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Designing Deliberately November 5, 2007

Filed under: library — nadaleen @ 8:47 pm

I changed the design in honor of winter and the holidays. But then I changed it back.I like this one better for now.  Giving a talk tomorrow–a webcast–never done one–should be interesting. 

Event Description: The designers of web-based library instruction products traditionally pay too little attention to educational learning theories. Instead, their design approach is modeled on print resources. Paying more attention to pedagogy would result in the production of superior web-based learning experiences for library users. This session will focus on why those librarians creating instructional tools should be exploring learning theories for maximum benefit to both themselves, and their users. 

 

Flashitus October 18, 2007

Filed under: library — nadaleen @ 3:40 pm
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Been working on a bunch of movies related to library navigation and made a little flash player application: http://www.nyu.edu/library/resources/ntk/movie/vid_playback.html. The movie to watch is the find a full-text article one (the last two in the list)–I geeked out and made a totally low-tech retro movie dragging and dropping things into the screen with my hand(s). I have been working on compressing them so they are visible. The normal sized one is around 320 X 240 and is very clear, as is the “big” one which is around 400 X 300. It definately needs to be improved, but it was fun–got the inspiration from google’s movies on youtube.

If you have comments for improvement or are having a hard time viewing anything, lemme know.

 

Library card generator October 16, 2007

Filed under: create, library — nadaleen @ 12:06 pm
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I found this great library card generator awhile back, from blyberg.net. You can personalize them and add any call numbers, etc. Great idea for presents and cards. My online resume has an opening image of one of the cards: homepages.nyu.edu/~ntk2
Library card generator