Make instruction materials accessible through commercia

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Web Presence of Instructional Materials

• Michigan Library Association Annual Conference
• Veronica Bielat Michael Sensiba
• Wayne State University
• October 23, 2008

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Issues Instruction Materials

• Organization
• Duplication
• Centralization
• Control
• Format
• Access
• Dissemination

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How to find our materials?

• Create a web page with links?
• Create a del.icio.us unique tag?
• Create a wiki?
• Create a subject guide?
• Create a database on shared network drive?
• OR Create an online database!!

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Purpose of Project

• Make instruction materials accessible through
  commercial web-based services
• Increased findability of materials through
  focused tagging
• Develop new materials based on new technologies
• Explore new services and their capabilities
• Link materials together regardless of service

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Formats
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Tools
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Method

• Explore possible destination services
• Create email account with strong password
• Gather test materials for comparison
• Create accounts on destination services
• Upload items
• Test public accessibility of uploaded items

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Yahoo Mail

• Used as drop box and temporary repository for
  instructional materials
• Unlimited storage
• Have a shareable ID and password among the
  librarians

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Slideshare

• URL http//www.slideshare.net/
• Purpose
• SlideShare is a cool place to host and share
  presentations. Upload all your slide decks, and
  find / download interesting presentations.
• Registration required for upload
• Supports Powerpoint (PPT PPS), OpenOffice
  (ODP), Keynote and PDF formats
• Requires Flash 7 plug in to view presentations
• Presentations can be viewed, embedded, or
  downloaded
• Allows slide transcripts
• Max file size 30MB
• Presentations can be tagged
• No private presentations now
• No embedded audio or video (see below)
• Content indexed by search engines
• New feature Slidecasting (viewing slide decks
  synchronized with an audio file)
• Has API
• Terms of Use

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Scribd

• URL http//www.scribd.com/
• Purpose
• Scribd lets you publish and discover documents
  online. ... We make use of a custom Flash
  document viewer that lets you display documents
  right in your Web browser.
• Registration suggested
• Display documents in a web browser using our
  custom Flash PDF player
• Perform high quality conversions between many
  different formats, including Word, PDF, plain
  text, HTML, JPEG, PowerPoint, Excel, Postscript,
  LIT, and even audio format
• See all sorts of detailed information on who is
  viewing each of your documents, including the
  geographic locations of visitors and how people
  got to your doc
• Publish a document with its own public URL that
  will be indexed by search engines
• Embed a long or complex document in your blog or
  personal webpage
• Convert a document to an mp3 that you can listen
  to on your iPod
• Bulk upload files (that's right, storage is
  unlimited!)
• Terms of Use

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YouTube

• URL http//www.youtube.com/
• Purpose
• YouTube is an online video streaming service
  that allows anyone to view and share videos that
  have been uploaded by our members.
• Registration required
• No download
• Can embed player
• Can make video private
• 100MB limit per video, number unlimited
• No video longer than 10 minutes
• File formats accepted .WMV, .AVI, .MOV, and .MPG
• Can tag videos
• Has an API
• Terms of Use

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Switchpod

• URL http//switchpod.com/
• Purpose
• ... a podcasting hosting service that provides
  both free and premium accounts to our users. You
  can create a podcast with our technology, upload
  it to Switchpod and be podcasting to the world in
  a matter of minutes.
• Registration required
• Basic version free (200MB or about 200 minutes of
  audio), but contains ads
• iTunes compatible
• Terms of Service

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Flickr

• URL http//www.flickr.com/
• Purpose
• Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search
  and share your photos online.
• Registration required
• Basic account free FlickrPro 24.95/yr
• Basic account 100MB upload/month (5MB per photo)
• Can set privacy per photo
• Can enable/disable comments
• Can tag photos
• Community Guidelines
• Terms of Service

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Megaupload

• URL http//www.megaupload.com/
• Purpose
• Megaupload is a leading provider of online
  storage and web hosting services.
• Registration required
• Permanent storage with Premium membership
• 500MB file size limit 50GB total limit for free
  storage
• Cannot be embedded in other web pages
• Terms of Service

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Zentation

• URL http//www.zentation.com/
• Purpose
• Zentation provides a way to synchronize video
  uploaded to Google Video with your PowerPoint.
  Zentation's patent pending technology allows for
  the easy synchronization of your video and
  graphics without any technical knowledge.
• Registration required
• Works only with Google Video
• Terms of Use

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Del.icio.us

• URL http//del.icio.us/
• Purpose
• del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website --
  the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your
  bookmarks online, which allows you to access the
  same bookmarks from any computer and add
  bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you
  can use tags to organize and remember your
  bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system
  than folders.
• Registration required
• No size limits
• Terms of Service

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Trailfire

• URL http//trailfire.com/
• Purpose
• The basic building block of Trailfire is the
  trail - a collection of web pages on a subject or
  concept, hand built and annotated by a trail
  creator (we call them "guides") on each page.
• Registration required to create trails
• Browser plug in required
• Can add text, links, images, audio and video
  clips to marks (stops on the trail)
• Terms of Use

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What other materials?

• What materials do you think youd like to have
  available for instruction?

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Zoho Creator

• Online database (compare MS Access)
• Create links to items
• Add searchable metadata for each item
• URL http//creator.zoho.com/
• Shareable ID and password with librarians
• Applications can be private or public (indexed by
  search engines)

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Metadata
Go to WSULS Instruction Materials database

• Item Name
• Created By
• Date Created
• Date Last Revised
• Checked By
• Date Checked
• Resource Format
• Resource Type
• URL

• Primary Audience
• Course Number
• Instructor
• Department
• Program
• College
• Assignment Title
• Notes
• Contains Audio?
• Contains Video?

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Process Flow
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Challenges

• Ephemeral services
• Service downtime
• Changing terms
• File formats
• File size
• Reduced capabilities
• Access requirements
• Internet access required