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Sarah’s LTR is Here!

Sarah’s LTR is Here!

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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

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 room filled [...]

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 that [...]

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

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 accounts

Tennant and Pace on the Future of Catalogues from Panlibus

Rainie [...]

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 think [...]