Past events 2007
Making the most of IT: interacting with users
A practical workshop held at UCL in London on Tuesday 10th July 2007.
The aim of the day was to provide an opportunity to see demonstrations and presentations about using Library 2.0 and other IT technology with plenty of opportunity for hands-on experimenting. The focus was on how we might be able to use technology to interact with our users.
Peter Godwin from University of Bedfordshire looked at using social networks such as Myspace, Ning and Facebook to engage with our users. His recommendation was to keep the closest eye on Facebook as the best way into interacting with users.
Jane Secker's presentation took blogs, RSS and social bookmarking as her focus and she provided opportunities in bite-sized slots of time to try all of these out and with ideas of how they might be useful to our users.
SocialSoftware_handout.doc (56KB)
social_bookmarking_handout.doc (168KB)
GoogleReader.doc (554KB)
Chris Barker, Cambridge took us through using Surveymonkey, giving an opinion on the usefulness of the free (although limited) survey compared to the purchased survey tool.
Libby Tilley, Cambridge, looked at how it is possible to make use of the interactive elements of Powerpoint to create a Virtual Tour with interactive instruction for loading on VLEs, sending to distance learners etc. Time was available for delegates to try out the interactive features of Powerpoint and to think about ways of making use of it.
VirtualTourwithPowerpoint.pdf (3395k)
Children's Literature series
1. No Outsiders
No Outsiders:
Books for Primary-Age Children to Support Sexualities Equality
Elizabeth Atkinson, No Outsiders Project Leader.
Wednesday 2nd May, 5-7pm @ Seven Stories,
Newcastle upon Tyne
Meeting report (26KB)
No Outsiders Booklist (111KB)
Seven Stories: the Centre for Children’s Books
http://www.sevenstories.org.uk/home/
No Outsiders Project http://www.nooutsiders.sunderland.ac.uk/
2. Graphic Novels
Dr Mel Gibson
Comic, Graphic Novel and Manga Resources
Seven Stories, 14th November 2007
Notes taken by Lucy Gildersleeves from the talk
melgibsontalk.ppt (170KB)
5. Crossover Literature
Dr Rachel Falconer, Sheffield University
Seven Stories, 21st April 2008
Text of the talk (PDF, 121KB)
Past Events 2006
Presentations
from the Staying Legal Workshop
December 2006
Intellectual Property Rights
Richard McCracken, Head of Intellectual Property,
The Open University
Stayinglegal2006McCracken.ppt
Malcolm Kendall, Information Services,
University of Birmingham
Copyright
Stayinglegal2006KendallCopyright.ppt
Data Protection
Stayinglegal2006KendallDataProtct.ppt
Freedom of Information
Stayinglegal2006KendallFoI.ppt
Plagiarism
Stayinglegal2006KendallPlagiarism.ppt
Making the Most of IT to Support Teaching and Learning
July 2006
Presentations and Handouts from a practical workshop on making the most of quick and easy, freely available IT methods and software to produce teaching and learning materials, tutorials and presentations to enhance information skills teaching.
Using the INFORMS materials to produce information skills tutorials.
Sal Craw and Jasmine Stables, University of the West of England
Informs at the University of the West of England
(ppt 125KB)
Producing information skills tutorials using html
Constructing a simple html page and a simple frameset
Sarah Humbert, University of Cambridge
http://www.esc.cam.ac.uk/new/v10/new_library/workshop/htmlfra.html
Making Powerpoint work for you
Pete Thornton and Gerry Beattie, University of Worcester
Advanced Features of Powerpoint
(ppt 471KB)
Creating and using Powerpoint action buttons (doc 37KB)
Creating a customized background template for a Powerpoint presentation (doc 2892 KB )
Powerpoint interactive slide show presentation (ppt 890KB)
PowerpointFindingaJournalTutorialpresentation.ppt (ppt 789KB)
Learning games and quizzes
Faye Sisson, Kingston University and Rowan Williamson, John Ruskin College, Croydon
Games and learning materials on the web
Factsheet 1: Overview (pdf 28KB)
Factsheet 2: Puzzlemaker (pdf 184KB)
Factsheet 3: Quiz Game Master (pdf 259KB)
Factsheet 4: Free Downloads (pdf 94KB)
Factsheet 5: Other bits! (pdf 56KB)
Conference on the Changing Information Environment for Education: Online Resources to Support Teaching and Educational Research in the UK, June 2006
Report for ELG News
(doc 34KB)
Papers and Presentations
• Phil Sheffield (British Education Index)
Sheffieldedenvt.ppt
(252KB)
• Marilyn Leask (Training and Development Agency for Schools) talking about the National Evidence Education Portal
Leaskedenvt.ppt
(1009KB)
• Jo Hunter (Oxford University Library Services) - National Library for Health
Hunteredenvt.ppt
(80KB)
• Josephine Kavanagh (Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating (EPPI) Centre) - the work of the Centre and how researchers approach looking for information
Kavanaghedenvt.ppt
(1140KB)
• Patrick Carmichael (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technology) - supporting the ESRC Teaching and Learning Research Programme, digital repositories and specialized educational vocabularies
procteredenvt.pdf
(379KB)
• Mark Norman and Janet May-Bowles (National Foundation for Educational Research) - Ontheweb & CERUK
MayBowlesedenvt.ppt
(1202KB)
• Neil Jefferies (Oxford University Library Services) – institutional repositories and Google.
