Category: Web/Tech
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Course Management Systems – EduTools
A couple of years ago I was fortunate enough to land on a campus committee that was charged with re-examining whether we wanted to renew our license with WebCT, or to jump to a different CMS. I was quite pleased that we made the switch to BlackBoard, because I found it easier to offer library…
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Online Assessment Tools
Sherri just posted about something called PHP Surveyor, which looks nice and nifty, but I don’t know anything about PHP and SQL, and I’ll be most of you don’t either. Just the other day, a colleague pointed me towards a free hosted assessment tool called FAST, which stands for (are you ready?) Free Assessment Summary…
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Google Scholar – half way there?
OK, here’s where we stand on making Google Scholar (aka Schoogle) work much better for distance students. Ross Singer from Georgia Tech has modified a bookmarklet for Google Scholar that works in Firefox 1.0, Mozilla 1.73 (according to my testing), and IE 6.0. His bookmarklet furthers the work of Peter Binkley (U of Alberta) and…
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Full stream ahead: database instruction through online videos
Just finished a really good article in the most recent issue of Library Hi Tech: Title: Full stream ahead: database instruction through online videosAuthor(s): Daniel Yi Xiao; Barbara A. Pietraszewski; Susan P. GoodwinJournal: Library Hi TechYear: 2004 Volume: 22 Issue: 4 Pages: 366-374 I believe this link should take you directly to the PDF if…
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update – Google Scholar OpenURLs – Firefox Extension
Well Peter posted some better instructions on how to edit the extension, and I’m happy to report that if I can do it, pretty much anyone who has the desire to try will be able to do it . I don’t want to post the U of Calgary extension that points to our resolver until…
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Google Scholar OpenURLs – Firefox Extension
Ahh, the Alberta Advantage! 🙂 Peter Binkley up the road at the University of Alberta has taken my original idea and run long and far with it. Programming his first Firefox extension, Peter has built a proof-of-concept OpenURL extension for Google Scholar. Basically if you have this extension installed in your version of Firefox, anytime…
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Late Night Thoughts on Google Scholar
Art Rhyno at the U of Windsor has also been thinking about how to make Schoogle work for the distance students. You’ll find a screenshot of his preferences idea down in the comments section. I like it, but think asking students to fill in the proxy info themselves is asking too much. I’m sticking to…
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Google Scholar and EZProxy
Yesterday I mentioned that we were going to introduce Google Scholar (aka Schoogle) to our EZProxy authentication server to see if our distance students could then gain access to resources we’ve licensed, and I’m happy to report that it works like a charm! I logged in from home and was able to gain access to…
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How to make Google Scholar work for the distance students
OK, I haven’t had a chance to try it from off campus, but we’re introducing Google Scholar to our EZProxy server in the hopes that if we authenticate our students first, they will be able to access the content we have licensed when using Google Scholar. Of course this would mean the student would have…
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Google Scholar Bookmarklet
Haven’t seen anyone else pop up with this yet, but I was able to modify the Google Bookmarklet (which they call the Google Button) and make it search Google Scholar instead. Here’s one for Mozilla / Firefox / Opera: Google ScholarHere’s one for Safari: Google Scholar (thanks to Steve DiDomenico)And here’s one for IE: Google…