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Using Technology to Enhance Instruction
College and University Section – Bibliographic Instruction Group
Angela Whitehurst (ECU), Lisa Williams (UNC-W), and Angela Bardeen (UNC-Ch)
Angela Bardeen on Facebook
- Discussed “Friends Wheel” where you can see the physical network of your friends
- Letting students advertise for you
- Shows you who is in what group, can contact president of subject-area clubs through facebook (since they use it more than email)
- Join groups and get notices of when meetings are, etc.
- Can solicit feedback through facebook
- Facebook is number one place to share photos online, by adding library photos you share pictures and fit in with Facebook culture
- Using Facebook to create events and advertise that way
- Using Facebook paid advertising
- Discussed new Facebook application
- Librarians are trying to create search applications, but they tend to not fit into the culture of facebook. You might be the only one using them.
- Some are promoting directly on the library home page
- Might want to consider which fit in to the culture of Facebook
- One person is developing an application that has a map of the library and students can say “when I’m in the library you can find me in…” and pick a spot on the map. This fits the culture and advertises the library.
- DO: try to think like Facebook, try new things, weigh pros and cons
- DON’T: waste a lot of time, take offense, or “poke” the kids 🙂
Angela Whitehurst on Creating Online Tutorials with Camtasia
- Introduced screencasting
- Software: Camtasia, Captivate, Qarbon Viewlet Builder, Robodemo, BB Flashback, Wink
- Started with the questions they got most often at the reference desk
- Stored on “How Do I?” page, but will have an online tutorials page
- Reasons: multimedia appeal for undergrads, 24 hour instruction for distance ed students, method to answer reference questions
- This is similar to the project we’re working on for the toolkit
- Planning: plan first, create in scenes/segments, narration, proofreading and editing, production
- They’re keeping their tutorials on YouTube. I would add that it’s important to think of online video culture when creating video… how do you make the tutorial look and sound like what students are used to seeing?
- Issues to consider: formats, file size (for distance students who might not have broadband), where to upload, adding toc affects screen size
Lisa Williams on Hot Potatoes
- Software to create exercises
- Multiple-choice, short answer, jumble sentence, fill in blank, etc
- Free for not for profits, but have to make pages available to everyone
- Demo-ed crossword puzzle software
- The Masher allows integration of other files
1 Comment on ‘Lauren@NCLA: Using Technology to Enhance Instruction’
Alternatives to screencasting are also TurboDemo (www.TurboDemo.com) and ALLCapture (www.ALLCapture.com)
These high-quality pieces of software are ideal to capture your screen (also in real-time) to create professional demonstrations and online presentations, e.g. in Flash.