MERLOT 101: Everything you need to know to hit the ground running

1. MERLOT 101: Everything you need to know to hit the ground running Barbra Bied Sperling MERLOT Manager of Technical Development

2. Your expectations for today • What do you hope to get out of today’s session? • What issues are top of mind for you?

3. MERLOT’s Vision MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

4. MERLOT SupportsCreative Commons MERLOT strongly endorses and recommends Creative Commons licensing to encourage the sharing and reuse of online learning materials while protecting Members’ work from misuse and abuse.

5. MERLOT Repository • Registered Members* • 72,244+ growing @ 1,000/month • Materials • 20,995 • 2,818 ~ Peer Reviewed • 9,109 materials in “Personal Collections” • 3,234 materials with member comments • Usage • ~ 150,000 average unique visits per month *August 1, 2009

6. Always find what’s new

8. Are you a member of MERLOT? Why you should join?

9. Why join MERLOT? • Create personal collections • Contribute materials, comments, and learning exercises • Develop a personal profile and create a CV • Share online expertise with others • Receive peer recognition • Become a guest speaker • Join an Editorial Board - Become a Peer Reviewer • Find others in a discipline

10. How do you join?

11. A profile is create

12. I’m logged in, now what?

14. Updating your profile

15. Update your profile Want to change what you just added? We will save these for a future presentation.

16. Identify your language

17. Find materials and members in MERLOT

18. Search and browse MERLOT

19. Search for members by their affiliation

20. Federated Search

21. Federated Search results

22. RSS Feeds in MERLOT • Any search can become an RSS feed

23. MERLOT Communities

24. Discipline Community Portal

25. Teaching Commons

26. It’s important to share: Contribute to MERLOT

27. Contribute learning materials

28. All you need are a few details • 5 step wizard to enter all your metadata including: • Enter the title and URL • Describe the material, material type, audience and keywords (include formatting with text editor) • Identify the subject category and language(s) • Add author information (if you know it) • Any extra information to help a user including creative commons

29. The finished product! Detail view

30. Add a comment or learning exercise (previously known as an assignment)

31. Member Comments

32. Organize your materials: Personal Collections

33. Personal Collections

34. How do I create a collection?

35. Where can I find collections?

36. Like someone else's collection?

37. And there’s still so much more to MERLOT…

38. Recognizing Your Efforts • Ribbons of recognition • Provides recognition for faculty capabilities and performance • Provides accountability for institutions • Provides academically acceptable mechanism/process that is motivational

39. How you get recognized • Contribute materials • Add comments • Submit assignments • Create personal collections • Join the VSB • Become a peer reviewer • Author materials

40. Share a material with a friend

41. Report a broken link to us

42. Need Guest Experts? Virtual Speakers Bureau can help

43. Virtual Speakers Bureau Find other Guest Experts that can help you or become a VSB member yourself

44. Virtual Speakers Bureau profile

45. 45 RIDING THE WAVES OF INNOVATION • cenic09.cenic.org

47. MERLOT Isn’t just about wine. We have a huge harvest in our vineyard. Come and taste!

48. Questions and Discussion