slav reading culture: collaborate, create, celebrate journeys with ebooks anne whisken centre, carey...

SLAVReading Culture: collaborate,

create, celebrate

journeys with ebooks Anne Whisken

Centre, Carey Baptist Grammar School

Carey Baptist Grammar School2 x primary libraries

1 x secondary library

eLearning teams at each campus

Mellor Library 7-121300 students in MS and SS structure

1:1 laptop school

3 Teacher Librarians

2 Librarians

2 Library Technicians

1 Library Assistant

journeys with ebooks

2010 - how do we prepare our systems environment for digital assets & blended

learning?

2011 – what eBooks & eResources are best for teaching & learning at our school?


2010


What information architecture do we need for a blended learning environment and digital assets management?

What learning management system do we need for good teaching and learning?

KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

2010


What sort of library system will take us into a future of increasingly online resources? What information

resources provide for best teaching and learning?

2010


What library system will provide for faceted navigation, federated searching, user accounts, interactivity, engaging resource presentation?

How do we manage digital resource acquisition, access, digital rights?

What’s with this eBook thing?

2010


How do we use information for learning?

Teachers - to design curriculum which uses best quality and most relevant information, as discipline content and skills are learned in blended learning environments

Students - To experience use of best quality and most relevant information for learning in blended learning environments

C Bruce, 2008, Informed Learning.

2010


How do we provide best quality information for learning?

Information system which•provides sophisticated management, indexing, searching, usage and reporting of resources in hard copy and electronic formats•enables high level user interaction with the sources – such as user accounts, Apps, RSS etc – and develops to match evolving technologies

2010journeys with ebooks What systems supply best quality information

for learning?Integrated library system which•searches across the full variety of information formats and platforms to bring the results into one space (federated search)•provides for a faceted view of the results so user can easily select the most suitable resource (faceted navigation)•manages access to formats which have restrictions such as 3rd party licenses (eBook loans)

2010


Research to develop business case for selection and purchase of new system

System specificationsLibrary visitsShort listSelection of Civica

2010


CIVICA

Spydus catalogue with content areas

Sorcer discovery layer (faceted navigation & user interactivity)

Blis assets management system with federated search and software for 3rd party licence eBooks

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INFORMATION AND LEARNING ARCHITECTURE

ENTRY: CareyLink Portal (Sharepoint)

LEARNING: ClassE Learning Management System (Blackboard)

INFORMATION RESOURCES: Spydus/Sorcer/Blis (Civica)

VIDEO MANAGEMENT: Digital Video Library (Clickview)

DATA RECORDS: Synergetic (Database)

2010


What about

the books on the shelves? >> Not much use?

the library and staff? >> Not much use?

Where do students get information? How good is it?

How do we get to where they are learning and using information?

Can we change? To what? How?

2010!!!!! PS !!!! Elephant in the room !!!!!

‘shift happens’

Lyn Bruce


Be the information expert in the spaces where students are learning

2010!!!!! PS !!!! Elephant in the room !!!!!

‘shift happens’

Lyn Bruce


eRESOURCES

eBOOKS: Fiction, Textbooks, Non-Fiction, Reference?

ONLINE DATABASES: Subscription, journals and newspapers, video, books, radio, transcripts?

WEBSITES: Subscription and Free?

WEB 2.O: blogs, wikis & other stuff - educational usefulness?

2011journeys w

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eBook Action Learning Team

Teacher Librarians & Teachers

Four action cycles over the year of:

research, plan, action, report

Actions

Australian content

eBooks for IB resourcing

Student opinion

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eBook Action Learning Team: Actions

Consulted suppliers:

•Booklegger (non-fiction & reference),

•Campion (Text books),

•Wheelers (fiction)

•Warner Books (non-fiction, reference, databases)

•EBSCO (non-fiction, reference, databases)

•GALE (non-fiction, reference, databases)

2011




Looked at publisher offerings:

Oxford, Cambridge, Nelson, Jacaranda, McMillan

Ability to mark up literature texts (Google docs, ReadCloud, iPad)

How to manage acquisitions, access

Federated searching

2011

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Question:

What makes eBooks and Databases successful?

