Post on 06-May-2015
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Technology & Libraries Lightning Round-up
Presented by the ACRL-ULS Technology & Libraries Committee
Jason ColemanUndergraduate & Community Services Librarian
K-State LibrariesKansas State University
Photo credit: Scott McLeod - Flickr
BiblioBouts: Online Social Gaming for Developing Information Literacy Skills and Concepts
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Instructor selects the game’s topic
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And sets the beginning and ending dates for each phase
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Phases:
1.Donor: find specified number of articles, save information to Zotero, attach full text.
2.Closer: choose your best five articles and put them in play.
3.Tagging & Rating: process specified number of articles by describing content with tags & rating credibility and relevance.
4.Best Bibliography: select the best sources submitted by the players and build a bibliography.
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Game mechanics:
Points Levels
Badges Leader board
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Session Presenter: Chris Leeder from the University of Michigan
Session handout: http://s3.goeshow.com/acrl/national/2011/client_uploads/handouts/BBACRLhandout.pdf
Demo version: http://www.bibliobouts.org login: demo@bibliobouts.orgpassword: demo
Questions: e-mail info@bibliobouts.org OR contact BiblioBouts Principal Investigator Karen Markey (ylime@umich.edu).
To the Cloud! Exploring Tools to Enhance Teaching and Learning
Animoto: www.animoto.com
•Free version allows 30 second slideshows
•You supply text and slides and pick music.
•Animoto adds random effects
•Free with Google Account
•7 question types:
•Responses saved to a spreadsheet
•Example http://goo.gl/inEcw
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Google Forms: http://docs.google.com
•Free
•Create an avatar – easy & fun!
•Upload audio files
•Audacity is useful for this
•Embed on web pages
•Example (see bottom center of page) http://libguides.starkstate.edu/content.php?pid=192838&sid=1631903
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Voki: http://www.voki.com
•Free
•Collaborative whiteboard
•Does not require login to post to a wall
•Easy to add text, images, video, sound
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Wallwisher: http://www.wallwisher.com/
•Free
•Huge 3-dimensional canvas for building presentations
•Can set a path through the canvas, specifying rotation and zooming
•Easy to create, hard to master
•Example: http://prezi.com/aww2hjfyil0u/
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Prezi: http://prezi.com/
Session presenters:
Sara Klinksklink@starkstate.edu
Diane Schreckerdschreck@ashland.edu
Session Site: http://libguides.starkstate.edu/thecloud
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Fostering Library as Place for Distance Students: Best Practices from Two Universities
Norwich University
• Every program has its own library page
• Collects user-friendly online resources
• E book Library – recommended over ebrary
• R2 digital library – medical resources
• Swank digital campus – streaming movies
• Place ask-a-librarian link near drop-box in Angel and near assignment instructions.
• Offer drop-in consultation sessions
• Use EventBrite for managing registrations
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University of North Carolina Greensboro
• Distance Education web page: http://library.uncg.edu/info/distance_education/
• Every student has a customized library tab in Blackboard
• Shows databases and libguides related to major and currently enrolled classes.
• Collects user-friendly online resources
• Has an ebook search box: http://library.uncg.edu/collection/catalog/electronic_books.aspx
• Has page of streaming film resources: http://library.uncg.edu/info/distance_education/online_films.aspx
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University of North Carolina Greensboro
• Places an expandable, customized help box on several library web pages, e.g., http://library.uncg.edu/borrowing/
• Developed an information literacy tutorial, PATH: http://library.uncg.edu/tutorials/
Session presenters:
Heidi Steinerhsteiner[at]norwich.edu
Beth Filar-Williamsefwilli3[at]uncg.edu
PowerPoint: http://bit.ly/i1l6XW
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Creating Dynamic Tutorials Fast
Keith Rocci keith.rocci@washburn.edu– Washburn University
Example: http://www.articulate.com/community/showcase/?page_id=96
The Library's Swiss-Army Knife: Using Smart Phones For Information Discovery, Content Delivery, and
Inventory Management
Miami University Libraries’ Mobile Site:http://www.lib.muohio.edu/m
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Mobile catalog built on solr index from main catalog.
• Provides links to book reviews and related items.
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QR Codes at Miami University Libraries: http://www.lib.muohio.edu/qr-codes
•In the Library Catalog
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QR Codes at Miami University Libraries: http://www.lib.muohio.edu/qr-codes
•On posters and signs
•QR code on computers links to page with list of software on the computer•QR code near equipment links to instructions
•In books (coming)
•Will link to page with information about the book, other books by the author, and reviews.
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Augmented reality app for shelf reading
• Place small tags on spines of books• Application uses camera on mobile device• Will place red X over books out of order• Can show shortest set of steps to put an unordered series
in order• Watch in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=NgZVI630SsI&feature=player_embedded#at=27
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Session Presenters:
• Stacy Brinkman, Art/Architecture and Asian Studies librarian, Miami University
• Jason Paul Michel, User Experience Librarian, Miami University
• Kwabena Sekyere, Information Services Librarian, Miami University
• Jim Clarke, Engineering Librarian, Miami University • Bo Brinkman, Associate Professor of Computer Science,
Miami University