LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services GENERAL LIBRARY HOURS Wednesday, January 28, 2015 – Sunday, May 31, 2015 Archives & Special Collections is open Monday – Friday 9AM – 4:45PM MONDAY – THURSDAY Faculty Training & Development Lab is open Monday – Thursday 9AM – 5:45PM Friday 9AM – 4:45PM 8AM – 10:45PM Access is limited to the First Floor Only 8AM – 9AM and 9PM – 10:45PM* New Media Center and L4 are open Monday – Thursday 9AM – 8:45PM Friday 9AM – 4:45PM Saturday – Sunday 10AM – 5:45PM FRIDAY 8AM – 4:45PM Access is limited to the First Floor Only 8AM – 9AM* SATURDAY – SUNDAY 10AM – 5:45PM *During First Floor Only hours, First Floor services including Reference, Circulation, Reserves, and computers are available. Books and periodicals can be paged at any service desk. The Library Café is open 24 hours every day for Brooklyn College faculty and students with valid IDs. There are exceptions to the general hours. For a complete list of exceptions, go to: http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/library/about/hours/ 983 Members of the BC Community Have Signed Up for Their Complimentary New York Times Subscription! If you registered a year ago, you will need to register again. It’s a one year subscription! All you need is your BC email address to register at: https://myaccount.nytimes.com/verification/edupass. 2 SPRING 2015 LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services ILL’s Latest Timesaver for You: “Scan and Deliver” Print & Microform Materials Electronically The Interlibrary Loan Unit is piloting a new service called “Scan and Deliver” for Brooklyn College faculty. This new service offers you the opportunity to electronically request and receive articles and book chapters that are in our print and microform collections. This will save you the time it would normally take to visit the BC Library, retrieve the item from the shelves, and reproduce it. This is how it works: Request the item through your BC Interlibrary Loan account, just as you would normally request an item from ILL. If you know that it is in our collection, just add a note on the request form. If you are a first-time ILL user, follow the directions on the website for first-time users at: https://brooklyn-cuny.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html or call the Interlibrary Loan Office (x4414). Instead of cancelling the request (which we would normally do if the material is in our collections), we will scan the document and send you an electronic link so that you can access it anywhere! Please note: Depending on initial demand, we may have to limit the number or size of the requests. Also, due to copyright restrictions, we cannot provide more than one chapter per book or one article per journal issue. Archives and Special Collections NY Heritage Digital Collections : BC Student Handbills The digitized Brooklyn College Student Handbill Collection is comprised of 279 BC student handbills created between 1940 and 1989. The handbills demonstrate student involvement in everything from anti-war rallies to academic freedom. They are a fascinating glimpse into our collective history! To view BC student handbills visit the NY Heritage Digital Collections at: http://nyheritage.nnyln.net/cdm/search/collection/bc_sh 3 SPRING 2015 LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services Consider Curating Your Course Materials and Ditching Your Textbook! Open Educational Resources (OER) are teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others. OER include full courses, course materials, modules, textbooks, streaming videos, tests, software, and any other tools, materials, or techniques used to support access to information. How Can You Use OER in Your Courses? • Adopt: Replace a high-cost textbook with an open access alternative. • Reuse, Remix, Revise OER or other authoritative freely available content. • Replace a textbook with OER and links to Library e-books, book chapters, essays, scholarly journal articles, images, and thousands of streaming videos. Try our newest collection, PBS video at: http://search.alexanderstreet.com/pbsv • Find OER, in all disciplines, on the Library’s website or go directly to MERLOT (www.merlog.org/), OER Commons (www.oercommons.ore/), or the National Science Digital Library (http://nsdl.org/). Also try government agencies (e.g., NASA), non-profit educational institutions, associations, and museums. • Discover engaging, scholarly multimedia learning materials freely available to you and your students. Increase student learning and achievement! • For advanced classes, consider having your students find OER course materials as part of developing their research and information literacy skills within their discipline. Tip: If you want to embed resources into your BB, Sakai or course website, please be sure to put the following URL at the beginning of the article or e-book: https://login.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/login?url= Thus the link to Academic Search Complete would look like this: https://login.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu/login?url= http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=aph The Library Has a Wealth of Resources and Technological Expertise to Assist You with This Process. Please contact Prof. Miriam Deutch at MiriamD@brooklyn.cuny.edu for more information or contact your Subject Specialist (see page 11). 4 SPRING 2015 LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services Is Your Collection of Digital Images, Media Recordings, And Documents in Disarray? If so, the Library has an easy to use tool to assist you. Shared Shelf is a web-based multimedia management, storage, and publishing system that allows you to upload and catalog your collections and share them others in the Brooklyn College community or publicly on the web through Shared Shelf Commons. Shared Shelf provides tools to support use of visual content such as search, browse, zoom, image groups, Mobile flashcards, and batch download to PowerPoint. CUNY content can be viewed and shared via ARTstor or OneSearch–the Library’s latest discovery tool. Assets published to Shared Shelf Commons can be discovered via any search engine. Faculty in all disciplines–humanities, social sciences, the sciences, visual and performing arts–are using Shared Shelf to organize, find, and share all types teaching and research digital content. For more information, please contact Prof. Miriam Deutch at: MiriamD@brooklyn.cuny.edu. Continuing through Thursday, May 14, the writing tutor will be holding sessions in room 142 on the first floor of the Library. His schedule is: Tuesdays 12PM – 3PM Wednesdays 5PM – 7PM Thursdays 12PM – 3PM Students can meet with him for help with grammar, style, thesis development, etc. If they can’t make one of these times, they can make an appointment to see a tutor at the Learning Center (1300 Boylan Hall). 