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Designing an EndNote Training program for ver. 6
Author: Graham Dawson    Posted: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:32:10 +1000
This posting is probably only of interest to those who design and conduct EndNote training for end-users. At QUT we librarians conduct EndNote training principally aimed at PhD and Masters research students, and academic staff. We offer only one course loosely termed "Basic EndNote" although we have flirted with a course known as "Advanced EndNote". We try and make the training sessions as "hands on" as possible. I personally eschew use of PowerPoint in my training and concentrate on actually demonstrating features, then allowing trainees to repeat and experiment themselves using the EndNote & Word software. I have as a guide a "21 facet training checklist" that I tick off as each facet is demonstrated and experienced. See my 21 facets at the end of this message. Basic EndNote training sessions need about 3 to 3.5 hours (allowing for a 10 minute coffee break). Barring those who are very IT literate (with exposure to database concepts, and who are expert in Word and Windows) most of the feedback we get is that we attempt to cover TOO much in these 3.5 hour sessions. We are a 99% windows site. Some users sign up for a repeat of this course to try and better grasp the concepts. We plan to release ver. 6.0 to our user public in 2003. As the software grows more complex and given our trainee feedback, I envisage us offering a three tier Basic, Intermediate and Advanced (for want of better descriptions) training programme. I would be most grateful if you are currently training users in version 6.0 if you would be prepared to share your course structure, outlines and objectives. Basic EndNote Training Checklist (ver. 5.0.1) 1. Obtain the EndNote software 2. Launch the EndNote program from Microsoft word 3. Open an existing EndNote library 4. Create your new EndNote library 5. Set a default library to open on startup 6. Add records to a library (keying manually) 7. Backup your EndNote library 8. Open links to a file (document) ~ launch URL 9. Search for text within a library 10. Sort records in a library 11. Change displayed fields 12. In text citations 13. Inserting citation(s) 14. Adding pagination 15. Format bibliography 16. Setting bibliographic output styles 17. Download and install the qut library catalogue connect file 18. Add records to an EndNote library via online search using z39.50 connect 19. Add records to an EndNote library via direct export 20. Filter imported records from a flat ASCII file 21. Define term lists xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Graham Dawson /> Engineering Librarian Voice: + 61 7 3864 1456 Researchers' Centre, room V723 Queensland University of Technology Library GPO Box 2434 Fax: + 61 7 3864 5191 BRISBANE QLD 4001 Australia

Designing an EndNote Training program for ver. 6
Author: Sarasue French    Posted: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 22:40:35 +0800
Hello, All ... Thanks again to those of you who provided copies of your training materials. I had only one hour for my presentation, so I did the following: * Put together a short PowerPoint presentation listing links to various helpful Web sites (including some of yours) and phone numbers for local people with some knowledge of EndNote and the various bibliographic databases. * Then I ran the class through the short interactive tutorial available on the EndNote Web site (version 4 but better than nothing!). * Finally, I provided the students (all working people pursuing doctorates in business administration) with handouts from the library containing info about how to log into the university's databases from a remote location and about the relevant databases themselves. Some of you asked to see what I ended up producing. I'm happy to forward a copy the PowerPoint presentation to any of you helpful souls who want to see it -- though, frankly, I doubt if you'll learn anything from it. Thanks again! Cheers, Sara French in Hong Kong

Re: Designing an EndNote Training program for ver. 6
Author:    Posted: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 17:39:44 +0100
I'm very interesting ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sarasue French" /> To: /> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 3:40 PM Subject: Designing an EndNote Training program for ver. 6 > Hello, All ... > > Thanks again to those of you who provided copies of your training > materials. > > I had only one hour for my presentation, so I did the following: > > * Put together a short PowerPoint presentation listing links to > various helpful Web sites (including some of yours) and phone numbers > for local people with some knowledge of EndNote and the various > bibliographic databases. > > * Then I ran the class through the short interactive tutorial > available on the EndNote Web site (version 4 but better than nothing!). > > * Finally, I provided the students (all working people pursuing > doctorates in business administration) with handouts from the library > containing info about how to log into the university's databases from a > remote location and about the relevant databases themselves. > > > > Some of you asked to see what I ended up producing. I'm happy to > forward a copy the PowerPoint presentation to any of you helpful souls > who want to see it -- though, frankly, I doubt if you'll learn anything > from it. > > Thanks again! > > Cheers, > Sara French > in Hong Kong >

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