Posts tagged distance education

Overall summary of unCOILed experience

Jul 30th

Posted by Heather Braum in Conferences Notes

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Overall, I was quite thankful I came down for unCOILed. Always good to meet librarians from other areas and states. As continuing education moves more and more toward a distance or online environment, workshops like this one, focusing on distance education for academic librarians,  are really needed for those in continuing education or who do a lot of training.

I’m beginning to learn and see that there are methods that work and methods that don’t work. People have different learning styles, and I think because many times you’re on your own learning, you have make much more effort to address each More >

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Teaching with Chat

Jul 30th

Posted by Heather Braum in Conferences Notes

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Using the IM reference exchange to teach information literacy skills

Kathryn Plunkett, SOSU

“give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime” -chinese proverb

I took some notes on this session, but I honestly was tired by the time this one rolled around, and had a hard time staying focused by this point. Presenter was great; I just was overloaded by this point. As a result, I’m not posting all my notes here. They really won’t make sense (they barely make sense to me!).

Session Summary

Chat reference can More >

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If You Widget It: They Might Use It

Jul 30th

Posted by Heather Braum in Conferences Notes

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Building Library Widgets for your Online Learning Platforms

Amanda Lemon, OCCC & Toni Hoberecht, OU-Tulsa

Presentation webpage

From the presenters’ setup, it looked like it would be fun, even though we’d be talking about HTML some.

Presenters are at two different institutions; two different learning platforms.

Widgets are small boxes of code that can be embedded in websites.

Explanation of a widget using a bottle of wine, using a Prezi presentation & live props.

  • Bottle of wine–>decanter–>wine glass.
  • Bottle of wine–>winery aerator place in glass–>instantly funnels the wine into the glass. (This is a widget).

Widget::Wine analogy

  • Bottle of wine (rich): this is the resources, the OPAC, the databases
  • Decanter: URL/hyperlinks
  • Glass More >
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unCOILED workshop Keynote panel

Jul 30th

Posted by Heather Braum in Conferences Notes

The keynote panel is comprised of the presenters of the different sessions today. Interesting idea. A way for everyone to hear at a least a bit from each of the sessions:

  • Elizabeth Jones, OCU
  • David Oberhelman, Hui-Fen Chang, and Helen Clements, OSU
  • Dennis Miles, SOSU
  • Amanda Lemon, OCCC and Toni Hoberecht, OU-Tulsa
  • Kathryn Plunkett, SOSU
  • Casey Ashe, TCC

Describe the project you will be talking about today, and the biggest roadblock you overcame on the way to implementing it.

  • IM chat: not just supply the answer and but teach those at the other end how to find the answer; had to learn from others
  • Widgets: Will be able More >
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