Back To the Library World

This is a really busy and nice summer. I am glad back to work even though the beginning of the semester is over crowed on campus.

The other exciting is my NITLE Technology Fellowship started in July. Because of the scheduling, I missed the Technology Fellow Workshop on July 21-23 at Southwestern University in Georgetown, TX. But I was able to make it up in August via MIV (Multipoint Interactive Videoconferencing). I met a couple of NITLE Technology Fellows on MIV. Actually, MIV will be my major classroom in the future. I really get excited about what I should teach there ...

Teaching and Learning with Multimedia

Today multimedia are heavily used in teaching and learning, multimedia bring new interactive experience of teaching and learning for both faculty and students. Our digital repository-DSpace can manage multimedia in the way you prefer . It gives you flexibility to design the collection with different access privileges. You can have audio and video files in mp3 or mp4. The most convenient is users can search or browse the collection by subject.

On the college digital repository, faculty and students can play with images, text, audio and video. The collection they build up there will benefit teaching and learning through resource sharing. For example, art project could be easily collected on DSpace via images; students of music and drama can shoot their concertos and drama productions lively to make them available on DSpace, and share their senior capstone experience with audiences all over the world. Our faculty can shoot their museum tours and deposit them on DSpace to share with the class. These collections are created by faculty and students, it will encourage faculty and students to teach and learn in more interactive way, bring more inflows and spark their ideas. The electronic publishing on campus wide will promote open access to resources that students and faculty create, and will absolutely encourage interactive teaching and learning, and eventually, impact on scholarly communication.