Author: Paul R. Pival
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Not quite ready for prime time
A while ago I compared the Qarbon ViewletBuilder to Wink. A colleague and I just finished putting together a presentation we’ll be delivering virtually at a local conference – Best Practices in eLearning. The idea is that we’re going to deliver this Powerpoint w/o actually standing there to deliver it. Many of the other presenters…
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Directions and Files For Integrating TILT Into Blackboard 6.0
An eBuddy of mine, Gary Roberts at Alfred University, has just posted some very comprehensive step-by-step instructions for importing TILT into BlackBoard. I haven’t followed the instructions yet, but Gary’s been playing with TILT and BlackBoard for at least a year now, so I’m thinking he’s got it down pretty good by now. Thanks Gary!…
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Call for Papers
Academic Exchange Quarterly has a call for papers for a theme issue on Altenative Library Instruction – a shoe-in for us distance folk! Focus: The goal of this issue will be to provide examples of alternative library instruction created by librarians or faculty members in all settings, K-12, public, academic, special, etc., that can be…
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Free Online Books
An entry from Open Access News discusses free online books available from the U of California Press and National Academy Press. I knew about the latter, but not the former. Didn’t see much to recommend to my particular group of distance students, but you might find something relevant for yours. Apparently UC Press offers MARC…
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Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
Wow, talk about convoluted! This was mentioned in ResearchBuzz, and I pass it on here for anyone who’s maybe doing digitization projects for their distance students… Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the United States
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Library Instruction.Com – Resources for Library Instruction.
Just found this website, courtesy of a mention on the Information Literacy Weblog. Have only given it a cursory glance, but it’s definately one to bookmark. Library Instruction.Com – Resources for Library Instruction. Here’s an interesting “lesson plan” called Teaching Internet Library Instruction Sessions in the Electronic Classroom that might be particularly relevant for distance…
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Two Conference Presentations
A couple of weeks ago I attended the Alberta Distance Education and Training Association’s (ADETA) annual conference, held here in Calgary. There were two library-related presentations at the conference, and I got something from both of them. The first was presented by a student (and not a library student!) who had been involved in a…
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Linking course web sites to library collections and services
Just finished reading the following article and have a couple of thoughts. The link should work if you have Science Direct on your campus. Supposed to also be available from EBSCO, but they appear to be two issues behind on this title… Oya Y. Rieger, Angela K. Horne and Ira Revels, Linking course web sites…
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Supporting Services in e-Learning
A report titled Supporting Services in e-Learning was mentioned in today’s Online Learning Update. With a title like that I thought for sure they’d mention the importance of library services, but no, not really. The report talks about support services to students at NKI Distance Education, an online institution in Norway. While NKI does apparently…
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Information Literacy Webliography
A good-looking Information Literacy site was just mentioned on the Information Literacy Weblog (of course!). Here you will find a page each for Web sites, Articles, Bibliographies, and Mailing lists relating to information literacy. Very international in scope too, which is refreshing 🙂 Information Literacy – Sources of Information