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Teaching Information Skills, Developing Content and Providing Resources in VLEs.

Teaching Information Skills, Developing Content and Providing Resources in VLEs. Sally Patalong, Library Teaching Fellow, Lanchester Library, Coventry University. What’s a Library Teaching Fellow?. Purpose:

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Teaching Information Skills, Developing Content and Providing Resources in VLEs.

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  1. Teaching Information Skills, Developing Content and Providing Resources in VLEs. Sally Patalong, Library Teaching Fellow, Lanchester Library, Coventry University.

  2. What’s a Library Teaching Fellow? Purpose: To work with Library staff, academic staff and others to develop the effective integration of Library service delivery with University approaches to teaching and learning.

  3. 1995... • 150 1st year Computer Science students • 1hr face-to-face teaching • Traditional written assessment • 10% of the module mark • Library catalogue, paper based resources • CD-ROM

  4. 1999... • 700 1st year Computer Science students • Library Catalogue, Internet, 2 online databases • 1hr face-to-face teaching • Traditional written assessment • 10% of the module mark

  5. Looking for a solution • Availability of WebCT • Consistency of experience • Option for online assessment and feedback • Automated marking • Virtual student support • Augmenting face-to-face teaching with self-directed student learning

  6. Information skills 2000/1 • 4 sets of tutorials • originally written in Word and converted to HTML • PaintShop Pro used for screenshots • Self tests • Practice exercises • 4 short assessments • Student survey

  7. 2003 - 2004 • New LMS • Business Source Premier instead of ABI Inform • WebCT material obsolete • Experiment!

  8. Andy Syson, Head of Learning Technology.

  9. PowerPoint with Narration • 50% WebCT usage from off campus • Material must be 56k compatible • Delivered in short sections • Screen shots in PowerPoint • HarddiskOgg for narration • Impatica to compress the file

  10. Uses screen shots of the ProQuest software with pop-up call outs that are synchronised with the sound track to draw the user’s eye to the relevant part of the screen at the appropriate time. • A separate sound file is added to each slide as a slide transition and the slide advance time is set to the duration of the sound file.

  11. Each slide is duplicated with the sound file attached to the first and a ‘Please wait while the next slide loads’ call out message attached to the second. The slide advance time for the second slide is set to zero. • This ensures that the narration runs on 56K dial-up without stutters, as the slide’s sound file is loaded during the displaying of the previous slide that has a ‘Please wait’ message.

  12. Basic Search Type search terms into the box Type search terms into the box Click on ‘Search’ TIP Writing electronic commerce out in full will produce more results than using the term e-commerce Click on ‘Search’

  13. Basic Search Type search terms into the box Type search terms into the box Click on ‘Search’ TIP Writing electronic commerce out in full will produce more results than using the term e-commerce Click on ‘Search’ Please wait while the next slide loads

  14. Results List This search finds 4409 articles about electronic commerce Click on the hyperlinked title ‘Barry’s new digs’ to see the full details TIP To find out how to narrow your search to get fewer results, view the presentation about the Advanced Search Screen. Click on hyperlinked title to see full details

  15. Results List This search finds 4409 articles about electronic commerce Click on the hyperlinked title ‘Barry’s new digs’ to see the full details TIP To find out how to narrow your search to get fewer results, view the presentation about the Advanced Search Screen. Click on hyperlinked title to see full details Please wait while the next slide loads

  16. Freeware! • HarddiskOgg takes a wave input stream from any Windows 95/98/2000/XP compatible sampling device (including microphone input and line in) and converts it to an Ogg Vorbis/Wave/Monkey's Audio/MP3 (optional) stream. This happens in realtime, so basically it is a harddisk recorder in Ogg Vorbis. http://www.fridgesoft.de/harddiskogg.php

  17. Evaluation copy available • Impatica - converts PowerPoint files into a compressed format that is optimised for streaming over the Internet. Impatica files are typically 95% smaller than PowerPoint HTML files. http://www.impatica.com/

  18. Generic Tutorials • Informs • http://informs.hud.ac.uk • Free • Shared and customisable

  19. Apart from information skills… • SFX - OpenURL compliant link server • Metalib • TalisList • P.G.Cert – Moving on to Vista • Staff development

  20. Apart from information skills… • SFX • Metalib - Using the MetaLib portal, library patrons can conduct a MetaSearch™ across heterogeneous resources or link to the resources' native interface. • TalisList • P.G.Cert - Moving on to Vista • Staff development

  21. Apart from information skills… • SFX • Metalib • TalisList • P.G.Cert -Moving on to Vista • Staff development

  22. Apart from information skills… • SFX • Metalib • Sentient DISCOVER • P.G.Cert – Moving on to Vista • Staff development

  23. Apart from information skills… • SFX • Metalib • Sentient DISCOVER • P.G.Cert • Staff development

  24. My New Toy! • Macromedia Captivate • Download free trial • Education version c. £110 • Amazingly easy to use!

  25. Sally Patalong • s.patalong@coventry.ac.uk • 024 7688 7534 • Lanchester Library, Coventry University, Gosford Street, Coventry, CV1 5DD.

  26. Read All About It! • Courtney, K and Patalong, S. (2002) Integrated information skills - a case study using the Virtual Learning Environment WebCT. Education Libraries Journal 45 (1) pp 7-11 • Patalong, Sally (2002) Using WebCT to support information skills teaching. ASSIGNation 19 (4) pp 24-27. • Patalong, Sally (2003) Using the virtual learning environment WebCT to support information skills teaching at Coventry University Library Review 52 (3) pp 103-110

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