Will, Do I understand correctly that we are to be completed with the 10 things on Friday, MAY 22? If so, then we have plenty of time to complete this. Cynthia

New Possibilities: Using Jing to explain things to library users

Again and again the students have been asking me , through IM or phone calls or through email questions, how to find the full text of an article. Again and again, I tell them to start at the library home page, click on Find Journals, type in the title...on and on. Here is a Jing video(without sound) that could be used to demonstrate how to get to the full text of an article in the December 2004 issue of Journal of Drug Issues. Copy and past this link into your browser. http://screencast.com/t/rjxQix69jTF

Once I get good with this, I should be able to show students all sort of good things through quickly produced videos through Jing. I think I had better get aheold of some headphones and add sound to this mix.

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
-- Voltaire

RSS feed is so interesting. I wonder if it would be worth my time (or would anyone who read it) if I were to attach a collection of RSS feeds to my Research Guides. For instance, on the home page for the Theatre Guide, I wouod attach a list of feeds, linking to theatre news on campus or from major professional theatre organizations. Could be an interesting thing to try.

Comment on Thing 2: Blogging what a lot of fun all of this is. I can see all sorts of applications within the library. One idea that comes to mind is a communication vehicle for the Reference Desk Team. I am going to have to give that a try. Cynthia