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Archive for 2007

  • Plans for our upcoming TLC meetings
    Posted November 19, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    Plans for our upcoming TLC meetings: December 7th 2:00-3:00 : Demonstration of WordPress , a blogging software by Tom DeForest.  Discussion on blogs and their uses. January – no meeting due to library closures and ALA, etc. February 1st (no fooling) 2:00-3:00 : Demonstration of Zotero by Michael Whitchurch with discussion to follow.

  • Zotero
    Posted November 2, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    Check out: http://www.zotero.org/ “Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself.” A great discussion item for a future meeting.

  • Rescheduled Technology Learning Community
    Posted by Rachel Wadham

    To build greater anticipation for our wonderful discussion on GoogleDocs (but really because we were preempted in the room we had scheduled on the calendar) we have rescheduled the TLC meeting for November 9th at 2:00 pm in room 2233.  Thanks to everyone who came today and we hope you can join us again next [...]

  • October Meeting – Camtasia Training For Everyone
    Posted October 2, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    Everyone is invited to join the Technology Learning Community this Friday, October 5th, at 2:00 pm in room 2234. Our topic will be Camtasia.  We have been able to get a trail version of Camtasia in the instruction room so everyone is welcome to come and have some hands on experience with this program.  Please [...]

  • October Meeting – Camtasia Training
    Posted September 24, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    The Technology Learning Community will be having Camtasia training for our October meeting, Friday October 5th at 2:00 pm.  Those who are interested should go to the TLC blog (www.lib.byu.edu/tlc) and leave a comment that they would like to attend.  Training will be in Allyson Washburn’s new office,  3327 HBLL, since we can’t put it [...]

  • LibGuides
    Posted September 19, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    Something new on the horizon that has lots of potential, LibGuides: “LibGuides is a library 2.0 online publishing system. It combines the best features of social networks, wikis, bookmarks and blogs, to help librarians share information and promote library resources to the community. LibGuides is fully integrated with Facebook, and LibGuides widgets enable the distribution [...]

  • Software Training
    Posted September 7, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    Here are the software products that are available for Library Multimedia Training: Post a comment to let us know what you might be interested in learning. Adobe After Effects Adobe Creative Suite Adobe Illustrator Adobe InDesign Adobe Photoshop Adobe Premier Adobe/Macromedia Dreamweaver Apple DVD Studio Apple Final Cut Pro Apple Garage Band Apple Soundtrack

  • September Meeting Minutes
    Posted by Rachel Wadham

    This month we discussed instant messaging.   Peter Zuber discussed how they use IM in science.  You can check out their client through any science subject page.  Science uses PLUGOO as an interface.  You can find more about it a www.plugoo.com.  Peter said that they have had moderate success with this showing sometimes several questions a day.  Andy Spackman discussed how [...]

  • September Meeting
    Posted September 4, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    The TLC will meet on Friday Sept. 7th at 2:00 pm in room 2233.  We will be discussing instant messaging.  Andy Spackman is going to discuss how MEGI uses MEBO on their business page.  Check it out at http://www.lib.byu.edu/business/.   Peter Zuber will also discuss how they use IM in science as well.  We will also discuss [...]

  • Technopoly Points clarification
    Posted August 6, 2007 by Rachel Wadham

    Quinn clarified that ANY class gets double points.  This includes the TLC group meeting.  Personal study only gets one point per minute.