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From the Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam website: "the library is developing away from being a warehouse full of books into an exciting, stimulating and multifarious information source. Once a subdued, still sanctary, now an open house to all who hunger knowledge and recreation".
Great furniture, great lighting, great view!!
The Black Diamond, designed by Danish architects Schmidt Hammer Lassen, is a modern extension to the Royal Danish Library's classic national library. Clad in polished black granite with irregular angles, the extension has been nicknamed the Black Diamond. Completed in 1999, it was the first in a series of large-scale cultural buildings to border Copenhagen's waterfront.
We were privileged, on the study tour, to spend a full day with architect Morten Schmidt. He showcased the Black Diamond, and raced an eager bunch of archi-fans to see the newly constructed The Crystal, an extension of Nykredit Headquarters, a few blocks away. The Crystal is a huge, crystalline building which rests on a single point and a single line, allowing for unhindered views as well as movement around and underneath the building.
Schmidt Hammer Larssen have teamed up with Halifax architects Fowler Bauld & Mitchell for a new Halifax Central Library project. We were lucky to have lead architect George Cotaras from Fowler Bauld & Mitchell with us on the tour as well. Here is a drawing of the Halifax Central Library from the library building website:
CTL pleased to announce that beginning May 16, a team of students will be available to help faculty migrate course materials and populate eLearn course shells to align with the Essential Elements. This should be a great help to those who are working to develop their first eLearn course, and for those who simply need help in developing additional courses.
The student’s areas of responsibilities will include:
Working under the direction of the Instructional Technologists in CTL, each student will have primary responsibility for one School and will be available for 35 hours a week throughout the summer.
As a result of this project, it is hoped that all Mohawk College courses will have a configured eLearn course area by September 2011.
Please join me in welcoming Jason, Richard, Kim, Heather and Maddison to the CTL eLearning Team this summer.
Word Clouds.
See them in The Learning Exchange!
Many thanks to our very talented staff and co-op students for designing this exciting new signage!
The Library is test driving this exciting new collaboration furniture for the new state-of-the-art Collaboratory learning space opening late fall on the 2nd floor of the new Centre for Entrepreneurship, Learning and Innovation. The Steelecase media:scape unit seats one group of 10 or two groups of 4. Users hook up their laptops to the digital media board in one easy step. The testdrive unit has one 42" digital monitor, but most of the Collaboratory units will be equipped with two 32" monitors for enhanced teaching and learning use. The units will be bookable for groups of students, small classes, training sessions, etc. The Collaboratory is designed as a learning space where faculty, students and staff will collaborate to create digital media content for course content and assignments. Drop by the Library this week and take the new media:scape unit for a spin. You'll have to elbow eager students out of your way, however. Students are so thrilled with the new learning space that they are always willing to demo for you (early adopters!) and let you know why this set up works so well for their group assignment and content creation work.
