Thanks for the great international relocation resources.

In the UK, we have Relocate Magazine which has a website with a huge amount of content - relocation news & views, relocation guides and even a relocation jobs board. I'm sure your readers would fine it very useful if they we considering relocating to the UK.

www.relocatemagazine.com

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For those of you in SL or who are studying virtual worlds and education, there are many things going on in SL beginning this month.

The schedule for the new Real Life Librarians in SL speaker series for the first 3 months is:

Biblio Latte, military librarian - 1/20/09 @ 6 PM SLT
Honoria Paine, academic technical services and library systems librarian, working full time in SL 2/17/09 @ 6 PM SLT
Pipsqueak Fiddlesticks, community college librarian - 3/17/09 @ 6 PM SLT

We would love to get the word out to all LIS students, thanks!

Other librarians wishing to speak at these sessions should contact Abbey Zenith (in SL). They are taking place on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, but we can accommodate other schedules occasionally. Thanks!

I am Veronica Piers in SL. You can also ask me questions here.

Another thing going on in Second Life is March 27 to 29 the 2009 Virtual Worlds Best Practices Conference. They are currently looking for volunteers to help with the virtual conference in SL and to present papers. see this link for more information: http://www.slpbe.org/

Jeanne

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Hello!

So, I was thinking about making my own website and getting started on my e-portfolio. The thing is, I'm totally clueless about how to get started...I've never made my own website before. (I'm also going to make this thing so that I can show that I've learned how to do it...but that's not why I'm posting...)

I was wondering if any of you have made your own site, and how you chose your server and host, etc. Which ones are you using? I'm looking around, and it's a big internet out there, with everyone trying to sell me their hosting services! Who do I pick??

Thanks a lot!

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Greetings! I am a new SLIS MLIS student. I see that no one has posted since May, so I'll start! I am taking LIBR 200, 202, 203 and 204 this semester. Any advice out there?

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Establishing a system of organization early on for your materials will help when it comes time to do your e-Portfolio. The following is an example.

Create a folder for each class and within each of these create more folders: Assignments, Lectures, Handouts, Powerpoints, E-Portfolio, pertinent Discussion Board Posts, etc. Within these folders organize by assignment, if necessary: (Assignment 1: Instructions, Blank Assignment Page,Rough Drafts, Files Turned In, Instructor Feedback, etc.)

In the E-Portfolio folder for each class, keep a copy of the Green Sheet, Course Calendar, screenshot of the Roster (with email addresses), your grades, and a Word Doc called E-Portfolio. On this document, log: Class name, professor, professor's contact info, semester you were in the class, teams worked on, team member names and contact info, lists of the exact file used to turn in final product for each assignment (very helpful, especially when you go through several drafts and revisions) and all of the competencies potentially supported by this class and what piece of evidence might be used to show that it supports this competency. This might sound like a lot of work, but it's really not if you start with everything organized in this way. At the end of each semester, just take some time to put some info into this "E-Portfolio" page for each class.

Finally, keep all emails organized by class. Some of them may come in handy for proof of team work, leadership skills, etc.

You can contact your advisor as early as your first semester and begin getting an idea of what he or she expects for the e-Portfolio. Your advisor might even let you enroll in his/her 289 Blackboard class. This will allow you to see all posted guidelines for the Portfolio and to keep an eye on the Discussion Board where people who are currently working on it are talking. Also, the Plone site you will (probably) create for your portfolio can be established at any time.

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The SJSUMLIS Yahoo group recently had a heated discussion about the upcoming fee hikes.
Many of us pay a higher rate for the same class because of our zip code and that is not equitable.
A high number of students expect that LISSTEN will actively fight back for us.

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Just to let you guys know. Wetpaint is currently having problems with this feature. It seems there's a bug. So far, some SLISsers pages are searchable while others are not. Hopefully this will change soon otherwise, there isn't necessarily a point to reprinting SLIS Descriptor articles in this format.

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What is that sound I hear whenever I open this page? It's hilarious.

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