GTCC Library Art Show, April, 2007

GTCC Library Art Show, April, 2007

GTCC alumni, employees, and students submitted over 100 works of art. Thank you all!

Of special note are the works produced by Greensboro CED students under the direction of Wilma Murphy, Reanna Coleman, Marva Mathis, and Tracey Thompson. Aren't they wonderful?

Click on a picture to start the show.

Internationalizing the Curriculum : Pakistan

Here are some del.icio.us links for you, compiled by GTCC's own Conchita McNeal
While you're there, check out other school-related links we've found for you.

Wikis can be useful

What is a wiki?
Well, where else to get the definition?? --according to Wikipedeia, "A wiki (IPA: [ˈwɪ.kiː] or [ˈwiː.kiː][1]) is a website that allows visitors to add, remove, edit and change content, typically without the need for registration. It also allows for linking among any number of pages. This ease of interaction and operation makes a wiki an effective tool for mass collaborative authoring.

Ever pass meeting minutes around the group for approval? And several members send the Word document back with their revisions, then you have to add each person's revision to the original document? Ooops! Which one is the original? I now have five copies ... etc.

Wikis can solve the problem. Put the minutes up on the wiki, and everyone can make their edits directly. The wiki tracks who made edits, what they were, and when. Fix everything in a single document, and when you're done...well, you're done.

Wikis are also searchable, which means you can run a search on all your minutes to find out who said what and when.

PBwiki is a good, free, very easy to use wiki. They like educators and provide ad-free space for us.

Take a PBwiki tour

Watch some PBwiki educator videos

Watch out for Word 2007

There is a new version of Microsoft Office, v.7. Previous versions of Word, Excel, etc. will not read files created with the new version.

Go here to get Microsoft's program to fix this.

Bon chance!

The Future of Books?

This is an interesting article from The Economist that examines what might become of our dearly beloved books as more and more are digitized and made available online.