MERLOT Media Center - Late Breaking news

SoftChalk Authoring Software to work with MERLOT
SoftChalk is partnering with MERLOT in an integration project of its e-learning content authoring software. SoftChalk allows users to search for and incorporate rich-media assets into content. Lessons created with SoftChalk can be saved as reusable learning objects. MERLOT is an education collaboration website that features 21,000 online educational materials submitted by members. For more information, go to http://campustechnology.com/articles/2009/11/16/softchalk-authoring-software-to-work-with-equella-and-merlot.aspx

MERLOT is continually striving to update the website with enhancements and bug fixes to make your experience on the site easier.  Some of the enhancements released to MERLOT as of November 2009 are:

• MERLOT Content Builder released (formerly Carnegie KEEP Toolkit). Users can access the Content Builder from the MERLOT home page or right from their profile page.

• New categories for the Geology materials, now knows as Geoscience

• Ability to search for members language in Advanced member search

• Ability for members to specify their level of proficiency in languages, right on their profile page

• Assignment are now called Learning Exercises and Assignments are a material type for materials added to MERLOT.

• When adding a material to MERLOT, a Creative Commons license can be selected from any country

• On a members profile and in the Member directory, there is a direct link to the materials a member has authored.

To see previous enhancements to MERLOT, visit http://about.merlot.org/MERLOTEnhancements_past.html
 

Late Breaking News - Get up to the minute information about MERLOT activities and projects.  Here are a few new and exciting things 

MERLOT has a variety of resources that help keep MERLOT users informed about MERLOT as well as resources that can be used to disseminate information about MERLOT activities on their campuses.

• OERC is building an open digital library which allows discovery of cancer educational materials, contributed by the world wide community of clinical and basic cancer professionals. In this perspective, OERC.MERLOT.ORG was launched in July, 2009, via a relationship with MERLOT, (Multimedia Educational Resources for Learning and Online Teaching
  (www.merlot.org) of the California State University System. This site (oerc.merlot.org) provides free access and easy discovery of an online collection of donor contributed, categorized cancer learning materials (e.g: lectures, clinical guides,course curricula, videos, research summaries, etc…).

 

MERLOT was granted a YouTube Channel - MERLOTPlace


MERLOT partnered with Research In Motion (RIM), makers of BlackBerry® smartphones, to provide you with a convenient tool, MERLOT Mobile Search. Access MERLOT Mobile Search virtually anywhere you take your mobile phone.  Search and find learning materials in MERLOT and email them to yourself or to a colleague. All this delivered in a simple interface that makes it easy to search MERLOT when you are away from your computer.  To download the search application, go to http://mobile.merlot.org.  For more information, get our press release.

Research in Motion has begun a Mobile Learning campaign with a variety of offers for Blackberry education users.  For free trials and discounts on powerful BlackBerry applications for colleges, go to campaign materials.

MERLOT Voices is MERLOT's new collaborative community center designed to encourage conversations, discussions, debates and social networking, among community members interested in teaching and learning with technology. MERLOT Voices allows you to work together with other MERLOT members, join and participate in community conversation, customize your own Voices page, and include comments, blogs and videos related to online learning and teaching. You can also invite others to join and participate.  For more information and to join MERLOT Voices, go to http://voices.merlot.org

Press Releases - This is a link to press releases issued by MERLOT, our Academic Partners, or our Corporate Partners. The press releases are listed in reverse chronological order.

MERLOT Grapevine Newsletter - - The Grapevine is a newsletter that is sent three times per year to all MERLOT Members.  It provides news and information that is of interest to those who are Members and utilize MERLOT.  There are links here to the current issue as well as archived issues.

In the Vineyard Newsletter - In the Vineyard is a newsletter specifically for the MERLOT Leadership Community.  Some of the information is repeated in the following issue of the Grapevine, but contains more information about Members of the Leadership Community.  The current issue is found here as well as archived issues.  Although it is directed to the Leadership Community, it is accessible to the general public, too.

Journal of Learning and Online Teaching (JOLT) - The MERLOT Journal of Online Learning and Teaching (JOLT) is a peer-reviewed, online publication addressing the scholarly use of multimedia resources in education. JOLT is published quarterly in March, June, September, and December.

MERLOT Videos and Podcasts - Here you can find a variety of online videos and podcasts that have been captured and recorded.  These offer insights to MERLOT including an Overview of MERLOT, specific Vignettes, Award Winner presentations, and Creative Commons presentations.

MERLOT Presentations - Read and listen to presentations about MERLOT, by MERLOT staff.

MERLOT Member Publications - This provides links to publications of the MERLOT Leadership Community and includes both Journal Articles and Book Chapters

Marketing Materials - Materials at this site are used to help market MERLOT and to provide information about a variety of topics.  The Marketing Materials include both Videos and Brochures.

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