Week 11 & 12

Week 11 & 12 Podcasts & videos
I personally easily absorb information when I listen or see. I like the idea of using of podcasts & video clips used in conjunction with written online subject guides for library instruction.

It's good to see that database providers such as Jstor are producing video clips. However, in-house generated video clips & podcasts can be targeted to specific assignments or subject areas. We could then target specific online resources available at our library. The downside is that the production of these clips can consume alot of time especially at the writing & editing stage. Its also important to keep a watch on any database interface changes & to make sure that any instructional videos/podcast are using the current interface & to know when any interface changes are imminent (as MW discovered!)

Week 11 and 12

Video clips
I found this weird video recommending using the online music reference "The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians".

Library blog?

The library could try creating a general library news blog.

Having special blogs for subject areas which feed into relevant Blackboard units would be interesting but it may be very time consuming generating specialist news & keeping track of incoming comments or requests. If we decide to do this we'd have to re-look at work-load priorities.

Whatever we decide, I think that our blog would need to be interesting, informative & very relevant to what they are studying/teaching/researching. Would we need to do a writing course? There's nothing more boring than a boring blog!