Webinars Artstor
Artstor 101
Get a jump on working with Artstor! This session will teach you how to find content, make groups, and create presentations – on or offline. 45 min
Reinvent your OIV content using Artstor’s new tools
Join us to see the ways you can reinvent your OIV teaching content using our new platform tools. We will show you how to convert OIV slides and image palette presentations to PowerPoint; and how to make OIV presentations into live Artstor presentations with high-quality zoom, student quiz mode, and sharing capabilities; and how our new tools support your existing workflows.
Artstor for Admins
This webinar will demonstrate all the features available to you in the Administrative and Statistics sites, and will cover ways to feature Artstor content on your LibGuides and promote collections—including free ones that don’t require a login—and tools to your users. 1 hr
Audience: Artstor Administrators
Create engaging presentations with Artstor
Looking for new ways to be dynamic in the classroom? This webinar will show you how you can leverage groups in Artstor to present multimedia content using our highly interactive fullscreen viewer. We’ll also cover ways to share these groups with colleagues and students. 45 min
Librarian and faculty collaboration for student success
Ever wish there was more collaboration at your school? Join us to explore various techniques that foster collaboration with colleagues to improve student success — and to share your own tips. Wendy DeGroat, librarian at Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School in Richmond, Virginia, has been successfully collaborating with classroom faculty over her 20 year career and has proven techniques to share. 1 hr
Audience: Secondary School Librarians
Create engaging presentations with Artstor
Looking for new ways to be dynamic in the classroom? This webinar will show you how you can leverage groups in Artstor to present multimedia content using our highly interactive fullscreen viewer. We’ll also cover ways to share these groups with colleagues and students. 30 min
Artstor for Admins
This webinar will demonstrate all the features available to you in the Administrative and Statistics sites, and will cover ways to feature Artstor content on your LibGuides and promote collections—including free ones that don’t require a login—and tools to your users. 1 hr
Audience: Artstor Administrators
Summer series: JSTOR’s Lives of Literature and Artstor unite!
Session three: Artstor and JSTOR tools to support teaching literature
Learn how the latest features in JSTOR and Artstor support using content from Artstor and Lives of Literature in the classroom. We’ll show you how to use JSTOR’s Text Analyzer and view virtual reality panoramas of locations mentioned in texts, as well as other engagement tools available on our platform.
Summer series: JSTOR’s Lives of Literature and Artstor unite!
Session two: Engaging students through visually accented narratives
Scholar, educator and author Rebecca Boone, Professor of History at Lamar University, brings history to life for her students using visually enhanced narratives. Her book, Real Lives in the Sixteenth Century: A Global Perspective, has received accolades for its vibrant narratives connecting figures across the globe. In this session, Rebecca will share her approach to drawing historical connections between literature and visuals in the classroom, and answer questions about the resources and techniques she uses in instruction, writing, and research. Plus, five attendees will receive a copy of Rebecca’s book!
Register once for all three sessions!
Summer series: JSTOR’s Lives of Literature and Artstor unite!
Session one: A natural pairing: Bringing art and literature together
Join the editors of JSTOR’s Lives of Literature and Artstor, Anne Ray and Nancy Minty, as they explore the connections between visual imagery and the written word. Gain an editor’s perspective of new themes that emerge when artworks, photographs, and historical objects are examined alongside works of literature—as well as how curricula can be enlivened by drawing these connections.