Posts tagged instruction

Creating 21st Century Information-Literacy Programs

Mar 23rd

Posted by Heather Braum in Computers in Libraries

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Rick Bearden and Emily Mitchell, Ferris State University

PILOT (Project Information Literacy Online Tutorial); Texas Information Tutorial (TILT)

One of the best things about TILT is you don’t have to recreate the wheel; it’s free.

bad: out-dated; ugly

Library Orientation all online students at Ferris State would take. PILOT was out-of-date. But limited on time: had to reorganize and restructure physical library.

New tutorial criteria

  • modular (student can just come in and take relevant part and then apply)
  • linkable (point of need)
  • easy to update (PILOT hadn’t been updated in years; not easy to update!)
  • interactive (old, boring: lots of text, bad; interactivity would need to be easily editable)

Interface features supporting criteria

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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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