Category: Web/Tech
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Gary Roberts is writing for Computers in Libraries
Sometime in the past two years I tripped across the blog of Gary Roberts at Alfred University. (It turns out the server that hosted his blog was recently hacked, so no link for you). For some reason, last week I began wondering why Gary wasn’t posting anymore and I finally dropped him an email. He…
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Schoogle and understanding link resolvers
I’ve been doing some thinking about Google Scholar since the U of C became a participant in the beta institutional access preferences option. My institution uses SFX as its link resolver, and one of the biggest problems has always been getting students to understand that just because there’s an SFX button after a citation in…
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Jinfo :: Jobs in information (UK)
I had a request from the editor of this site to include a link to it. I wasn’t going to because it’s not really got much to do with distance librarianship, but I took a look around and there are a couple of postings for librarians on the site, and I know I’ve got some…
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Macromedia Breeze presentation available
Macromedia Breeze is a tool that, among other things, converts PowerPoint presentations to a Macromedia Flash file for easy viewing via the web. This isn’t a cheap tool (as evidenced by the "contact us for pricing" links on the product page), so it’s not likely something you’ll just go out to buy, but if your…
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A Quick Look at Macromedia Captivate
A really nice little writeup from Learning Circuits about Macromedia Captivate and how it can be used to build demonstrations and simulations. What’s the difference? You’ll have to read it to find out :-). And I learned a new acronym: SME – Subject Matter Expert. (Thanks for the pointer Sherri.)
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Using RSS Enclosures for document delivery?
Heyyyyyy, here’s a post that takes a little bit of info about the Podcasts I’ve mentioned from time to time, and points out that enclosures (the bit of RSS that makes podcasts truly a new thing) can be used to deliver more than just mp3 files: Weblogg-ed – Using RSS Enclosures in Schools. So why…
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Harris County Public Library – Internet Explorer Toolbar
A couple of months ago I was introduced to the Jackson Library IE toolbar, and since then have purchased a toolkit called Toolbar Studio to help me develop a similar one for my distance students (not an endorsement for the product, it’s just what I did). It’s fairly easy, but I haven’t really made the…
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UTPA Library — LOEX of the West 2004
Earlier this week down in the comments section of this post on Captivate vs. ViewletBuilder, we uncovered a few other institutional examples of these types of tutorials (screen capture / convert to flash). I finally got a chance to look through all the links, and right at the end was this great page put together…
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High school all over again
Hadn’t heard of this site before so I went to see where I was ranked, fully expecting not even to be listed in the Library & Information Science category. I started at the end (page 12) and worked my way forward. Imagine my surprise when I found this blog on page two! There are no…
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Comments on Macromedia Captivate & Qarbon ViewletBuilder?
Sherri at UNLV is looking for other opinions… Comments on Macromedia Captivate & Qarbon ViewletBuilder? I’m currently evaluating tutorial software for both instruction (emphasis: tutorials, scoring and evalution mechanisms) and distance education (emphasis: not so much the scoring aspect but learning and instructional applications). I’ve worked previously with Qarbon’s ViewletBuilder and really enjoyed the…