Professional Development - Introducing InDesign with Deke McClelland

Get a thorough introduction to InDesign, in these tutorials from Deke McClelland. Deke shows how to assemble text and images into multipage documents that can be published in print, on the web, and in many other electronic formats. He introduces the core elements that make up any InDesign project, whether simple or complex: pages, text frames, and images. He shows how to place and flow text, and set character- or paragraph-level attributes. He also examines image placement, cropping, scaling, and framing. Along the way, Deke discusses the efficient use of rulers and guides, and shows how to navigate between pages. There's no prior InDesign knowledge required. Start your learning path here.

Topics include:

• Creating a new InDesign document
• Navigating in InDesign
• Creating and formatting text
• Formatting text with paragraph styles
• Creating dynamic hyperlinks
• Adding, deleting, and moving pages
• Importing, cropping, and scaling photos
• Placing artwork
• Stacking and layering objects
• Wrapping text around a graphic

4 hrs 52 minutes

Completed September 2, 2015

Cesar Torres book project

Meeting with Dance re: theses

On 9/1/15, I met with Maura Keefe and Pam Callen to discuss the retrospective and current thesis situation. Dance had been among the last to begin a collection, and late last summer they gave approval. They thought they wanted to scan the theses themselves, and received additional work study funding to do so, but in the end, none of them got posted. I set up a meeting with Pam, and serendipitously Maura joined in at the end and we discussed:

·         Pam will have student upload all scanned theses to a folder within the Master Thesis FC2 Dance folder.

·         Graduate student, instead of doing Quality Control on scanned theses, will use their expertise in the field to provide 4-5 keywords for each thesis in a spreadsheet, which will also be added to the FC2 drive.

·         Pam will provide Kim with any contact information for alumni, to make obtaining permission easier.

·         Maura will draft the email that will be generated when the thesis is uploaded, to notify advisor that the grade may be posted and forward it to Kim by the end of next week. She will also verify with the rest of the department that further curation is not necessary on the “old” theses – meaning if it’s in the library to take out, it’s available for posting. (Maura, I’m not sure whether that was a final decision yesterday, but I thought it was left that you wanted to check with the other faculty).

There is a step by step submission guide (http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/dns_theses/dns_thesisguide.pdf ) posted on the site, but based on yesterday’s discussion I will need to change one sentence to reflect the submission – advisor notification – grade posting process. 

An example of Digital Commons impact (Manila student uses info from EDH thesis)

I recently received this request from a student at the Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila asking permission to use a questionnaire from a thesis:
From: Shaira Mae Martinez [mailto:smbm18r@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, August 17, 2015 12:00 PM
To: Myers, Kim
Subject: Request Letter for Questionnaire in Project‐ Based Learning and its Effect on Motivation In the Adolescent
Mathematics Classroom
Dear Sir/Madame,
Greetings from the people's university!
I am a senior student of Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila and I'm currently taking up Bachelor of Secondary
Education major in Mathematics. I am writing an action research entitled “A Comparison between Audio‐visual aids and
Mathematical Activity as a Pedagogical Tool in Promoting Students' Learning” as a requirement for my subject Math71.
For this reason, I am asking in your good office a permission to use your questionnaires in the study which is entitled as
"Project‐ Based Learning and its Effect on Motivation In the Adolescent Mathematics Classroom" in my action research.
Rest assure that this will only be used for research purposes.
I’m hoping for your positive immediate response. Thank you and God Bless.
Sincerely,
Shaira Mae B. Martinez

I worked with the Education department, who was eventually able to tell me that she (Pamela Beres) was a teacher in the Kendall School District. A thorough search of their website revealed one email address, which gave me a clue to the protocol, and I sent the request off. Almost immediately I received an affirmative response, and was able to forward it on.

Mapping locations

Two things happened this week that lead to an "aha" moment. First, I was posting a new Goldberg Scholarship entry in Digital Commons (http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/goldberg/) and thought "wouldn't it be nice to have a map showing all the places the students have interned at?", and then I happened to look down at my desk and noticed the DC+GLUG Attendee List, and the diversity of locations contained there, and a similar thought occurred to me. So I dashed a note off to Lauren, and we're going to try it at the article level. If I want a series level map, I will have to send her a .kml file which they can update annually.

