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Here's the last MyLutherNet Minute. It explains how to logically order e-reserves in 1:43.

Don't want to watch the video? Download the information as a PDF.

As I mentioned in my previous post we will be housing the MyLutherNet Minute video tutorials here on our blog as well as directly in MyLutherNet. The four that we have produced so far are below. We expect to add about one every week.

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We've recently begun creating quick tutorials (two minutes or less) of how to do "things" in MyLutherNet - things that might not be terribly obvious but might make working in the system a bit easier. These videos are housed in MyLutherNet in the Help section but we thought it might be nice to also house them on the blog.

The idea for the MyLutherNet minutes started with First Week for the 2009-2010 academic year when Dan and I produced four short animations on various components …

With the insurgence of cell phones that allow for quick and easy web browsing , (Apple's iPhone and Verizon's/Google's Android most immediately come to mind) we've been discussing how we might want to design Luther's online course to be a bit more mobile friendly .

Any good design project starts with knowing your audience:

• Who will be using your product?
• How will they be using it?
• Where and when will they use it?

Online courses are no exception to these questions. …

When I was in Denver for the Christmas holiday, I asked my mom to teach me to knit. So ever since returning home to St. Paul, I have been diligently working on my "first knitting project" - a scarf. I was talking to my mom yesterday on the phone, and feeling rather proud of how far I've come with the scarf, I told her I would send her a picture of it — as a text message, via her cell phone.

My mom is, at best, a novice texter. When she does happen to receive a text, her first …

Jennie (from the library ) and I have recently been playing around with wordles. What's a wordle, you wonder? Well, it's basically a tool on the internet that generates word clouds. Word cloud? What's that? It's an image that is formed around text that you provide; words that are frequently used in the text are bigger than words that are used less often. The graphic image they produce offers a different perspective you might not otherwise see by just reading the text.

For example, …

Here's the latest Tech Talk. The topic this week: MyLutherNet: Registration and Student Records. Links mentioned in the talk:

• Registrar's web site
  
• MyLutherNet help wiki

Tomorrow, we, along with some folks from Computer Services and the Library are headed to Northfield for the annual GusDay conference . GusDay is an event designed for the technology staff from the Minnesota Private Colleges and other like-minded institutions to gather and share successes, challenges, strategies, and friendships. Representatives from Gustavus , Macalester , St. Thomas , Bethel , Carleton , St. Olaf , Augsburg , and many more will be in attendance.

It's a nice little conference …

View the recording of the Tech Talk from Nov. 19, 2009 on using End Note

Links mentioned in Tech Talk:

• Luther Seminary Library
• EndNote Wiki
• EndNote X2 Training Videos

Here's the latest Tech Talk. The topic this week: Thesis Templates. Download the thesis templates here as well as the Thesis Templates Help document.