Posts from the ‘Learning opportunity’ Category

September 2019 Taco Tuesday with TrueSerials, FactCite, Tales2Go, and Pressbooks

This event has already happened but you can visit all the recordings here!

Join us for the September 2019 Taco Tuesday on August 6th at 11:30 am to see short demonstrations from WiLS vendor partners on valuable products and services! This month we’ll feature the following vendors:

11:30-11:45 TrueSerials
11:45-12:00 FactCite
12:00-12:15 Tales2Go – Join Gwen Mak and Lysa Kenney to learn about how Tales2go, a subscription audio book service for K12 schools can help you add a cost-effective listening component to your students’ reading instruction.  The service provides instant, unlimited and simultaneous access to over 9,100 high-interest audiobook titles from leading publishers to use on desktops, laptops and mobile devices in the classroom and beyond. Tales2go is used in a growing number of schools and districts across the U.S., including Los Angeles USD, Berkeley USD, and Heartland AEA.

12:15-12:30 PressbooksEDU – Is your institution supporting the creation or remixing of open educational resources (OER)? Learn about PressbooksEDU (https://pressbooks.com/educational-institutions/), an easy-to-use book formatting platform built with Open Educational Resources in mind that allows educators and faculty authors to easily create and remix open educational resources (OER) and open textbooks (without design staff), and enables universities to showcase the collection of OER and other publications produced by their institution.

The presentations will be recorded and shared as well.

Register to attend or read more about our Taco Tuesday programs.

August 2019 Taco Tuesday with ProQuest, AVP, and SkyRiver

This event has already happened! You can watch the recording of the whole thing or just the segments here.

Join us for the August 2019 Taco Tuesday on August 6th at 11:30 am to see short demonstrations from WiLS vendor partners on valuable products and services! This month we’ll feature the following vendors:

11:30-11:45: ProQuest’s Academic Video Online: ProQuest’s multidisciplinary video collection will allow you to never worry about overspending our video budget again. With one predictable subscription, get access to 67,000 streaming videos curated for the academic experience. From documentaries to training videos to Broadway performances, Academic Video Online has twice the content of any competitor – it’s far and away the industry’s most comprehensive multidisciplinary video solution. Your subscription includes access to an enhanced cinematic video interface, new virtual reality/360 video, and Build by Choice perpetual ownership credits.

11:45-12:00: AVP’s Aviary: Chris Lacinak will provide an overview of Aviary, a next-generation audiovisual streaming platform from AVP that offers publishers granular access controls to provide intended users with search, navigation, and playback across audio and video archives, collections, and files, pinpointing search results with playback exactly where a search term is found on the audio or video timeline. Aviary can be found at https://aviaryplatform.com/. Watch the explainer video in Aviary at https://weareavp.aviaryplatform.com/r/hm52f7jz70. Read more and watch videos about Aviary by reviewing the How to Aviary and 99 Problems blog series at https://blog.weareavp.com/.

12:00-12:30: Innovative Interfaces SkyRiver Bibliographic Utility: In this session, we will show you how SkyRiver provides high-quality MARC records that are easily accessed from Sierra or Polaris, with no limits on searches or downloads. You will see how SkyRiver can accommodate a variety of workflows – from single searches to batch searches, and how individual catalogers can personalize their own workstations and streamline their work with macro shortcuts.

The presentations will be recorded and shared as well.

Register to attend or read more about our Taco Tuesday programs.