Learn about the library anytime, anywhere

ssummersmorrow — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 03:13:15 +0000

St George College Library has been working for some time to ensure that we started to develop some online resources to assist staff and students of the college to learn about the library and the effective use of the library to access information resources.
Earlier this year, in conjunction with staff from Sutherland College Library, Gymea Campus and teachers from EFS (English for further study) at both locations we put in for funding from the AFLF (Australian flexible learning framework) to run a joint project to produce resources about using the library and conducting effective searches for quality information. We are very pleased to announce that we were granted the funding and now we are able to continue to produce our modules as a dedicated project rather than having to continually try and fit them in around all of our regualr duties.
The EFS teachers are offering their expertises in what students studying from non-English speaking backgrounds need in the way of instruction, how detailed the modules need to be and what the priorities are. Library staff are producing the modules for the EFS teachers to check to make sure they are what the students need. iLectures are being created using Captivate and Presenter softwares, with podcasts and demonstrations in the form of digital stories supplementing. This is also providing an excellent opportunity for library staff at both locations to increase their knowledge and skills in these new technologies.
Check out the 2 library wikis (St George and Sutherland ) and let us know what you think of our products!

Resource development kits to create eLearning resources

ssummersmorrow — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 06:32:00 +0000

St George College library has been proud to take delivery of a resource development kit designed for teaching staff use to allow them to create eLearning resources for use with their classes. The kit contains an ACER notebook computer with a range of accessories (external hard drive, speakers, webcam, USB headset with microphone and more) as well as a host of software, additional to a Sydney Institute computer standard build, that will allow teachers to modify, manipulate and enhance objects that they create.

As well there is a whole box full of fun equipment that teachers can go wild with in creating interactive objects and also including students in the creation of learning objects and resources. An iPod with a Belkin recorder makes creating audio files (or a regualr podcast a piece of cake), there are also lapel or interview microphones for higher quality audio recording. On top of this there is a 7.1 mega pixel digital camera for taking still images or video and the cables that you need to download the images to the computer, or broadcast onto a TV.

As if that is not enough you can also hook up a whole classroom using some conference style microphones through an audio mixer to ensure that class discussions are recorded for future reference. The whole lot is packaged up in a hard case (with two layers for the equipment) on wheels and an extention handle that the notebook can also be attached to.

Library staff are looking forward to hearing lots of success stories from teachers about how they used the equipment (how easy it was to use) and about how much the eLearning resources enhanced their students learning experience.

Sydney Institute staff can find out more from the myLearning wiki (accessible from SydNet).

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Learn about the library anytime, anywhere

Resource development kits to create eLearning resources