Category: Web/Tech
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Professional Publishing: The Impact Factor of Google Scholar
Yowza, $350 for a 25 page report! So tempting… Don’t suppose any of you out there have read this? Link: Simba Information – Business Briefs – Professional Publishing: The Impact Factor of Google Scholar.
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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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Conspiracy Theory
Hmmm, so on the 21st I get the following in my SIRSI OneSource RSS Feed (the same feed where the SIRSI Dynix merger was leaked – at least I think it’s the same feed – my aggregator only fetches this one every 12 hours and I never even got the announcement myself…): Sorry. The link…
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eContent: Creating Your Own eBooks with Google Print
Rich over at eContent has a nice Breeze tutorial on how to get to the searchable TOC of a Google Print ebook: eContent: Creating Your Own eBooks with Google Print.
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Frustration of a distant learner
Grrrr. I’m trying to participate in the EDUCAUSE Live event about Google’s Library Digitization Project but am unable to do so. 🙁 Login was fine, but after about 5 minutes Firefox crashed. Restarted and it happened again. Tried IE. Finally logged in after about 7 minutes of just sitting there. Got audio but no video…
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NetLibrary/Recorded Books Online Interview
I missed this yesterday, so contacted Tom to see if there’s an arvhive of the interview, and there is, at http://www.opal-online.org/archiveinterviews.htm. NetLibrary/Recorded Books Online Interview Interested in digital audiobooks? Join Tom Peters for an online interview with Paul Cappuzzello and Gillian Harrison on NetLibrary/Recorded Books. The interview is scheduled for Monday, June 13, 2005 beginning…