The History of the Crusades

The following online resource was collected by Manchester University and lists a number of links covering all four crusades! Some of the links are dead but, there are still some very good free resources produced or hosted by universities and colleges.

Read extracts from historical documents written during the period of the crusades and accounts of the capture of Jerusalem by Saladin. 

Also, the library subscribes to the BBC History Magazine that this month contains an article by Thomas Asbridge who’s three-part series The Crusades is now on BBC 2. Back issues of magazines and journals can be taken out on loan; just ask at the library counter.

We also have the following books in stock! Click on the icons for readers reviews.  

               

 

 

 

 

 

 

JISC Collection

The JISC Collection provides various links to digital collections that cover areas such as history, social sciences, science and engineering.

 Try exploring the timeline:

Peer e-guide (Digital Literacy) Project

 

 

Coleg Llandrillo Library and Learning Technology Service are looking for students who will be offered training and support in the use of the college ICT network, Moodle, e-safety, Web 2.0 tools and searching the internet effectively.

Role of Peer e-guide

Peer e-guides will be offered a range of training and support to raise their awareness and knowledge of Digital Literacy eg accessing e-resources, use of the College ICT network, e-safety, Web 2.0 tools and searching the internet.

• Peer e-guides will act as a point of contact for other learners on the same course for informal advice on ICT/information skills.

• Peer e-guides will primarily promote the support available within the College in relation to ICT/information skills eg support and training sessions offered by the Library & Learning Technology Service and learning materials on Moodle.

• Peer e-guides will NOT be expected to train other students

Training and support will be provided in the following areas:

• Using the College ICT network
• Effective use of Moodle
• Finding and using information
• Safe use of the internet
• Educational use of Web 2.0 tools eg blogs, wikis, etc

Peer e-guides will be required to:

• Attend an introductory briefing session
• Complete a short ICT skills questionnaire
• Attend one or more of the core training sessions offered

What’s in it for the e-guides?

• Looks good on CV
• Improved ICT skills
• Possibility of gaining extra qualifications

Call in to the library for further details or email library1@llandrillo.ac.uk

The Last Post ……….

Farewell, so long, aufwiedersehen, good bye!

This was the blog for Coleg Llandrillo Library. Due to staffing/time pressures we have now had to move to using Twitter, Delicious and Moodle as our main information sharing tools.

You can still follow our ramblings by looking for www.twitter.com/Llandrillolib

AND

www.delicious.com/Llandrillo_Library

Thanks for all your comments and support over the past few years!

Safer Internet Day – tomorrow 8th Feb 2011

Safer Internet Day

“Internet, it’s more than just a game – it’s your life”

Learn more about staying safe online, supporting digital life-skills and become web savvy by checking out -

InSafe the Safer Internet Day organisers

Safer Internet Day on Facebook

UK Safer Internet Centre

Race Online 2012

Twitter Safer Internet Safety Day updates and #SID2011

Beat Bullying Cyber-Mentors

 ECrime Wales Space Invaders!

our delicious.com be_safe_online bookmarks

Coleg Llandrillo Staff and students can also use the E-Safety resources crreated by Library staff on Moodle. Log-in and click on ‘cross college resources’ then click on the ‘e-safety’ link.

Save Libraries Day – 5th Feb 2011 (yes tomorrow!!)

Ok – many of these activities are happening in England tomorrow, but don’t think that our services in Wales are immune – referendum or no referendum next month.

Find out how to have your say and help support the communities, families and people who all rely on their libraries by checking out :

CILIP – Save our Libraries day

Twitter by checking out #savelibraries

Facebook and the Save Libraries Events

Voices for the Library blog

Phil Bradley’s Library Posters!

and personal stories like this one on why public libraries are so important….

Autology – Student Prize!

Autology Award

 Jenna Jefferson a BTEC Science student has received a merit award for her effective use of the Autology online resource, for the month of November 2010. 

She has made excellent use of the over £3000 worth of resources that are available to each student who has access to Autology.

Jenna said ‘She has found the Autology resource very useful for her course work”. Jenna is pictured below receiving her certificate and prize from Library Manager Dr Andrew Eynon.

  Autology is the world’s first ‘Sat Nav for Study, created for students aged 11-18. It is used by students in College and at home, at their own pace, to improve their results – helping with coursework and revision.

Autology combines a unique Online Library, filled with thousands of high-quality resources for students with intelligent, pro-active Research Assistant Tools that help students instantly access all the relevant information they need

Llandrillo Library and Intro Connect students win CyMAL Information Literacy Grant

 Coleg Llandrillo Library staff with the help of the Intro Connect students have won a share in a recent  CyMAL Information Literacy grant award! While the group didn’t win the separate overall student prize, the resources created were well received and their winning entry will help to support other Intro Connect and ILS groups throughout Wales.

The short screencast entitled ‘Think Before You Click’ was created during tutorial sessions with the students and their tutors while discussing e-safety and web awareness. The students shared their ideas for the slides, gave feedback on the draft presentations and recorded their own voice-overs for the final edit. The screencast is part of a wider bi-lingual resource package with powerpoint slides, handouts and a short quiz. These are now also being used on the Llandrillo E-Safety pages for the college.

Information officer Síona Murray said ” the students were a fantastic group to work with, very enthusiastic and full of ideas. We had a great time recording the audio tracks and deciding on the slides. The class tutors were very supportive of the whole project from the start and very generously set aside class time to enable the students to get involved.”

For more information on the project and general e-safety activities for FE, please contact siona.murray@llandrillo.ac.uk or @Llandrillolib on Twitter!

Fact from fiction online – aliens, time travel and pasta

But I saw it on the [insert media channel here] so it must be true!

How to engage with students when sneakily trying to teach them a bit more about information literacy and challenging perceptions? No easy task, but we thought we’d take a different slant so they didn’t just switch off when shown examples of webpages – it’s hard when you’re 16 to not think you know if all and that the oldie (even when they’re not that old!) at the top of the classroom hasn’t a clue.

So – if the Web is their mass media of today, what about before all that technology was developed? Re-discovering old hoaxes and looking at new ones can be a great way to start students thinking about trust, perception and how the technology of the time can affect the masses. It helps to increase their sceptical superpowers and to highlight things to help them decide if a source is reliable, current and relevant.

So we’ve used Three wise monkeys exercise, aliens, pasta and even time travel to get the message across! Any other ideas for hoaxes to use?

i haz a library blog

 

Image from Dons blog

 or had? New year, new focus. This started off as a great site with great intentions – lots of time for us all involved to research, source, find and support. But changes to all of our working lives means the blog has floundered in the seas of “I’ll do it later” “that’s a great website to share – I’ll put it on delicious so I remember to write about it later” “just tweet it” and “It’s 2am, sleep now not blog”.

So what to do? Change focus? Recruit new members? Use it as a life in the library slot? Would be such a shame to give up after all this time……..but new content keeps a blog alive! Publish or die?