Social Computing Applications at SSU

Blogs

Pacific Crime Blog: A blog dealing with crime, media, and criminology and criminal justice in the Pacific Region of the U.S. (Patrick Jackson, Criminal Justice)
The Organization Development Blog: Dialogues with Saul Eisen about OD Theory and Practice (Saul Eisen, Psychology)
Bad Astronomy Blog: The Good, the Bad, the Astronomy (Phil Plait, Physics and Astronomy). Science, space, astronomy, skepticism, and the latest news
A Year in Shanghai: Our life teaching at Sanda University in China (SSALI -- 8 SSU graduate students . Metcalfe (Santa Rosa); Elwin Parker-Morris (Felton); Brian Sweeney (La Verne); Elizabeth Goodrich (Grass Valley); Eileen O'Brien (Santa Rosa); Lauren Castro (Modesto); Wendy Tappon (Oxnard); Kristin Cozort (Pacific Grove))

At the Library: what’s new & cool at the University Library. feeds on to the library’s home page and provides library with a space to announce events, etc.
Snoopings: interesting tidbits gleaned from the ‘net. Current issues and developments in information that affect higher education, as well as cool new information resources & websites
ERMBlog(passworded): internal blog for project management and documentation of a new technology implementation project, the Electronic Resources Management module of the catalog
Technical Twists (passworded): internal blog used by library staff to alert each other to ongoing issues that affect public service desks, such as database problems & news, campus-wide alerts, library building issues, and groups in the house, to name a few

UNIV 150: Identity and Global Change (Proposed 2006/2007; Mar. 20, 2006 draft):
- Writing assigned: Begin posting one weekly blog about your student experience (see sample blog by peer mentors from Wed pm).
- Assignment: Write a blog entry about what information and a library are to you; how you interact with information; how your interactions with information and technology have changed in the last five years. (B5, D1, D7)