5 SPRING 2015 If you know of students in your classes who would benefit from working with an expert tutor, encourage them to make an appointment at: lclibrarytutor@gmail.com. Questions? Contact Prof. Matthew Harrick at: MHarrick@brooklyn.cuny.edu LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services CUNY Electronic Resources in the STEM Disciplines The City University Office of Library Services in cooperation with the Advanced Science Research Center, the Vice Chancellor for Research, and the Chief Academic Officers of the University, has comitted to a five year agreement for universal access to six STEM resources. Includes the most comprehensive set of nursing and allied health indexing with full text Includes almost a third of the world’s current electrical engineering and CIS literature Includes access to 28 journals from the British scientific publisher Includes the world’s leading full text scientific, technical, and medical literature Includes the world’s leading full text scientific, technical, and medical literature Includes the world’s leading full text scientific, technical, and medical literature What will this mean for Brooklyn College? We have long subscribed to CINAHL, ScienceDirect, SpringerLink, and WileyOnline, we previously subscribed to 5 Nature journals. This agreement gives us 23 additional Nature journals and we also gain access to the complete electronic library of the IEEE. All of these resources are befitting a college offering advanced degrees. We hope this expanded access will add to the prestige of CUNY and to each of its colleges. Since the publication of the first Annual Review of Biochemistry in 1932, Annual Reviews has brought to its readers the most useful and intelligent analysis of the primary research literature. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 46 focused disciplines within the biomedical, life, physical, and social sciences, including economics. The mission of Annual Reviews, a nonprofit organization, is to intelligently 6 synthesize scientific literature in a review format and to ensure that the information is widely distributed and readily available. Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed by the Journal Citation Reports. All Annual Reviews series are ranked within the top ten publications for their respective disciplines. Annual Reviews will guide you to the principal contributions of your field and help you keep up to date in your area of research. Please take a look at this great resource at: http://arjournals.annualreviews.org/search/advanced. SPRING 2015 LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services Cabell’s International Directories Are you looking to publish a scholarly or peerreviewed article? Do you need reliable data on journal acceptance rates, time for reviewing, and intuitional ranking by specific topics in the following disciplines? • Accounting • Economics & Finance • Management • Marketing • Educational Curriculum & Methods • Educational Psychology & Administration • Educational Technology & Library Science • Psychology & Psychiatry • Computer Science - Business Information Systems Cabell’s International Directories provide scholarly journal rankings, an up-to-date call-for-papers list, and detailed information for authors and promotion and tenure committees. Cabell’s proprietary classification index allows authors to do a targeted browse through–disciplines or new areas in which they may wish to expand their research. Cabell’s is a great resource for graduate students and faculty especially those engaged in interdisciplinary studies. Please visit http://cabells.com/memberarea.aspx for more information. Bloomberg Professional Bloomberg Professional is the premier international financial services data aggregator providing news and analytics for over 129 countries and 250 exchanges. Features include 24-hour historical and 15-minute delayed securities pricing, news, data, and analysis on companies, markets, and economies. Through a generous donation by an anonymous donor, the Library is fortunate to be able to offer access to Bloomberg Professional terminals to our faculty and students. A Bloomberg terminal is available in the Faculty Training and Development Lab for faculty use. In addition, a laptop with Bloomberg Professional is available in the Lab to check out for oncampus teaching purposes. 7 SPRING 2015 LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services eMarketer : Marketing in the Digital World eMarketer will tell you how consumers are spending their time, how consumers are spending their money, and how marketers can reach these consumers. It is a great resource for businesses and, in particular, for anyone researching social media. With access to the platform, you can leverage all of eMarketer’s insights and benchmarking data for delivering powerful presentations and conducting research projects. You can search by topics, benchmarks, and forecasts, and sort by industry or geographic area. You and your students will love this! Tutorials are available online every Wednesday. Check out this terrific new resource at: help.emarketer.com. Archives Unbound includes topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of students and scholars at the college level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from Witchcraft to 20th century political history. These are a few of the eye opening and thought provoking historical collections the Library subscribes to: 8 • County and Regional Histories & Atlases: New York • “We Were Prepared for the Possibility of Death:” Freedom Riders in the South, 1961 Politics, Social Activism and Community Support: Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters • America in Protest: Records of Anti-Vietnam War Organizations, the Vietnam Veterans Against the War Please go to the following site for more collections that will enhance your teaching experience: • Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ cuny_broo39667?db=GDSC • “Through the Camera Lens:” The Moving Picture World and the Silent Cinema Era, 19071927 • SPRING 2015 LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services Artemis: Primary Sources unifies extensive digital archives and enables scholars to make amazing research connections. It’s a combination of full text content, dependable metadata, and intuitive subject indexing. 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817), includes his 700 bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets published in London with additional English provincial, Irish, and Scottish papers (and examples from the American colonies, Europe and India). Eighteenth Century Collections Online includes page images of entire books published during the 18th Century. With full text searching, the collection allows new ways to access information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, and science. Nineteenth Century Collections Online includes the full text of monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, and statistics. The Making of the Modern World provides access to millions of pages of primary sources from the period 1450-1850 that track the development of the modern Western world through the lens of trade and wealth. The Times Digital Archive, 1785-2009 allows users to search over 200 years of an invaluable historical source. 