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How to Contribute

Kazakoff — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:17:15 CST

As an Open Source project with no technological or geographical restrictions, ANTS welcomes participation from professional librarians everywhere. ANTS is more than a sharing project --- it is also a test case for how to collaborate regardless of distance. In order to facilitate this, we have provided librarians with a central repository where they can both upload and download files, as well as the means to communicate what work is being done across institutions. If you would like to contribute to this worthy project, simply follow the instructions provided below:

Step 1: Check the list of e-resource / database tutorials identified for development.

This list indicates the databases and resources the ANTS team has identified as relevant to the project and our audience.There are additional separate lists for information literacy tutorials, literacy tutorials, data and GIS tutorials, and tutorials for handicapped users. If you do not see your topic or resource listed, contact the ANTS team to see if the resource or topic covered in your tutorial is appropriate for the project.

Step 2: Adopt a tutorial.

In order to do this you will need to get an account at this Wiki and to be made a writer. It is easy to get an account and get in touch with us for writer status. We would love to automatically grant this status, but spam means we need to know who you are. Once you are a writer, you can use your new status to post what tutorial you are working on - so others know what is being done.

Step 3: Check the ANTS project guidelines and the Best Practices in Screencasting.

Since the tutorial will be shared with other libraries, please refrain from referring to institutional specific services and resources so as to ensure the broadest possible audience. If you've already created a tutorial, this may mean editing or removing content that refers specifically to your home institution. While brief and flexible, the guidelines are meant to ensure continuity in presentation style and content among the various tutorials submitted to the project.

You may also want to check the Best Practices Section for additional ideas when creating a tutorial - but none of these are requirements for contribution to the project.

Step 4: Upload your project to ANTS.

Step 5: Notify Others of the New Content

Perhaps one of the most important things you should do is update the Wiki list once a tutorial is completed / updated and uploaded to ANTS. This step ensures that everyone knows that current content exists for a particular tutorial - thereby helping to eliminate redundancy of effort.

When you contribute files to the project, we will make them available at two additional sites with embedding code for SWF Files and FLV Files. They are Screencast.Com and LION TV. Both also have notification systems any time we transfer files to them from our central repository at DSpace.

Uploading Files to ANTS

Kazakoff — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 15:13:09 CST

The Tutorial's Home: DSpace

In order to make Animated Tutorials easy to identify and share, all shared Tutorials are uploaded and housed in one location:DSpace at the Unviersity of Calgary:

DSpace is an Open Source Institutional Repository that can handle a wide variety of file types. It also:

Is accessible to any librarian who registers with DSpace.
Is archival in quality.
Allows for the incorporation of Metadata
Is Searchable and Browseable

DSpace also contains a Creative Commons License that asks that all depositors make their creation publicly accessible as a condition of depositing any learning object in it. In so doing the author retains copyright, but ensures that their creation remains in the Public Domain.

Anyone wishing to learn how to use D-Space can do so by viewing Uploading Tutorials to the DSpace Shared Tutorial Database . This will tell you how to register for D-Space, how to upload files, and how to subscribe to D-Space so you can be notified whenever new content is added. Those adding Camtasia files will also wish to view our How to Load Camtasia files to DSpace Tutorial as well. Those using Captivate should view our Optimizing your Adobe Captivate projects for use in the ANTS project (below) as well as view our Formating Adobe Captivate Tutorial for ANTS Tutorial. All tutorials and information lay out how to contribute in a very easy fashion so you can easily contribute files ot this project!

ANTS also introduced two sites where you can get source code, shockwave flash files, flash movie files, AVI files, and soon MPEG 4 Video (m4v) files - as well as embedding code for SWF and FLV files. You do not have to upload - or convert - files to these sites, as we do it for you. Further information about the sites is available here..

Registering for D-Space

To register for D-Space go to https://dspace.ucalgary.ca and select Sign On to My DSpace. If you do not have an account you will be prompted for information. Follow the prompts and an account will be created for you. Alteratively, you can also contact our DSpace administrator - Paul Pival (ppival@ucalgary.ca) - and he will create an account for you. If you wish to learn more about registering, please consult Uploading Tutorials to the DSpace Shared Tutorial Database.

Including Relevant Metadata

In order to ensure that all relevant information about the Tutorial is included when you submit your Tutorial to DSpace, please ensure that the following information is included:

Author of the Tutorial
Name of the Tutorial
Name of the Database or E-book / E-journal Collection the Tutorial deals with.
Name of the Database Vendor
When it was Created / Updated
Keywords
Abstract
Description of the Tutorial
File Type
Optional Information such as Contact Information, Viewing Time and Intended Audience (i.e Undergrads)

DSpace will prompt you for most of this information whenever you upload your Tutorial and will also include a listing of the File Size. What it will not prompt you for is any Optional Information, Database/Collection Names and Vendor Information. Consequently, this information must be listed in the Abstract or Description Fields.

Optimizing your Adobe Captivate projects for use in the ANTS project

For use in the ANTS project, you'll need to create a single Shockwave Flash .SWF file that includes all the necessary content for your tutorial. However, I've noticed a couple default settings in Adobe Captivate that will result in multiple .SWF files when you publish your projects. These are summarized in the following post:

http://blogs.adobe.com/silke.fleischer/2007/08/creating_a_single_swf_with_ado.html

As alluded to in the post above, Captivate 3 records any scrolling of pages done with the mouse as a seperate Fullmotion .SWF file. For any of you who have updated from version 2 to version 3, you may have noticed this when you publish your projects. If you capture lengthy web pages with lots of scrolling, then your published project can end up with many small Fullmotion .swf files. These Fullmotion .swf files are separate files that are called into the larger project at the appropriate places when they are viewed. The advantage is that the core .SWF file and the Fullmotion .SWF files are split up, minimizing file size for enhanced streaming. But for the ANTS project, we ask that you supply us with a single, all inclusize .SWF file we can convert to other formats for distribution. So how can you publish a single .SWF file in Captivate 3:

1.) If you've selected to include playback controls for your tutorial, deselect the option to "Show Borders" under the Project -- Skin -- Borders menu. This will include the playback controls in the main .SWF file.

2.) Instead of using the mouse to scroll up and down, use the keyboard arrow instead. Click the scroll bars with the mouse to gain focus first, but rather than click and drag, use the arrow keys. Captivate will capture this movement as typing instead of a separate Fullmotion video.

I've created a short screencast that walks through these steps:
Adobe Captivate and ANTS Opimization screencast

Of course, if you do not include playback controls, or you do not have any scrolling or fullmotion included in your project, then you do not need to make any adjustments. But the idea here is to get a single .SWF files to share with others. If you have any questions, you're welcome to contact me at pbetty@regis.edu

Contact Us

Kazakoff — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:20:57 CDT

We at ANTS welcome comments and questions about our project. If you want to contact us, you can either contact a member of the ANTS Team, or Contact one of our growing number of Regional Represenatives.

ANTS Team Members

1. Oversee operations of the Project (such as file migrations, file conversions, the maitenance of various sites, etc.)
2. Answer questions about the project
3. Promote Collaborative Development of Flash Tutorials using the ANTS Infrastructure, Guidelines and Creative Commons Licensing.

Regional Representatives are local people that can:

1. Visit your area and talk about the project,
2. Answer questions about the project,
3. Answer questions about screeencasting.

The project is just developing this network and is looking for additional people to serve as ANTS reps in their Province or State. So contact one of the ANTS Team Members if you are interested in advocating for collaborative screencasting via ANTS in your region!

