I’ve mentioned the series of guides from the Educause Learning Initiative (ELI) before (quodlibs 157).    Now, a piece on them in Seb Schmoller’s newsletter sent me back to check on progress.

Back then, there were just two:   one on clickers, and one on social bookmarking.    Now there are a further seven:    collaborative editing; instant messaging; blogs; videoblogging; wikis; podcasting; and augmented reality. (The latter is sometimes called talking building syndrome:   you know, you’re walking past Big Ben, minding your own business, and suddenly your mobile starts up with “Hi, I’m Big Ben.    I was built in . . . .”    You get the picture.)

They are as they started out:   short, succinct and sensible; balanced introductions to often over-hyped but still potentially useful techniques.

A similar idiot’s guide comes in Google’s (newish?) occasional newsletter for librarians (again courtesy of Seb).    It’s a brief account to how Google works, written from within the caverns of Google itself.    Nothing most of us don’t already know (or think we know), but a good introduction nonetheless.

Sources:   Educause guides
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