Virtua, which is our Library Management System, has now been upgraded. Aside from a few small glitches across the NT system, it all seems to be working pretty well.
Fun part now is that I will need to learn the new ways of doing things. I already know that the Inter-Library-loan area has become a whole lot more complex. There will be further areas to be ironed out as it is a cloud-based system so a learning curve coming up - but hopefully not too steep.
Thank you for your patience while our system was down and while this has been happening. It has been really appreciated.
Monday 25 May 2015
Friday 15 May 2015
Weblinks and Special Days
For those of us who use Pinterest, especially as a teaching tool, their new rules mean that everyone needs to have an account to be able to access whatever it is you have set up for students or staff. This tends to make it a little - unfriendly, shall we say - for use in a classroom arena.
Below are a few links of similar on-line tools that may be worth taking a look at. Comments were made on the TL list-serv that most of the Pinterest collections are able to be moved across to the Juxtapost site without too much of a problem - however I haven't tried it myself.
http://www.juxtapost.com/ (fast simple way to bookmark images)
https://sqworl.com/ (listed as Simple Visual Bookmarking for Educators)
http://www.pearltrees.com/ (organise all your interests)
Have a look and see what you think.
Just out of interest, below are a few special days coming up that may be of interest to your class - or yourself.
Today (15th May) is Endangered Species Day, Tuesday 22nd May will be the International Day of Biodiversity, Tuesday 5th June is World Environment Day - and my personal favourite Tuesday 2nd June - Rocky Road Day.
Have an awesome weekend folks.
Below are a few links of similar on-line tools that may be worth taking a look at. Comments were made on the TL list-serv that most of the Pinterest collections are able to be moved across to the Juxtapost site without too much of a problem - however I haven't tried it myself.
http://www.juxtapost.com/ (fast simple way to bookmark images)
https://sqworl.com/ (listed as Simple Visual Bookmarking for Educators)
http://www.pearltrees.com/ (organise all your interests)
Have a look and see what you think.
Just out of interest, below are a few special days coming up that may be of interest to your class - or yourself.
Today (15th May) is Endangered Species Day, Tuesday 22nd May will be the International Day of Biodiversity, Tuesday 5th June is World Environment Day - and my personal favourite Tuesday 2nd June - Rocky Road Day.
Have an awesome weekend folks.
Tuesday 5 May 2015
Library Management System
Just a quick note to let you know that Virtua is running again, albeit with a few little glitches. I can check out and in but cannot catalogue anything or update people's cards if they have expired. For the moment, it is refusing to save to the database, so I am still using spreadsheets to keep records till we get it fully operational.
As the upgrade to the new fancy version is due middle of May, we may have to deal with it until then - but we are more or less back on track.
Thanks for your patience.
As the upgrade to the new fancy version is due middle of May, we may have to deal with it until then - but we are more or less back on track.
Thanks for your patience.
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