9 SPRING 2015 LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services Library Faculty Go West to Present at ACRL 2015 In late March, Professors Frans Albarillo, Lee Ann Fullington, and Mariana Regalado traveled to Portland, OR for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) 2015 National Conference. Prof. Regalado and Prof. Maura Smale (Chief Librarian, City Tech) presented as part of a panel “The Topography of Learning: Using Cognitive Mapping to Evolve and Innovate in the Academic Library.” Prof. Prof. Frans Albarillo Prof. Lee Ann Fullington Albarillo presented a poster regarding his research on students at Brooklyn College, “Sustaining Immigrant and International Students: A Mixed Methods Study of Library Use.” Prof. Fullington presented a poster, co-authored with Prof. Matthew Harrick, about the new undergraduate internship the Library piloted this past fall, “Sprouting STEMs: Science Information Librarianship Internships for Undergraduates.” Prof. Fullington was awarded an ACRL Early Career Librarian Scholarship to attend the conference. Congratulations to our Library faculty for a job well done! Let the Library Do What It Does Best The Brooklyn College Library aims to enhance the academic experience of Brooklyn College students, to improve their research skills, and to foster information literacy and critical thinking. The Library highly encourages faculty in all departments to include library sessions in those courses that have a research component. Together we can introduce your students to: • • • • • doing research at the college level effectively searching, locating, and evaluating information popular and scholarly resources relevant to a specific assignment basic and advanced searching of library resources, such as the catalog and article databases discipline-specific resources and scholarly communication within that discipline Contact your Library Subject Specialist (see the next page) to schedule a class. We look forward to working with you and your students! 10 SPRING 2015 LIBRARY Events, Resources & Services Library Directory of Subject Specialists by School SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Frans Albarillo FAlbarillo@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8213 Accounting; Economics; Finance & Business SCHOOL OF EDUCATION Matthew Harrick MHarrick@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8209 Education; Juvenile Literature SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Frans Albarillo FAlbarillo@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8213 Linguistics; Sociology Jane Cramer JaneC@brooklyn.cuny.edu x5332 Government Information; Law; Political Science Beth Evans BEvans@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8206 Africana Studies; Caribbean Studies; Judaic Studies; Puerto Rican & Latino Studies; Studies in Religion; Women’s & Gender Studies William Gargan BGargan@brooklyn.cuny.edu x5341 American Studies; English; Modern Languages & Literatures; SEEK Helen Georgas HGeorgas@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8207 Classics; History; Philosophy Matthew Harrick MHarrick@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8209 Children & Youth Studies; LGBTQ Studies Mariana Regalado Regalado@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8215 Communication Arts & Sciences; Speech Wilfredo Rivera WRivera@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8214 Communication SCHOOL OF NATURAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES Susan Vaughn SVaughn@ Brooklyn.cuny.edu x5348 Lee Ann Fullington LAFullington@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8217 Earth & Environmental Sciences; Health & Nutrition; Kinesiology; Mathematics; Physics; Urban Sustainability Mariana Regalado Regalado@brooklyn.cuny.edu Anthropology & Archaeology x8215 Biology; Chemistry; Computer & Information Science; Psychology SCHOOL OF VISUAL, MEDIA AND PERFORMING ARTS 11 Miriam Deutch MiriamD@brooklyn.cuny.edu x5221 Art William Gargan BGargan@brooklyn.cuny.edu x5341 Theater Honora Raphael HonoraR@brooklyn.cuny.edu x5844 Music Wilfredo Rivera WRivera@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8214 Film; PIMA; TV & Radio SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies STAFF DIRECTORY 12 Larry Albrecht Albrecht@brooklyn.cuny.edu x4672 Evening & Weekend Manager, Library Café; Student Workshops; Staff & Faculty Workshops Carlos Cruz CarlosA@brooklyn.cuny.edu x4667 Instructional Design & Multimedia Development; Blackboard & Sakai Technical Assistance; Faculty Workshops Fatima Davis FaDavis@brooklyn.cuny.edu x5327 Manager, New Media Center; Audio/Visual Support for the Library Slava Gurgov VGurgov@brooklyn.cuny.edu x8234 Programmer/Web Developer Nick Irons NIrons@brooklyn.cuny.edu x4634 Associate Director, Faculty Training and Development; Faculty Workshops; Multimedia Projects; Website Development & Management Anthony Caines ACaines@brooklyn.cuny.edu x4672 Manager, Library Café; Print & Web Design; Staff & Faculty Workshops James Liu JLiu@brooklyn.cuny.edu x4868 Networks & Systems Manager Alex Rudshteyn Alex@brooklyn.cuny.edu x5342 Director of Library Technology Entrepreneurship, Systems, & Network Support Howard Spivak HowardS@brooklyn.cuny.edu x5342 Director, Academic Information Technologies & Library Systems Stephanie Walker SWalker@brooklyn.cuny.edu x5342 Chief Librarian & Executive Director, Academic Information Technologies & Library Systems Harold Wilson HWilson@brooklyn.cuny.edu x5327 Evening & Weekend Manager, New Media Center; Audio/Visual Support for the Library SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Free Resources and Services for Faculty and Adjunct Faculty Please note that all of the resources and services presented in this Faculty Bulletin are available for part-time Adjunct Faculty and full-time Faculty. All Faculty are invited to make use of the Faculty Training and Development Lab (Library, Room 382) to access state-of-the-art computers, hardware, and software, free printing, technology consultation, and personal technology training. Please feel free to stop by the next time you are in the Library or call 718.951.4634 to schedule an appointment. For more information, please refer to the Faculty Lab section in this Bulletin. Blackboard Collaborate is now available to help you create virtual classrooms, offices, and meeting spaces that allow you to interact dynamically with your students and colleagues, from wherever you and they are. Blackboard Collaborate is a web conferencing tool where users can interact as if in a traditional classroom. It has all the functionality needed for a student-centered learning environment, such as text chat, two-way audio, multi-point video, interactive whiteboard, emotions, hand