Robin Ladouceur, Foreign Language Resource Specialist, from the Center for Language Study gave a demo of VoiceThread. VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold any type of media (images, documents and videos) allowing people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video (with a webcam) - and share them with anyone they wish. A VoiceThread allows group conversations to be collected and shared in one place, from anywhere in the world.

Voicethread is a free, online program that, like flickr, you can pay a small fee ($29.99/yr) to upgrade your account for more flexibility. You can use VoiceThread to browse already existing VoiceThreads or to easily create your own. You can start with images or video imported from anywhere (flickr, Facebook, Powerpoint, Excel, Word, PDF) and then add either a textual or audio comment.
Robin showed the following to explain, http://voicethread.com/#home.b409.i3113.

Robin showed created a VoiceThread during the session:

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Many academic digital collection projects are focused on special collections and college archives. Such projects seek to bring collections “out of the basement” and enable greater access to valuable and specialized research materials. However, undergraduate students and faculty often have very different needs and expectations of these digital materials than experienced researchers or the general public.

What?
We will visit existing educational sites in the virtual world of Second Life. We hope the whirlwind tour will stimulate lively debate about the appropriateness of and potential for Yale course activities in Second Life.

When?
April 29th from 11:00am - 12:00pm

Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)

Who?
Kari Swanson
Acting Head of Kline Science, Geology, Chemistry, and the FES Libraries (and Coordinator of Automation and Technical Services)

Ken Panko
Sr. Instructional Technologist,  ITG

What?
We will discover what digital primary sources are available from Yale’s many libraries and collections. The discussion will then be extended to how these sources can be used to support instruction.

When?
April 22nd from 11:00am - 12:00pm

Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)

Who?
Representatives from the Yale University Libraries.

What?
We will investigate how students can plot events and places with accompanying notes and images on custom maps using Google Maps.

When?
April 15th from 11:00am - 12:00pm

Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)

Who?
Sandy Isenstadt
Assistant Professor, History of Art
Modern Architecture

Stace Maples
GIS Assistant, Yale University Library Map Collection

Ken Panko
Sr. Instructional Technologist, ITG

What?
We will explore the use of blogs as a tool for course communications and for sharing multimedia primary sources.

When?
April 8th from 11:00am - 12:00pm

Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)

Who?
Seth Fein
Assistant Professor of History

When?
April 1st from 11:00am - 12:00pm

Where?
Bass Library room L01 (lower level of the Bass Library)

Who?
Greg Eow
Kaplanoff Librarian for American History at the Yale University Library

This session was delivered by Ian McDermott, Yale’s Visual Literacy Instruction Fellow. Ian began by showing a number of examples of interactive timelines you can find on the Internet. They included:

• the SIMILE project out of MIT which has created an open source timeline. Pam Patterson from ITG showed an example of SIMILE in action at Yale for the Ancient Jewish Diaspora Archive.
• the Timeline of Art History on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s website. Their timeline allows you browse thematically or by era or region.
• a timeline from the Digital History initiative at the University of Houston.

He also demonstrated a feature that Google has made available to plot Google search results on a timeline. You can use this by typing something like the following in a Google search: John Steinbeck view:timeline

Ian then switched gears to go in depth on the Andy Warhol Timeline, a project he worked on as the Research Coordinator at the Andy Warhol Museum before coming to Yale. The timeline is available on the Internet but is also available in the Museum to interact with on a touch screen.

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When: April 28 @ 4pm

Where:  Lower level of the Bass Library in room L01. Drop-in hours will be held at a service table on the lower level of the Bass Library under the café.

What: 30 minute informal session to help students keep up with what’s happening in the libraries over the summer using RSS feeds and alert services .

Who: The session is intended for Yale students and is run by Yale University Librarians.

If you have any questions or suggestions for future clinics please contact barbara.rockenbach@yale.edu.

When: April 14 & 16 @ 3pm

Where:  Lower level of the Bass Library in room L01. Drop-in hours will be held at a service table on the lower level of the Bass Library under the café.

What: 30 minute informal session to help students organize their digital lives.

Who: The session is intended for Yale students and is run by Yale University Librarians.

If you have any questions or suggestions for future clinics please contact barbara.rockenbach@yale.edu.