ANTS TEAM

Carmen Kazakoff-Lane, Brandon University (Project Coordinator, Marketing and List of Online Resources for Development Contact)
Paul Pival, University of Calgary (DSpace and RSS Feed contact)
Bill Badke, Trinity Western University (Guidelines and Information Literacy Contact)
Paul Betty, Regis University (Captivate, Screencasting and LION TV Contact)
Richard Baer, Camosun College (Camtasia Software and Screencast.Com Contact)
Duncan Dixon, Trinity Western University (Viewletbuilder, Captivate and Screencast.com Contact)
Larry Sheret, Western State College of Colorado. (Camtasia Contact & Xtranormal user!)

ANTS REGIONAL REPRESENTIVES

Canada:
British Columbia: Richard Baer, Camosun College (Camtasia Software and Screencast.Com Contact)
Duncan Dixon, Trinity Western University (Viewletbuilder, Captivate and Screencast.com Contact)
Manitoba: Carmen Kazakoff-Lane, Brandon University

United States:

Minnesota: Erika Bennett, Capella University
North Carolina: Scott Rice, Appalacian State University
Wyoming: Cassandra Messersmith Kvenild, University of Wyoming

Please feel free to contact us with questions about screencasting or to request regional assistance!

Welcome to ANTS!

paulbetty — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 17:32:54 CDT

The Animated Tutorial Sharing Project (ANTS) is a collaborative project presently involving librarians in Canada and the United States, but open to librarians elsewhere. The goal of the project is to create a shared repository of library, research, and information literacy tutorials created using commercial screencast software such as Adobe Captivate, Qarbon Viewlet Builder, Techsmith's Camtasia Studio , freeware tools such as Jing, or cloud computing sites like Screenr or Screencast-o-matic. Tutorials contributed to the ANTS project are made publicly available for use by all libraries via our affiliated broadcast sites: YouTube (LIONTV) , Screencast.com, the Internet Archive, and blip.tv (LION TV) -- site retired. Editable Source code is also available from our DSpace repository for those who wish to add their own brands, local links, etc.

Getting Started:

1.) About the ANTS project and some Frequently Asked Questions

2.) How to contribute

Whether you have a tutorial you've already created, or you want to help create a new tutorial for the project, follow these easy steps to become a member of the ANTS community.

3.) How to utilize existing tutorials

Follow these instructions if you want to learn more about accessing Files and Using Embedding Code.

4.) Best Practices in Screencasting

Provides information about how to build good tutorials and how to get feedback about their usage.

5.) ANTS and LION TV.

Learn more about this broadcast site with important push technology and a wide range of addtional features.

6.) Keeping Up to Date & Getting Help.

Learn about a variety of methods you can use to keep up to date with new content, as well as with new activity on our wiki.

7.) Help ANTS Grow.

8.) Other Collaborative Sites.

Keeping Up to Date & Getting Help

Kazakoff — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:57:02 CDT

Keeping Up to Date Participants in this project can keep up to date with ongoing developments a number of ways:

1. You can learn what tutorials are being worked on by consulting our List of Online Resources Identified for Development, our Information Literacy Tutorials Identified for Development and other types of tutorials identified for development which are listed under How to Contribute. These lists are current as participants are asked to post what they are working on, or have completed so other participants have access to current information.

2. You can set up your profile to WATCH pages and recieve E-mail Notifications / updates about site activity (HIGHLY RECOMMENDED) If you want to subscribe to our Discussion Forum or Receive UPDATES about ALL SITE ACTIVITY, view this Powerpoint Demonstration. It will tell you how to do so. If you want to subscribe to Individual Pages, then:

Log into the Wiki using your account information
Select the relevant page (for instance the Best Practices Page
Beside the Easy Edit icon are a number of options – Select More Tools.
Select Watch Page from the Drop Down Menu listed under More Tools.
Select My Profile (far right side of the Toolbar) – then select Email Notifications and tell it to send notifications when Items Change in your watchlist.

This Watch page can be set for any of our ANTS Wiki pages but not for the Feature Pages Wetpaint Provides (i.e. the Discussion Forum, Updates - or any of the ones on their Red Toolbar) You can be notified about any changes to them, but you will have to use their RSS Feed options. To do so, view the Powerpoint we have created. As a general rule it is very useful to tell it to watch our (a) lists of resources identified for development (so you know what work people are doing on each tutorial), (b) our Discussion forum and (c) our Best Practices in Screencasting. All of this can be accomplished if you just tell it to notify you of any updates to the site.

3. If you use an aggregator you can also point it to an RSS Feed for New Pages, Recently Updated Pages, Recent Comments and New Pages - which is listed under Site Reports & RSS Feeds. (NOTE: To learn all about how to see the latest changes to the site read our section on RSS Feeds in our FAQ.)

4. People can learn of completed Tutorials by subscribing to DSpace. It will then notify you any time new content is added.

5. If the idea of being notified via iTunes, 1Click or Miro appeals to you, use one of the feeds on our Screencast.com site or our LION TV Site. They also provides RSS Feeds. These sites will send notices about completed tutorials.

Getting Help

Ever come across a piece of software with a quirk? Want to know how to do something better? ANTS can help you a number of ways:

Check out our Best Practices in Screencasting Section
Participate in our Discussion Forum where you can identify issues and people you can learn from.
Use our FAQ or contact any one of the team members listed below.

Google Analytics and Screencasts

Is your library using Google Analytics to track use of your website? If so, take a look at this screencast to learn how to integrate Google Analytics into your Adobe Captivate, Camtasia Studio, or Viewlet Builder screencasts. Direct any questions about this topic to Paul Betty.
(Link to the screencast has been fixed. The wiki editor was doing some automated formating that was messing up the URL. It should work now!)

Contacts

Members of the Animated Tutorial Sharing Project Development Group include:

Carmen Kazakoff-Lane, Brandon University (Project Coordinator, Marketing and List of Online Resources for Development Contact)
Paul Pival, University of Calgary (DSpace and RSS Feed contact)
Bill Badke, Trinity Western University (Guidelines and Information Literacy Contact)
Paul Betty, Regis University (Captivate, Screencasting and LION TV Contact)
Richard Baer, Camosun College (Camtasia Software and Screencast.Com Contact)
Duncan Dixon, Trinity Western University (Viewletbuilder, Captivate and Screencast.com Contact)

Regional Representatives (talks at local conferences about screencasting and ANTS; provides help regionally)

Canada:

Ontario Rep: Meghan Ecclestone, York University Libraries (Ontario Regional Contact and Captivate User)

United States:

California Rep: Leslie Matthews, Fielding Graduate University, lmathews@fielding.edu
Wyoming Rep: Cassandra Messersmith Kvenild, University of Wyoming, CKvenild@uwyo.edu

If you have a specific question related to one of the areas our group has expertise in, you may wish to contact us at the e-mails listed above.

Best Practices in Screencasting

Kazakoff — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:56:17 CDT

This site provides individuals with information about how to design tutorials effectively, information on how to measure the effectiveness of tutorials, as well as some information on screencasting and video sites. These initial postings are the result of the work done by members of our project, but we welcome any and all information pertinent to better and more effective tutorial design.

1. ANTS Guidelines for Designing Animated Tutorials

ANTS provides people with Guidelines for Designing Animated Tutorials. These guidelines work to ensure that each tutorials is (a) substantive enough to be useful to all, (b) highly viewable, and (c) easily exchangeable. Many have commented that their usefulness makes them a good starting point for anyone who wants some clues to better design.

2. Google Analytics and .swf tutorials screencast. Created by Paul Betty, ANTS project member.

This screencast examines how to track usage statistics of your .swf tutorials using Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a free service that allows you to track usage statistics of your entire website. However, to track use and downloads of non HTML files requires a small amount of programming and modification of source files. This screencast details how Google Analytics works, and describes the necessary steps needed to track .swf files (the most common output of screencasting software). Examples for Adobe Captivate 3, Qarbon Viewlet Builder 5, and Camtasia Studio 5 are included.

