Saturday, May 26, 2012

Lesson 9: Tutorial on Mango


I have hopes for this tutorial.  One is to make it available to all the foreign language and ESL teachers in the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District this summer so they can play with it, then use with their students this fall.  I'm actually going to propose an inservice on it for August to the Curriculum department. This might also be something the school librarians would want to attend.

I'm going to ask if the Noel Wien librarians would like a demo, although if the wireless there doesn't work, it would be hopeless to try to do an inservice for them.  I've tried before on Thomas.Net and some other databases while I was getting my MLIS,  and it was a disaster not being able to use my computer and show things from the big screen to the group.

I don't understand about Clarify-it.com's website - will it be there forever so this can be an actual link?  It says it's free, and I've my URL, but ?

http://akilbourn.clarify-it.com/d/zmjhq7

Please let me know what  you think.  Is there a way to improve?  I've tried to shorten the 25 slides, but don't know how else to make it clearer with fewer slides so it stays visual.

I have totally enjoyed this class, although it has been disappointing to not be able to read many of the participants' blogs as nothing has been posted there.  I so appreciate all the frustration "Barbie" did getting to finally try Clarify-it and introducing me to the program.  I love it!  Thank you too all you who created this class!  Hope you'll offer more!
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  1. Goldilocks goes digitalMay 31, 2012 at 12:39 AM

    Thank you for more of an introduction to Clarify-it which seems to be an amazing program. Although Barbie mentioned using it the hands-on demo was great. I really found your Mango tutorial very easy to follow and it demonstrated your excellent understanding of using a new program--Clarify-it! Thanks, Goldilocks goes digital

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  2. FreyaMay 31, 2012 at 3:39 PM

    I like your Mango tutorial, good work! I have two small suggestions:

    1. On the first image, the link for Mango languages is right below the link you point out for the Digital Pipeline. You might want to send people in via the quicker route, or explain why you're skipping over that.
    2. It might be helpful to show the initial page that shows both the login and create account portions. I've found that many are confused by this.

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  3. Daniel CornwallJune 2, 2012 at 11:09 AM

    I'd recommend against taking Freya's first suggestion. Mango is listed as the current Digital Pipeline featured resource and this will change at some point.

    I'd concur with Freya's second suggestion. It's actually intended that people be able to create accounts at home if they're within Alaska, but there have been problems with our IP authentication tables. Anyone in Alaska who is not seeing the "create profile" screen should visit http://alaskalibrarynetwork.org/get-help/ and fill out the form from the problem computer.

    In terms of shortening the tutorial, all I can think of is to delete the slide on cultural notes. This is interesting but not a key component that people have know about ahead of time.

    Would you be willing for me to 1) use this in a future Friday Bulletin and 2) Suggest that SLED link to this tutorial? Like you, I have no idea whether this link will always be available, but it is probably as stable as anything else on the web.

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  4. Daniel CornwallJune 2, 2012 at 11:11 AM

    Thank you for your kind words about the class. I will pass along your thanks to the rest of the instructional team. We'll be meeting in the near future to evaluate this class and decide whether we'll have additional offerings.

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