Honors theses and embargos

Given the recent decisions by the Department of Biology, and the Department of Environmental Science and Biology to embargo their Master Thesis collections, I decided I should check with the advisers of those departments regarding some 2015 Senior Honor Theses I am trying to post. Here is the email I sent and the individual responses I got:

Dear Huey, Rey and Chris,

I am getting ready to contact this year’s group of Honors students for permission to post their theses in Digital Commons. Given the embargo request for Master’s theses for your departments, I wanted to check with the three of you first since you were each an adviser for one of the students. Here are the students in question:

Kendra Andrew - Hing

Amber Altrieth – Sia

Sara Grillo – Norment

If you wish, I will wait to contact these students until a future date (2017). Please advise.

Thanks,

Kim

Hi Kim - As far as I am concerned, there does not normally need to be an embargo on senior honors theses, as they usually are not publishable. So - you can post Sara's thesis if she gives the go-ahead.
Thanks,
Chris (ESB)

Hi Kim,

It is fine to post Amber Altrieth's thesis. Thank you for asking.

Rey A. Sia, Ph.D.

Dear Kim,

Please do not post the thesis of Kendra Andrew on Digital Commons, as we are still carrying out additional experiments on her project.

Also, please do not post the thesis of Noah Reger, a Master student who recently graduated from Biology.

Best,

Huey Hing

Oral History Project upload instructions

Charlie has a number of mp3 files of various quality ready to be uploaded. Ken has agreed to clean them up a bit. Here are the instructions for uploading them to Kaltura.

Download the mp3 from the Digital Commons FC2 (KW - Oral History - Fixed) folder to the desktop. Sign into kmc.kaltura.com using brockport email and special password.

Click on content - upload from desktop - browse for and upload the file. Depending on the size, this may take a while.

Click on Name - Preview in Player - Audio only - Advanced Options (Delivery Type - HTTP Progressive Download, Embed Type - Auto Embed)

Copy the tiny URL generated at the bottom - paste into the appropriate metadata field. Choose other Rich Media for streaming media choice.

Kaltura Links:

Bruce Lee, part 1: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/nmyix

Bruce Lee, part 2: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/qm5u1

Mabel Webster: http://www.kaltura.com/tiny/m99nw

Links go in the Streaming Media field, and the Media Format is “Other rich media”

You can add up to 2 files on one metadata page, so for Bruce Lee, the links would go into the Streaming Media and Additional Streaming Media fields. Make sure to update the format for both.

A good thing to go into the comments field might be a line that tells that the transcript is the downloadable file.

Summer Projects - updated 9/2/2015

It seems like my summer is filled with projects in various stages of completion, which I dabble in simultaneously.

Currently the list includes:

1. Moving items from the Library Angel instance into the Library FC2 drive. Status: nearly complete (75%). Completed 6/25/2015 - report sent to MJO (cc:RC)
2. Brockport Bookshelf URL update - on hold until Ken hears back from ProQuest, or until 7/31, whichever comes first. Completed 8/4/2015
3. The creation of a post-conference slide share for SURC,  using the bepress batch upload feature. This will be a new experience for me, specifically using Google Drive to house the files in a publicly accessible area and using a script that automatically gathers the URL for use on the bepress upload spreadsheet. I found instructions on how to do this here: http://opus.govst.edu/faculty/30/  but there seems to be an issue that we are trying to work through right now. I never was able to get this to work.
4. Uploading the remainder of the Philosophic Exchange articles.There are 3 people involved in this enterprise, each with a different degree of completion. First, Kristen has to get them scanned and OCR'd, then I create the journal, add metadata and upload them, and finally Gordon Barnes tweaks the disciplines and adds any email addresses he has. There were about 14 volumes online when we began, Kristen has completed 19 more, and I have uploaded 10 of those. I haven't heard from Gordon at all this summer, so much awaits him. We made a lot of progress this summer, but the project did not reach completion due to backlog in Philosophy.
5. Another long term project has been creating and uploading Charlie's Oral History collection. He and I have worked together to massage the metadata, and I am working with Bob and Ken to tweak the audio component. Charlie has a series of .wav files dating back from the 1990's of interviews with alumni and emeriti. We will be putting together a community with images, transcripts and audio files. Ken is working on cleaning up some of the audio files, and Bob and I are trying to figure out (I think we have) how to use Kaltura to house the files. The three that CC had files and transcripts for are now online, and more are waiting transcripts.
6. Final projects include completing the Publishing in Libraries conference site and creating a conference site for the 2011 IAPS Conference. Publishing in Libraries completed in August (see http://digitalcommons.brockport.edu/pubinlib/). IAPS did not get done, due to lack of clerical assistance.