3.Publishing Adobe Captivate files on YouTube article from Adobe.com

Most video hosting services, including Youtube, do not accept the .swf file format. This quick overview explains how and why you need to convert your .swf tutorials to digital video for optimal performance using a third party video hosting service. Note: The ANTS project members handle all .swf to digital video conversions for tutorials submitted to ANTS. This allows our volunteers to focus on creating tutorials and minimizes the time and work requirements placed upon them. The ANTS project is continually exploring new ways to deliver screencasts, and will soon offer access to a variety of source files, .swf, and digital video via our multiple web interfaces.

4. Adding Surveys to Tutorials by Richard Baer ANTS Team Member

A good way to see how effective a tutorial is, is by adding a survey at the end of it. You can get viewers to give you feedback, so next time you design your learning object it is more effective. Richard Baer - of the ANTS team, demonstrates how this can be done in his CINAHL Alerts Tutorial. You will see a link to the survey at the end of the tutorial. If you follow it, he provides a password which can be used to take the online survey. The survey software is free from toofast.ca, a very cool project out of Mount Royal in Calgary so it is both effective and affordable!

5. Lib 2.0 Resources Page: Screencasting From Lib2.0 Wiki

"This page lists examples of library tutorials on a variety of subjects - catalogs, databases, internet searching and more. Many were created with screencasting software, while others have been created with Flash and other graphics tools that require more technical and graphics expertise." It also lists information on the software used to create Screencasts, as well as a list of other resources.

6. Streaming Select Videos by Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Demonstrates how to create specialized playlists from sites such as LION TV and Youtube and mount them on a web page, blog, (etc) so you can create point of need videos specific to a course, your home page, a databases page (or whatever you feel is appropriate.) It also links to our How to Embed section so you will know how to use embedding code for this purpose.

7. Camtasia 6.0 tips by Richard Baer

I've just started with Camtasia 6.0 and want to pass on a few ideas.
Camtasia Studio 6.0 has many new features that make your life much easier.

** HD production preset. The HD preset produces your video to .mp4 format. It is not necessarily HD format. You have to change the settings in the preset so that it always produces in HD. Techsmith has put two videos and screen caps with text on this page that show you how to do it.
http://visuallounge.techsmith.com/2009/02/camtasia_studio_and_the_hd_opt.html
.

This video was produced in HD. Clicking on the HD link changes it to HD.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24tXgPAa5Pw

Compare the visual quality to this version of the same video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ3heTm97k4

You can now modify the URL that plays the tutorial so that it automatically plays the HD version at Youtube.
To do this, add the string &hd=1 to the end of the URL if you are embedding the video or using the link from one of your pages.
This link demonstrates how it works:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24tXgPAa5Pw&hd=1

**Editing for your audience and for universal distribution.
When you make a video for your own library audience, its content may be completely local, quite generic or generic with some local content.

That last category is one that I've been working on as I wanted to explore creation of content that is useful for local purposes - and is easy to edit into a shareable version stripped of local content.
As an example, I have done two versions of the same tutorial.*
Blip.tv version for my library.
http://blip.tv/file/2117761
At 1:02 a section starts about logging in to Camosun databases, ending at 1:23.

Youtube version for anyone to use:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TLMvrilTDc
This version skips Camosun and goes from Google to the welcome screen for ASP at about 54 seconds.

When scripting it for my own library, I needed to ensure that the local content occurred in a block that could be easily snipped out of the file. When you are showing databases, local content is usually the navigation from your homepage into the database.

The best practice is to either be silent when your mouse is doing local navigation - or have narration connected to the local navigation only. Then you have one edit, i.e. cutting out the local navigation section. If you leave a one second pause at the beginning and end of the local section, then it makes it easier to cut. When you upload it to DSpace or other repository, then another library has an easy to use insertion point. They can split the timeline at the insertion point and insert their own local navigation recording.

This Jing video http://screencast.com/t/FzncOkmUw8 explains what I mean. I left a silent section at beginning and end to aid editing. I would produce this as it is recorded, then snip out the short Camosun bit, then produce it again to a different directory for uploading to DSpace, etc.

The same principle applies at the end of a tutorial. At the end of the demonstrated search we often want to show how to access the article through our journal list. If you pause slightly, then you can cut out the local content at the end.

** Those pesky ums and ahs and dead air.
Even when you use the F9 key to pause while the machine works away to load a page, you still have sections of 1 to 4 seconds when there is nothing happening. Through a lot of error, I discovered a trick to editing those out.

Put the right hand editing bar just before (.25 second) the place where you want to resume. Then start backing the the left editing bar backwards to just after (.25 second) your last complete and useful sound. You should then have a section of dead air that can be snipped safely. Check that the flow is smooth because it is much easier to undo the cut just after you have made it.

8. Learning to Teach through Video by Kim Leeder

This blog posting talks about the latest research in educational videos, cognitive science and some of the dos and dont's related to screencasting. It also links to a number of studies discussed in the posting. A good resource with practical advice related to putting a video together using segmentation, storyboarding, the proper combination of narration and visuals, etc.

9. Xtranormal by Larry Sheret

The URL is http://www.xtranormal.com/ Click on "Create a Movie--Text-To-Movie
Start by creating a free account on the site. [Update: as of fall, 2010, there is a charge of about 40 cents/minute for any movie you make] Choose a cartoon set and one or two cartoon characters to use in a video about your library or an information literacy tutorial that you wish to create in a format that should generate humor and interest in your topic. You determine what each character will say and you select appropriate gestures that make them come alive. Simply type the script and the characters will speak it. It took 30 minutes to make a one minute video cartoon to advertise Information Literacy classes to our faculty. You can watch an example of an Xtranormal video that was created to remind faculty to schedule Information Literacy classes.

10. Linking Videos to Physical Objects using QR Codes From blog by Jason Fleming

A special thanks to Paul Pival (aka The Distant Librarian) for point out this interesting post by Jason Fleming. He created a video about how to make a double sided photocopy and then created a QR code that cell phones can scan to watch the related video on YouTube. Jason's Blog is Here.

11. Using Prezi and Camtasia together.

First step is to make a prezi. Prezis are easy to do but hard to master I think. Go to http://prezi.com, get a free account and dig in.

My first one is a case of "finish it already, stop tweaking".

Second step is to record it with Camtasia.

Open Camtasia recorder and select most of the screen. Hide as many toolbars as you can.

I found that full screen prezi from the prezi site was too hard to capture, so I opened the prezi, got the show widget going, then went full screen from there. But not autoplay.That view has a small control widget on the bottom right. I put the mouse on the advance button then advanced the slides at the pace that I hope matches the average reading speed of the audience. Slower is better.
Once the mouse is on the button, you do not see the clicks so it is not distracting.

Once it is recorded, you can add music. I went to the live music archive at archive.org, and was going to look for funk as a keyword but saw that one of the highly downloaded shows was Global Funk. And the first tune had an opening that was appealing and just long enough. Shortly after the 2 minute mark, the horns and wah-wah pedals started to cook and while great listening, it might have been too distracting.

I experimented with the levels by putting the headphones on my colleague and lowering them until she thought it was loud enough to hear but not to distract. Needless to say, this is the opposite of evidence based editing....

By the by, the prezi tutorial is a version of a "normal" Camtasia one. I needed something to work with so repurposed a recent one. I am curious as to the relative effectiveness of the tutorials. Different delivery methods for the same material.

12. Providing viewers with a Seamless Viewing Experience with HTML 5 From Document by Mark Pilgrim

Tired of dealing with Plug-ins like QuickTime, Adobe Flash or Windows Media Player? So are your viewers.

Mark Pilgrim created a document about how one can use HTML 5 coding with MPEG 4, OGG Video and Web M Files to create a seamless experience for anyone viewing a video with Any device or Any Web Browser - provided they are using a recent version of the Web Browser that supports HTML 5.

