Dog-eared ebooks?
Sharing Marked Text in ebrary
ebrary books provide tools for directing attention to text, such as highlighting and page notes. Taking advantage of these tools can help improve reading skills and facilitate cooperative learning.
This presentation will offer you the following:
Tools for directing attention to electronic text
Ideas for cooperative use of marked text
Key points:
You must have an account, known as a bookshelf in ebrary, to use the tools featured here
ebrary InfoTools Facilitate Marking Text
Three colors of highlighting
Differentiate users
Distinguish among concept categories
Page notes (created by students or by instructor)
Share notes on specific pages
Pose questions
Provide chapter or section summaries
Bookmarks
Direct attention to specific pages
Creating page notes automatically bookmarks pages of text
Bookshelf view indicates every type of marked text
Instructors and/or students can create multiple bookshelves for
Personal research and interests
Course-specific reading lists (suggested or required)
Specific class assignments
Small group work
One-on-one work with students for improving study skills or reading comprehension
Multiple users can access the same material simultaneously
Same ebook can be placed on multiple Bookshelves (number of users is unlimited)
Automatic Citation Feature
Text copied from ebrary automatically provides basic citation information
Printed pages also bear citation information
Resources:
To view an online demonstration of the InfoTools outlined in the Key Points above, head to
ebrary provides several Flash demonstrations, brochures, and user guides online at
Student Comments about ebrary:
I found it useful that I could search through a book and copy and paste the information I want. I also found it useful that I could mark, in a sense, a book that I wanted to refer back to by placing it in my bookshelf; which is a cute idea. I think that I will definitely use this resource again. So far it seems to be the most logical resource, compared to Google, and other search engines.
I think ebrary is awesome. I was able to create an ebrary bookshelf and saved the books to it. I tried out the highlighting tool and figured out how to unhighlight and change the highlight color. I used the note taking section as well by writing something then deleting it then by writing something and saving it. I was then able to see all the sections I highlighted and all the notes I took. I then clicked on a specific highlight and it took me right to that page. I also liked how it brought you to the next search entry or previous search entry.
The online ebrary is very complete and robust. I was able to find more than one book with information on college placement tests. I added them to my 'bookshelf'. Then I bookmarked each section of each book that started to address my topic. I didn't spend too much time reading the material, but I skimmed through a few parts, and I was able to find a few things that I might want to use later. So I highlighted these few sentences, so I can find them later. I noticed that it will be even easier to find them than I expected! The bookshelf lists not only each book for me to open, it also displays (right under the title) all bookmarks, highlights, and notes.
Student comments provided courtesy of Karen Schwalm, ENG101 instructor at GCC.
For further information/questions:
Christine Moore
Library Faculty
John F. Prince Library Media Center
Glendale Community College
6000 W. Olive Avenue
Glendale, AZ 85302
623.845.3425