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ICT Training for School Librarians

• LA ICT Consortium
• Module 2
• Seminar

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Welcome Introduction

• Welcome
• Your tutors
• Andy Ewers
• Nick Lewis
• todays Agenda -

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Agenda

• 8.30 Welcome Introduction
• 10.15 Review of prep - Professional
  Development - Health Safety - Legal
  Ethical Issues - ICT Resources
• 11.05 Library Automation Systems
• 11.20 Research

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Agenda

• 11.35 coffee break
• 11.50 Information Presentation - Introduction
• 12.10 HTML Technologies
• 12.45 Publishing With A Purpose
• 1.00 lunch break

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Agenda

• 1.45 Test Evaluate 3 examples
• 2.05 Web Authoring - define exercise
• 2.30 Hands-On Session - exercise - create
  webpages - exercise - WebMail WebBoard
• 3.45 Compile WebSite
• 4.00 Preparation for Further Modules
• 4.30 close

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Session 1. Review of prep

• Professional Development - improve professional
  efficiency with ICT
• Health Safety Matters
• Legal Ethical Issues
• ICT Resources

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ICT Resources Library Automation Systems

• some key points
• hardware platform
• many possibilities
• unix server / standard PCs recommended
• avoid proprietary computers and minority makes
• data scanning devices
• light pens, barcode readers, etc for data capture

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ICT Resources Library Automation Systems

• application softwaremain features include -
• cataloguing
• acquisitions
• circulation
• issues/returns
• reservations
• fines and charges

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ICT Resources Library Automation Systems

• other features may include -
• OPAC
• search engine
• access to community information
• clubs societies
• advisory organisations
• newspapers
• facilities for local, specialist collections

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ICT Resources Library Automation Systems

• list of suppliers can be found at DGXIII website
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• www2.echo.lu/libraries/en/systems.html
• also LA factsheet from -
• info_at_la-hq.org.uk

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Session 2. Research

• Locate and exploit research inspection
• evidence re ICT in the School Library
• what? reports of studies/projects
• how? use the internet
• where? relevant websitese.g. Becta, N G f L,
  D f E E, Library Association Project Earl

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Session 3. Information Presentation

• Main ICT-based methods of presentation and
  communication
• print oriented wp, dtp
• screen oriented slide show
• telecom oriented e-mail, fax
• multi-media CD authoring, Web authoring
• BUT, convergence blurs the distinction

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Presentation - Print Oriented

• WORD PROCESSING
• increasingly sophisticated, but most users do not
  exploit all the features
• many come close to Desk Top Publishing
  capabilities, except for -
• ease of manipulation of image elements
• compatibility with electronic typesetting
• Example WP products
• - Word, WordPerfect, WordPro

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Presentation - Print Oriented

• DESK TOP PUBLISHING
• increasingly affordable, but under pressure from
  improving WP products
• extending capabilities into higher authoring
  levels via output filters for PDF, webpage and
  multi-media files
• Example DTP products
• - PageMaker, Quark Xpress, Publisher

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Presentation - Screen Oriented

• SLIDE SHOWS
• very popular for training courses and for
  business presentations
• often projected onto large screen
• relatively easy to create slides with colour
  and images
• very easy to use to give a presentation
• Example Slide Show products
• - PowerPoint, CorelShow, Lotus Freelance

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Presentation - Telecom Oriented

• ELECTRONIC MAIL
• now widely used (because of the internet)
• person to person OR person to list
• designed to be paperless
• can handle large complex files as attachments,
  for high resolution information presentation
  (the medium does not restrict the message)

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Presentation - Telecom Oriented

• FAX
• still very common
• organisation to organisation OR organisation to
  circulation list
• designed for paper, but paperless capability
  introduced by fax-modem systems
• low resolution presentation because of medium

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Presentation - Multi-Media

• CD AUTHORING
• widely used for publishing electronic books
  with high quality presentation
• especially for educational purposes -
• schools and home study e.g. reference books
• business training e.g. instruction manuals
• Example CD Authoring products
• - AuthorWare, IconAuthor

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Presentation - Multi-Media

• HTML (WEB) AUTHORING
• rapidly becoming the most widely usedmethod of
  publishing
• over 150 million websites on the internet!
• over 800 million webpages
• designed to be very efficient over telephone
  lines

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Presentation - Multi-Media

• HTML (WEB) AUTHORING
• supports full multi-media capability without
  complexities and costs of CD -i.e. mastering,
  reproduction and distribution
• web publishing is easy fast
• Example Web Authoring products
• - FrontPage, HotMetal, DreamWeaver

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Presentation Related Technologies

• information presentation tools include
• text and simple graphics
• ... but use links to incorporate more
• sophisticated forms of information
• tables/graphs
• e.g. financial information or timetables
  from spreadsheets
• formatted data
• e.g. information from a database