raising and polls rooms, desktop sharing, breakout rooms, and session recording. This feature is now part of the listing tools available in CUNY’s current Blackboard version. course and an enhanced experience for everyone. It offers exciting new approaches to learning while involving each student on an individual level, affording active learners the information and personalization they want. Full functionalities to Blackboard Collaborate are offered only through a computer’s web-browser connections. Limited access to session tools are now available on iPad and iPhone platforms via Blackboard Collaborate Mobile app or on other mobile devices by using the mobile’s webbrowsers. These two mobile options are free of charge, and in both cases students can interact with each other by joining the text chat and two-way audio, when watching the instructor’s whiteboard, desktop documents or presentations in the Blackboard Collaborate main room. For more information or assistance with using Blackboard Collaborate, please contact Carlos A. Cruz at CarlosA@brooklyn.cuny.edu; 718.951.4667 Collaborate is a key component to consider for any online Analog-to-Digital Media Conversion Do you need to convert your LPs, audio cassettes, or video cassettes into a digital format for educational purposes? The Faculty Lab has installed new equipment and software that will allow you to convert your audio cassettes and LPs into MP3 digital audio files or CD audio discs, and your VHS video cassettes into MP4 digital video files or DVD video discs. Please bring your analog media to the Faculty Training and Development Lab (Library, Room 382); staff will provide assistance in converting your materials. 13 SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Did you know that last year the Library and Academic IT presented more than 300 technology-based workshops focused on the needs of Faculty, students and staff ? Faculty workshops covered the features and modules of Blackboard, Sakai and iTunes U. Faculty and staff are welcome to participate in our student workshop series. The workshops in this series attempt to conform to the busy schedules of our students. There are workshops for those who can only attend on weekends, both Saturday and Sunday. There are afternoon workshops, common hour workshops and evening workshops. During intersession we conduct a winter graduate colloquium. All workshops are hands-on. Workshop topics include Introduction to the PC, Introduction to the Internet, basic and intermediate level courses in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and Word. In addition, workshops are given for both Mac and Windows in Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe InDesign. Recent workshop additions include basic QuickBooks, and basic and intermediate SPSS. Want a Faculty workshop? Please send your suggested topic to Howard Spivak at HowardS@brooklyn.cuny.edu. Please include a suggested time and day; Faculty have crowded schedules and coordinating Faculty workshops is challenging. Would you like to schedule a staff workshop or workshop series for your department? Include topics and times that your staff will be available. We will try to arrange a workshop or series to meet your department’s needs. Please contact Nick Irons for more information at NIrons@brooklyn.cuny.edu; 718.951.4634. Do you want student course-specific workshops tailored and restricted to your class? In the modern academic environment, access to technology-centered help and instruction can make a sizable difference in the efforts of both you and your students. We are able to offer extensive, high-end assistance to you and your students in a wide variety of computer related areas including statistical analytic processing with SAS or SPSS; presentation creation and editing with PowerPoint; desktop publishing and word processing; database creation, maintenance and usage; and many more. Course-specific workshops can be held during regular class sessions or outside class times. Please contact Howard Spivak to make arrangements at HowardS@brooklyn.cuny.edu; 718.951.5342. Free Hands-on Technology Workshops for Faculty The Library and Academic Information Technologies offer Faculty a full calendar of hands-on technology workshops on the CUNY Portal, Blackboard, Sakai, Microsoft Office, and Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Please direct your Web browser to: http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu and follow the Workshops link located along the top navigation bar. 14 SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Swivl: The Motion Tracking Camera Platform Would you like to capture your classroom lectures or guest presentations on your camera or mobile device, but you don’t have a dedicated camera operator on hand to help? Well, it’s not a problem anymore: Swivl may be the solution for you. Swivl is a robotic platform that turns your iOS and Android devices into a motion-tracking personal camera, and enables you to move freely through the classroom while recording your presentation. For more information about Swivl, please direct your web browser to: http://www.swivl.com/. Swivl is fast-becoming a “must-have educational tool for a flipped classroom,” and seems to be the perfect tool for recording classroom interaction, student projects, and classroom observations. The basic Swivl set has 3 components: 1. The Robot (base/platform) where your mobile device is mounted, sits on a round base that tilts 30 degrees, and rotates 360 degrees. The Base is portable and cordless, with batteries that last up to 4 hours. 2. The Marker (remote control) includes wireless audio, high quality built-in microphone and a recording button. 3. Once the remote control is synchronized with the robotic platform, the base follows the Marker as it is moved around the classroom. The Swivl Capture app has a user-friendly interface, it allows the instructor to create presentations and store them in the Swivl library, and facilitates uploading recorded lectures into your iOS Photo Library or the Swivl Cloud media service. You can find the Swivl Capture app by searching for “Swivl Capture” in the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. Swivl Cloud < http://cloud.swivl.com > is also part of the Swivl product line. Swivl Cloud is not required if you’re only using the Swivl Robot and app, but a Swivl account will be needed to create and show slide presentations and movies simultaneously. In response to requests from interested faculty, the Office of Academic Information Technologies (AIT) acquired three Swivl kits to launch as a pilot project. Each of our Swivl kits includes: •1 Swivl Robot and Marker •1 sturdy tripod •1 Apple iPad Participants may also choose to use their own mobile device, and AIT will provide training and support on synchronizing the device with the Swivl Base and Marker (training is required in order to borrow a Swivl kit). For more information, please contact: Faculty Training Development Lab, Room 382 Library Campus phone: 718.951.4634 Recording your class has never been so easy! Happy Recording! 