The good news is that ANTS already supports file conversions to MPEG 4 (at LION TV) and OGG Video files (at the Internet Archive) (not to mention m4v) and is looking at finding ways to get file conversions for the new Open Source Platform: Web M Video Files. We will keep you posted about this one as it we could then give contributors all the files they need to provide viewers with a seemless experience! In the meanwhile, read Mark Pilgrim's excellent article and try the video he embedded with HTML 5 encoding to see if you can view it with different smart phones or current web browsers.

Locating Open Educational Resources

Kazakoff — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:27:25 CDT

ANTS may contain a central hub for library screencast files, but it is not the only place on the Internet where this content can be located. Many people are now contributing files to their Institutional Repositories - but how can you find this content given that there are hundreds of said repositories?

The best way is to use one of two repository search engines:

OAIster created by OCLC will search across repositories and its content is harvested by Google.

OpenDOAR also searches across repositories and as an open tool can be used by anyone, anywhere.

Try looking for a tutorial for a specific database using these search engines. If a tutorial is listed, you should find a link to the files but what files you locate (i.e. the Source Code OR the actual Multimedia/Shockwave Flash File) is dependent upon what the contributor chooses to upload (at ANTS we provide a tutorial asking contributors to upload both the Source Code and Final Production.)

Give either a try if you want to locate the actual files for local use and look for the Creative Commons License. Any Creative Commons License will allow you to automatically use and share content in an Institutional Repositories. If it DOES NOT contain a No Derivative Works clause, you can also make modifications to the source code for local purposes (e.g change languages, add your library brand, etc.)

Online Resources Identified for Animated Tutorial Development

Kazakoff — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:06:05 CDT

Given the large number of E-Resources identified for development, all were broken down alphabetically by Name of E-Resource. You can locate a listing for a specific e-resource by Searching, or by using our alphabetical list of Names of E-Resources listed below.

C - D

F - G

H - K

L - N

O - R

S - T

U - Z

Once at the site for a specific e-resource, use the Wiki to indicate if you:

Are working on a Tutorial for a Specific E-resource
Have completed and uploaded a tutorial to our repository (please include the URL for the tutorial)
If you wish to see a tutorial created for a specific e-resource.

By posting this information on the wiki, you inform others that a tutorial exists, or is in development, so they do not need to create one locally.

The list is intended to be dynamic and responsive to changing needs, so please add any new or existing resource, for which, you would like to see a tutorial created.

ANTS Team

Note to Spamers

Kazakoff — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:57:32 CDT

We recently noticed a lot of Spam on this Wiki which is not only irritating, but also just bad marketing. So if you are thinking about posting Spam on this wiki be aware:

* We at ANTS do not support Advertising for Porn, Gambling, or other illicit activities.

*Spam will be deleted and accounts modified.

* If you are really irritating, we will instead replace it with content asking people to instead give to a charity that combats your said adversing - like support groups for Gamblers Anonymous (etc.). We are after all Librarians and specialize in finding and organizing information. We know how to identify organizations that run counter to your objective.

* If you question our ability to alter your account check out the following one which had links to gambling sites: http://ants.wetpaint.com/account/Ester4752

*Please have some sense. This Wiki is for Librarians. We are not Rich. We are not know for being raunchy. Spam somewhere else as here you are only irritating people who will not support your activity.

Carmen Kazakoff-Lane, ANTS Project Coordinator

Copyright, Intellectual Property, and Collaborative Librarianship

Kazakoff — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:56:29 CDT

Over the past few years, as the ANTS team has publicized the project at different conferences and venues, a number of questions have come up regarding copyright and intellectual property issues. Below are some frequently asked questions about copyright, ANTS, and other collaborative projects.

Question: Is it okay to use screenshots of subscription databases or vendor logos in my project?
Answer: ANTS has never been contacted directly by database vendors with orders to cease and desist from using screenshots of subscription database or vendor logos, nor are we aware of any such cases within the profession. ANTS tutorials are developed to elucidate the value and quality of the resource(s) being highlighted, and as such, we believe our tutorials help increase the name recognition and usability of vendor supplied subscription sources (i.e. free publicity for the vendor's products!)

Question: As the creator/author of a tutorial, do I surrender copyright when I submit a tutorial to the ANTS project?
Answer: No, as the creator/author of a tutorial submitted to the ANTS project you retain your rights as the copyright holder. All tutorials submitted to the ANTS project are disseminated under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license. This license indicates that the creator/author of the work will allow for certain uses of the work so long as the specified criteria are met. As creator/author you may request to have materials removed from the project at anytime.

Question: I work for a for-profit institution which claims copyright for all creative works produced by its employees. Does this mean I cannot contribute to the ANTS project?
Answer: Well, it depends. In this case, you will want to talk to to your supervisors and gain permission first. It is important to note that submitting materials to the ANTS project does not mean you or your institution are surrendering copyright. Instead you or your institution are specifying certain allowable uses of the work under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 license.

In this scenario, as a potential contributor to the project, you may find that the organizational culture at your institution does not favor collaborative, open access projects. You may need to build an argument in your favor that demonstrates the value and necessity of open collaborative library projects as critical to the future success of libraries. To help you build this argument, here are some suggested resources:

Downes, S. (2007) Models for Sustainable Open Educational Resources. Interdisciplinary Journal of Knowledge and Learning Objects, 3: 29-44.
Deiss, K. & Petrowski, M.J. (2009, March). ACRL 2009 Strategic Thinking Guide for Academic Librarians in the New Economy. Association of College and Research Libraries. Retrieved from http://www.ala.org/ala//mgrps/divs/acrl/issues/value/acrlguide09.pdf
Guterman, L. (2008, February 12). Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement. Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved from http://chronicle.com/article/Harvard-Faculty-Adopts/40447
Darnton, R. (2008, February 12). The Case for Open Access. The Harvard Crimson. Retrieved from http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2008/2/12/the-case-for-open-access-the/

FAQ

Kazakoff — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:55:55 CDT

1. Can anybody add content to the ANTS site?

Answer: Yes. Although ANTS initially started out as a COPPUL initiative, it was opened it up to non-COPPUL librarians in the Fall of 2006. Anyone can register to be a member of our COPPUL Wiki and anyone can get a DSpace account and upload content to our repository.

2. Are you asking people to only develop tutorials for the e-resources currently on the list?

Answer: No. Anyone working with e-resources knows that databases are aquired by new vendors, old vendors go out of business, new e-resources are continuously being born, and that old e-resources (that were previously not that popular) can become popular. Hence, we anticipate that many people will want to develop tutorials for e-resources not on our initial list. That is why we chose a dynamic wiki - that anyone can add to - as our home for all e-resources identified for development.

If you see a need for an e-resource tutorial that not on the list, all we ask is that you add it to the Wiki (it is very easy to do using Easy Edit). This way others will be made aware of the fact that (a) a tutorial needs to be created for a specific e-resource or (b) whether you are creating one (so they do not need to create one locally). Adding these e-resource to the list, keeps the list both current and relevant, so please feel free to (a) add to the Wiki, and (b) to upload a tutorial for an e-resource not on our initial list.

3. I noticed that ANTS seems to be dedicated to creating tutorials for e-resources. Do you accept other types of library tutorials as well such as Information Literacy ones?

Answer: Yes. Although ANTS was originally conceived as being a method or enabling development of e-resource tutorials across institutions, we have recieved a lot of questions from people who would like to see other types of tutorials included as well. These include Information Literacy Tutorials, Literacy Tutorials (for Public Libraries), Data & GIS Tutorials, Tutorials for Handicapped users, and any other type of tutorial that there is a demand for in the library world.

We welcome all ideas and all content. Ideas for new types of tutorials can be added onto the Wiki by cobtacting us and we will add a new page for that type of tutorial. Ideas for Specific Content under one of our identified tutorial groups, can be added to that page for the group (i.e. you could indicate there is a need for a plagarism tutorial in our Information Literacy Tutorials page.)

