-Up Academic Librarian

The Keeping Up Web Site Is Now Up-To-Date

I've been receiving a number of e-mails over the last few months chastising me for having a web site called "The Keeping Up Web Site" that wasn't being kept up-to-date. When I moved from Philadelphia University to Temple University it took longer than expected to bring the site back to the point where it could be maintained, not to mention that I moved it to a unique domain and gave the site a major revision. But the site is now far more updated and KUAL readers may find it of interest particularly the section on higher education resources for keeping up. I hope you will take a look at the updated Keeping Up Web Site. If you have any suggestions for resources to add to the site please pass them along.

How Calhoun Keeps Up

In his latest column for Campus Technology, Terry Calhoun asks, "How do you get the news?" and talks about some of the resources he uses for staying up to date with higher education, world news, and more. I was surprised that he doesn't yet use RSS technology (but probably will eventually) - and that he neglects to mention Kept-Up as part of his regimen for daily higher education news. Perhaps he'll discover it soon. Read more at:
http://www.campus-technology.com/news_article.asp?id=18641&typeid=153

SmartClassroom Newsletter Debuts

The folks at Campus Technology have renamed their Teaching Enabled Technology newsletter SmartClassroom. It seems that courseware will still be the focus, but it appears to have been broadened to include presentation and display technologies. The first issue features items on podcasting and multimedia development. To learn more or subscribe go to:
http://newsletters.101com.com/etg/n.asp?pc=HWEB01&nl=42,67,68

del.icio.us tags: campus-technology smartclassroom instructional-technology higher-education

New Online Higher Education Journal

If you are looking for another interesting source of peer review content in the field of higher education you might want to take a look at a new open access journal I just discovered titled Higher Education Perspectives. It covers a broad range of topics, including student affairs, comparative higher education, tuition, community colleges, and more. You can sign up to be notified by e-mail when new issues are available. Read more at:
http://aries.oise.utoronto.ca/highered/index.php

del.icio.us tags: journal higher-education-perspectives higher-education highereducation

Feeling And Dealing With The Information Overload

Books are being scanned to make them searchable on the Internet. Television broadcasts are being recorded and archived for online posterity. Radio shows, too, are getting their digital conversion — to podcasts. Will all this instantly accessible information make us much smarter, or simply more stressed? When can we break to think, absorb and ponder all this data? While it contains comments from faculty and students this article is not specifically about higher education, but rather the amounts of information with which we are deluged. It ponders if having access to all this information makes us smarter or ultimately more likely to just settle for whatever information we find first - or just tune out all together. Read more at: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10539958/from/ET/

Directory Of IHE RSS Feeds

I think this is a fairly new directory so there may not be much here yet, but this has real potential as a good site for finding RSS feeds from colleges and universities. They categorize the feeds into areas such as faculty/staff, technology, podcasts, and yes, libraries. Find it at:
http://directory.edufeeds.com/

Campus Technology - A New Newsletter

The folks at Campus Technology have a new (or is it just a newly revised version of an existing one) newsletter called Technology Enabled Teaching. In any case I got the first issue today and I it looks quite useful. Take a look at:
http://www.campus-technology.com/news_issue.asp?id=154

Latest Issues of EDUCAUSE Journals Now Available

The latest issues of both EDUCAUSE Quarterly and EDUCAUSE Review are now available online. As always there appear to be some great articles about technology in higher education. ER is found at: http://www.educause.edu/apps/er/erm05/erm052.asp and EQ is found at: http://www.educause.edu/apps/eq/eqm05/eqm051.asp

Inside Higher Ed Presents Challenge To Chronicle

Kept-Up told you about Inside Higher Ed, a new source of information about the higher education industry, a few weeks ago. In today's New York Times an article profiles the folks behind this new resource (formerly with the Chronicle), and how it may present a challenge to the Chronicle of Higher Education's dominance as the "giant in the field". Read more at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/14/business/media/14education.html

Where The News Comes From

There are actually quite a few good e-newsletters that cover news and developments in the field of higher education. The Chronicle of Higher Education is an obvious source - and subscribers get a daily e-report. I'll do what I can to avoid feeding back what the Chronicle reports - enough sources already do that. For a technology perspective I look to news from Educause. They offer Edupage and Educause Online.. Also providing a technology perspective are several newsletters from the folks at Syllabus Magazine. They offer Syllabus Online, Syllabus IT, and Syllabus CMS. I'll also be monitoring several news sources that focus on news being made at different IHEs or their top administrations. Some of the better ones include University Business, Converge Online, and CollegeNews.org. There are a few others, but you can get more sources at the Higher Education Page at my Keep Up Site. But if you prefer not to follow all of these yourself, you can follow this blog. As I always say, if someone else is reading these things and summarizing them, you can spend your time "keeping up" with other sources.