Student Photo Competition at ECU

Edith Cowan University (ECU) Centre for Learning and Development and the Library are partners in an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) research project to investigate student opinions about learning spaces around the University.

Students will be invited to take photos of different learning spaces at ECU and to submit those photos with their positive or negative comments during the month of October.

ECU is offering prizes for the best entries to all currently enrolled ECU students.

See the more information about the competition here.

WA Library Unconference 2009

If you work in a library, use the libraries, think about libraries or want to take a part in making a change of your library, there will be Library Camp in Perth early next month.

There are only 100 places available for this event, and I heard so far there are at least 79 people have registered. Here is the details:

Date: Saturday, 3 October 2009
Time: 9:30am for a 10am start. 4pm finish.
Venue: Central TAFE, 140 Royal St, East Perth.
Cost: No financial cost but everyone is expected to actively contribute.
Catering: Lunch and coffee/tea will be provided free of charge during the day

In this event, anyone can prepare topics, but sessions are decided on the day. Everyone is expected to participate by either presenting, joining in the discussion or doing another job. In principle, whoever turns up is the right person and whatever he/she discusses is the right thing.

Dr Michael Stephens, Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Dominican University and author of the influential "Tame the Webblog", will also be a special guest participant in this event.

Some of the topics of the discussion include:
1. iPhone apps
2. RFID
3. Drupal for Library Websites
4. Mandatory Internet Filtering in Australia
5. Library of 2019
6. Zotero vs Refworks vs Endnote Cage Match
7. New Library Tools
8. etc

If you are interested to come, you may check the registration process here.

Sharing Video with Family and Friends

Youtube has become the most well-known platform to share your videos for the last few years.

However, sometimes you may have any private video that you would only like to share with our loved ones. Youtube enables you to do that, but each of your contacts need to have Youtube user ID and accept your invitation in order to be able to view your video. You can set that only friends are able to comment your video, but the video is not private and available for public viewing.

Google videos used to provide a service that enables you to upload your video to Google videos and share it only to few designated people by sending a link to their email, just like Picasa 3, the Google photo sharing platform. Unless your recipients forward it to other people, the video will only be available to them.



Yet, this service is no longer available. Google videos is currently only a Video Search Machine, where you could only search and videos taken from Youtube and other websites, but you can’t upload and share your own video anymore using Google uploader.

Currently, one of good tools to share a private video is using Gabble. Developed by HP, Gabble is an easy tool to upload your video and send its link to your designated contacts by email. Your recipients will only need to click the link and they can view your video without having to be the Gabble members. Nevertheless, if you become a Gabbler, you can participate or make your own private community to discuss the video with your network. Gabble is also a collaborative tool for business and education.