{"id":244,"date":"2010-03-06T12:27:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T19:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asistubc.wordpress.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2011-01-03T20:30:52","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T04:30:52","slug":"asist-productivity-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/2010\/03\/06\/asist-productivity-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"ASIS&amp;T Productivity Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Thursday, March 4, UBC&#8217;s ASIS&amp;T student organization hosted another in its recurring student-led workshop series. Members Alex Garnett and Justyna Berzowska led 20-minute presentations on the open source citation management platform\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/\">Zotero<\/a>, and the collaborative wiki solution\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pbworks.com\/\">PBworks<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately twenty SLAIS students were in attendance. Alex began with a functional overview of how to import several different resource types into Zotero, as well as how to make use of its built-in web annotation and PDF metadata lookup features. He concluded with a demonstration of the Microsoft Word 2007 Zotero plugin, using just a few clicks to compile a brief bibliography of the books, journal articles, and websites he&#8217;d worked through as examples.<\/p>\n<p>Justyna began the workshop&#8217;s second half with an overview of best practices for using PBworks, including effective sidebar management and the logistics of embedding files in the workspace. She also provided a demonstration of some of the embeddable &#8220;gadgets&#8221; available within PBworks (e.g. a calendar), noting a favorite quandary of web design: &#8220;Is this useful or shiny?&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Both students remained afterward to answer questions and engage participants with the software in greater depth. Cheers, guys!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">Last Thursday, March 4, UBC&#8217;s ASIS&amp;T student organization hosted another in its recurring student-led workshop series. Members Alex Garnett and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[7053],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-slais"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/asist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}