15 SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Blackboard Learn 9.1 is available for all CUNY’s instructors and students with a redesigned interface and more powerful features. Faculty who log into Blackboard will have at their disposal many new tools and capabilities to effectively manage their online teaching/ learning component. Blackboard 9.1 eliminates much of the “clicking” involved in managing the course, mainly through making many of Bb’s present capabilities more accessible to users as well as implementing new functions that together bring Blackboard closer to an environment that users accustomed to Web 2.0 take for granted. Here are a few examples of some important changes and additions that make managing a course in Blackboard 9.1 easier: The Control Panel: For instructors, the Control Panel appears in the entry page of a course as a menu, significantly improving navigation among different tasks and areas. Multiple File Upload: Now, when you have many documents that you wish to post, instead of tediously browsing and posting each one at a time, you can select a group of documents to upload into the content area simultaneously. Test Lockdown Timer option: With Bb 9.1 you now have the option to have a test automatically end when the time limit has been reached. Needs Grading function: Instructors can view student attempts ready for grading or review on the Needs Grading page. Multiple Assignment Submission Attempts: In Blackboard 8, to allow a student to redo an assignment and submit it using the same assignment link, the instructor needed to delete the previous submission from the Grade Center. Blackboard 9.1 allows the option of letting an assignment accept multiple attempts. Brooklyn College’s Office of Academic Information Technologies (AIT) is offering Blackboard 9.1 training as well as an extensive list of online video, print tutorials, and other online help and documentation. If you have any questions or are interested in trying some of these new features, make an appointment with Carlos Cruz. Carlos Cruz: Instructional/ Multimedia Design Specialist and Campus Blackboard Administrator E-Mail: CarlosA@ brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone:718.951.4667 Helpful Blackboard links and emails for Faculty: Blackboard 9.1 FAQs for Faculty/Staff http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/blackboard/bb-faculty-faq.pdf Blackboard 9.1 workshop schedule for Faculty/ Staff http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/?view=workshops&category=16 Blackboard Faculty Support CarlosA@brooklyn.cuny.edu Helpful Blackboard links and information for Student: Blackboard 9.1 FAQs for Students http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/blackboard/bb-faculty-faq.pdf Blackboard Student Support On-Campus: Library New Media Center (2nd floor, Library) Library Café (lower level, Whitehead Hall) Off-Campus: Please contact: Information Technology Services (ITS) Help Desk E-mail: helpdesk@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone: 718.677.6180 Hours: Monday - Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM 16 SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Digital Lessons AIT is ready to help you create one of the latest and most revolutionary forms of educational materials: digital lessons. With a capability of much more than simple video, projects can be given interactive features, posted online or distributed as a file package. Digital lessons are ideal for exploring topics outside of your syllabus, elaborating on difficult premises, or creating all new lectures. Digital lessons can be composited from a host of elements, including photographed video, emphasis graphics, text, and animation. They can utilize established lectures or be built from the ground up. Please contact Larry Albrecht to begin a project or see a demonstration of the myriad possibilities this new technology offers. E-Mail Albrecht@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone: 718.758.8216 How Can Faculty Arrange for Academic IT to Visit Their Next Department Meeting? Representatives from Academic Information Technologies are available to participate in your monthly department meetings. We can answer questions on hardware/software relevant to your discipline and discuss how we can help meet your instructional and research needs. 17 For more information, please contact: Howard Spivak:Director, Academic Information Technologies E-Mail: HowardS@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone:718.951.5342 SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies How Can Faculty Add Multimedia Content to their Blackboard or Sakai Course Sites? Course Site Design and Incorporating Multimedia Content For assistance with using images, full-motion video, animation, and audio within your Blackboard or Sakai course sites, please contact: Carlos Cruz: Instructional/Multimedia Design Specialist and Campus Blackboard Administrator E-Mail: CarlosA@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone: 718.951.4667 For more information or to set up an appointment, contact: Carlos Cruz: Instructional/Multimedia Design Specialist and Campus Blackboard Administrator E-Mail: CarlosA@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone:718.951.4667 How Can Faculty Put Documents on E-Reserves? E-Reserves staff will scan your documents, create PDFs, and upload them to your Blackboard course site. For complete details on this valuable service, please direct your web browser to: http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/resources/ service.jsp?sub_id=92. 18 iTunes U is available for Faculty to store and distribute video, audio, slide shows, and PDF documents. At present, iTunes U is accessible only through Blackboard. For information on using iTunes U effectively in your Blackboard course sites, please contact: If you have questions about the e-Reserves service, please contact: Mary Pope: Reserves Specialist E-Mail: reserves@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone:718.951.5335 If you would like assistance with designing and/or adding multimedia elements to your course web sites, Carlos Cruz is available to consult with you. In person, over the telephone, or via e-mail, Carlos can help you achieve a positive impact on teaching and learning with online technologies, including Sakai, Blackboard course sites, standard web pages, discussion boards, real-time chat, etc. Carlos Cruz: Instructional/Multimedia Design Specialist and Campus Blackboard Administrator E-Mail: CarlosA@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone:718.951.4667 SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies How Can Faculty Get Free Software, Such as Microsoft Office, McAfee VirusScan, and Maple? Free work-at-home software licenses for Microsoft Office (for Windows and Mac OS); Microsoft Windows 8 and 7, McAfee antivirus software (for Windows and Mac OS); and