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April 6 2006
Yesterday Jim Swike called to say that the Portable Professor sessions were undergoing a modification. In the future sessions would be shorter 1 to 2 hours in length and would be on individual skills/projects. He is hoping the Library will participate.
It is anticipated that the new series will start sometime after the conclusion of exams and run through mid-August
Weekly and every other week slots are available. I'd suggest we try to run something each week.Topics could include
1. Demonstration of search enginee 2. Advanced searching of the catalog3. Library Research Services4. Using the databases alert services 5. Using e-reservesAnd any others.
These sessions will run on Staten Island as well as Queens. Final schedules for either campus have not been determined.
Please post your thoughts on other topics that might be offered - and on the usefulness of the ideas suggested above.
Once Jim announces a schedule it will be posted here and we can begin final preparations
A new heading has been added below for discussions about the new Portable Professor Modules
Charles Livermore
Given that we have divergent schedules and work in a number of places I've created this wiki and have placed the exisiting documents related to the Portable Professor 2 and 3 sessions and the handout sheet we developed for the Tech Fair here for us all to see.
We can use this space to work on the documents which, I hope, will allow us to have fewer in person meetings. We'll see how it goes.
Charles Livermore
Coordinator
Committee Members
Portable Professor Modules
Portable Professor 2
Portable Professor 3
Technology Fair
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The Portable Professors were established to introduce faculty members to the range of technologies that were available to them at the University. Portable Professor 1 is designed as an introduction to technology and the Library has not played a role there.
Portable Professor 2 was to begin the introduction of the library technologies that faculty members could use to enhance their teaching opportunities.
Portable Professor 3 was a follow-up to 2.
A Portable Professor 4 has been discussed but nothing definite has been scheduled.
These sessions were all day sessions with the Library assigned a one hour period after lunch. In practice the library's portion has usually taken place around 11am as the most recent classes have had small attendance.
(Charles Livermore March 10 2:15pm)
If you want to check on the status of a session (e.g.: confirm that it will take place as planned, or whether it has been cancelled) contact the e-studio at 6402.
(Kathy Shaughnessy 4/4/06 11:08)
Comments (1)
Elephant Smith said
at 2:59 pm on Apr 6, 2006
How do you like the idea of teaching Faculty and students about setting up their own Wiki, Flint, Yahoo 360, etc.?
It is dangerous though we are referring our clients to info services provided by our 'competitors'?
In the meantime, I think it is time for us to look at our content portal policies, e.g. aggressively instroducing inbound traffic and linking to our print holdings and online subscriptions via any possible online service that our users intend to use.
Just a thought, anyhow.
Cheers,
Amanda
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