Showing posts with label how_to. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how_to. Show all posts

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

Using images in Embedded Video/Audio box

I used the Embedded Video/Audio box to create:

a list of keywords I saved to the public gallery in Wordle http://www.wordle.net/

a slideshow of images I uploaded to Photobucket http://photobucket.com/slideshows

Create an account with these websites and then once the presentation has been created just copy the HTML code provided and insert it into an Embedded Video/Audio box.

Monday, 17 May 2010

Creating a photo collage

Instructions for creating a photo collage using Adobe Fireworks CS4 have added to the Managing your images page of the LibGuides for Authors research guide - see Creating a collage.

Adobe Fireworks CS4 is part of the Adobe Design Premium Creative Suite (get the whole suite, not just Fireworks) – see Adobe Site License Agreement for details about the JCU licence for this product. If you don’t already have it you should submit a request via the IT Helpdesk

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Evaluating sources published

Congratulations to Mark for publishing the Evaluating sources guide.
This is terrific for everyone because we can now link our How do I evaluate sources? tab to this guide - here's how:

1. Click on Add/Edit pages
2. Select Change Page Info
3. Select Evaluate what I find
4. Add the URL http://libguides.jcu.edu.au/evaluating
5. Click on Save changes

When users click on this tab now they will be taken to Mark's guide. You can also link to individual content boxes from the guide - see the instructions for Linking to another content box.

Tuesday, 8 September 2009

Alert services explain to users

Just sneaking on other libguides, and I found that adding a box (or tab) on Alert Services could be very useful and relevant for most of our libguides (well, not really for the libguides but for the users of those libguides). Three different alert services could be explain: Table of contents (eTOC), databases search and citation alerts. How about creating a generic one, and after that, we could adapt it to our respective subjects? The big question.... where users will find it? Under How to..., under Research, or Journal articles? My preference will be under Research, and as a tab. But this is just my opinion.

Some good examples:

http://guides.lib.msu.edu/page.phtml?page_id=669

http://libguides.usu.edu/content.php?pid=1590

Regards