Maplesoft Maple (for Windows and Mac OS) are available for you to download and install on your home computers (desktops and laptops). Please note that CUNY eMall software is for use at home or offcampus only. To download software from the CUNY eMall, please direct your web browser to http://portal.cuny.edu. After you login, select the CUNY eMall link, located at top-center. Next, select the SOFTWARE link. Select the link(s) to the software you want, and follow the instructions provided to order, download, and install the software. If you would like to install any of these applications onto your Brooklyn College office or lab computer(s), please contact: ITS: Help Desk E-Mail: helpdesk@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone: 718.951.4188 How Can Faculty Create a CUNY Portal ID? Faculty, students, and staff may access CUNY’s Enterprise Edition of Blackboard via the CUNY Portal. Direct your web browser to: http://portal.cuny.edu and select Login. If you already have a portal account, type in your user name and password. If you need to create a new portal account, select Register and follow the instructions. In order to verify your identity, you will be prompted to enter your SSN and date of birth at this secure, encrypted site; this is a one-time-only registration action. 19 SPRING 2015 How Can Faculty Borrow a Laptop To Use Off-Campus? The Office of Information Technology Services (ITS), Library, and Office of Academic Information Technologies (AIT) manage the Faculty Laptop Loan Program, which is designed for Faculty who are traveling on college business or have other off-campus research and computing needs. Laptops are loaned out on a first-come, first-served basis to Faculty. Laptops may be borrowed short-term for a one week (full-time & adjunct Faculty) or long-term up to the end of the semester (full-time Faculty only). We have Windows and Apple Macintosh laptops available for loan; we will do our best to provide the requested platform; however, due to the limited number of circulating laptops, we may not have your preferred platform available. To request a laptop, please complete the Faculty Laptop request form, available at: http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ resources/?computing=faculty_ services#c263. Note to Adjuncts: Laptop loans must be co-signed by your department chair via e-mail. For more information on the Faculty Laptop Loan Program, please visit: Faculty Training and Development Lab Library, Room 382 Campus Phone:718.951.4634 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies How Can Faculty Get Software Installed for Student Use on the Computers in the Library and the Library Café? How Can Faculty Access Software for Qualitative Research? To better assist Faculty with qualitative research and analysis, the Faculty Training and Development Lab has installed and configured two distinct qualitative data analysis applications: At the beginning of each semester Academic IT loads software and system updates, and tests each of the more than 700 public computers in the Library and Library Café. Academic IT will attempt to accommodate Faculty requests for new software installations. To make this process more efficient, we need your cooperation. Please submit your requests for new software installations or version upgrades four weeks before the start of the new semester. We need this time for clone preparation, installation, and testing. To get software installed in the AIT/Library MultiMedia Classrooms and/or the public computer labs in the Library Café, New Media Center, Library Lower Level Lab, 1st Floor Reference Area, and Reserve Reading Room, please contact: Howard Spivak:Director, Academic Information Technologies E-Mail: HowardS@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone:718.951.5342 http://www.qsrinternational.com/ products_nvivo.aspx Atlas.ti: http://www.atlasti.com/ These software packages are designed to facilitate analysis of unstructured text, web links, and/or multimedia materials such as interviews, feedback forms, reports or media clips. At present, both programs are only available on a dedicated workstation located in the Faculty Training and Development Lab (Library, Room 382). Please speak with any member of the Faculty Lab staff for access to NVivo or Atlas.ti. Please note that we currently have only single-use, single-machine licenses for both QR programs; we do not have licenses for installation or use outside of the Faculty Lab or off-campus. Please note that Faculty members are responsible for obtaining license permissions from the software publishers. Software will be installed only on the computers covered by appropriate valid license agreements. 20 NVivo: Would you like to learn more about qualitative research and analysis? We suggest taking advantage of the Library’s extensive collection of electronic books: http://dewey.brooklyn.cuny.edu/resources/?service=ebooks. SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies How Can Faculty Obtain IBM SPSS Statistics for Use On-Campus? An essential tool with which to analyze your research data is IBM SPSS. CUNY provides the College with a multi-user campus-license for IBM SPSS v20 statistical analysis software. The campus-licensed version of SPSS v20 may be installed on Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS X, and is available for on-campus use only. Please contact the ITS Helpdesk to request installation on your office computer: ITS: Help Desk E-Mail: helpdesk@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone: 718.951.4188 Please note that CUNY does not provide licenses for using SPSS off-campus. Software Requests for the Faculty Training and Development Lab If you would like to recommend a software purchase for the Faculty Training and Development Lab, please contact: Howard Spivak: Director, Academic Information Technologies E-Mail: HowardS@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone: 718.951.5342 21 How Can Faculty Access Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional for Voice Transcription? At the request of several Brooklyn College Faculty members, the Faculty Training and Development Lab purchased and installed Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional to aid in the transcription of digital voice recordings. Using Dragon with a compatible digital voice recorder, you can capture notes in the field, and then automatically turn your recorded voice files into editable text. Dragon can recognize .wav, .wma, .dss, and ds2 and .mp3 files. For more information about using Dragon Naturally Speaking Professional in the Faculty Training and Development Lab, please contact: Nick Irons: Associate Director, Faculty Training and Development E-Mail: NIrons@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone:718.951.4634 SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Faculty Training and Development Location: Lab (Faculty Lab, FTDL) The Brooklyn College Library Faculty Training and Development Lab provides all Brooklyn College Faculty (full-time and adjunct) with a range of free services to meet both individual and group needs. Faculty can access computer-based resources and services, free printing, and technical support. In the Faculty Lab, Brooklyn College Faculty have access to computer hardware and software, technology support and advice, drop-in individual consultation with knowledgeable and friendly staff, and small-group workshop training in the effective use of digital technologies for teaching and learning. The Faculty Lab maintains state-of-the-art, dual-core, Intelbased, Windows and Apple Macintosh computers; color flatbed scanners; a 35mm film scanner; DVD and CD-Recordable drives; digital video and audio capture; and B&W and color laser printers. The Faculty Lab provides software for web page creation; word processing; spreadsheet analysis; statistical analysis; database file management; graphics creation; digital video and audio; desktop publishing; desktop presentation; and multimedia authoring. 