2009 CALI Conference for Law School Computing Sessions

The general principle of holism is that the whole is more valuable than the sum of its parts. What does it mean to situate academic computing into the library in a holistic way? We will explore how librarian and instructional technologist collaborations have reshaped the way each position has functioned in the past and is offering new ways of working more effectively.
 

Libraries continually reinvent themselves to new generation of users. The question is: How can your 20th Century library and staff use new technological tools to show your library’s vitality when you have little or no budget?

This session will:
1) Compare, contrast and explain some of the top software packages including: Adobe Captivate, Camtasia, Jing, and uTipu.
2) Explain the best teaching and learning practices for creating videos for online learning. Best practices include the principles of multimedia, contiguity, modality, coherence and redundancy.
3) Combine the best practices with the technology and show examples of how video tutorials can be used to enhance and improve learning for students and faculty.
Sample tutorials include:

In this workshop we will cover easy ways to begin with module development, highlighting some simple ways to integrate with Drupal. We will start from some basic hooks, and point out security, localization and internationalization best practices. Drupal might look intimidating at first, but you'll learn that starting off your first modules is a breeze. If you develop with the community agreed best practices, you'll see that rolling forward is much easier then just making up your own rules on the way, so we will show some best practices developed through the past.