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Internet Librarian 2007Monterey, CA

• Innovative Learning Environments in Academe
  Captivating Captivates, Powerful Podcasts, and
  Interactive iLearning Resources
• Presented by Frank Anthony Vuotto
• Business Librarian Faculty
• Vice Chair, Academic Senate
• California Polytechnic State University
• San Luis Obispo, CA
• fvuotto_at_calpoly.edu

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The entire uncut presentation is available
online at

• http//www.lib.calpoly.edu/staff/fvuotto/internet_
  librarian2007/

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Overview

• This presentation examines innovative
  technologies currently utilized by the Kennedy
  Library at Cal Poly.
• These technologies enhance the educational
  experience, engage students, support life-long
  learning skills and provide value to the teaching
  and learning community.

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Overview

• More specifically, we will explore potential uses
  and strategic integration of software packages
  such as Captivate 2, Flash 8, ActionScript, and
  Podcast Factory to create media-rich, interactive
  learning environments.

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What is Captivate?

• Adobe Captivate 2 software enables anyone to
  rapidly create powerful and engaging simulations,
  software demonstrations, and scenario-based
  training without programming knowledge or
  multimedia skills. Content development
  frameworks include

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What is Captivate?

• Screen Recording and Demo Capture and record
  screen activity and effortlessly synchronize
  audio and video
• Software Simulations Develop and deploy engaging
  computer simulations and skill assessments
• Scenario-Based Training Rapidly develop
  soft-skills training with complex branching
  scenarios
• Presentations Design engaging, interactive Adobe
  Flash and multimedia presentations online

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Categories

• The author has developed categories, or venues,
  for potential integration of Captivate projects.
  These categories serve as suggested strategic
  points of implementation and integration within
  the larger framework of interactive learning
  environments in education.
• Venues are grouped together within distinct
  categories that serve different purposes.

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Categories

• Promotional Brief Flash videos that showcase
  key resources.
• Instructional Database Demonstration Tutorials
  ADA Compliant tutorials with voice narration and
  closed caption options.

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Categories

• Interactive Training Modules Interactive
  tutorials that allow users to learn at their own
  pace. The tutorials pause until the correct area
  is clicked. Captivate offers many customization
  options including attempt numbers, prompt
  messages, scoring, and a wide range of other
  variables.

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Categories

• Online Tests, Quizzes and Assignments Embed
  quizzes or tests directly into instructional Web
  sites. Captivate allows instructors to create
  self-scoring quizzes that generate a variety of
  question types such as Multiple Choice,
  True/False, Fill in the blank, Short answer,
  Matching, and Likert.

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Categories

• Course Integration Customized interactive,
  media-rich tutorials that align with course
  learning objectives and outcomes.

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High-Quality Podcasts

• Information Literacy with a new twist - podcasts
  that come bundled with PDF printer-friendly
  documents.
• Tools such as Podcast Factory, Garage Band,
  Audacity and M-Audio are among the tools used to
  develop MP3 files for student uploading.

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The Big Picture Portals

• The author utilizes and recommends a
  centralized model that provides a variety of
  value-added resources.
• The Business Research Portal http//www.lib.calpol
  y.edu/staff/fvuotto/ provides centralized and
  direct access to more than 100 comprehensive
  research guides, interactive tutorials,
  proprietary market data, and subject-specific
  information literacy frameworks

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The Big Picture Portals

• Topical Research Guides More than 60 business
  topics from accounting and finance to climate
  data and wine.
• Customized Course-Specific Research Guides
  Guides include interactive, media-rich tutorials.
  

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The Big Picture Portals

• Specialized Collections Developed in
  collaboration with teaching faculty to meet the
  research needs of emerging, new or expanding
  programs and courses.
• eLearning Resources High-Quality Podcasts,
  Captivate2 Tutorials, Interactive Flash Videos,
  and Information Literacy Modules.

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The Big Picture Portals

• Faculty Research Resources Journal Rankings,
  Impact Indices, and Cited-By Data for hundreds of
  journals.
• Top-10 Collections Identifies the best resources
  by area and provides comprehensive product
  descriptions and how-to-cite information.

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The Big Picture Portals

• New Books Hot Picks collection showcases new
  releases each month and provides links to all
  recent orders arranged by business areas.

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Marketing Strategies

• If the Circus comes to town and you hang posters
  on buildings to announce its arrival, that's
  advertising.
• If you hang a poster on an elephant and march it
  through downtown, that's promotion.
• If the elephant charges over to the Mayor's house
  and destroys his rose garden, that's publicity.
• And if the Mayor does a TV spot during the local
  news hour and laughs about the whole thing --
  that's public relations.
• -Paraphrased from The Zen of Marketing

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Marketing Strategies

• Outreach Venues - Faculty
• Services Brochure
• Fall Quarter Library Reception for New Faculty
• Quarterly Newsletter    
• Outreach Venues - Students
• Open House
• Summer Advising
• Week of Welcome
• First Year Experience

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Website Special Features

• The Inside the Technology feature provides a
  behind-the-scenes look at some of the techniques
  and resources utilized during the development
  process.
• Captivate Story Board Notes
• Garage Band Filters Checklist
• Images and Music
• Loop Technology for Promotional Flash Videos
• Inserting Silence into Narration
• And Much More!

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Contact Information

• Frank Vuotto
• Business Agribusiness Librarian, Faculty
• California Polytechnic State University
• Robert E. Kennedy Library
• San Luis Obispo, CA 93407
• fvuotto_at_calpoly.edu
• [phone]