4. Is there any restrictions in the types of software used to create tutorials? Do you recommend that people use one vendor's software?

Answer: We do not tell people that they have to use Captivate, Camtasia, Viewletbuilder or Wink. We leave that decision up to our creators. All that we do ask is that whatever you use, it can be converted into a Shockwave Flash File (SWF) or Flash File, and that this includes audio (as general consensus is that it makes for a better viewing experience.)

5. I have never used audio in my tutorials. As it is new to me, do you have any recommendations?

Answer: We do have a few simple suggestions that work well when recording audio. First of all, you do not have to enter some sophisticated recording studio to get good audio. Instead, make sure (1) that you are in an office that does not have a lot of noise (such as music, construction sounds, etc) , (2) that you use a Headset recorder (the speaker rests close to your mouth when you are recording and as such, it picks up your voice and eliminates a lot of white noise - such as the sound of an Air conditioner blowing) and (3) that you save your file on High or CD Quality in order to get a good sound on your tutorial.

6. Do you know of any good online training that I could take to learn how to create Animated Tutorials?

Answer: Organizations such as ALA, ACRL or The Partnership (in Canada) are always offering online courses. So will your local library association. In addition, one of our team members - Paul Pival - did a Webinar on using Viewletbuilder that is freely available for anyone to view (the password is ANTS). You will need to download the Elluminate Live Software to view it, but Elluminate is freely available.

Another option is to visit (1) our Best Practices in Screencasting page or (2) specific blogs dedicated to discussing tutorial development. Some include The Distant Librarian and Libcasting. They will keep you up-to-date.

7. I registered for RSS Feed updates. The feed sends me the page but I want to see the changes made to the page. How do I do this?

To see the changes, go to the ANTS page sent to you in the Feed. At the bottom of the page is a grey area with the words: Latest Page Update. Select the Complete History link and you will see a history page. To view the changes select the + sign beside the day and time for the page you want to view (which is likely the most recent.) It will display the Changed Text (with additions in Blue Text and Deletions in Red with a strikethrough.) You can also look at how the changes altered the previous page by selecting View Changes from Previous Version. You will then see the entire pages with previous and changed text.

8. I know that ANTS is designed to be a tutorial repository, a place where we all contribute our finished products...and then others can ccess and modify the file to suit individual needs. My question is this: what if the tutorial is generic enough that it doesn't require any modifications? Is it legal, ethical, acceptable to send students to the (already completed..by someone else) tutorial as part of a web quest?

Answer: You can do whatever you want with our tutorials - provided you give attribution to their creators. You can link to them as is; you can download them to your site and have people use them from there; or you can modify them and use them locally. We allow people to modify, but this is just an option we felt some people might want in order to make it (1) desirable to participate and (2) make our tutorials desirable to use (as some people may wish to add link to their serials list, or add their branding.)

9. I work with Distance Education Students and was told that instead of using Animated Tutorials, that I should use Powerpoint Slides as they take less bandwidth. Are animated tutorials using Flash significantly larger than Powerpoint?

Answer: No they are not if they are kept short (which is the recommended practice anyways.) In comparing the two we discovered:

Powerpoint Presentation with 28 screenshots was 2.26 MB
SWF File created by Qarbon Viewletbuilder with High Audio and 3-4 minute in lenght was 2.75 MB (MLA Advanced Search Tutorial)
SWF File using Captivate was about 3 minutes long and 3 MB (CINAHL Headings Tutorial)
SWF file using Camtasia also about 3 minutes was 26 MB (the largest file - for the Art Index Tutorial

You can go through our files at DSpace and see the size of each as well as learn their viewing times. But most programs allow for SWF files that are comparable to a Powerpoint and provide users with a better viewing experience.

10. Since upgrading my Adobe Flash Player to Adobe Flash 9.0.115.0. any Camtasia files sound strange. What is the matter?

Answer: The answer to this question can be found at the Techsmith site. They are talking with Adobe about the issue and Adobe is trying to recitfy the situation. Until then, Techsmith is providing a patch that people can use with Camtasia tutorials so the sound is of good quality. Richard Baer re-released his Wikipedia Tutorial using this software and it worked. To learn more go to:

http://techsmith.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/techsmith.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=1250

11. Are there any Copyright issues associated with using screenshot taken from Commercial Vendors products?

Answer: We vaguely remember discussing this issue at the start of the ANTS project in 2004. The consensus then was that by creating these tutorials we are actually doing vendors a favor as we are making people aware of their product, and as such they would be foolish not to want us to do this.

The project originated in Canada, so we are not experts in the Digital Millenium Copyright Act in the U.S. but (1) as our tutorials are not presenting a large dataset, (2) screen displays of articles are a small part of the first page of an article, and (3) they are being used for educational purposes, we feel that there is little reason anyone would question the legality of what we are doing. The hundreds of tutorials created since, and the absense of lawsuits, would seem to indicate that is indeed the case.

12. Can I alter the dimensions of a tutorial to make it appear larger or smaller at my site?

Yes you can by doing one of two things:

a. If you are using Embedding code, follow our instructions about altering the dimensions of embedding code for any embedded tutorials.

b. If you want to link to a tutorial with a different dimension (unlikely, but it could happen), then download the Source Code from DSpace, alter the dimensions of the source code, and upload it (at you local site) as an SWF or FLV file, with the dimensions you like. You can then link to the tutorial with that dimensions (instead of linking to one of ours.) NOTE: In order to do this, you will need Camtasia to edit Camtasia files; Captivate to edit Captivate files (etc.) You may or may not want to pursue multiple editing software programs, but if you do, you will also be able to do things like add your library brand (etc) to a tutorial.

13. Some vendors already include tutorials in their offerings. Why should librarians take the time to build any of their own?

The reason is simple: vendors are interested in selling products and so their tutorials tend to emphasize the sexy features of their products like My EBSCOHost. Librarians on the other hand are interested in educating people how to best use these products to find the information they need (i.e. information literacy). This means that the types of tutorials our users need when they are first learning about a project are different - and this is particularly important if students are unable - or unwilling - to come into the library due to preferences, time constraints (i.e. the library is not open when the student starts a paper after their kids are asleep) or distance contraints (i.e. Distance Education Students.)

Other Collaborative Sites

Kazakoff — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:55:34 CDT

There are a number of other sites out there that encourage people to share their work and collaborate in developing new content that benefits everyone. Here are a few of our favorites.

1. PRIMO: Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online

Put together by ACRL this site contains peer reviewed instructional material designed by librarians. Content can range from broader information literacy tutorials to a few database tutorials. (ANTS differs from it in that we began our project by focusing on creating current tutorials for e-resources - whose interfaces are constantly evolving - and hence do not incorporate peer-review as many products would have changed interfaces by the time they were peer reviewed.)

2. CLIP: Cooperative Library Instruction Program

CLIP has as one of its goals the creation of "standards and procedures that would provide for cooperative production of [library instruction] modules that could easily be borrowed and integrated into consistent and cohesive individual library instructional efforts". It states that "this project provides a model for shared creation and use of standardized, mix and match, library instruction modules. " Many tutorials have been created by NSUOK library staff using their standardized approach.

3. CORIL

"CORIL (Cooperative Online Repository for Information Literacy) is an initiative to support information literacy instruction among Canadian universities". Among the project's aims are to create a broad range of library related learning objects, to facilitate sharing, to create a learning community for Canadian instruction materials and to provide a "mechanism for peer reviewed publication of instruction materials".

4. ALPS Link

Link is a "repository of learning objects to support academic librarians in their instructional role." Is is part of an initiative put forward by librarians in the Province of British Columbia and presently contains word documents, pdfs and powerpoint slides pertaining to information literacy.

