Thursday, February 28, 2013

Instructional Sessions

The Visual Resources Collection will be presenting a series of instructional sessions for departmental faculty, staff , and graduate students. Dates and topics are as follows:


Bspace Schedule and Calendar Tools
Wednesday 2/6, 12:30-1:30, 308A Doe
Presented by: Lynn Cunningham
A brief tutorial on how to set up online office-hour scheduling from within bspace. You can do away with the paper-format scheduling, and your students will be able to sign up for office hours virtually. If you are unable to attend the session, I have created a quick start guide that you may download from the VRC blog: havrc.blogspot.com/2013/01/online-office-hour-sign-up-in-bspace.html

PowerPoint Tools -- Video
Wednesday 3/6, 12:30-1:30, 308A Doe
Presented by: Jason Hosford
Jason will discuss how to use video in PowerPoint. He will instruct users on how to embed, link, and play video in a presentation.

PowerPoint Tools -- Transitions and Animations
Wednesday 3/20, 12:30-1:30, 308A Doe
Presented by: Jason Hosford
Jason will cover transitions and animations in PowerPoint.

Europeana Portal
Wednesday 4/17, 12:30-1:30, 308A Doe
Presented by: Lynn Cunningham
Lynn will present on Europeana, a search engine for the digitized collections of museums, libraries, archives and galleries across Europe. Europeana is a single access point to millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records. It is an authoritative source of information coming from European cultural and scientific institutions. www.europeana.eu/portal/

Digital Photography
Wednesday 5/1, 12:30-1:30, 308A Doe
Presented by: Julie Wolf
TBD