It is now possible for patrons who use a library PIN for My Library to reset their own PIN if they forget it, rather than having to ask staff to do it for them. Patrons will need to ensure that their email address is included in their library address prior to attempting to reset their PIN.
To reset their PIN, patrons need to go to My Library, and click on the link “Forgot your PIN?”. Once they enter their library ID, they will be sent an email with the following text:
The library received a request to allow you to reset your Personal Identification Number (PIN) used to log in. If you did not place that request, please ignore this message. Your PIN has not changed. Otherwise, please click the link below to choose a new PIN.
https://prospero.murdoch.edu.au/pinreset~S1?info=XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
This link is valid for 3 hours from the time of your request.
Clicking on the link takes them to a screen where they can enter their ID and a new PIN.
Library PINs cans also be reset from the Request Verification screen
Monday, 5 October 2009
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Web 2.0 Toolkit - hottest programs
Animoto
Animoto is a free video program that allows you to create a 30-second music video using your favorite photos or other images. After uploading your files, Animoto provides the music to match the images and then renders a music video that can be shared or linked to Web sites.
Audacity
Free, cross-platform sound editor Audacity (available for download at audacity.sourceforge.net) has become a mainstay for those involved in podcasting. The software allows you to record and edit programs quickly without the need for prior experience in sound editing. For those who want more information about using this software, there's an online tutorial/user's manual. Tech-savvy people who are more experienced with the program might check out Audacity Portable program, which you can download to your USB drive and take with you for impromptu podcast editing even while on the road.
Delicious
Delicious, a popular social bookmarking service, allows users to tag, save, manage, and share Web pages from a centralized source. This tool provides immediate access to its bookmarks, regardless of their physical location. The power of Delicious lies not only in making your bookmarks accessible to you, but in making everyone else's bookmarks available also. By tagging your Web pages with brief one- to two-word descriptors, you enable a search to be conducted across the entire site for bookmarks with similar labels.
Google Applications
Google Applications—including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Sites—is perhaps one of the best free office suites available for classroom use. Students, teachers, librarians, administrators, and parents can easily create, collaborate, access, and share information resources, assignments, projects, calendars, and even Web pages, all using Google Apps.
With iGoogle, students can create a personalized Web site that can be easily designed and accessed within most classrooms and libraries. Aside from the ability to add unique and fun resource links to an iGoogle site, students can also create links to the library's databases, allowing them the ability to locate and use those critical resources without moving in and out of sites.
Promoted extensively by information literacy experts such as David Loertscher, a professor at San Jose State University, iGoogle Web pages can function as a student's personalized workspace, allowing them to create the perfect site for storing their links for learning (and entertainment) in one place. Visit here to learn more about Loertscher's insights on the use of this hot 2.0 tool. This tutorial will show you how to set up your own iGoogle page.
Glogster
Glogster lets users create an online interactive poster, which can be shared or uploaded to wikis and other sites. By uploading photos, images, and even videos, Glogster transforms a static online Web page into a visually exciting and interactive online presentation.
Like most other popular 2.0 software sought after by educators, Glogster now provides an educational version of their program. Within this site are tutorials, lesson plans, and examples of how educators are using Glogster in the classroom and library.
As a unique visual literacy tool that's all about creativity and ease of use, Glogster is a must-have tool.
SlideShare
The largest presentation-sharing community online, SlideShare has found its way into education rather quickly. In fact, SlideShare has an entire area devoted to educational presentations contributed by other members. Users can upload and retrieve presentations and embed selected ones into their Web page within minutes. Aside from the practical use of sharing information, SlideShare offers teachers and librarians who might be intimidated by 2.0 tools the ability to utilize more familiar software programs (such as PowerPoint or Word) and create an entirely new presentation online for their students to access.
VoiceThread
VoiceThread is enormously popular in the K-12 community. Enabling the creation of collaborative, multimedia slideshows, VoiceThread accommodates images, documents, and videos, and allows users to navigate pages and comment in five ways: using voice (via microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Students can share VoiceThreads with teachers, friends, and others and allow them to respond with their own recorded comments. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other sites and can be exported to MP3 or DVD format.
Students and teachers will discover how easily this program can be used to promote presentation skills, digital design, or collaborative interaction within the classroom—or across the globe. Librarians can use VoiceThread to create presentations on information literacy.
