Come learn more about using GoogleDrive for organization and communication with our guest speaker, Hannah Lund from the REACH (Realizing Educational and Career Hopes) Program at the College of Charleston!
Hannah will discuss using GoogleDocs to enhance communication and efficiency with the REACH Student Mentors. Please note, this session will be held in Room 136 (near the Circulation Desk) at the Addlestone Library.
Thursday, November 7th at 3:00 pm in Addlestone Library Room 136
Workshop Series 101, offered by the Center for Student Learning, is geared towards the general student population wanting more information on study skills. The 101 series occurs three times a week lasting about 50 minutes for each session.
Workshop Series 201, offered by the Library, is geared towards upper classmen and faculty, staff, and Friends of the Library that are interested in more advanced information literacy skills. The 201 series has guest speakers from all around campus. These workshops will last about a hour and will take place at 3pm on specific Thursdays in Room 120 on the first floor of the Addlestone Library.
Whether you are an upper classman, graduate student, faculty member, staff member, or Friend of the Library everyone is welcome to attend these workshops. We hope that you can find some time to just relax and learn something new!
Content provided from the Omeka About page. For more information, visit the Omeka website.
Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.
Omeka is a Swahili word meaning to display or lay out wares; to speak out; to spread out; to unpack.
Omeka falls at a crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems:
Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability.
Until now, scholars and cultural heritage professionals looking to publish collections-based research and online exhibitions required either extensive technical skills or considerable funding for outside vendors. By making standards based, serious online publishing easy, Omeka puts the power and reach of the web in the hands of academics and cultural professionals themselves.
Funders
Omeka has received funding from the following federal agencies and private foundations:
Use Omeka to publish an essay or digital dissertation, share primary source collections, and collaborate with others in the creation of digital scholarship.
Use Omeka to share collections and build online exhibits with objects you cannot display in the museum. Invite your visitors to tag and mark items as favorites, or to contribute content. Start a blog to publish museum news and podcasts.
Use Omeka as the publishing tool to complement your online catalog or launch a digital exhibit.
Features and plugins you might like: Dublin Core metadata standards, W3C and 508 compliant, extensible and customizable item fields, RSS & Atom syndication, MyOmeka plugin, data migration tools: CSV Import, OAI-PMH Harvest, OAI-PMH Repository.
Use Omeka to build inquiry-based tasks for students, to create lesson plans with accompanying primary sources, or build learning modules with your team.