Category: Gary Roberts
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Directions and Files For Integrating TILT Into Blackboard 6.0
Please Note: This entry is under development (I am still working on adding the screenshots). I wanted to thank everyone for the interest in the TILT Board project. I have received several requests for the archive files that we used to create Blackboard. I have assisted a number of libraries in there efforts to import…
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Information Literacy Tutorials and Course Management Systems
I (Gary Roberts) presented the following session at the 2004 Computers In Libraries conference: As learning continues to get more and more comfortable online, needs for tracking and demonstrating progress and success continue to cause a stir. Many are turning to course management (CM) software for help, since these programs offer a suite of tools…
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Durable links to the assessment module in Blackboard 5.5 and 6.0
I (Gary Roberts) recently wrote an article in Computers In Libraries (See reference below) magazine about combining the testing and registration features of TILT with the interactive IL content of TILT (Texas Information Literacy Tutorial). In the article, I discussed the process of importing TILT into the Blackboard course management system. One of the greatest…
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Switching Between Applications Within Microsoft PowerPoint
One of the most difficult and intangible qualities of any outstanding presentation is "Flow." Presentations with "flow" seem organized, logical and easy to follow. Without this attribute, the students/audience may feel the presentation is disjointed. Worse yet, if your presentation is lacking "flow"–the audience may entirely stop paying attention. In PowerPoint presentations, you can lose…
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TILT and BlackBoard Presentation at SUNY CIT
The following abstract outlines a panel discussion that I (Gary Roberts) presented with Beverly Crowell and Barb Greil at the SUNY CIT conference in May 2003. You can also preview the PowerPoint Presentation that we prepared for SUNY CIT. Click Here For TILT Board PowerPoint Presentation (recovered via the Internet Archive) Tilt Board Abstract In…
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Gary Roberts – the recovered blog posts
One of the first library blogs I started reading was called The Library IT Blog, and it was written by Gary Roberts at Alfred University. I’ve written about some of Gary’s posts before (and before), and recently posted the story of what became of Gary’s blog. It turns out though that my aggregator had cached…