MERLOT 101: Everything you need to know to hit the ground running Barbra Bied Sperling MERLOT Manager of Technical Development

Your expectations for today  What do you hope to get out of today’s session?  What issues are top of mind for you?

MERLOT’s Vision MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

MERLOT Supports Creative Commons MERLOT strongly endorses and recommends Creative Commons licensing to encourage the sharing and reuse of online learning materials while protecting Members’ work from misuse and abuse.

MERLOT Repository Registered Members* –72,244+ 1,000/month Materials –20,995 – 2,818 ~ Peer Reviewed – 9,109 materials in “Personal Collections” – 3,234 materials with member comments Usage ~ 150,000 average unique visits per month *August 1, 2009

Always find what’s new

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Are you a member of MERLOT? Why you should join?

Why join MERLOT?  Create personal collections  Contribute materials, comments, and learning exercises  Develop a personal profile and create a CV  Share online expertise with others  Receive peer recognition  Become a guest speaker  Join an Editorial Board - Become a Peer Reviewer  Find others in a discipline

How do you join?

A profile is create

I’m logged in, now what?

Updating your profile

Update your profile Want to change what you just added? We will save these for a future presentation.

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Find materials and members in MERLOT

Search and browse MERLOT

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Federated Search

Federated Search results

RSS Feeds in MERLOT Any search can become an RSS feed

MERLOT Communities

Discipline Community Portal

Teaching Commons

It’s important to share: Contribute to MERLOT

Contribute learning materials

All you need are a few details 5 step wizard to enter all your metadata including:  Enter the title and URL  Describe the material, material type, audience and keywords (include formatting with text editor)  Identify the subject category and language(s)  Add author information (if you know it)  Any extra information to help a user including creative commons

The finished product! Detail view

Add a comment or learning exercise (previously known as an assignment)

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Organize your materials: Personal Collections

How do I create a collection?

Where can I find collections?

Like someone else's collection?

And there’s still so much more to MERLOT…

Recognizing Your Efforts  Ribbons of recognition  Provides recognition for faculty capabilities and performance  Provides accountability for institutions  Provides academically acceptable mechanism/process that is motivational

How you get recognized Contribute materials Add comments Submit assignments Create personal collections Join the VSB Become a peer reviewer Author materials

Share a material with a friend

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Need Guest Experts? Virtual Speakers Bureau can help

Virtual Speakers Bureau Find other Guest Experts that can help you or become a VSB member yourself

Virtual Speakers Bureau profile

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MERLOT Isn’t just about wine. We have a huge harvest in our vineyard. Come and taste!

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