Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Guide on the side: free software

There has been discussion on the North American information literacy discussion forum, ili-l, about some tutorial software: Guide on the side. "The Guide on the Side software is a freely available tool that allows librarians to quickly and easily create online, interactive tutorials that are based on the principles of authentic and active learning." http://code.library.arizona.edu/gots/
There are examples of it in use at different libraries at http://www.library.arizona.edu/applications/quickHelp/tutorial/searching-the-ua-library-catalog, http://libguides.radford.edu/CINAHLmodules, and http://sail.cnu.edu/guide_on_the_side/tutorial/music-research. There is also a discussion forum where people can pose questions and the developers say what their plans are (the first priority is to improve accessibility) https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/gots-discuss
Photo by Sheila Webber: spot the gull, Eastbourne, September 2013

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