3rd Floor Library, Room 382 Campus Phone: 718.951.4634 Hours of Operation for Spring 2015 Monday-Thursday 9AM – 5:45PM Friday 9AM – 4:45PM Closed on weekends and holidays. Technical Support staff are available to assist you with the use of all computer hardware and software in the Lab. Please note that food and drinks are NOT permitted in the Faculty Lab. For more information about the resources and services available in the Faculty Lab, please contact: Nick Irons: E-Mail: Campus Phone: Associate Director, Faculty Training and Development NIrons@brooklyn.cuny.edu 718.951.4634 Free Printing for Faculty The Faculty Lab maintains two high-speed, highcapacity, networked laser printers (B&W and color) for Faculty to use at no charge. Our B&W printer (HP 4015) 22 outputs to 3 single-sided sizes: letter; legal; and tabloid. Our color printer (HP 3525) outputs to 2 double-sided sizes: letter and legal. Please consult with Faculty Lab staff for assistance with formatting your documents correctly for each printer. SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Free Wide-Format Printing: Posters and Banners The Faculty Lab has the capacity to print wide-format posters and banners (up to 42 inches wide). Supported file formats include: high-resolution PDF, GIF, and JPG with embedded fonts and graphics. AIT/Library MultiMedia Classrooms High demand precludes scheduling these rooms for every class meeting during a semester. Technical Support Staff are available for classroom support. Faculty may reserve the Windows or Macintosh Classrooms to teach using computers with advanced graphics and sound capabilities. Each classroom will accommodate 34 participants and has one dedicated instructor station. These specialized classrooms may be reserved for occasional, specific class meetings requiring the use of technology. W oody Tanger Auditorium To check room availability and to submit a reservation online, please direct your browser to: http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu. Select the link Room Scheduler located at top right. Please read and follow the on-screen instructions. Please contact Faculty Lab staff for more information by Campus Phone at 718.951.4634. You may submit your project on CD or USB flash drive, along with a letter-sized proof. Your poster print jobs will be processed within 2 - 3 business days. Please note that food and drinks are NOT permitted in the MultiMedia Classrooms. If you would like to recommend software for use in the AIT/Library MultiMedia Classrooms, please contact: Howard Spivak: E-Mail: Campus Phone: Director, Academic Information Technologies HowardS@ brooklyn.cuny.edu 718.951.5342 The Woody Tanger Auditorium (Library, Room 150) is available to reserve for your class on an occasional basis. The Auditorium is a place where the College community can experience and experiment with a high-tech communication infrastructure. For complete information on the capacity and technical resources available in the WTA, or to arrange a tour or tutorial on the auditorium’s audio/visual, computing or lighting systems, please contact: Fatima Davis: New Media Center Manager E-Mail: FaDavis@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone: 718.951.5327 Harold Wilson: NMC Evening and Weekend Manager E-Mail: HWilson@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone: 718.951.5327 Technical assistance is available before and during your scheduled event. Printed instructions are available for most systems. http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu and selecting the link Room Scheduler or by contacting the New Media Center at newmedia@brooklyn.cuny.edu. You may request the Woody Tanger Auditorium by visiting the Library’s room scheduling page: Please note that food and drinks are NOT permitted in the Woody Tanger Auditorium. 23 SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Woody Tanger Auditorium Update Due to major equipment failure, we were forced to shut the Woody Tanger Auditorium’s doors in the early part of 2014. When we reopened the auditorium had, unfortunately, limited capabilities. Last summer we took the opportunity to do around the clock repairs and to strategically plan for the future of the WTA. While the sound and lighting are not at 100%, we are pleased to say that we were able to re-open the WTA and it has been in full use since last fall. The WTA is once again capable of showing videos, providing Internet streaming, and accommodating PowerPoint presentations. As for our future goals, we plan to have the WTA upgraded in the very near future. Our plans include acquiring a new projector with Blu-ray streaming capabilities, more lighting choices, and a new sound system. We hope that these plans will make your classroom presentations a more dynamic experience. Classroom Microphones and Amplifiers Teaching in a large classroom? Having trouble projecting your voice to the back of the room? A small number of portable microphones and amplifiers have been purchased for Faculty use. Please contact the New Media Center managers for more information: Fatima Davis: New Media Center Manager E-Mail: FaDavis@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone: 718.951.5327 Harold Wilson: New Media Center Evening and Weekend Manager E-Mail: HWilson@brooklyn.cuny.edu Campus Phone: 718.951.5327 Morton and Angela Topfer Library Café • • • • • The Café is staffed until 11:45 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Wireless printing is now available. Two new self-service printers have been added to decrease waiting time for printouts. A brand new, high-speed, high-capacity copy machine provides students the convenient option to remain in the Library Café to complete their academic work. Follow the Library Café on Facebook and Twitter: o o 24 Facebook: Twitter: https://www.facebook.com/BClibrarycafe http://twitter.com/bclibrarycafe SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Resources and Services for Your Students Free Printing for Free