Zamzar
Zamzar has taught us to enjoy the weekends once again. Rather than spending hours trying to locate the correct software to convert a video file from WMA to AVI for a Monday morning presentation, consider Zamzar, which converts a wide range of audio, video, document, and compressed files into useable formats. Available for five free conversions a month, this software makes converting files a snap! To learn more about this product and how it can be used, visit www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php and www.zamzar.com/url/overview.php.
Animoto is a free video program that allows you to create a 30-second music video using your favorite photos or other images. After uploading your files, Animoto provides the music to match the images and then renders a music video that can be shared or linked to Web sites.
Audacity
Free, cross-platform sound editor Audacity (available for download at audacity.sourceforge.net) has become a mainstay for those involved in podcasting. The software allows you to record and edit programs quickly without the need for prior experience in sound editing. For those who want more information about using this software, there's an online tutorial/user's manual. Tech-savvy people who are more experienced with the program might check out Audacity Portable program, which you can download to your USB drive and take with you for impromptu podcast editing even while on the road.
Delicious
Delicious, a popular social bookmarking service, allows users to tag, save, manage, and share Web pages from a centralized source. This tool provides immediate access to its bookmarks, regardless of their physical location. The power of Delicious lies not only in making your bookmarks accessible to you, but in making everyone else's bookmarks available also. By tagging your Web pages with brief one- to two-word descriptors, you enable a search to be conducted across the entire site for bookmarks with similar labels.
Google Applications
Google Applications—including Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Sites—is perhaps one of the best free office suites available for classroom use. Students, teachers, librarians, administrators, and parents can easily create, collaborate, access, and share information resources, assignments, projects, calendars, and even Web pages, all using Google Apps.
With iGoogle, students can create a personalized Web site that can be easily designed and accessed within most classrooms and libraries. Aside from the ability to add unique and fun resource links to an iGoogle site, students can also create links to the library's databases, allowing them the ability to locate and use those critical resources without moving in and out of sites.
Promoted extensively by information literacy experts such as David Loertscher, a professor at San Jose State University, iGoogle Web pages can function as a student's personalized workspace, allowing them to create the perfect site for storing their links for learning (and entertainment) in one place. Visit here to learn more about Loertscher's insights on the use of this hot 2.0 tool. This tutorial will show you how to set up your own iGoogle page.
Glogster
Glogster lets users create an online interactive poster, which can be shared or uploaded to wikis and other sites. By uploading photos, images, and even videos, Glogster transforms a static online Web page into a visually exciting and interactive online presentation.
Like most other popular 2.0 software sought after by educators, Glogster now provides an educational version of their program. Within this site are tutorials, lesson plans, and examples of how educators are using Glogster in the classroom and library.
As a unique visual literacy tool that's all about creativity and ease of use, Glogster is a must-have tool.
SlideShare
The largest presentation-sharing community online, SlideShare has found its way into education rather quickly. In fact, SlideShare has an entire area devoted to educational presentations contributed by other members. Users can upload and retrieve presentations and embed selected ones into their Web page within minutes. Aside from the practical use of sharing information, SlideShare offers teachers and librarians who might be intimidated by 2.0 tools the ability to utilize more familiar software programs (such as PowerPoint or Word) and create an entirely new presentation online for their students to access.
VoiceThread
VoiceThread is enormously popular in the K-12 community. Enabling the creation of collaborative, multimedia slideshows, VoiceThread accommodates images, documents, and videos, and allows users to navigate pages and comment in five ways: using voice (via microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam). Students can share VoiceThreads with teachers, friends, and others and allow them to respond with their own recorded comments. VoiceThreads can even be embedded to show and receive comments on other sites and can be exported to MP3 or DVD format.
Students and teachers will discover how easily this program can be used to promote presentation skills, digital design, or collaborative interaction within the classroom—or across the globe. Librarians can use VoiceThread to create presentations on information literacy.
Zamzar
Zamzar has taught us to enjoy the weekends once again. Rather than spending hours trying to locate the correct software to convert a video file from WMA to AVI for a Monday morning presentation, consider Zamzar, which converts a wide range of audio, video, document, and compressed files into useable formats. Available for five free conversions a month, this software makes converting files a snap! To learn more about this product and how it can be used, visit www.zamzar.com/conversionTypes.php and www.zamzar.com/url/overview.php.
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Your Privacy and Safety
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner has just released a free online booklet for students about privacy and the law.