Answer:

same as hard copy books – active use and promotion by teachers

Exciting:

ability to link from context of online course to chapter in eBook! (link made by TL?) 20

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Three types of eBooks

Fiction , Textbooks, Non-Fiction/Reference

Fiction

preference by students for physical books over eBooks.

eBooks free and cheap but often comes with advertising (free Google books).

Single licence use presents problem for libraries.

2011 journeys with ebooks



Textbooks

Book & CD

Book & CD & access code to support website

Book & CD & access code to support website & App

each publisher creating own format – e.g. pdf, ePub, Adobe Creative Suite

trying to overcome hacking and copying to get a return on investment

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Non-Fiction and Reference

Pdf most common format (ePub & Adobe Creative Suite growing)

Web-based platforms give most powerful delivery - can still download as pdf if wish.

Reader screen that enables colour and movement to be appreciated

Note difference between eBooks and online databases and online learning databases

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eBooks

Location

•website, server, download to individual device

Licensed

•for one user at a time (DRM loans software)

•site licence for multiple users/ limited number of users

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Decisions

Fiction

Leave to 2012 – have software to manage one user usage licence

Textbooks

Leave to departments – some using book & CD & website user access

Non-Fiction & Reference

Big orders with Warner, Booklegger, Gale, INT books



Warner Books: eBooks - Non Fiction

Whole school site licence, multiple users

2011


Facts On File Science and Technology eBook CollectionBrief History seriesEncyclopedia of War Crimes & GenocideHandbook to Life SeriesEncyclopedia of World War IIGlobal Issues SeriesFamous Fashion DesignersGlobal ConnectionsCreation of the Modern Middle EastWorld Religions


Warner Books: eBooks - Non-Fiction 2011


Science Foundations

The Solar System

The Prehistoric Earth

The Human Body

Fashions of a Decade

Costume and Fashion Source Books

A History of Fashion and Costume

The sixties in America (3 vol) (UXL)

Encyclopedia of Diseases and Disorders

Encyclopedia of Biomes

Lifelines in World History

The Ancient World

The Modern World

Culture Wars


Booklegger: eBooks

Non Fiction & Reference

Whole site licence, multiple users


Human Diseases and ConditionsHistory behind the headlinesGale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders 3rd edEncyclopedia of Modern AsiaCold War Reference LibraryThe Encyclopedia of the Cold WarCold War a student encyclopediaFood in Context


INT Books: Books

Non Fiction

•Trocadero Australian Timelines series

•Crabtree series

Whole school site licence, multiple users

Years 5 - 8

2011


Warner Books Databases

Cyberschool



Bloom’s Literary Reference OnlineHealth Reference CentreModern World History OnlineScience OnlineWorld Religions Online


Warner Books Databases

InfoBase eLearning Modules



BiomesEnergy and the EnvironmentGenes and Disease OnlineGenetics and Evolution OnlineGlobal Exploration Online


Gale Databases

Restricted users

We selected 5 concurrent users

2011

World History in ContextGlobal Issues in ContextGreen RScience in ContextWorld History in Context


Access

Download MAC/SCIS records & link directly to titles from catalogue

Set up separate set of links to supplier platforms to enable searches there

2011


Searching

Spydus: enter search term > Blis federated search across databases & results aggregated > faceted results

displayed in Sorcer

Link to supplier platform and search across content of titles bought by school.

2011

Focus•A central search location for quality information

•On content rather than on device used for access and reading

•All content should be able to be downloaded to whatever device the students are using

•Content should be whole site licence for multiple users

•What learning is taking place as this information is used in this format for this teaching and learning?


QUESTIONS?


slav reading culture: collaborate, create, celebrate journeys with ebooks anne whisken centre, carey...

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