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Sarah’s LTR Arrived Today Too

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Sarah’s LTR is Here!

Sarah’s LTR is Here!

Originally uploaded by Librarian In Black.

A must for every training librarian, staff development librarian, or adminstrator who wants to get the training and competency ball rolling!

http://www.techsource.ala.org/ltr/technology-competencies-and-training-for-libraries.html

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That New Phone System YouTube Video

Allen County PL is incredible!

Checkout the phone training video! What a long way we’ve come from the days of pulling everyone into a library training room for step-by-step instructions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EramdKlwzS4

TTW Mailbox: On the Gadget Garage

Tamara writes, referencing a slide in our Technology Training PPT from ILI2006: Can you explain the concept of a “Gadget Garage”? I’m not sure what that is!

On a tour of Princeton Public Library when our Roadshow was on the East Coast this summer, Janie Hermann showed us a cabinet in their technology training [...]

TechTracks: Emerging Technology Training for Public Library Staff

http://librarytrax.wordpress.com/2006/10/17/tecktrack-classes-for-sc-public-library-staff/

Nice work South Carolina Library Folk! I see the p[otential for experience, play and exploration in these course listings!

Eight Tips for Tech trainers from Brenda Hough

Via NEKLS:

Brenda has eight tips for would-be technology trainers: 1. Stop trying to provide step-by-step directions 2. Encourage independence. 3. Expect success. 4. Encourage exploration. 5. Provide context. 6. Treat training as a collaborative project. 7. Use storytelling. 8. Be real-world.

Think Technology Group Play

http://ericschnell.blogspot.com/2006/04/library-staff-and-technology-buy-in.html

My earlier posts point out the observation that companies that have successfully adopted disruptive technologies did so only when they created a separate organization to deal with the technology. The idea of a group within the library being organized and responsible for investigating emerging and disruptive technology issues fits into the pattern of companies [...]

Do You Squidoo?

Phil Bradley writes about using Squidoo to create teaching aids. It’s a “How to..” do anything social site with some cool features and a definite Web 2.0 feel.

http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2006/03/squidoo_as_a_te.html

Here’s his “lens” for web design: http://www.squidoo.com/webdesigning/

Here’s the lens for an “Intro to Web 2.0:” http://www.squidoo.com/introtoweb20/

UPDATE: More lenses from Phil: http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2006/04/my_squidoo_lens.html

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More Useful Links for the OPAL Talk

UPDATE: What a great time that was! Thanks to all at OPAL!!

Here’s the presentation.

Here are some extra links as resources:

Cluetrain

Netvibes

Open Source Software at TechEssence

ALA on DRM & DRM Guide for Librarians

Librarians Who IM

Future of Music

Using Bloglines!

The Internet is Entering its LEGO era

Libraries with MySpace [...]

Learning is Social

Great post at Librarians with Class that links to this article.

Reading this article is a bit hard for someone who has devoted a great deal of time and energy to the preparation of training materials and the delivery of training classes. I don’t think that I’m ready to just give up on training. I [...]