Complete List of AISR Workshops

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INFORMATION SEARCHING SKILLS SERIES:

Bibliographic Management: Introduction to RefWorks

Stop typing your bibliographies. More than 3,000 Jeffersonians use RefWorks, a web-based database and bibliography creation program, available via JEFFLINE. Learn to create, organize, and access personal databases of bibliographic citations. Save time and let RefWorks format your bibliography for you. We'll show you how to use Refworks to import, export, search, and format citations, and use RefShare to collaborate and share databases with your colleagues.

Blogs and RSS--The Latest Tools for Keeping Up-To-Date

Are you overwhelmed with keeping up-to-date reading web sites of interest? Do you wish you could access all your favorite web sites and table of contents alerts of your favorite journals in one easy to access web-based interface? If you answered yes, you should attend this workshop. Jeffersonians will learn about blogs and create their own Bloglines account. Work smarter and be more productive keeping up-to-date with Web content.

Introduction to OVIDSP

This workshop is designed for all Jeffersonians with little or no experience searching the MEDLINE database using OVIDSP. This hands-on workshop will introduce participants to the MEDLINE database structure and content.

The workshop will cover the following topics:
How to access the database via JEFFLINE
What is MeSH?
What is a Scope Note?
How does the Explode feature work in OVID?
Explode versus Focus
How to limit searches
How to save, print and email citations
Find Similar feature
Find Citing Articles feature
Find New Citation feature

Professional PubMed Searching

Learn to search MEDLINE through PubMed, the National Library of Medicine's Entrez search engine. This class focuses on using Linkout (links to over 5,300 full-text SML electronic journals), My NCBI (store and retrieve search strategies and establish search filters), Clipboard, Limit, and History features of PubMed. In addition, learn to set-up collection lists to permanently save lists of citations.

This workshop will cover:
Limits
Journal browser
MeSH browser
Single citation matcher
Truncation
Search field tags
Journals Databases
PreMEDLINE
Natural language searching
Clinical Queries using research methodology filters
Creating search filters

Take Advantage of the Jefferson Digital Commons for Shameless Self-Promotion

It's a win-win academic opportunity--promote your Jefferson research and publishing efforts to the world by participating in the Jefferson Digital Commons (JDC). The JDC increases your visibility. With over 2,000 different archived full-text resources including academic articles, posters, preprints, videos, images, teaching materials and newsletters you get permanent public space for all types of files AND your work is indexed by search engines like Google. Receive monthly alerts notifying you how many times your works have been downloaded. Create a faculty researcher page. Use the JDC as a university press and publish your department newsletters or create a new journal. Learn how the JDC complements Xythos and the Faculty Interests Database. The JDC is free to all Jeffersonians.

Using Scopus & Internet Search Engines Effectively

Tired of getting millions of results when you search Google? Novice users enter their search topic into the default search engine of choice (usually Google). But, did you know that you can significantly increase the chances you'll find what you're looking for by knowing some of tricks of the searching trade? Your librarians will show you how to change your simple searches to successful power searches. This workshop will also discuss Google Scholar and citation analysis.

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SKILLS SERIES:

Adobe Acrobat Basics

Use Adobe Acrobat to create interactive teaching materials by assembling PowerPoint presentations, existing PDFs, web pages, photos and illustrations into a single Acrobat file.

Topics include:
converting to PDF
editing PDFs
adding interactivity including bookmarks, links, buttons and media clips

Adobe Acrobat: Forms

Need an evaluation tool or a registration form? Learn to convert your MS Word document into a digital form that can be emailed or posted on the web.

In this workshop you will:
complete a form in MS Word
convert the form to an Adobe acrobat file
insert text fields, check boxes, radio buttons, select menus, list boxes
save and distribute the form
compile completed forms

Adobe Captivate

Captivate's import features allow you to capture your PPT slides and add audio to prepare a fully-narrated lecture that can be posted to Blackboard (Pulse).

The instructor will demonstrate how to:
prepare your PPT slides for import into Captivate
import a PPT presentation
add and edit narration
publish your presentation for both the web (SWF) or as an MP3 file
Note: If you already own a copy of Captivate, bring your laptop for a hands-on experience.

Photoshop Basics

This workshop will focus on the steps involved with creating a digital image collection for teaching and publishing. Participants will be shown each step of the process--from digitizing images to managing files for all possible output types. This is a hands-on workshop using the Windows operating system.

Photoshop Intermediate

This workshop is a continuation of Photoshop Basics offering a more in-depth exploration of this application's functions.

Topics include:
Automate functions
History Palette
Layers
Layout
Preparing images for use in MS Office applications.
This is a hands-on workshop using the Window operating system. Participants must complete Photoshop Basics to attend this workshop.

Turning Point

Planning an exam review? Want to find out what students really think? Turning Point Audience Response System can help. This workshop will cover the skills you'll need to create, present, and save a polling presentation.

The workshop objectives include:
insert an interactive slide
convert an existing PowerPoint slide
format text on interactive slides
indicate the correct answer
deliver the interactive session
save session data
generate a report

Wimba

Save the commute--"meet" with your students online using Wimba, Jefferson's current web conferencing software. Completely integrated into Blackboard (Pulse), Wimba allows you to archive your sessions for easy reviewing by students.

In this workshop you will:
create a Wimba session
add content to your web session, including a PowerPoint presentation, text files, and images
use the whiteboard feature to annotate your content
archive your session for student review

ONLINE SERIES:

Copyright & Fair Use Guidelines

This workshop will provide basic information about copyright and guidelines for classroom use of published materials. Fair use doctrine and its application in a university setting will also be addressed.

Getting Started with PowerPoint

Learn the basics: how to open a new presentation, choose an output type, apply a design template, add and format text, make speaker notes, print handouts and save/package your presentation.

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