This week in the Library 2.0 class we are doing for staff at the OHSU Library we are exploring Flickr. We are all encouraged to contribute additional resources and ideas to this online class.
Janet Crum, one of the instructors and participants in the class, posted some additional Flickr/photo-sharing tools I thought were cool, so I am including them here.
List of Flickr mashups:
http://www.programmableweb.com/api/flickr/mashups
FD's Flickr Toys:
http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/
Allows you to make mosaics and posters from Flickr photos.
Picnik:
http://www.picnik.com/
A web-based photo editor.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Report from EDUCAUSE 2007 - Part One
It was my great pleasure to last week attend this year's EDUCAUSE conference, held at the Washington State and Convention Trade Center in downtown Seattle, Washington.
The first keynote speaker, Doris Kearns Goodwin, spoke about leadership through examining the leadership qualities of Abraham Lincoln (whom she biographied in her 2005 work, Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
She described leadership qualities, as exemplified by Lincoln, as including the following:
I think these altogether, while challenging to achieve, are worth striving for.
The first keynote speaker, Doris Kearns Goodwin, spoke about leadership through examining the leadership qualities of Abraham Lincoln (whom she biographied in her 2005 work, Team of Rivals, the Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln.
She described leadership qualities, as exemplified by Lincoln, as including the following:
- Capacity to listen to different points of view. People felt free to disagree without fearing consequences, but once a decision is made, the discussion is over.
- Ability to learn on the job through and from one's mistakes.
- A willingness to share credit for success.
- A willingness to shoulder blame for one's subordinates.
- Awareness of one's weaknesses so one can compensate.
- Ability to control emotions when angry or anxious.
- Strength to adhere to fundamental goals. Not reacting to short-term problems in ways that would undermine long-term goals.
- Knowing how to relax and replenish energies to reduce anxieties.
- "Managing by walking". Actually seeing what is going on on the ground with front-line workers. Apparently Lincoln would walk out amongst the soldiers on occasion to see what was going on.
I think these altogether, while challenging to achieve, are worth striving for.
Thursday, October 18, 2007
Darn tootin'!
I don't do this very often, but I think it's time to toot my own horn! I presented today at the Northwest Innovative Users Group Conference, held as usual at the lovely University of Portland campus in Portland, Oregon.
I presented our process and findings of the web usability testing we did last fall, focusing on the issues surrounding the OPAC interface (since this was an Innovative conference and all!) My presentation (Usability Testing the OPAC: A Case Study from OHSU (PDF)) also is available off of my staff web site. If anyone is interested in the full write-up from our study, please contact me (zeigenl-at-ohsu-dot-edu) and I'll be happy to provide usability information ad nauseum! Just what you wanted, right?
I was somewhat nervous and probably spoke a bit too fast, but people seemed to be interested (and also laughed at what I hoped were funny comments - yay!), so I think they were engaged. It's been way too long since I was up in front of an audience and it's good to be back.
OHSU Library launches "Library 2.0"
This summer as a staff Tech Talk meeting (which we have once a month to just show up and chat about whatever new technology things we have found that we think are cool), several people raised the issue of not being able to keep up with learning new technologies.
Great discussion ensued and out of it we collectively decided to follow what many other libraries have done, which is to help guide our people through Web 2.0 technologies (for library purposes and otherwise) in the "15 minutes a day" concept: in other words, although none of us usually has a 3-4 hour chunk in any given day to dedicate to learning new stuff, we can take a little bit of time each day for this effort. That way at the end of a few months we will have learned a bunch of stuff.
We are using open source CMS Sakai (recently instituted by OHSU as its CMS) for this class as a way to test it out and familiarize ourselves with it, since we will have students using the system. We just launched the class, so we have yet to see how it will all pan out, but so far the discussion on the discussion forums have been very active and people seem to still be enthuasiastic about it, which is great.
Particular sites that we used to inform us about how to go about this were:
The grand experiment in putting our heads together for a collective learning experience continues!
Great discussion ensued and out of it we collectively decided to follow what many other libraries have done, which is to help guide our people through Web 2.0 technologies (for library purposes and otherwise) in the "15 minutes a day" concept: in other words, although none of us usually has a 3-4 hour chunk in any given day to dedicate to learning new stuff, we can take a little bit of time each day for this effort. That way at the end of a few months we will have learned a bunch of stuff.
We are using open source CMS Sakai (recently instituted by OHSU as its CMS) for this class as a way to test it out and familiarize ourselves with it, since we will have students using the system. We just launched the class, so we have yet to see how it will all pan out, but so far the discussion on the discussion forums have been very active and people seem to still be enthuasiastic about it, which is great.
Particular sites that we used to inform us about how to go about this were:
The grand experiment in putting our heads together for a collective learning experience continues!
TLTR rises again!
Friday, September 21, OHSU re-instituted one of what I have always thought was one of the coolest groups on campus: the TLTR, or Teaching, Learning and Technology Roundtable. These roundtables are encouraged by EDUCAUSE and other like organizations focused on technology in learning environments, particularly in higher education.
The many questions and resources covered at this meeting include the following. I would like to the OHSU TLTR site, but it will likely be overwritten for future meetings.
Tom Boudrot, Instructional Technology Manager, led a discussion on web conferencing and touched on the following issues:
Select resources mentioned in the session:
Of course, it was a bonus that I won as a door prize a copy of The Synchronous Trainer's Survival Guide by Jennifer Hofmann. I still haven't had time to look at it yet (between helping launch our library's first attempt at providing an online Library 2.0 class to library staff and various conferences), but I'm looking forward to reading it.
The many questions and resources covered at this meeting include the following. I would like to the OHSU TLTR site, but it will likely be overwritten for future meetings.
Tom Boudrot, Instructional Technology Manager, led a discussion on web conferencing and touched on the following issues:
- What does web conferencing look like?
- What hardware and software is required to conduct a successful web lecture or meeting?
- What software can be used to enhance the design and production of online events and training?
- What are some best practices in designing, producing and facilitating online courses, meetings and events?
- What are the current web conferencing pilots at OHSU?
- How do I get involved with web conferencing?
Select resources mentioned in the session:
- eLearning Guild
- Adobe Presenter User's Guide
- Getting Started with Adobe Presenter (PowerPoint)
- Adobe Captivate (rapid e-learning authoring)
- TechSmith: Camtasia Studio
- insyncCenter: 101 Tips to Motivate the Online Learner
Of course, it was a bonus that I won as a door prize a copy of The Synchronous Trainer's Survival Guide by Jennifer Hofmann. I still haven't had time to look at it yet (between helping launch our library's first attempt at providing an online Library 2.0 class to library staff and various conferences), but I'm looking forward to reading it.
Monday, August 6, 2007
Reed College - ContentDM User Group Meeting
Site of the ContentDM User Group Meeting, held at Reed College in late July. This two-day meeting featured panel discussions from a variety of librarians and how they were using ContentDM for their digital collections, for everything from electronic theses and dissertation collections to highlighting historical collections and other community resources. For instance, some libraries are using more audio material (using embedded audio players) to play recordings of spoken languages, such as this transcribed Innu legend.
It was great exchanging ideas and seeing what everyone was doing.
More information from this conference can be found on the
ContentDM Wiki and the meeting blog.
It was great exchanging ideas and seeing what everyone was doing.
More information from this conference can be found on the
ContentDM Wiki and the meeting blog.
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