Moderated by Joe Gordon; speakers: Pericles Lewis, Matthew Jacobson, George Miles, & Ed Kairiss.

Please note the time:

2:00 – 3:00pm, Tuesday April 7th

Presenters: Mark Bauer, Yianni Yessios, & Barbara Rockenbach

Presenters: Jessica Pressman, Justin Zaremby & Ken Panko

Presenters: Yianni Yessios, Read Lifset, Matthew Eckelman

Presenters: Matt Wilcox & Charlie Greenberg

February 24th, 11:00am-12:00pm

Virtual CLassrooms and Synchronous Learning:

Charlie Greenberg: “As an online lecturer for San Jose State University’s School of Library and Information Science the past two fall semesters,  I am given unlimited opportunities to use Elluminate in my course on Medical Librarianship. The Elluminate installation at SJSU features a centralized calendar which can generate invitations that can be copied into class email messages, dedicated TA support if requested, and session recordings that can be distributed with a permanent link. I ran two alternative real-time class sessions per week (attendance was required at one of the other). All students are required  to have microphones, but there is also a instant messaging window as part of the interface. I created a PPT for each “discussion” that I could import into the Elluminate whiteboard (problems with Windows Vista for this), and I would post a pdf of the PPT slides in the course site, along with a link to the session recording. During the session, all students and  moderators (lecturers) have rights to share their desktop, use instant messaging, or write on the whiteboard. One person at a time “talks”, and students “raise their hand” with an icon to indicate they want to comment orally.  Some just write in the IM window.  The School also features “drop-in” help, and some instructors use it for “office hours.”

There is a free version of Elluminate that anyone can use, but only up to three participants at one time and no recording. Everything else seems to work. (http://www.elluminate.com/vroom) The Yale school of public health is negotiating for an academic user license, and the medical library will piggyback on that, as well as the school of nursing.”

When?
Tuesday from 11:00 – 12:00

Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)

Presenters: Matt Regan & Mary Barr

February 17, 11:00am-12:00pm

Videoconferencing in the Classroom with Skype [Presenters: Mary Barr & Matt Regan]
Invite guest speakers from anywhere in the world to your classroom using the popular computer software program Skype. While in-person engagements can be inconvenient and costly, video conferencing allows educators to invite guest speakers to the classroom by turning their personal computers into inexpensive audio and video communication systems.
Drawing from an interview with Gordon Quinn, the executive producer of “Hoop Dreams,” Mary Barr, Lecturer in African American Studies, will discuss videoconferencing as a pedagogical tool and Matthew Regan from the Instructional Technology Group, will summarize voice over internet protocol (VoIP).

When? : 11:00am until noon

Where? : Bass Library L01

Presenters: Karen Kupiec, Carolyn Caizzi, David Hirsch, Gabe Rossi

Next week – February 10, 11:00am-12:pm
Finding and Collecting Images: Metagallery
The Visual Resources Collection (VRC) has released a new version of its website called the MetaGallery (http://images.library.yale.edu/metagallery/) which will allow you to collect, curate, and share digital objects for individual and classroom use. MetaGallery is a joint development between the Library and CMI2 (ITS Center for Media and Instructional Innovation).

MetaGallery Features
·        Collect images, video, audio, or text from the VRC and other online collections (e.g. ARTstor, museum websites, online journals, etc.), and upload unique materials you have stored on your computer.

·        Create groups of resources and share them (or keep them private). Example:  http://images.library.yale.edu/metagallery/index.asp?cmd=viewgal&oid=514

·        Annotate these resources and arrange them in an order that makes sense to you or to the viewers you are sharing them with.

Please join us for a discussion about the development of this new website and for tips about how you may use it in teaching and for personal research.

When?
Tuesday from 11:00 – 12:00

Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)

Who?
Carolyn Caizzi, Technology Specialist, Visual Resources Collection, Library; David Hirsch, Associate Director and Senior Course Developer, Center for Media and Instructional Innovation; Karen Kupiec, Director of Library Access Integration Services, Library; Gabriel Rossi, Instructional Technologist, Center for Media and Instructional Innovation

January 27
YouTube and Beyond: Using Video for Teaching

Presenters: Michael Farina & Ken Panko
Faculty are increasingly finding and contributing video online that is relevant to their scholarship and teaching. It is also now possible to do more than simply watch video online with services that enable faculty and students to add academic value to online video.

Michael Farina, Senior Lecturer in Italian, will discuss video search alternatives to YouTube, and show sites that allow faculty and students to annotate and add clickable features to online video. Ken Panko, Manager of the Instructional Technology Group, will show Kaltura, an online service for collaborative video editing.

When?
Tuesday from 11:00 – 12:00

Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)