Mike Madin's blog

Academic Blogs
by Mike Madin | Fri, 01/16/2009 - 20:03

Although there are thousands of academic and educational blogs here are a few of my favorites:Digital Referencehttp://www.teachinglibrarian.org/weblog/blogger.html"News and views on chat reference, IM reference, email reference, VoIP reference, video reference, SMS reference, phone reference, roving reference, and face-to-face reference."

Keeping Current on Educational Web Resources
by Mike Madin | Fri, 01/16/2009 - 15:20

One of the major challenges facing educators and researchers is keeping current of the many new online resources becoming available every day.  With so much trash being posted on the Internet it is very useful to find several quality "What's New" mailing lists, blogs, or websites to find out what other educators or librarians have discovered to be new quality online resources. The following is a listing of a few of my favorites I consulted to keep Academic Info current.

Potential of Online Education in Developing Countries
by Mike Madin | Wed, 12/03/2008 - 00:02

While traveling through rural Mexico recently I couldn't help but wonder why the potential for online education, both academic and vocational training, is not being realized in developing countries. Browsing the Mexico Channel under Education their page of Online Courses contains no listings. While the use of technology is high among the youth with cell phones and text messaging popular in urban areas the digital revolution is still slow to make much progress in rural Mexico.

U.S. Presidential Election and the Internet
by Mike Madin | Thu, 11/06/2008 - 22:59

Congrats to Obama for a great victory and for energizing many of us to reflect once again on the ideals of the United States .

Welcome and Introduction
by Mike Madin | Fri, 10/24/2008 - 12:21

Welcome to the AcademicInfo Blog. My name is Michael Madin and in 1998 I created AcademicInfo as an online directory of educational resources freely available on the Internet. As a student of comparative religion at the University of Washington and later as a technical services specialist at the Gallagher Law Library also at the University of Washington I witnessed the lack of quality directories of authoritative educational Internet resources and created Academic Info to fill this void.