5. Encyclopedia of Life (EOL)

EOL is a "Comprehensive, collaborative, ever-growing, and personalized, ... ecosystem of websites that makes all key information about life on Earth accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world. [It's] goal is to create a constantly evolving encyclopedia that lives on the Internet, with contributions from scientists and amateurs alike. To transform the science of biology, and inspire a new generation of scientists, by aggregating all known data about every living species. And ultimately, to increase our collective understanding of life on Earth, and safeguard the richest possible spectrum of biodiversity."

Although this is not a sharing site for libraries, it is one that demonstrates the potential of technology to allow people across institutions to work together and achieve something great. We love it and cannot say enough good things about the project.

6. Architecture for Humanity
This organization started with $700.00 and a web site. It brings together people to design shelters, healthcare facilities, etc, throughout the world. It asks people to create designs to meet specific needs for specific events and to make these designs accessible to everyone via a Third World Creative Commons License (people retain ownership of ideas but allow others to view and use it for sustainable development purposes in the Third World.) It also emphasises the need for designs that enable people to create sustainable communities where the poor always can find shelter. There is a video of the presentation given at TED which is truly inspiring. It is an example of how great things can be accomplished through technology and a willingness to share.

7. Science of Collaboratories Project
This project "is devoted to understanding the technical and behavioral principles that can lead to better, more successul design of collaboratories in the future"...in other words - a site designed to examine collaboration. It is very useful as it includes a long listing of Collaborative Projects which they have identified and are investigating. It is a great resource for librarians and faculty seeking to understand the dynamics of collaboration and how it is impacting scholarship. The site is produced by the School of Information at the University of Michegan.

How To Utilize Existing Tutorials

Kazakoff — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:54:07 CDT

If you want to learn more about how to use existing tutorials, it is easy.

Step 1: Consult our Access ANTS Files and Embedding Code in order to access all necessary Files and Code.

Step 2: Follow our Information on Embedding Tutorials or Streaming Select Tutorials if you need to learn more about this.

Step 3: Select Share / Embed / Subscribe under a specific episode at LION TV if you wish to use its advanced Sharing and Subscription features.

Step 4: Select Syndicate at LION TV if you wish to Syndicate all Episodes from the LION TV site at your site.

Step 5: Use streaming tools such as Embedr.com if you wish to stream select ANTS episodes at your sites.

Step 6: Check out our Best Practices in Screencasting if you want to learn about including surveys in existing tutorials or including Google Analytics to measure usage (if you download a tutorial and want to measure its usage locally), and a host of other great ideas that can be used to make great educational videos.

Notifying Others of New Content

Kazakoff — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:53:46 CDT

ANTS asks that contributors take time to inform others of any new or updated content that you have uploaded to DSpace. Fortunately, this is very easy to do. Simply:

Wait for notification that your content was accepted by DSpace and uploaded. Then go to the page where the Full Record of that item is listed on DSpace. The Full Record should include all the metadata and files you uploaded and it will look like this.
Go to the place on the Wiki where you indicated that you were working on a tutorial and change its status from In Progress / In Development to Created / Completed.
Tell others the Name of the Completed Tutorial and create a Hyperlink to its Full Record in DSpace.

By posting the status of your work on the Wiki you enable others to:

Be immediately notified of completed content as the Wiki provides both RSS and Page Change Notifications (provided they activate either)
Learn what work has been completed so they can go about creating other tutorials in need of development - thereby eliminating duplication of effort across institutions.

This ability to communicate across institutions is what makes Collaborative Development across institutions work. So please take the time to notify us about the status of your work.

Adopt a Tutorial

Kazakoff — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 10:52:59 CDT

One goal of this initiative is to encourage people to take responsibility for creating and updating one Tutorial. This will enable everyone to have access to current Tutorials despite changes made to databases, e-journals or e-book search engines by vendors or publishers. If you have consulted the list and wish to adopt a Tutorial, please let others know by (1) gettting an account on this wiki and (2) posting what you are working on - on one of our Wiki lists (see: Online Resources Tutorials List, Information Literacy Tutorials List, Literacy Tutorials List Handicapped Users Tutorials List, and DATA and GIS Tutorials List). Doing so will enable others to learn what work is in being done, so they can (1) access a completed tutorial and (2) volunteer to work on something that has yet to be adopted. Relevant information should include:

Name of the E-Resource a tutorial is being designed for (if for an e-resource tutorial)
Name of the Vendor for the e-resource (if for an e-resource tutorial)
Name of the Tutorial
Your Name and Contact Information
If you are working on an update to an existing tutorial

This list is dynamic and can be added to if you do not see a product - or type of tutorial - in one one of our lists. We not only expect - but encourage - people to add new tutorials to the list - as this will ensure that it remains current and relevant.

If you already have a tutorial developed and want to add it to our collection, you are welcome to do so, provided that you have eliminated any references to your local library - as it needs to be generic enough to be relevant to other libraries. But please, add the name of the tutorial, and the above information, onto one of our lists!

Note: There are several RSS feeds to the left of this page which will then notify others anytimes someone has Adopted or Completed a specific tutorial. This enables people to keep current about ongoing developments. To learn all about how to see the latest changes to the site read our section on RSS Feeds in our FAQ.

ANTS and LION TV

Kazakoff — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 15:19:33 CST

The ANimated Tutorial Sharing Project now supports a new site: the Library Information literacy Online Network or LION TV. (http://liontv.blip.tv)

UPDATE 02/06/09: Yeah! Errors with the automated .m4v conversion on the LION TV site seem to have been corrected. The latest tutorials added to the LION TV website should now also be available for download via our iTunes feed: http://liontv.blip.tv/rss/itunes.

LION TV is an Educational Network whose Information Literacy Broadcasts are directed at Teachers, Professors, Students or members of the General Public. It will not replace the ANTS worksites used by professional librarians, but rather will work to enhance the work performed by ANTS members by providing them with (1) an Online Network with Video Sharing Capabilities and a better screen resolution than YouTube and (2) a means of pushing the broadcasts created for ANTS out to popular Brand sites where people spend a lot of time online. A review of the site indicates that:

Broadcasts at this site are so clear that you can view the text typed into a search box.
Individual Episodes can be easily located and displayed.
It has excellent Sharing, Embedding, Linking, and E-mailing capabilities.
Viewers can opt to easily Syndicate all LION TV episodes at their own sites.
Anyone Embedding Episodes or Syndicating the Show, can select the size of screen they wish to see displayed at their site, so they are not restricted to small screens.
Identifying Files, Metadata and Creative Commons Rights for each Episode is very easy.
Viewers can subscribe to LION TV’s broadcasts using RSS, Miro, Pando or iTunes.
Viewers can provide Feedback to each episode.
The home page for LION TV provides viewers with a lot of information about Information Literacy and Libraries.

Less visibly:

The site makes use of excellent Push Technology to send broadcasts out to popular Brand sites on the Internet like Facebook, Blinkx, iTunes, Flickr, AOL Video, Yahoo Video, MySpace, MeFeedia, Meebo, MeeVee, Lycos Mix, del.ic.ious and Internet Archive - so even though the broadcasts are not on YouTube, they are ubiquitous.
The site has excellent statistics which enables us to keep track of viewing numbers for each episode.

While not all distribution sites have been officially posted to, we are working at getting the content out to as many sites as possible. In the interim you can:

Visit the LION TV site: http://liontv.blip.tv/
See how the tutorials display at the Blinkx http://www.blinkx.com/ or AOL http://video.aol.com/ Video Search engines by (1) searching for tutorials there (for example search for PsychInfo) and then (2) watching how it links back to the LION TV site.
Visit our Facebook site at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/LION-Library-Information-literacy-Online-Network/26633613400?ref=ts
See how their broadcasts look Embedded in Libguides: http://libguides.brandonu.ca/content.php?pid=11352&sid=76575
To see what content looks like when streamed to our YouTube site visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/1LIONTV
To see our content syndicated to the Internet Archive, go to the Internet Archive http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=antssite%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies
See our videos on Channel.com
See our videos on Meefeedia
See our videos on Cast.TV

Librarians wishing to add to the LION TV’s broadcasts can do so by adding a tutorial or video broadcast to the ANTS repository at DSpace.[1] We will take the content, do the file conversions, and upload it to LION TV. So all you need do is create and upload. We will handle the rest. (NOTE: because all content is first uploaded to DSpace, OCLC's OAIster Database - which harvests metadata from Institutional Repositories - will also identify ANTS content via its search engine.)

