MERLOT 101:

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MERLOT 101 Everything you need to know to hit
the ground running
Barbra Bied Sperling MERLOT Manager of Technical
Development
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Your expectations for today

• What do you hope to get out of todays session?
• What issues are top of mind for you?

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MERLOTs Vision
MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online
community where faculty, staff, and students from
around the world share their learning materials
and pedagogy.
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MERLOT SupportsCreative Commons
MERLOT strongly endorses and recommends Creative
Commons licensing to encourage the sharing and
reuse of online learning materials while
protecting Members work from misuse and abuse.
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MERLOT Repository

• Registered Members
• 72,244 growing _at_ 1,000/month
• Materials
• 20,995
• 2,818 Peer Reviewed
• 9,109 materials in Personal Collections
• 3,234 materials with member comments
• Usage
• 150,000 average unique visits per month

August 1, 2009
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Always find whats new
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Are you a member of MERLOT? Why you should join?
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Why join MERLOT?

• Create personal collections
• Contribute materials, comments, and learning
  exercises
• Develop a personal profile and create a CV
• Share online expertise with others
• Receive peer recognition
• Become a guest speaker
• Join an Editorial Board - Become a Peer Reviewer
• Find others in a discipline

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How do you join?
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A profile is create
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Im logged in, now what?
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Updating your profile
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Update your profile
Want to change what you just added?
We will save these for a future presentation.
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Identify your language
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Find materials and members in MERLOT
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Search and browse MERLOT
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Search for members by their affiliation
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Federated Search
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Federated Search results
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RSS Feeds in MERLOT
Any search can become an RSS feed
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MERLOT Communities
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Discipline Community Portal
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Teaching Commons
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Its important to share Contribute to MERLOT
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Contribute learning materials
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All you need are a few details

• 5 step wizard to enter all your metadata
  including
• Enter the title and URL
• Describe the material, material type, audience
  and keywords (include formatting with text
  editor)
• Identify the subject category and language(s)
• Add author information (if you know it)
• Any extra information to help a user including
  creative commons

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The finished product! Detail view
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Add a comment or learning exercise (previously
known as an assignment)
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Member Comments
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Organize your materials Personal Collections
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Personal Collections
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How do I create a collection?
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Where can I find collections?
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Like someone else's collection?
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And theres still so much more to MERLOT
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Recognizing Your Efforts

• Ribbons of recognition
• Provides recognition for faculty capabilities and
  performance
• Provides accountability for institutions
• Provides academically acceptable
  mechanism/process that is motivational

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How you get recognized

• Contribute materials
• Add comments
• Submit assignments
• Create personal collections
• Join the VSB
• Become a peer reviewer
• Author materials

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Share a material with a friend
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Report a broken link to us
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Need Guest Experts? Virtual Speakers Bureau can
help
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Virtual Speakers Bureau
Find other Guest Experts that can help you or
become a VSB member yourself
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Virtual Speakers Bureau profile
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RIDING THE WAVES OF INNOVATION cenic09.cenic.org
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MERLOT Isnt just about wine. We have a huge
harvest in our vineyard. Come and taste!
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Questions and Discussion