Category: Ideas
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7 things you should know about Screencasting
The latest addition to the Educause “7 things you should know…” series is about Screencasting. The 7 questions answered are What is it? Who’s doing it? How does it work? Why is it significant? What are the downsides? Where is it going? and What are the implications for teaching and learning? To answer the question…
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Webcasting Pointers
David King has posted his tips for successful webcasting based on two recent online presentations he gave. DE Librarians are likely to find themselves using tools like Elluminate or who knows what else to deliver instruction in the same environment, and taking a look at these tips before you go online can only improve your…
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What Do Distance Education Faculty Want from the Library?
This was the last presentation of the conference, and was delivered by Samantha Schmehl Hines of the University of Montana-Missoula to a packed room. In preparation for launching a survey for faculty at her own institution, Samantha looked at 13 surveys of what faculty members wanted from the library (all listed in her bibliography). The…
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What’s in it for me?
A little rant based on a couple of the presentations I’ve seen here in Savannah. This mirrors several of the wrap-up posts I saw after Computers in Libraries earlier this spring. I come to conferences first and foremost to get new ideas for services I can implement back home. I want to be able to…
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Off Campus Library Services Conference Keynote – Marshall Keys
Last night the keynote was delivered by Marshall Keys, and was titled Lost in Translation: what today’s trends show about tomorrow’s libraries. As I mentioned briefly in a previous post, this turned out to be pretty much the same talk Stephen Abrams gives on Millennials and what they mean to our future, but it was…
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Online Research Toolkit presentation
I’m just now finally getting around to looking at some of the presentations from last week’s Library & Information Resources track of HigherEdBlogCon. Great idea in theory, but I’m still finding it difficult to set aside the time to give the presentations the full attention they deserve. One presentation I did spend some time with…
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50 Ways to Take Notes
I’ve mentioned Writely before, and while it’s not exclusively a tool to support distance learners, it’s damn useful and something you and your students should at least be aware of. Well I just learned about 49 similar tools! Fifty Ways to Take Notes is an annotated list of Web 2.0 tools that allow you to…
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Thoughts on Macromedia Captivate
The Web4lib discussion list recently wrapped up a slew of posts discussing the virtues of Macromedia Captivate, with some additional discussion of Qarbon ViewletBuilder and a surprisingly (to me) small number of comments on Camtasia Studio. You can pick up the discussion here – scroll down (or Ctrl-F) to the subject of [Web4lib] Macromedia Captivate…
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The Embedded Librarian – Library Journal article
A very brief article from the April 1, 2006 issue of Library Journal, The Embedded Librarian discusses how librarians at the University of Rhode Island made themselves more accessible to distance students (though everything they describe can be used by traditional students as well). Librarians are enrolled as teaching assistants in several WebCT courses, offer…
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Technorati Tags for OffCamp Conference
I know there will be at least a few other bloggers at OffCamp in Savannah next week – anybody up for settling on a common Technorati tag? I propose OCLSC06. Technorati Tags: OCLSC06