Jefferiesedenvt.ppt
(141KB)
2005
Seven Stories,
the Centre for Children's Books
Seven Stories, the first British centre celebrating children's books, opened in August 2005, and ELG organised a group visit on the afternoon of Thursday 27th October.
For further information about Seven Stories see their web site at:
http://www.sevenstories.org.uk/home/
Umbrella Conference
ELG's contribution to the 2005 Umbrella Conference focused on the Key Issue of Evidence-based Practice and Policy.
ELG sponsored three speakers, in joint sessions with LIRG and SLG, within the Evidence-based Practice and Policy strand.
Josephine Kavanagh from the EPPI-centre provided an overview:
Evidence-informed education and the work of the EPPI-centre (839KB)
The relationship between research and policy making was explored by Dr Philip Davies from the Government Chief Social Researcher's Office:
How Research Supports Evidence-Based Policy (1.15MB)
LISE Chair Alan Bradwell described the practicalities of working with REEL at the EPPI-Centre:
Working with REEL at the EPPI-Centre (766KB)
AGM 2005
Upholding Bodley’s Vision: The Google Mass Digitisation Project
Ronald Milne, Bodley's Librarian
http://www.cilip.org.uk/groups/elg/cilipelg.ppt
Information Skills Conference
Department of Earth Sciences,
Cambridge University, 19th April 2005
The theme of the Conference was discovering and sharing learning and teaching methods for information skills through age groups, exploring the possibility of constructing a developing framework of skills.
Lucy Gildersleeves (ELG)
Information Literacy Today
infolitoday.PPT
Geoff Dubber (School Library Association):
Young Researchers
Dubberyoungresearchers.ppt (2533KB)
question.ppt
14_74_ilt.ppt
approaches_worcs.ppt
Past Events 2004
Books for Children
The Books for Children one-day conference was held at University College Worcester in December 2004.
The aim of the event was to offer something of interest to everyone involved in the selection and evaluation of books for use with children.
The public library perspective
Liz Wood, Service Development Manager: Children’s Services, Worcestershire Library and Information Service
Paper
Presentation
The Federation of Children’s Book Groups
Rosanne Bartlett Vice Chair, The Federation of Children’s Book Groups
Web site
The selection and evaluation of children’s books by the Schools’ Library Service Dawn Woods
Manager, Worcester Schools’ Library Service
Paper
Presentation
Book selection, evaluation and use in a secondary school library
Ginette Doyle Information Resources Manager / Librarian, King Charles I School, Kidderminster
Paper
The role of the book supplier
Claire Duncombe Bibliographic / Sales Librarian, Peters Bookselling Services
Paper
“But who will help me tell my story?”: choosing and using picture books
Rachel Johnson Subject Collections Librarian – Education, University College Worcester
Presentation with notes
Primary literacy and using books in the curriculum Pippa Abbott Senior Lecturer in Primary English, University College Worcester
Presentation
Teaching students to evaluate resources for use with pupils Katharine Burn History PGCE Tutor, Oxford University
Presentation
Virtual Learning Environments for Education
A workshop held in Oxford on 9th September 2004.
This workshop examined a range of relevant case studies showing how VLEs might interface with the British Education Index, web resources, reading lists etc as an online resource library. It included consideration of how to provide induction and online tutorials for students and researchers, and information/ search skills generally in educational studies.
Sally Patalong, Coventry University
Virtual Learning Environments as they are found useful by academic libraries: the experience at Coventry.
Presentation
Notes
Vanya Murray, Oxford University English Faculty Library
Presentation on the Film Studies VLE module MurrayVLE.doc
Judith Stewart, University of the West of England Informs tutorial and BEI.
Presentation
Julie Mills, University of Surrey, Roehampton
BEI and WebCT activity – a current project and the “Researchers Companion” - a web based tutorial currently at http://www.federalsurrey.ac.uk/researcherscompanion/FIF/title.asp
Chris Bradford, University of Warwick
The use of viewlet software and the potential for a shared resource among education libraries for BEI training.
Presentation
Bethan Jones, University of Wales, Bangor.
The use and development of a bilingual online information skills module on Blackboard.
Presentation
Updated: 10 June 2008