LIBR 246-04/13 Web 2.0 (Fall 2010)

I wanted to remind you to email me your Group Experience Report after you've completed your group project and to explain why this requirement exists. This is a part of the grade for the final project and it's critical that I receive one from each of you. To refresh your memory:

The SOTES (Survey of Teaching Effectiveness) is available now! For those who don't know, this is a survey that examines your satisfaction with the class and my teaching.

I really enjoyed listening to everyone's screencasts! You all did a great job and hopefully learned some valuable lessons about what it takes to create a polished screencast product. There are so many issues that must be considered: what to show, pacing, microphone quality and audio settings, whether or not to use a script, etc. This raises an important question: is it ok (or preferrable) to just create "quick and dirty" screencasts instead of polished ones? Those of you who commented that you made a lot of mistakes in your screencast, I felt like that actually humanized your delivery.

When you get embed code from whatever provider you are using to host your screencast, you will need to go into the HTML interface of Drupal (NOT the regular WYSIWYG editor) to embed your screencast. It's the icon at the bottom of the blog WYSIWYG interface that says HTML (top row all the way on the right).

The content of this post is taken from a blog post I wrote back in July 2009. about some of the concerns I had with libraries' reliance on certain cloud computing companies. I thought you might find this content interesting this week in light of the focus on planning for the successful implementation of social software tools.

I just sent emails to everyone with your paper attached with my comments and your grade. Please let me know if you didn't receive this from me. If you're not happy with the grade on your paper or your current overall grade in the class (both of which you can also see in Angel) you can do the extra credit assignment that's due November 29th. You can increase your grade by as much as two points for completing this assignment, so if your final grade would have been a 91 (or 910 in the gradebook), you could increase it to a 93 (or 930).

This week, we will be looking at the creation of video content online, including vodcasting and screencasting. These have become increasingly popular outreach tools in libraries, so it's definitely a good idea to be well-versed in their use.

Vodcasting

I realized after I said that I would post the slides from our Elluminate session to Slideshare that it actually would make more sense to just give you the link to my slides from the longer presentation from Buffalo, because they contain much more info than I could cover in 60 minutes. You can actually view the slides and see the MANY links to studies, mobile sites, mobile tools and videos demonstrating things like augmented reality on my presentation wiki here.