Summer is ideal for workshops, learn together, share experiences and enjoy. And GSIST has an Academic Immersion Program for new students that allows them to begin at different academic and technological aspects prior to joining the program. As part of this immersion program, on Monday, June 15, 2009, at about 2:00, four team members Toolkit 2.0 Caribbean Librarians: Veronica Guzman Correa, Cindy Jiménez-Vera, Yumarys Polanco Almonte and Angel Rios-Reyes Skype offered a workshop to 19 new students in the GSIST.
Skype is a free media that is downloaded to your computer and allows phone calls to people who have installed the program on your computer. The calls have excellent sound quality and are safe, as encrypted by Skype automatic calls, conversations and file transfers before sending them over the Internet so that nobody can intercept. If people are using Skype webcam, the video program also allows free calls between Skype users. In addition, you can also use Skype for instant messaging with up to 100 people at a time and conversations can be saved for later. The program has an application called SkypeOut which serves to call landlines or mobile phones anywhere in the world at reduced rates. Http://www.masadelante.com/faqs/skype taken. See also the official Skype site: http://www.skype.com/intl/es/welcomeback/
The use of Skype as another strategy in the GSIST effective communication is key to any exchange of information or conversation you want to set both kinds of support for distance learning and face to face, and for the cultivation and development of our learning community culture and knowledge.
experience constructivist learning by doing, companionship, enjoyment among students and students turned out for the enthusiastic expressions expressed by all participants, most beneficial and successful. At the end of the activity, each student received a CD with the workshop presentation Caribbean Toolkit 2.0: Skype, developed by Veronica Guzman Correa. And in the week will receive a certificate evidencing their attendance GSIST it. Caribbean
Librarians Toolkit 2.0 is a project that was presented by the Graduate School of Science and Information Technology, University of Puerto Rico, throughout the week ACURIL Conference XXXIX (BibliotecasUniversitarias Association, Research and Institutional Caribbean), held in the town of Gosier, Guadeloupe, from 1 to June 5, 2009. Participated in this pilot project egctianos students Veronica Guzman, Rosa Ayala, Cindy Jiménez-Vera, Yumarys Polanco-Almonte, Angel Rios-Reyes and colleagues Alayón Pure Rye (Library of Natural Sciences UPR) and Waleska Rivera-Suarez (Center for Learning Resources, the UNE-SUAGM), both graduates of the GSIST.
before final ACURIL conference, the second General Assembly, President Bea Bazile Guadeloupe introduced a resolution, which was approved by those present, which celebrates the team's work and recommends the integration and continuation of the project within a few ACURIL conferences.
The execution of the members of Caribbean Librarians Toolkit 2.0, under the direction of Dr. Luisa Vigo-Cepeda, received praise from the participants of the Conference and are distinguished, each one with the stars ACURIL youth. With this project GSIST, in concert with ACURIL, comes a new era of effective communication, enthusiastic, collaborative meaningful learning in the practice of Caribbean information professionals with the tools 2.0.
It acknowledges the assistance of colleagues in the GSIST Juan Pablo Delerme and Elian Ortiz who collaborated with the development of technological infrastructure to achieve a successful workshop, and photos taken during the event. Librarians Caribbean logo 2.0 Toolkit was developed by Edgar Jiménez-Ferrer, Webmaster and Graphic Artist ACURIL Library System at the University of Puerto Rico, de Río Piedras.
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