- What: 'Private i - your ultimate privacy survival guide'
- Where: www.privacy.gov.au/topics/youth
- Social networking and online privacy
- ID theft prevention
- ID scanning and privacy
- Health and privacy rights
- Top ten hints for keeping your personal information private - Teachers - see also the 'Think before you upload' video, posters and teaching resources
Monday, 25 May 2009
LibX toolbar to search Peel Resources
Library staff have put together a special toolbar to download onto staff and / or student computers. It means that you don't have to go to the intranet or internet and then search - so it could be very useful.
Procedure
Go to LibX Murdoch
There are now three versions of the Murdoch University Library LibX toolbar available.
Procedure
Go to LibX Murdoch
There are now three versions of the Murdoch University Library LibX toolbar available.
- Please Note: Libx works best with Firefox.
- Internet Explorer users need to read the instructions before installing LibX
- Once you are ready choose the button concerning Peel LibX
Thursday, 21 May 2009
WolframAlpha
This new type of search engine was announced in March 2009 by British physicist, Stephen Wolfram, and was released to the public on May 15, 2009. Unlike Google, which searches for web resources to match a query, WolframAlpha generates answers to factual queries by computing the answer from available data.
Tuesday, 19 May 2009
Library Culture at Peel
The library is a shared space with students ranging from 15 years to 90 years and the types of courses studied including :
- Mandurah Senior College Year 11 and 12 WACE and TEE,
- Challenger TAFE courses Certificate 2, 3, 4 and Diploma,
- Challenger TAFE and Murdoch University Combo courses covering Nursing and Teacher Assistant units,
- Murdoch University On-Track Courses,
- Murdoch University Undergraduate Nursing, and
- Murdoch University Postgraduate courses.
Tuesday, 12 May 2009
Families - May 2009
A display highlighting all types of Families. May is the month we celebrate families with Mother's Day on 11th May and International Day of Families on 15th May. Come and check out some good books near the Display.
Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Bilyidar "Trans-Cube-Ation" Display
Check out the Bilyidar's thought-provoking display in our front foyer. The students created the display for the 2009 Stretch Festival - it brought lots of looks and comments on the foreshore. Fantastic creative effort by the Bilyidar students!
Thursday, 23 April 2009
Anzac Day Resources
This year Anzac Day fell on the Saturday prior to second Term in WA, so schools across the state were not able to showcase the event as they would wish to do so.
For those that are interested in our history, we advertise the innovative website that ABC Online has launched in time for ANZAC DAY 2009. It is called Gallipoli: The First Day and developers have utilized the latest technology. The innovative site allows the user to “be there” with the combatants - on the beach at Anzac Cove and in the cliffs above.
The computer graphics and simulations are very realistic and are enhanced by the use of primary source materials and Google Earth at Gallipoli.
The website should help dispel the myth amongst some young people that history is boring.
Monday, 16 February 2009
Welcome to 2009
February 2009, new lecturers, new teachers, new students, new courses and lots of new resources!
The library has started off extremely busily as usual - catering for over 1,000 Mandurah Senior College students, over 600 Challenger TAFE students and over 400 Murdoch University students. We'd like to extend a big welcome to both continuing and new staff and students to the campus. As at 16th February, we have taken over 700 photographs of new students and issued over 1,000 new ID cards.
Staff in the library for 2009
Hours of operation
School Terms Monday to Thursday 8.00am - 6.00pm, Fridays 8.00am - 4,00pm
School Holidays 9.00am - 4.00pm
The library has started off extremely busily as usual - catering for over 1,000 Mandurah Senior College students, over 600 Challenger TAFE students and over 400 Murdoch University students. We'd like to extend a big welcome to both continuing and new staff and students to the campus. As at 16th February, we have taken over 700 photographs of new students and issued over 1,000 new ID cards.
Staff in the library for 2009
- Karen MacKenzie - Library Manager
- David Hixson - Librarian
- Helen Frances - Teacher-Librarian
- Jenni Williams - Library Technician
- Gavin Bennett - Information Technology Technician
- Lorri Fallows - Senior Library Officer (Mon-Wed)
- Jen Holleyman - Library Officer (Mon-Thurs)
- Lyn Thomas - Library Officer (Mon, Tues and Thurs)
- Kim McMinn - Library Officer (Tues, Wed and Frid)
- Lynn Wallder - Library Officer (Wed-Frid)
Hours of operation
School Terms Monday to Thursday 8.00am - 6.00pm, Fridays 8.00am - 4,00pm
School Holidays 9.00am - 4.00pm
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