Pru Mitchell
- Location
- Adelaide, SA, Australia
- Organisation
- education.au
- Sector
- More than one sector
- Interests
- me-edu-au, metadata, libraries, Professional Associations, OzProjects, CEGSA, Virtual Learning Environments, Professional development, web2ools, QR Codes
- Blog
- Pru Mitchell
Pru blogs
University of Adelaide

I found this image in Wikimedia Commons (thanks Pfctdayelise) and am using it at a workshop for practice in inserting images in blogs.
We think that 200 pixels is about the right width for images in this blog.
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librariessa
universities
Posted at 02:26PM Aug 29, 2008
by Pru Mitchell |
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Colleagues
This afternoon I am getting started on research for an article on
social networking, and interested to find that according to the OED
'colleague' is one of those nouns that can be 'verbed'. A pretty
obscure, historical usage that may have found renewed purpose. So when
we link up with a colleague in me.edu.au it is quite correct 'to
colleague' them - we just have to get used to saying it.
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showme
social networking
me-edu-a
Posted at 05:48PM Aug 09, 2008
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Prehistoric digital footprints
Updating my CV this afternoon for the first time in 7 years I was amazed to find in the ERIC archive some very early publications that I thought were available only in boxes packed in the garage. I certainly didn't have a digital copy.
One of them was: Mitchell, P. & Indermauer, J. 1997. Selecting a second generation automation system, in Dillon, K. School library automation in Australia 2nd ed, Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, pp. 143-159.
The scanning is very rough with no OCR, but some of the content has stood the test of time. I wish I'd followed this checklist more closely since then - "global change on authority records" and "can customise search screen to suit users" particularly made me wince.
I don't know what generation we are up to now, but with South Australia and ACT departments both reviewing library systems again it seems a good time to revisit this kind of document. What are the priorities for library administration systems for the next 5 years? A few to get started with...
- fast, single search across physical resources and digital content
- easy user uploading, cataloguing, tagging, bookmarking, rating, annotating, linking, editing and exporting
- made for mobile
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libraries archives
Posted at 04:44PM Jun 28, 2008
by Pru Mitchell |
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Statistical literacy
Services and resources from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to support statistical literacy.[Read More]
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statistics
resources
digital literacies
multiliteracies
Posted at 11:43PM Jun 16, 2008
by Pru Mitchell |
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Fun with tags
Wordle lets you create a once-off tag cloud and apply different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. Could be good as an information literacy tool that shows students the main points of a document or essay.[Read More]
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eportfolio
web2ools
tagging
aslaxx
Posted at 10:39AM Jun 15, 2008
by Pru Mitchell |
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e-pd project 2008: the partners
An introduction to the SLASA e-pd project 2008 'Learning with Web 2.0'
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learning
professional
professional associations
slasa
libraries
web2
e-pd
Posted at 10:27PM Jun 10, 2008
by Pru Mitchell |
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Search relevance my way
Rate my search results in Wikia
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search
quality
personalisation
wikia
Posted at 07:10AM Jun 04, 2008
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