Liz Hale's Friends

View All

Liz Hale's Page

Latest Activity

Mark Cruthers left a comment for Liz Hale

June 19

Liz Hale added a blog post

Webinar this thurs on open-source

June 15

Profile Information

Department/Role

Bookstore / Manager of Bookstore Services / AKA Bookstore Queen

What role do you play in eLearning at BTC?

We're less and less about textbooks and more about "information delivery." CDs, ebooks, download texts, digital delivery, access passpoints are all out and about. The bookstore can help be a conduit for delivery and a reference point for students and faculty. But mostly, faculty tells me what to order and I say "OK."

What would you like to gain from participating in this network?

As digital content/elearning becomes more and more, I hope to remain part of the discussions with "book" choices. I can be the voice of the funded student...or the one with the Commodore 64 at home instead of the PC. I hope (and expect) to learn a bunch more of what's really out there...especially from faculty perspective.

What would you like to contribute to this network?

Well, I expect I'll learn more than I give, but my first bit of news is to alert all to the fact that six major texts publishers just joined together to create CourseSmart. digital delivery of texts directly to your students directly at half of what I can sell them the paper version (in many but not all cases); and digital sampling of texts for faculty. If your reps haven't hounded you yet, info can be found on www.coursemart.com Please note that nothing is quite as easy as it looks....and I'd like to be part of faculty discussions before just sending all students there (or some other venture!!)

Liz Hale's Blog

Webinar this thurs on open-source

I don't know if you've gotten Cable Green's invite about open-source webinar, but here it is:

Title: Textbook Affordability: A Discussion About Skyrocketing Costs and Emerging Solutions

Time/Date: Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 11:00 AM PT / 2:00 PM ET

Webinar link: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?sid=2008170&password=M.0DEEEB8B6C0EAFD7993367D2D9948A

Textbook prices have risen more than twice the rate of inflation for the past 25 years, and now cost the average student $900 per year. Publi… Continue

Posted on June 15, 2009 at 2:11pm —

Microsoft free to some of your students

Please read the following release from the big Kahuna that landing in my inbox. I don't know more than this at the moment, but it bears tracking.

Message at a Glance

At the end of January, Bill Gates will announce the introduction of a program to give higher education students access to some of Microsoft’s developer and design platform tool

… Continue

Posted on February 4, 2008 at 5:38pm — 2 Comments

Selling Textbooks in an electronic age

There are lots of issues with texts....texts have been the bane of students since ...well, since forever.

I plan to discuss a bunch of what's going on in the "e" field since I think some of the applications and solutions are especially important in the field of elearning. However I can't help but reprint this letter of frustration a collegue sent to Cengage (who is Thomson who is Delmar who is a bunch of others) Publishing. We at the bookstore lvl are being taken out of the distributio

… Continue

Posted on November 27, 2007 at 5:17pm — 2 Comments

Comment Wall (2 comments)

You need to be a member of BTC eLearning to add comments!

Join this Ning Network

At 6:03pm on June 19, 2009, Mark Cruthers said…: Hi Liz,

With your interest in eLearning, I recommend you take a look at Wiziq's virtual classroom and authorstream's power point presentation platform. Both are web based platforms, have a bunch of features and free basic service. Here’s a public class recording conducted by Nellie Deutsch on Technology Integration.

Integrating Technology into the Classroom Using Moodle and Wikis by Nellie Deutsch

Get your own Virtual Classroom