Virtual Learning Environments and Academic Libraries

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Virtual Learning Environments and Academic
Libraries

• Sally Patalong
• Subject Librarian and Library Teaching Fellow
• Lanchester Library, Coventry University

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Whats 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.

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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

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2003 - 2004

• New LMS
• Business Source Premier instead of ABI Inform
• WebCT material obsolete
• Experiment!

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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

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• Uses screen shots of the ProQuest software with
  pop-up call outs that are synchronised with the
  sound track to draw the users 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.

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• 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 slides sound
  file is loaded during the displaying of the
  previous slide that has a Please wait message.

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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
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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
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Results List

• This search
• finds 4409
• articles about
• electronic
• commerce
• Click on the
• hyperlinked
• title Barrys
• new digs to
• see the full
• details
• TIP
• To find out
• how to
• narrow your
• search to get
• fewer results,

Click on hyperlinked title to see full details
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Results List

• This search
• finds 4409
• articles about
• electronic
• commerce
• Click on the
• hyperlinked
• title Barrys
• new digs to
• see the full
• details
• TIP
• To find out
• how to
• narrow your
• search to get
• fewer results,

Click on hyperlinked title to see full details
Please wait while the next slide loads
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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

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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/

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Generic Tutorials

• Informs
• http//informs.hud.ac.uk
• Free
• Shared and customisable

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Apart from information skills

• SFX - OpenURL compliant link server
• Metalib
• Sentient DISCOVER
• P.G.Cert
• Staff development
• Moving to Vista Library Web

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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.
• Sentient DISCOVER
• P.G.Cert
• Staff development
• Moving to Vista Library Web

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Apart from information skills

• SFX
• Metalib
• Sentient DISCOVER - seamlessly integrates course
  management systems, integrated library systems,
  OpenURL resolvers and content repositories such
  as online journal databases
• P.G.Cert
• Staff development
• Moving to Vista Library Web

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Apart from information skills

• SFX
• Metalib
• Sentient DISCOVER
• P.G.Cert
• Staff development
• Moving to Vista Library Web

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Apart from information skills

• SFX
• Metalib
• Sentient DISCOVER
• P.G.Cert
• Staff development
• Moving to Vista Library Web

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Apart from information skills

• SFX
• Metalib
• Sentient DISCOVER
• P.G.Cert
• Staff development
• Moving to Vista A University wide Library Web

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• Sally Patalong
• s.patalong_at_coventry.ac.uk
• 024 7688 7534
• C.U.Library Ltd., Frederick Lanchester Building,
  Gosford Street, Coventry, CV1 5DD.