Instructional Technologies and Design Services News – NOVEMBER 2012

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Accessibility Month                                                                                                    November is Accessibility Month!  ITDS along with the Technology Accessibility Advisory Committee are offering several opportunities to get you up-to-speed on making your publications and documents accessible. Every faculty and staff member that uses technology to impart information is responsible for ensuring accessibility to all users. We’re providing a page of accessibility tutorials, including PDFs and video tutorials, set to be launched on the “Tech Help” tab within MyRedDragon.

Accessibility Sandwich Seminar and Workshops:

  • Wednesday November 14th (12PM-): Sandwich Seminar hosted by Jeremy Zhe-Heimerman in the Jacobus Lounge. He will demonstrate accessibility issues by students with disabilities, and include testimonials regarding their experiences.
  • Thursday November 15th (9AM-11AM*): ITDS hosted accessibility-specific walk-in clinics on developing accessible email, documents and web pages.
  • Tuesday November 27th (1PM-3PM*): ITDS hosted accessibility-specific walk-in clinics on developing accessible email, documents and web pages.

Blackboard Workshops*:

ITDS continues to provide Blackboard workshops throughout the month of November. Now that midterms are done, it is a great time to set up an appointment with a member of ITDS to:

  • Set up your grade center to calculate students’ grades
  • Prepare to calculate final exams and grades
  • Get a head start on setting up winter and spring courses

If you have any questions please feel free to email ITDS@cortland.edu

*The ITDS workshops are held in the Technology Training Center, A-118 Memorial Library  (Learning Commons).

TMC Online Guide

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The Teaching Materials Center now has an online presence!

This online guide contains information about the many collections in the TMC, including descriptions and call numbers, as well as tips on how to search the catalog for these materials. There are also links to online journals, videos, databases, and websites. These websites include lesson plan ideas, children’s literature, standards, technology, and other topics aimed at educators.

The TMC Guide is always available under the Links/Resources area in the Library Tab.

Project Muse is now available!

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The Library has access to Project Muse! It is available in the A-Z listing of databases on the Library Tab.

Project Muse ( standard collection) offers full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.

 

Early Journal Content in JSTOR

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Journal content in JSTOR published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere, freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This “Early Journal Content” includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals.

Watch this video on YouTube!

 

Streaming Video Databases

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Did you know the library has subscriptions to four streaming video databases?

American History in Video is a collection of newsreels, archival   footage and important historical documentaries.

Education in Video provides a collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers including supplementary materials to aid in use in classroom discussions and assignments.

Ethnographic Video Online provides a comprehensive resource for human culture and behavior.

Films on Demand includes over 6000 licensed films from a variety of commercial providers including PBS, BBC and National Geographic.

 

These databases are available in the Databases Channel on the Library tab.