Liaison Mtg follow up Oct 16/07

From: Barbara McDonald

1) HS e-classroom demo (Neera)

Info on this (and other teaching/learning spaces) will be kept by the LTOG (http://libstaff.mcmaster.ca/committees/ltog/mandate.htm); copy also at

M:\All Libraries\Liaison\Toolkit\Teaching and Learning\Learning Technology\Booking Learning Spaces.doc

2) Examples of Embedded librarians / Diversity of Learning Management Systems on campus (Show and Tell):

– IntroPsych – Shawn http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/psychology/intropsych/

– a combination of learning / content mgt systems, eg. WebCT, joomla, articulate presenter

– WebCT Gerontology – Barbara

– WebCT History 2PO3 – Olga

– medportal (questions – Liz)

– another new HS one in development (questions – Neera)

– www.garydumbrill.com (Social Work prof; questions – Barbara)

3) Captivate Tutorials – check them out!

– Health Sci http://hsl.mcmaster.ca/education/tutorials/

– Business http://library.mcmaster.ca/instruction/teachyourself.htm

Business Monitor Online Tutorial with Audio (McMaster University Libraries)

Business Source Complete Tutorial with Audio (McMaster University Libraries)

Canadian Business Database Tutorial with Audio (McMaster University Libraries)

EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) with Audio (McMaster University Libraries)

4) WebCT Sandbox for Liaison Librarians

- I’ve added all liaisons as “designers” to the WebCT course I created awhile back but am not currently using. Please feel free to log in and try things out.

- to access go to webct http://webct.mcmaster.ca
WebCT ID: Your MAC ID username
Password: Your MAC ID password
(CATHERINE – for some reason I got an error when I tried to add you. “Error: WebCT ID bairdca cannot be granted shared designer access. Either the WebCT ID does not exist in the database, or the WebCT ID already has shared access to the course.”)

5) Next Meeting: Tues Oct 23 9:30 – 11 Wong e-Classroom

Curriculum Materials Exchange

– please email Karen knichol@mcmaster.ca if you have:
- materials from a class this fall that you would like to share

– a need for curriculum material & want to find out if anyone’s developed something already

Formats for Presentations on the Web

Pros and cons of various formats for posting presentations on the web

• html:
  • pros: easy to use the left nav to go directly to the slide you want, might be easier to interpret for people with disabilities
  • cons: can be ugly, clunky, hard to navigate, doesn’t always display well, difficult or impossible to print, large file size, time-consuming to produce a good-looking html version (many settings, etc.)
• ppt:
  • pros: easy to do whatever you want with it (print, etc.) if you have PowerPoint installed
  • cons: not everyone has PowerPoint installed, or installed in a configuration or operating system that will display correctly
• pdf:
  • pros: it’s an open standard that anybody can view; if you publish as one slide to a page, users can print any desired number of slides to a page using the multiple slides per page option on the printer — this option is available on the public printers in the library
  • cons: if you publish it with 2, 4, 6 etc. slides to a page, you’ve limited the printing options
• Summary: pdf is probably preferable in many instances, especially if you publish one slide to a page, but you might sometimes want to use another format, or possibly more than one format, for particular purposes

Microsoft Office 2007 Downloads in the Wong

While leading instruction session in the Wong Room, it is important to remember that students might not be able to open projects created in a 2007 version at home.