Comments on: Creepy Treehouse http://historying.org/2008/06/30/creepy-treehouse/ thoughts on scholarship and history in a digital age Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:44:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Barbara http://historying.org/2008/06/30/creepy-treehouse/#comment-58 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 17:23:41 +0000 http://cameronblevins.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-58 I originally thought “chat with a librarian” was lame, especially on my mostly residential campus, it turns out to be quite useful for troubleshooting technical problems (“why isn’t my interlibrary loan request working?”) or answering pretty simple questions like “how do you cite a blog post in MLA format?” Students with more complicated questions come to the library and sit down for a real chat.

If librarians started IMing students to ask if they had any questions or asking to be buddies … that would be creepy treehouse.

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]]> By: John Krutsch http://historying.org/2008/06/30/creepy-treehouse/#comment-12 Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:25:35 +0000 http://cameronblevins.wordpress.com/?p=16#comment-12 I think your conclusion here is spot on. You said that the problem with a CTH is that it is a “heavy-handed, rigid, top-down approach to utilizing technology that is itself inherently fluid, flexible, and often geared towards a bottom-up or horizontal structure.”

When educators are already using web2.0 technologies and are themselves naturally active in social networking environments the odds of having built a CTH will be low.

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