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John Jermain's Staff e-Learning Program. 1 About E-Learning at JJML. 9 Photo-sharing – Flikr. 10 Image Editors – Picnik. 13 Video and YouTube. 18 Microsoft Word Refresher. 19 Online File Storage and Sharing. 22 On the Edge: Mapping, Location Awareness, QR Codes and More. 23 Conclusion – Your Impressions. Other items may be added as we become aware of the need for additional learning opportunities. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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John Jermain's Staff e-Learning Program. You can read the introduction or listen to it as a podcast. You’ll need speakers or headphones attached to your computer to listen to the audio. Audio Introduction to Podcasts. Click on the arrow to listen.). Http:/ johnjermain.org/Blog/JJLearningPath/Podcasting Podcast.mp3. Text Introduction to Podcasts. In 2005, “podcast” was named the “ word of the year. For this exercise you are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some explorin...
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Google Calendars | JJML Learning Path
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John Jermain's Staff e-Learning Program. Another feature of Google Apps that we use here at John Jermain is Google Calendar. With Google Calendar, each of us can set up one or more calendars to keep track of appointments, meetings, programs, projects, and to-dos. If you are working on a project or event with another staff member, or a group of people, you can also create shared calendars to which everyone in your group has access. Those are the basic features of Google calendars. There are also other...
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Using Google Docs | JJML Learning Path
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John Jermain's Staff e-Learning Program. Similarly, Google Docs can import documents from or create documents similar to those of Microsoft Excel (spreadsheets) and Microsoft PowerPoint (presentations). To better understand the concepts behind Google Docs, watch this video entitled “Google Docs in Plain English.”. You can access Google Docs by going to http:/ docs.johnjermain.org. The Basics – watch this first:. Sharing Documents – watch this next:. Google Docs: A Tutorial. Click on “Docs” in...Do not se...
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Social Bookmarks | JJML Learning Path
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John Jermain's Staff e-Learning Program. The following text is taken from the Delicious’ website. It has been slightly modified.). What is social bookmarking? Social bookmarking websites, are designed to allow you to store and share bookmarks on the web, instead of inside your browser. This has several advantages. First, you can get to your bookmarks from anywhere, no matter whether you’re at home, at work, in a library, or on a friend’s computer. Now that’s powerful! It’s like having a smaller ver...
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Music Sites | JJML Learning Path
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John Jermain's Staff e-Learning Program. So far in our coverage of cloud-based media services we’ve looked at sites for photography ( Flickr. Podcasts ( Podcast Alley. Etc), and news (RSS feeds). To round out our coverage of media services, we’ll now look at some music-oriented sites, of which there are many. Music sites basically break down into three categories: download sites ( iTunes. Streaming sites ( Pandora. And fan sites ( MySpace. The best known of these, is Apples’ iTunes. Streaming music sites...
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GMail Chat | JJML Learning Path
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John Jermain's Staff e-Learning Program. We have not so far found a need to use a chat program here at JJML, but that does not mean it wouldn’t be useful. Conveniently, GMail has a chat function built right into its user interface. Chat is also known as. Which gets embedded on their web page. AIM can also be used for this purpose. Two Suffolk County libraries that offer this feature are Mastics-Moriches-Shirley. Although not installed here, those of you with personal GMail accounts can upgrade GMail Chat...
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Twitter | JJML Learning Path
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John Jermain's Staff e-Learning Program. The slide show below offers an excellent introduction to Twitter. It also addresses how businesses use Twitter; however for our purposes when the slides mention businesses, you should mentally substitute the word libraries or organizations. Using the Slide Show. Blank Line – White Text. Blank Line – White Text. Blank Line – White Text. A Brief Look at Important Twitter Terminology. Click on any underlined word to read more about it. A reply is any update posted by...
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Wikis | JJML Learning Path
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John Jermain's Staff e-Learning Program. The following text was adapted from. PLCMC Core Competencies, a blog of the. Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. A Wiki is a quick-to-build, easy-to-edit website on which all information can be edited, changed, or rewritten by the users or members of the site. It is an incredibly useful tool for collaborative writing, pooling knowledge or exchanging ideas, especially on a subject that changes or needs updating frequently. What is a Wiki? A pathfind...
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LibraryThing | JJML Learning Path
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John Jermain's Staff e-Learning Program. Blank Line – White Text. So, lets take a look at what LibraryThing is today. Rather than recap here information that’s readily available at LibraryThing. Itself, let’s go there right now and take their introductory tour. Click on one of the links below. When you finish the tour, come on back here. The Library Thing Tour. Or, for those who don’t like clicking, here’s all the information from the tour on one page: LibraryThing Quick Start. Tags and tag clouds. Catal...
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