Hands-on Technology Your Students in the Workshops for Your Students The Library and Academic Information Technologies offer Library and Library students a full calendar of hands-on technology workshops on Café the CUNY Portal, Blackboard, Microsoft Office, SPSS, Windows, Macintosh, and Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Please direct your web browser to http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu and follow the Workshops link located along the top navigation bar. The Library Café also offers a large assortment of in-house produced literature dealing with computer usage and academic skills. Please direct your web browser to http://ait.brooklyn. cuny.edu/litrack/. The College’s Print Management System in use at the Library and Library Café standardizes free-printing privileges for students throughout the campus and helps students to save money, maximize efficiency, save time, and conserve paper. Many students are already familiar with the system, which has been in use for several years in the ITS Public Computing Labs, located in the West End Building (WEB). Additional Fee-based Printing Services for Your Students Color Printing Color printing to letter- or legal-sized paper is also available in the Library and Library Café. Please note that free printing balances are not applicable towards this premium service. Poster Printing Service Brooklyn College clubs, organizations, and individual students may now have their JPEG image files printed as a full-color poster. Posters are printed on heavy stock paper in either 2’x3’ ($24.00) or 3’x4’ ($48.00) sizes. Please note that free printing balances are not applicable towards this premium service. To submit the poster for printing, students must bring a properly formatted and ready-to-print JPEG image file on USB flash drive or CD to the New Media Center Service Desk, located on the 2nd floor of the Library. Please note that the poster will be processed and available for pick-up within 2 business days. The Library Cafe’s friendly, knowledgeable staff is available to assist students with all their computing needs. Always lively, the Library Café is CUNY’s only 24/7 information commons. Designed with a chic, open-concept feel, it is an ideal place to study, meet with friends, use one of the many Internet-connected computers, grab a snack, or just relax. http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/librarycafe/ 25 Whitehead Hall, 1st floor SPRING 2015 718.951.4672 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Book Scanners Dedicated and easy-to-use book scanning stations have been installed at four convenient locations in the Library: • • • • Reference (first Floor) Reserve Reading Room (first floor) NMC: New Media Center (second floor) L4: Library Lower Level Lab (lower level) The book scanners are provided free to all Library patrons. Scans can be uploaded to a flash drive, emailed, or printed out. The scanning system utilizes simplified scanning software developed in-house by Academic Information Technologies. Presentation Practice Rooms Do you need a place for you or your students to practice a PowerPoint presentation? Several viewing rooms in the New Media Center (2nd Floor) are now equipped to allow a laptop connection. Please inquire at the New Media Center Service desk for more information: New Media Center: Campus Phone: Wireless Printing in the Library Service Desk 718.951.5327 Laptops, tablets, and Smartphones (Android, iOS) must first be configured to access the College’s secure Wi-Fi wireless network. Please direct your students to the ITS Computer Lab located in the West End Building (WEB) for assistance with Wi-Fi setup. To print in the Library, go to https://webprint.brooklyn.cuny. edu. You will then be prompted to enter your User Name (CUNYFirst Emp ID) and PIN (date of birth, MMDDYY). Documents sent for printing via Wi-Fi are sent to the selfservice printing stations located throughout the Library. 26 SPRING 2015 AIT Office of Academic Information Technologies Student Laptop and Tablet Loan The Brooklyn College Library, Academic Information Technologies, and Information Technology Services are pleased to continue our successful Laptop Loan Program for Brooklyn College students. As of the Fall 2012 semester, we have more than doubled the number of Apple MacBooks available for student borrowing; this service enhancement is made possible by the generosity of College President Karen L. Gould. Furthermore, with our gratitude for a very generous gift from the Class of 1960, 50th Reunion Class Gift Fund, the Library is pleased to announce that the Student iPad Loan Program is continuing to be a huge success. We now have a total of 72 Dell Windows laptops and netbooks, 23 Apple MacBooks, and 5 Apple iPads for student use. Windows laptops and netbooks are available for 3-day loans to undergraduate students; graduate students may borrow Windows laptops and netbooks for up to 30 days. Apple MacBooks and Apple iPads are available for 1-day loan only. The Student Laptop and Tablet Loan service is free of charge. A valid BC ID and an additional photo ID are required to borrow a laptop. Please direct your students to the New Media Center Service Desk, located on the 2nd Floor of the Library for detailed information, and to complete and submit a Laptop or Tablet Loan Form. New Media Center (NMC) and Library Lower Level Lab (L4) The New Media Center (NMC) provides the College community with a variety of services, including a state-of-theart computing facility with Windows and Macintosh computers, access to the video and audio portions of Brooklyn College’s non-print collections, and viewing/presentation rooms for small and large groups or classes. NMC staff oversee use and scheduling of the Woody Tanger Auditorium, and manage the Library Lower Level Lab (L4) student computer lab. For more information about the New Media Center or L4, please direct your web browser to http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/. (Follow the link < New Media Center / L4 > located at left) Location and contact information: NMC Service Desk, 2nd Floor Library 27 Fatima Davis: E-Mail: Campus Phone: New Media Center Manager FaDavis@brooklyn.cuny.edu 718.951.5327 Harold Wilson: E-Mail: Campus Phone: New Media Center Evening and Weekend Manager HWilson@brooklyn.cuny.edu 718.951.5327 SPRING 2015 To access this Faculty Bulletin online, go to: http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/fbulletin/ Office of Academic Information Technologies and Brooklyn College Library All Rights Reserved © 2015 http://library.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ http://ait.brooklyn.cuny.edu/ Designed and Developed by the Brooklyn College Library and the Office of Academic Information Technologies Cover art: Claude Monet. Springtime (also known as Woman Reading). 1872. Image courtesy of The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD (Creative Commons License)
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