by Derek Morrison, 1 August 2012 I love RadioLab’s topic range plus its overall quirkiness and envy Robert Krulwich’s (NPR Science Correspondent and one of the RadioLab co-presenters) ability to simplify and communicate sometimes complex concepts. In particular, I draw attention to Download article as PDF
Archive for the ‘Resource discovery’ Category
RSA Animate – synergising animation and speech?
April 10th, 2011
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by Derek Morrison, 10 April 2011 If you haven’t come across the RSA Animate resources yet then head there post haste; the site offers many items that should be of interest to digital scholars. To me the RSA Animate resources are an excellent example of how further value can be added to what was once […]
Where’s our Forum Network?
April 6th, 2010
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by Derek Morrison, 6 April 2010 The following posting reflects the perspectives and opinions of the author alone and should not be construed as necessarily representing the views of any other individual or organisation. In an earlier posting Are you digital natives paying attention? (Auricle, 6 February 2010) I highlighted the excellent US PBS Digital […]
JISC eBooks and Google Generation podcasts
October 15th, 2009
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JISC offers a growing archive of podcasts. The 15 September 2009 podcast e-Books provide ‘safety valve’ for librarians caught my eye (and ears). Those interested in how ebooks may impact on scholarly information sharing and dissemination may find the findings of the underlying research by the National E-Books Observatory Project most interesting. Key points of […]
Cincinnati Edition podcast strikes clear note for iTunes U
October 13th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 13 October 2009 Here’s an example from the world of podcasts. WVXU Cincinnati has a weekly programme called Cincinnati Edition with a Focus on Technology item also offered as a podcast. The 24 August 2008 edition in particular was of note (MP3). Its strapline says “More and more colleges and universities are […]
Why Mendeley?
September 18th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison (first posted 7 September 2009, updated 18 September 2009) With the strapline “Organize, share and discover research papers” Mendeley is clearly pitching its hat into the academic software ring. There is certainly an interesting mix of people behind this enterprise who have obviously decided that there is a business opening not currently […]
Books are a networked object?
July 6th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 6 July 2009 There was a most interesting feature about the Open Library initiative titled The Library that Never Closes in last week’s Guardian (2 July 2009) which I think is worth reading. Here’s a few snippets to encourage you to read the full article. “Imagine books more as a networked object, […]
Come all you Masters of Finance
June 7th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 7 June 2009 The poetry/song inclinations of this posting is a bit unusual for Auricle but there are connections with both Higher Education and the digital zeitgeist. In one of my other lives I’m a closet folky albeit one who plays the guitar badly and sings even more terribly but, arguably, I’m […]
Audio: for the discerning learner
March 12th, 2009
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by Derek Morrison, 12 March 2009. I’m a big fan of speech radio so my attention was attracted to the short article Knowledge via radio: Learn in waves (Times Online, 8 March 2009). Later in the week I listened to a really interesting programme in the BBC Radio 4 Analysis series called Clever.com (BBC Radio […]
