Cool Websites - 21st Century School Teacher. A Library in Your Pocket. In Vermont, it was easy to ignore the mobile computing craze until 2009.
Before that, AT&T didn’t have a presence here, so we couldn’t purchase iPhones in the state. That all changed last year, and now, barely a day goes by that I don’t see someone checking e-mail, texting, or browsing the web on their iPhone. With the growth of the Android phone market, which uses a Google-based operating system, there are even more options for mobile computing that appeal to mainstream consumers. Mobile devices are becoming difficult for libraries to ignore. In 2009, one-third of all Americans accessed the web through a cell phone or smartphone and 4.1 billion text messages were sent daily. Playing catch-up While mobile device ownership is a major trend in American society, few libraries and educational institutions have developed resources and services for mobile users.
The mobilized library website With the mainstreaming of mobile devices, libraries can no longer ignore this important trend. Best practices in school library website design. In order to build a good, usable website for your school library, you need to think in two very different ways.
First, you need to think like a librarian. What do your patrons need, and how can you best serve them? Since you all do this for a living, that should be the easy part. Second, you need to think like a web designer. Since none of you (I assume) is trained as a web designer, that’s going to be the hard part. Www.beckyfiedler.com/pdfs/knowledgequest.pdf. Best Websites for Teaching and Learning.
13 Expert-Level Blog Design Tips for Beginner Bloggers. Blog design can be as simple as installing a theme and adding a few widgets.
But if you take your blog seriously and you want it to visually stand out, the first step is understanding the principles of design. Once you understand what makes a good blog design, you can work on it yourself or find and qualify a talented designer. Here are 13 expert-level blog design tips that I’ve gathered from three years of being a freelance web designer. To help illustrate these tips, I’m going to use HelloBar.com’s design as an example. 1. The purpose of design is to get your website to convert towards your goals. How do you do that? You need to have a visual hierarchy that leads to a call to action. The goal of Hello Bar's homepage is to get you to "Sign Up" or "Try it Out" and their design makes that obvious. 2.
Building a library Web site. Strategies for success At the North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries, we kicked off a Web site redesign project in late January 2010 and launched our new site in mid-August.
We started our project the way most of us had seen it happen before—with a committee of 15 people. In the first meeting of that group, at least two people told horror stories about prior redesigns, and warned that we should establish some ground rules for conflict resolution up-front. We were determined that this did not have to be a tedious and contentious process and began to strategize about how to keep it positive while still moving quickly. Ideas about information. Edit: Despite my clarifications, people are still misinterpreting my original post as a proposed ‘solution’ to the problem of the Library degree, so I’ve rewritten this to stop that happening.
To embark upon a Library Masters in 2014 is a huge undertaking. Assuming you do it part-time, whilst working to support yourself, you’ll spend between ten and eighteen thousand pounds over two years, along with, at a conservative estimate, 1500 hours of your time.[1] The question is, does the Library degree really represent the best use of this investment? 10 Principles Of Effective Web Design. Advertisement Usability and the utility, not the visual design, determine the success or failure of a web-site.
Since the visitor of the page is the only person who clicks the mouse and therefore decides everything, user-centric design has become a standard approach for successful and profit-oriented web design. After all, if users can’t use a feature, it might as well not exist. We aren’t going to discuss the implementation details (e.g. where the search box should be placed) as it has already been done in a number of articles; instead we focus on the main principles, heuristics and approaches for effective web design — approaches which, used properly, can lead to more sophisticated design decisions and simplify the process of perceiving presented information.
Please notice that you might be interested in the usability-related articles about 10 Usability Nightmares1 and 30 Usability Issues2 we’ve published before,we’ll cover more principles of effective design in our following posts. 1. Creating Library Websites with Joomla: Not Too Big, Not Too Small, Just Right. By Ellen Bahr and Matt Speed Introduction Alfred University is a small comprehensive university in western New York with a student population of about 2,400.
Herrick Memorial Library serves the College of Business, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the Graduate School. A second university library, the Samuel R. Scholes Library, serves the New York State College of Ceramics, a statutory unit of the university. Figure 1. Your library online: web presence. Your school library's presence in the school’s online learning environment is vital.
It should be as welcoming, engaging and informative as the physical library. This in turn supports collaborative learning and inquiry. Contents. Website Design. School+Library+Website+Components. Using Your School Library Website in Instruction. SLMC_website_article. 5 Things Every School Library Website Should Have. I ran across this article the other day outlining the 5 "essentials" that every school website should have.
Marlboroschool.net. National Forum on Information Literacy. The overarching goal of k-20 education is simple – to produce independent, self sufficient lifelong learners who can successfully navigate the competitive challenges of post secondary educational and/or workplace opportunities.
However, in today’s world, the teaching and learning process for doing so has become extremely complex. Our rapid transformation into a technology driven, information society has dramatically altered the k-16 teaching and learning landscape. And, as a result, the sustainability of our current economic foundation, strengthening our national security, even maintaining the very essence of our democratic way of life depends more and more on producing learners who not only know how to think, but know how to problem solve within a diversified information and communication technology universe.
K-8 Information Literacy Instructional Blueprint By the completion of the 8th grade, every learner should know how to demonstrate and utilize baseline information literacy skills. Schoollibrarywebsites - home. Web Design Matters. Elements. Sitepronews. Copyright Laws for Teachers: Educational CyberPlayGround™
CITE - the Educational CyberPlayGround, Inc. AS YOUR SOURCE. ( ISTC 301/501 Resources ) Definition of Copyright: "The legal right granted to an author, a composer, a playwright, a publisher, or a distributor to exclusive publication, production, sale, or distribution of a literary, musical, dramatic, or artistic work. Music used in the K12 classroom For a project of any kind music needs to be evaluated - because the music might be copyrighted, the words might be copyrighted, and the performance might be copyrighted.
For a song that is 300 years old the music would have passed into the public domain out of any date of copyright, the words would also (including the words if it had), but the performance would still fall under copyright laws. Music that Can be Used in Education Without Permission or License and played in the class room if it is: OR in the PUBLIC DOMAIN Music: Free Music THE BIG PICTURE PAGE 1 CopyRight: Book Fair Use Rights PAGE 3 How some Teachers Feel About Fair Use. 7 Tools to Create a Mobile Library Website (without Technical Knowledge!) Library websites are usually robust and information-packed which makes it a challenge for many organizations when they consider going mobile.
But if you’d like to build a mobile presence for your library to offer your patrons access to community features, library locator tools, maps, driving directions, image collections, videos, custom content, and even searchable mobile catalogs, you’ll want to check out these applications. Here’s a quick summary of each tool’s features and cost: ; Winksite MoFuse Zinadoo mobiSiteGalore Wirenode MobilePress.