We at ANTS and LION TV are very excited about this new site as we recognize that Librarians and Educators today face an enormous challenge in attempting to be seen and heard amidst all of the noise on the Internet - and we believe that LION TV can help. LION TV places Librarian created content onto popular brand sites and this content then directs people back to a new Library Brand site: LION TV. Once there, people will discover an Online Network with professional insight into the complex World of Information. In short, LION TV’s approach to broadcasting and brand name promotion – combined with the rich array of content coming from contributors to ANTS – will work to ensure that libraries and librarians are once again visible where many people spend their time online.

LION TV contains many broadcasts and with the help of our fellow librarians in institutions everywhere, will continue to add to our list of them. If you would like to assist with this initiative, we would encourage you to (1) become a contributing member of ANTS (see: How to Contribute ) and (2) ensure that students, teachers, faculty or members of the general public know about this site by promoting it to your users.

[1] Note: While content is welcome, please keep in mind that it should be content that is relevant beyond your home institution or home library. Please do not include shots of your library or your library’s home page. Instead keep content generic enough to be relevant to all viewers.

If you are creating a tutorial for a specific e-product, we have important Guidelines for Developing ANimated Tutorials that provide people with a good overview of what to include and exclude. These guidelines are very good and many have commented that they are useful even when they are not contributing content to ANTS.

Information Literacy Tutorials Identified for Development

lesliemathews — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:29:17 CST

_______________________________________________________________

Use the Wiki to indicate if you:

Are working on a Tutorial listed below.
Have completed and uploaded a tutorial to our repository (please include the URL for the tutorial)
Wish to see a tutorial created for an information literacy learning experience.

By posting this information on the wiki, you inform others that a tutorial exists, or is in development, so they do not need to create one locally.

The list is intended to be dynamic and responsive to changing needs, so please add any new topic for which you would like to see a tutorial created.

ANTS Team
_______________________________________________________________

Database Thesauri

Completed: Yes 11/16/10 - in process of uploading to Dspace
Leslie Mathews, Fielding Graduate University, lmathews@fielding.edu
DSpace Uof Calgary:
Timing: 3:27 minutes

The Information Cycle

Under Development? Yes. Rhonda Crim-Tumelson mousie@librarymouse.com
Completed?

What is Research?

Completed? Yes. William Badke, Trinity Western University, badke@twu.ca
Tutorial Information: Tutorial for a model for informational research that sees research as a problem-solving task. ViewletBuilder4. Location: https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/bitstream/1880/45062/2/ResearchModel.swf
Timing: 3:00 minutes
Embedding code: See Screencast.com site, click on name of e-resource, and select its Share Icon

A Guide to Understanding Different Types of Research Papers/Articles

Under Development?
Completed?
Tutorial would explain the different types of articles / research papers including Empirical Studies, Argumentative papers, Analytical papers, Definition papers, Compare and contrast papers (Comparative Study), Cause and effect papers, Reports, Interpretive papers, Literature Reviews, Case Studies, Clinical Trials, Meta-Analysis, etc.

Developing a Good Research Question / Thesis Statement

Under Development?Yes. William Badke, Trinity Western University, badke@twu.ca
Completed?

Don't Google it, ASP it.

Under Development?
Completed? Yes by Richard Baer, Camosun College See Here for Files on Dspace.
Embedding code: See Screencast.com site, click on name of e-resource, and select its Share Icon

Finding Background Information Using Reference Sources

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Using Wikipedia Wisely

Completed. Yes.
Richard Baer baer@camosun.bc.ca
DSpace Uof Calgary: http://hdl.handle.net/1880/45148
or http://library.disted.camosun.bc.ca/wikipedia/wikipedia2.swf
Timing: 3:58 minutes
Embedding code: See Screencast.com site, click on name of e-resource, and select its Share Icon

Boolean Searching (Basic)

Under Development? Duncan Dixon duncan.dixon@twu.ca
Completed? Yes
DSpace at U of Calgary http://hdl.handle.net/1880/47680
Timing: 5:21
Embedding Code: See Screencast.com site, click on name of e-resource, and select its Share Icon

Keyword Searching: Using Truncation in Catalogs and Databases

Completed
Rebecca Helbling rhelbling@stlcc.edu
DSpace at U of Calgary http://hdl.handle.net/1880/47817
Timing: approximately 3:21 (interactive)

What is Metadata?

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Using Controlled Vocabularies / Subject Headings

Completed. Yes.
Kirsten Young-Abotsi, St. Louis Community College, kryoung@stlcc.edu
DSpace Uof Calgary: https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/47417
Timing: 3:20 minutes
Embedding Code: See Screencast.com site, click on name of e-resource, and select its Share Icon

Library Database Citation Tools

Completed: Yes
Paul Betty - Regis University -
Timing: Approximately 3:00 minutes.
Embedding Code, FLV and mp4 Files at LION TV

Using Vertical Search / Hierarchies

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Optimizing Library Catalogs

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Introduction to Journal Databases

Under Development? Carmen Kazakoff-Lane kazakoff@brandonu.ca
Completed? Yes. It is Titled "What are Databases and Why Use Them."
The Source code for the tutorial is found at DSpace at: https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/47805 .
MP4 (Mpeg 4) and M4V files are at LION TV at: http://liontv.blip.tv/file/3577434/.
MP4 Files are also located at Screencast.com at http://www.screencast.com/t/NmEwOGY0 .
Embedding code for MPEG 4 files are at both LION TV and Screencast.com.

Journals vs. Websites

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Introduction to Citations

Under Development? Dana DeFebbo, Daniel Library @ The Citadel, Charleston SC
Email: dana.defebbo@citadel.edu
Completed? Not yet

Introduction to Bibliographic Managers

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Assessing Online Resources

Completed? Yes. Duncan Dixonduncan.dixon@twu.ca Adobe Captivate source files: http://hdl.handle.net/1880/47332
Timing: 5:11 minutes
Embedding Code:See Screencast.com site, click on name of e-resource, and select its Share Icon

Avoiding Plagiarism

Completed? Yes. William Badke, Trinity Western University, badke@twu.ca
Tutorial Information: A presentation defining plagiarism and showing how it can be avoided. ViewletBuilder4. Location:https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/46333
Timing: 8:00 minutes
Embedding Code: See Screencast.com site, click on name of e-resource, and select its Share Icon

Introduction to Canadian Copyright

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Your Information Privacy: How to Protect It

Under Development? Kathryn Shaughnessy, St. John's University, Queens, NY
email: shaughnk (at) stjohns (dot) edu)
NOTE: Tutorial could discuss (1) being information savvy when joining sites like Facebook and ensuring that the data is not going to be sold, (2) not revealing important information online like Social Insurance Numbers, (3) not entering in our Credit Card information when using public terminals in Libraries or Internet Cafes, (4) Data Mining, (5) being wary of "Virtual Friends" and (6) Identify Theft.

Google and government documents.

Under Development? (Richard Baer)
Completed? Yes, December 13, 2007
A student told me that her teacher said she had to find a government report from the Internet. I showed her almost exactly the process the tutorial describes. This is a very small chunk of what we could do with teaching advanced Google skills. This fell into my lap, if anyone does a reference interview that could demonstrate the .org .edu or other useful domain, let me know.
Embedding Code: See Screencast.com site, click on name of e-resource, and select its Share Icon

Getting Started with Google Documents

Completed. Yes by Richard Baer on May 27, 2008

An introduction to online productivity software available for free from Google. These are useful spreadsheet and word processing tools that can be used by individuals - or by groups working together collaboratively. Tutorial introduces people to them.

