LIS Workshops - November/December 2008

Library and Information Services

ALL WORKSHOPS REQUIRE ADVANCE REGISTRATION!

To sign up for workshops of interest please send an email request to: helpdesk@middlebury.edu.

Essentials – Core Software

Library Basics

Multimedia and Social Software

Web Skills

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONS

Please note: Basic mouse and computing navigation skills are assumed unless otherwise noted in the workshop description.

Advanced CMS

Learn how to use tables to assist in formatting, create connected pages to reduce editing time, incorporate anchors and use different templates to leverage more out of CMS. Prerequisites: You should be able to create and edit pages in CMS as well as add links, photos, files and tables.

Blogs, Wikis, MMOGs, Oh My!

We’ll take a look at a variety of Web 2.0 and 3.0 technologies and help you answer the question “Which do I use and why?” as well as discuss how they can be used in an educational environment.

Content Management System (CMS) Basics

In this workshop you'll learn how to navigate within CMS, create new pages, edit existing pages, as well as add photos, tables and links. Many folks who edit CMS pages infrequently have found this to be a good refresher.

CMS Work Session

Have you been procrastinating from making those updates to your CMS pages? Can't update your CMS pages because the phone is ringing off the hook? Don't you wish there was someplace quiet and peaceful you could go to work on your CMS pages, uninterrupted? Well, there is! Come to a CMS work session and have someone right there to answer all of your questions and help you with any problems that come up. This will not be a formal workshop; we will answer questions and problems as they come up.

Excel-to-Go: Decision Making

Do you need to incorporate logic in your Excel calculations? In one hour, master an “if” statement and find out how to use a lookup table. We’ll also cover how to install and use a hidden gem – the conditional sum wizard – a lifesaver when you only need to add up select values. NOTE: Familiarity with basic Excel navigation will be assumed in this workshop.

Excel-to-Go: Pivot Tables

Pivot tables are powerful labor savers that help you sort, summarize and analyze your data. Come see how easily you can view your data in new ways. NOTE: Familiarity with basic Excel navigation will be assumed in this workshop.

RefWorks: Introduction & Review

Getting your footnotes and bibliographies right doesn’t have to be complicated. In just one hour you'll learn how to save citations, as you find them, and create bibliographies with this easy-to-use database for storing and managing references.

RefWorks for Faculty

Getting your footnotes and bibliographies right doesn’t have to be complicated. In just one hour you'll learn how to save citations, as you find them, and create bibliographies with this easy-to-use database for storing and managing references. These sessions are open to faculty only.

Second Life

Second Life is being used in many innovative ways from education to therapy. In this introduction you will create a personal avatar then go on a guided tour of some of the interesting sights and SIMs that Second Life has to offer. Along the way, you will learn some of the jargon and culture that makes Second Life an exciting alternate universe and learning tool. Second Life runs on PC and Mac platforms. The workshop will be taught on Macs.

For your convenience, our workshops and course descriptions are included in the Events at Middlebury campus events calendar. To display our offerings, simply type go/lis?events in your web browser’s address field.