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MLA plenary

ae-j — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:30:40 +0000

I was fortunate enough to be a part of the closing plenary at the Medical Library Association Annual Meeting last week. David Rothman, Melissa Rethlefsen, Bart Ragon and I presented on Web 2.0 tools and participated in a panel discussion (with Mark Funk, awesome MLA past president) after the formal presentations. It was a great time! I’ve given talks to smaller groups of medical/health librarians in the past, but being around so many of them at once just confirmed what I always sort of knew: medical librarians rock!

If you’re a member of MLA, the whole session was webcast and should be archived over at MLANET. Also, David’s got all four presentations up in one handy post. A hearty thanks to the MLA for having me and to the stellar session planners for making it all come together so seamlessly (and enjoyably)!

how I spent my research leave

ae-j — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:31:08 +0000

I was on research leave for four weeks this summer, and I spent my time exploring information architecture, usability, and user experience design. I had good intentions of blogging throughout my leave, both about the topic in specific, and the research leave process in general, but for whatever reason, it didn’t happen. I still have thoughts, notes, scribblings, and a mountain of resources that probably will make it into a few posts over the next few weeks, but for now, there’s this: slides for a presentation I gave to my colleagues at the library today. They’re a bit opaque without the accompanying narrative, but I thought I’d put them up anyway. If you’d a bit like more explanation on any of it, let me know!

cybertour slides

ae-j — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 14:47:35 +0000

Just a quick pointer: I did a Cybertour (quickie 15-minute session in the Exhibit Hall) at CiL a couple of days ago and just realized that I hadn’t linked to my slides yet, so here they are. Thank you, Jessamyn, for the PowerPointless layout and stylesheet, it ended up being the perfect solution for such a short presentation (plus minimal monkeying with someone else’s laptop with limited set-up time!).

upcoming presentations & courses

ae-j — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:45:17 +0000

Some looming presentations I’ll be giving and courses I’ll be teaching over the next four months. Plus, of course, Five Weeks starts in four weeks (and there’s already been a flurry of activity on the course blogs!) — can’t wait!

Health Library 2.0: Delivering Web Services with 2.0 Tools, OLA Super Conference, Toronto, February 2.
Top Tech Trends (with Michael Stephens & John Blyberg), OLITA Panel. OLA Super Conference, Toronto, February 3.
Building a Dynamic Web Presence with Web 2.0 Tools, The Education Institute, March-May, 6-week online course (begins March 19).
Simple Solutions for Dynamic Web Services Using RSS, Computers in Libraries preconference, Sunday, April 15.
Tips & Strategies for Launching an IM Reference Service, Computers in Libraries preconference, Sunday, April 15.

RSS2S5

ae-j — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 16:51:49 +0000

If you’re looking to turn your blog into a web-based slideshow presentation, Pascal Van Hecke has a nice little script that will make it happen for you (this was published last Fall, just found it). Simply input your RSS feed and the script converts your last 10 posts into a slideshow using S5, which is a standard-based slideshow based on XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript (aside: I used S5 for the first time at CiL and highly recommend it).

For anyone who does any sort of regular presenting, I can see this being a really useful tool. Simply store all your content in a blog or wiki or social bookmarking tool, or really just anything that generates a feed for you, and head over to Pascal’s script to run it off into presentation format when you need to. I just generated a presentation from my del.icio.us feed and it worked like a charm! (Now I just have to get better at adding notes to the stuff I save in del.icio.us). Sure does make it easy to keep your presentation content up-to-date!

presentation in a blog

ae-j — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 20:00:00 +0000

Steven Cohen is doing a presentation on blogs in blog format. Sounds interesting in theory (use the format to illustrate the format; easy to update for future use; no clunky powerpoint limitations;), I’m curious to hear how it goes in practice.

Update: here’s Steven’s post-mortem (in audio).

edublogging

ae-j — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 00:20:47 +0000

I just gave a presentation on edublogging to some fellow faculty/staff here at McMaster as part of a Learning Technology Symposium. The presentation (which is more of a series of Web-based resource pages) is here, in case you’d like to have a look. Thanks to Jessamyn — I cribbed a bit from her stylesheet.