I get to make some Adobe Captivate videos at work and it is fun! I feel like Steven Spielberg. I sit in my office with my headphones on, murmuring, “Highlight Box goes her to underscore the name of the webpage.” And people look through the doorway and think I’m doing complex technical things. I’ve switched my office chair to a director’s chair and have taken to wearing a beret. The students mock me, but I think they’re just jealous of my genius?!
Entries tagged as ‘software’
Video Killed the Radio Star.
July 27, 2009 · 1 Comment
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Tagged: academic experience, information literacy, software, web 2.0, work experience, York University
O.A., eh oh.
July 13, 2009 · 3 Comments
As I’ve mentioned before, I was Managing Editor of the Faculty of Information Quarterly at school, but in my new capacity as an academic library, I serve on the York University Libraries’ Scholarly Communications Committee. All of a sudden, instead of just complaining about the inherent evil of journal vendors, I actually have to learn about tangible issues! Ah crap!
One of the movements sweeping the world of academic publishing is the Open Access movement. I didn’t realllly get it until I attended some sessions on the topic at the CLA Annual Conference. And then had to explain it to non-librarians (the true test of knowledge).
I had to sum up my job to parents, and in doing so, found myself explaining in the simplest terms possible, the whole “Open Access” movement. I told them this:
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Two neat ways to organize your web stuff: Zotero and Digsby
December 31, 2008 · 1 Comment
Over the Christmas break, I’ve gotten cozy with a couple neat applications that I thought I’d share. There’s nothing like getting all your web-based stuff organized over the holidays to brace for the busy-ness that lies ahead in the New Year. It’s like cleaning out your closet and making sense of the stuff that piles up doing the year. Organizational bliss!
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Tagged: information management, open source, reference resource, software, web 2.0
Weebly
June 30, 2008 · 1 Comment
I found a website that makes me websites. It’s called Weebly (www.weebly.com), and it is the easiest way I have found to make nice, pretty websites that do stuff. Weebly is a great service for those among us who want to make dynamic websites but don’t have a clue about coding. The website is created by dragging and clicking the various elements on to multiple pages. It supposed basic stuff like images, text, links, and flickr photo albums, YouTube videos and Google maps. It’s super cool! I made a fake website for the Master of Information Studies Student Council: http://missc.weebly.com/
You can also pick from a couple dozen different designs and layouts, and can add as many pages as you want. Time magazine names it one of the 50 best websites of 2007 because of its ease of use and polished look: See it here. And if Time magazine says it’s good, who am I to argue? ING is on the list too, and I love that website like a child. A child holding my entire savings.
Anyway, check out weebly if you want a user-friendly website that makes cute websites!
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IS/IT Project Description & Review
November 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
This is a project I completed for my Information Technology class, in which we were required to review a particular digital repository. I reviewed a product called Fedora, which you can check out at: http://www.fedora-commons.org/
My favorite fedora-based project is the Encyclopedia of Chicago, which is beautiful, accessible and an excellent example of a digital archive: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/ (Note that the scenario is fictitious, though an awesome idea!… In my opinion.)
The UTE Project: The University of Toronto Libraries have launched an ambitious project: In collaboration with the University of Toronto Archives and the federated colleges, plans are underway for the launch of the University of Toronto Encyclopedia (UTE) – a comprehensive, multimedia compendium of photographic, sound, audiovisual and text entries related to the history and academic achievements of the University of Toronto. The UTE will exist entirely online in electronic form and once the Collections Team has created archival fonds, written entries, and amassed audiovisual materials, the Systems Team will begin the process of uploading the collection to the the information management system.
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