Embedding Code: See Screencast.com site, click on name of e-resource, and select its Share Icon

E-Resources: E

lesliemathews — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 15:33:18 CDT

Early Canadiana Online

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High as it is part of new National Site License (Carmen Kazakoff-Lane)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Early English Books Online

Name of Vendor: Chadwyck-Healey

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High - 5 COPPUL Libraries subscribe to it. Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

EBSCO - how to create a My EBSCOhost account

Name of Vendor: EBSCO

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High.

Under Development? Yes, on 10/29/10 Leslie Mathews, lmathews@fielding.edu

Completed? Yes, 10/29/10 https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/48243

Ebrary Academic Collection

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High. Part of Canadian National Site License.

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

EconLit

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) Hight. 11 COPPUL Libraries Subscribe to it. Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Econlit

Name of Vendor: EBSCO

High Priority? Yes

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

EDGAR

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High as it is freely available (Carmen Kazakoff-Lane)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

eHRAF Archaeology

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) Low - COPPUL lists one subscriber on its listing. Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

eHRAF Ethnography

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) Four subscribers listed on COPPUL list of licenses. Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

EI Compendex

Name of Vendor: Engineering Village

High Priority? Yes

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Eighteenth Century Collections Online

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

eLibrary Canada

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Embase

Name of Vendor: Ovid

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Emerald Full-Text

Name of Vendor: Emerald Publishing

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High - 9 COPPUL libraries subscribe to it. Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Environmental Sciences & Pollution Management (ESPM)

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) 5 COPPUL Libraries subscribe to it.

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Expanded Academic ASAP

Name of Vendor: Infotrac

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

ERIC

Name of Vendor: Free from US Government

High Priority? Yes

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

ERIC

Name of Vendor: EBSCO

High Priority? Yes

Under Development? Yes. ERIC Advanced Search, & ERIC Visual Search. Duncan Dixon Trinity Western University duncan.dixon@twu.ca

Completed? Yes -- Basic Search Tutorial, ERIC Thesaurus, ERIC Advanced
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ERIC

Name of Vendor: OCLC

High Priority? Yes

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

ERIC

Name of Vendor: OVID

High Priority?

Under Development?

Completed?

ERIC

Name of Vendor: CSA

High Priority?

Under Development? Yes - by Cara Bradley, University of Regina

Completed? ---Yes
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E-Resources: U - Z

lesliemathews — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:01:26 CDT

Web of Knowledge

Name of Vendor: ISI

High Priority? Yes

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed? Web of Science viewlet In need of updating.
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Wildlife and Ecology Studies Worldwide

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) 3 COPPUL Libraries Subscribe to it. Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Wiley InterScience

Name of Vendor: Wiley

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High as many libraries subscribe to it (Carmen Kazakoff-Lane)

Under Development? Yes, 10/27/10 Leslie Mathews, lmathews@fielding.edu

Completed?

Wilson Web - how to create an account, save searches and save articles to that account

Name of Vendor: Wilson

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High as many libraries subscribe to it

Under Development? Yes, Leslie Mathews, lmathews@fielding.edu

Completed? Yes 10/28/10 https://dspace.ucalgary.ca/handle/1880/48242

Women's Studies International

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) 5 COPPUL Libraries subscribe to it. Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Worldcat

Name of Vendor: OCLC

High Priority? Yes

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) 7 COPPUL Libraries subscribe to it. Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Zoological Records Plus

Name of Vendor: CSA

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High - COPPPUL lists four libraries subscribing to it. Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Zotero

Name of Vendor: Open Source

High Priority? Yes, for Libraries that cannot afford RefWorks

Under Development? Completed. Richard Baer

Completed? Yes. http://embedr.com/playlist/using-zotero-a-free-bibliographic-reference-manager

E-Resources: A

Kazakoff — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 11:06:15 CDT

ABI Inform Global

Name of Vendor: Proquest
High Priority? Yes
Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

ABI Inform Global Trade & Industry

Name of Vendor: Proquest
High Priority? Likely (2 indicated usage at time of survey but likely more now.)
Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Academic Onefile

Name of Vendor: Gale
High Priority? Yes
Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Academic Search Elite

Name of Vendor: EBSCO
High Priority? Yes
Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Academic Search Premier

Name of Vendor: EBSCO
High Priority? Yes
Completed? Yes- Academic Search Premier (ASP) Basic Searching - by Richard Baer of Camosun College [baer@camosun.bc.ca]
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Academic Search Premier - Version 2.0 - Visual Search

Name of Vendor: EBSCO
High Priority? Yes
Under Development?Richard Baer of Camosun College [baer@camosun.bc.ca]
Completed? Yes, June 16,2008

Academic Search Premier - Version 2.0 -Basic search

Name of Vendor: EBSCO
High Priority? Yes
Under Development?Richard Baer of Camosun College [baer@camosun.bc.ca]
Completed? Yes, June 20,2008

Academic Search Premier - Version 2.0 - Timesavers

Name of Vendor: EBSCO
High Priority? Yes
Under Development?Richard Baer of Camosun College [baer@camosun.bc.ca]
Completed? Yes, June 20,2008

Academic Search Premier - Version 2.0 - Don't Google it, ASP it

Name of Vendor: EBSCO
High Priority? Yes
Under Development? Yes by Richard Baer: Don't Google it, ASP it
Completed? Yes. Don't Google it, ASP it
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Academic Search Premier

Name of Vendor: EBSCO
High Priority? Yes
Level Advanced
Language French
Completed? Yes
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Academic Search Premier

Name of Vendor: EBSCO
High Priority? Yes
Level Basic
Language French
Completed? Yes
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ACM Digital Library

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Agricola

Name of Vendor: EBSCO
High Priority? Yes
Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Agricola

Name of Vendor: USDA
High Priority? Likely - 3 said they used it and it is free.
Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Alexander Street Press

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High - its part of new National Site License (Carmen Kazakoff-Lane)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

America History and Life

Name of Vendor: ABC-CLIO
High Priority? Yes
Under Development? Yes. Working on new one for EBSCOhost 2010 interface.
Completed? --- Completed the America: History and Life Basic Search Tutorial for EBSCOhost 2.0. Developer Carmen Kazakoff-Lane (Kazakoff@brandonu.ca)
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Anthropology Plus

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) 10 COPPUL Libraries subscribe to it. Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Applied Contemporary Medicine Database

Name of Vendor: Ovid

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Applied Science and Technology Abstract

Name of Vendor: Wilson
High Priority? Yes
Under Development? Diane Clark, Science and Technology Library, University of Alberta Libraries, phone:780.492.7907 email: diane.clark@ualberta.ca
Completed? Yes

Art Abstracts

Name of Vendor: Wilson
High Priority? Unsure - 3 indicated usage, likely more.
Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

Art Index

Name of Vendor: Wilson
High Priority? Unsure - 3 indicated usage, likely more.
Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed? Yes - by Richard Baer. Art Index
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ARTbibliographies

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High - Many listed in COPPUL list of licenses0 Carmen Kazakoff-Lane

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

ArticleFirst

Name of Vendor: OCLC
High Priority? Yes
Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)
Completed?

ArtStor

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority) High - part of new National Site License (Carmen Kazakoff-Lane)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

arXiv.org

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority)

Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

Astrophysics Data System

Name of Vendor:

High Priority? (Rate it as a priority)
Under Development? (Include Name and Contact Info)

Completed?

ATLA Religion Database

Name of Vendor: EBSCO (2.0 Platform)

High Priority? Yes
Under Development?

Completed? Yes. William Badke, Trinity Western University, ATLA Religion Database
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