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Location: UNCG
Date: May 18 2010
Library Instructional Tech Campus Updates:
Wake Forest: (Sarah, Erik, Barry) Writing Assistance Center - 6 faculty. Technology = playing with ebooks; have a new book scanner (Atiz) which is good for scholarly communications, digitization. Better than flatbed.; potential partnership to make innovation lab with a focus on mac, mobile devices (itouch etc), virtualization looking at VCL at NCSU.
NCSU: (Hyun-Duck Chung, Dre, Kim Duckett) new scanner; beginning July 1 a new digital technologies and learning librarian (Dre); web redesign coming up this summer, evaluation of instruction - trying to centralize and making it easy to find, how to push online learning content out and make tutorials more visible; creation of e-learning team and looking at best practices; with webdesign, moving to Drupal, web personas; back-up tool for library course pages administration consul to know how long since page has been updated, etc.
UNC: (Emily, Kim, Suchi) moving to a liaison system and streamlining - moving to library a la carte this summer so that not everyone needs to know HTML, looking at instructional updates and maintenance (subject guides, tutorials); Gadget Budget (from endowment fund) allows UNC to buy gadgets and tools and play with them --> "no strings attached": become more flexible about what we purchase and find uses for them. Used for conferences, training, classes etc: ipads, lynda.com software, different types of tablets/slates, technology for staff: netbooks; planning/repurposing another student academic services lab where writing center is in conjunction with libraries for Fall, staffed with library staff
App State: (Scott Rice) Captivate licenses will help to make something similar to WF's toolkit; reserves for Kindles and Nooks; new xml generated/javascript-based "choose your own adventure" game; assessment pre/post test for game; Library Adventure Game
Guilford College: (Nathaniel King) Instruct Tech has been moved from IT to the library (Moodle); Strategic Planning to include student e-portfolios --> includes instructional tech skills for; money for design lab; new libguides this year with positive feedback; outreach on campus to different groups (online identity management through career services)
High Point University: (Kathy Shields) chat reference, libguides - brand new subject guides
UNCG: (Lynda, Hannah, Jenny, Beth) switching to course guides to lib guides, usability testing pre-libguides launch -->see if students know how to navigate, what type of entry point people want, training for migration, what should be websites and what should be libguides (and what is course guide really doing); switch to sharepoint AND website redesign; TRIAL moving citation guides over in 3-columns and 2-columns (preferred 3 columns and no scrolling), used tabs; 10-module multimedia research tutorial --> sources, plagiarism, outcomes, quizzes, login; Clickers with remotes for UNS tours
Breakout Session 1
Using tech for assessment: Elm: Moderator Hyun-Duck Chung
Instructional Tech in one shot library instruction session: Birch: Moderator Lynda Kellam
Breakout Session 2
Tech training for librarians/getting buy in: Willow: Moderator Beth Filar Williams
Tutorials & Beyond - Birch: Moderator Emily King
Attendees:
Name - Email address - Institution
Beth Filar Williams efwilli3[at]uncg.edu UNCG
Jenny Dale jedale[at]uncg.edu UNCG
Hyun-Duck Chung hchung3[at]ncsu.edu NCSU
Kim Duckett kim_duckett[at]ncsu.edu NCSU
Suchi Mohanty smohant[at]email.unc.edu UNC
Kim Vassiliadis kimv[at]email.unc.edu UNC
Emily King emking[at]unc.edu UNC
Hannah Winkler h_winkle[at]uncg.edu UNCG
Erik Mitchell mitcheet[at]wfu.edu WFU
Barry Davis davijb[at]wfu.edu WFU
Sarah Jeong jeongsh[at]wfu.edu WFU
Lynda Kellam lyndamk[at]gmail.com UNCG
Kathy Shields dkathryn[at]gmail.com High Point U
Scott Rice ricese[at]appstate.edu App State
Nathaniel King kingn[at]guilford.edu Guilford
Dre Orphanides dre_orphanides[at]ncsu.edu NCSU
Lea Leininger Lea_Leininger[at]uncg.edu UNCG
Beth Bernhardt beth_bernhardt[at]uncg.edu UNCG