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Related Technologies

• images e.g. photographs and drawings from
  image management software
• animation
• e.g. animated gif files, video clips from
  AVI tools
• sounds
• e.g. music and voice files in ... - simple
  formats (wav or midi) - high quality formats
  (MP3)

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Session 4 HTML Technologies

• original concept -- simple (small) files to
  create multi-media pages for rapid delivery over
  phone lines
• developments into - - links to external
  applications (via CGI common gateway
  interface)- allowing forms and dialogues-
  software controlled pages (ASP)

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HTML Technologies

• basic technology based on SGML Standard
  Generalised Markup Language
• both use tags to define elements which
  contain information about page layout, colour
  scheme and page contents

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HTML Technologies

• initially, WebPage authors needed a thorough
  understanding of different types of elements, how
  they interacted, how to control their attributes,
  etc

some example elements - head, body, metatag,
title, heading1, heading2, paragraph, blockquote,
ordered list (numbers), unordered list (bullets),
menu list, table, image, anchor (hypertext link),
horizontal rule, line break
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HTML Technologies

• todays Web Authoring tools hide most of the
  technical nuts and bolts
• we can now concentrate on appearance and function
  by placing -
• - text
• - pictures
• - links
• on the webpage - its more like wp/dtp

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HTML Technologies

• the TEXT elements commonly used are -
• title - for the words which appear in the top
  line of the browser window
• heading1 - for the big, bold headline
• paragraph - for standard text
• unordered list - for bullet points of text

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HTML Technologies

• There is only one PICTURE element -
• image - for any picture, but the convention is to
  use either
• GIF files usually low-resolution graphics
• or JPG files usually hi-resolution
  graphics/photos

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HTML Technologies

• There is only one HYPERLINK element -
• anchor - for a link to
• another point in a long webpage
• another webpage on the same server
• i.e. a sister document in the same website
• a webpage on another server

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HTML Technologies

• There are three elements which are
• particularly helpful for page layout -
• hr (horizontal rule) - for a line across the
  page
• br (break) - to force a new line in text
• table - to create column layouts

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HTML Technologies

• demonstration of the creation of a webpage using
  a specialised web authoring product
• create a new page
• set basic colour scheme
• include a title, a headline, some text, a
  picture, a link to a sister page, a link to a
  distant page, a column effect

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Session 5 Publish with a purpose

• internet publishing is easy, fast and inexpensive
  compared with printed media
• but think like a publisher before launching
  your school website! - who are the intended
  readers ?- how literate are they ?
  accessibility vs dumbing-down- what do they
  want to know ?- what do you want to say ?- what
  impression do you want to create ?

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Publish with a purpose

• plan it with care, millions of people can read a
  webpage
• If the TES offered you a free full page spread to
• promote your school -
• - youd think long and hard about what to
  include
• - youd involve various members of staff,
  governors, etc,
• - youd hone the words and choose just the right
  pictures

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Publish with a purpose

• plan your website with equal care, and
• plan for low maintenance
• then worry about the mechanics - who will have
  editorial control ? - how often will it be
  updated ? - who has the technical skills ? -
  who has the literary skills ? - do you include
  pupils pages ?

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Session 6 Evaluate 3 examples
3 school websites

• uk - state school
• King Edward VII, Melton Mowbray
• uk - independent school
• Oakham
• usa - state school
• Conifer High

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Session 7 Hands On

• definition of exercises and reminder
  demonstration of web authoring
• hands-on exercises
• A use WebMail WebBoard
• B create WebPage for a WebSite
• compilation of WebSite

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Exercise A - WebMail WebBoard

• access LA ICT WebSite
• WebMail
• at home page, select post office
• read a mail message
• create and send a message

• WebBoard
• at home page, select chat
• select a conference
• read a conf message
• reply to it

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Exercise B - create a school website

• each team creates at least one WebPage
• each WebPage to include -

- a colour scheme - a title - a table - a
headline - descriptive text - an image -
links to sister - links to relevant pages
in website www pages
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Exercise B - create a school website

• remember ...
• keep all files created for the webpage in one
  folder use the floppy disk provided
• concentrate on the functions involved, rather
  than the software product in use
• pass completed floppy to tutors for website
  compilation part of exercise

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Exercise B - create a school website

• reminder demonstration creating a webpage using
  a specialist web authoring tool

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Compilation of WebSite

• all HTML files and associated resources copied
  into one folder on one PC
• tutor tests functions and links
• tutor uploads to internet WebSite
• using a file transfer tool
• test that functions and links operate on the
  internet

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Session 8 Preparation for further modules

• general points re distance learning and LA ICT
  materials and support
• introduction to module 3
• access module 3 info at LA ICT website