Archive for February, 2009

Learn About Using Wimba Classroom to Train Librarians to Apply for Grants. For Free!

February 26, 2009 at 5:56 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , ,

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Join WebJunction this Thursday, February 26 from 2:00-3:00pm EST as guest presenters Malavika Muralidharan and Laura Stone from the Arizona State Library bring you a one-hour webinar that shows how their team used a web-conferencing approach to train rural library staff to apply for grants. Get additional tips from Dale Savage, director of Parker Public Library, and Rose Bebris, director of Florence Public Library, both of whom participated in the Excelling Grant-writers Group (aka EGGsters) online training.

There will be plenty of time for questions, answers, fun stories and useful connections.  You can register now on WebJunction to get all the log-in info you need.  Hope to see you there!

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Reminder: CTLS’s Teen Symposium in Austin is March 6th!

February 24, 2009 at 7:31 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , ,

$35 / person |stipends available for CTLS System Members.

Don’t miss this fabulous all-day conference.  You’ll learn about rapidly emerging research on how the adolescent brain develops, and be given tools that will empower our teens during these challenging times. Discover proven techniques for teaching technology, so that teens have so much fun they won’t realize they’re learning! We’ll also reveal secrets for involving your staff in planning and implementing wildly successful teen events (from romance to zombies).

Frank Kros, the day’s keynote speaker, is a career child advocate, who has served as a childcare worker, child abuse investigator, children’s home administrator, consultant, college professor, attorney, writer and speaker. Mr. Kros is president of The Upside Down Organization and executive vice president of The Children’s Guild, the largest private provider of special education services in Maryland.

You are invited to the following event:
Teen Symposium – Austin

Date:
Friday, March 06, 2009 from 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM (CT)

Location:
Carver Museum
1161 Angelina St
Austin, TX 78702

Can you attend this event?  Respond Here
For more information click here

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CORRECTION: Data Movement and Management Webinar is on March 18

February 24, 2009 at 5:36 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , ,

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This is a correction to the previous email I sent on the NISO Data Movement and Management webinar. The correct date is MARCH 18. It was shifted a week so as not to conflict with the ACRL meeting. My apologies for any confusion this may have caused.

The complete corrected notice is below:

NISO will be holding a webinar on Data Movement and Management on March 18, 2009 from
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)

About the Webinar

Modern libraries consist of a variety of complicated data systems, many containing a portion of the data needed to address any specific question. Often data needs to be extracted from one system and moved to or compared with information in another. Frequently, these systems don’t communicate well. This webinar will explore a number of ongoing data transfer and transformation consensus projects. Whether it is collections or holdings information distributed via ONIX, pricing data via CORE, or usage data via SUSHI, the community is working on strategies and structures to easily transfer data from one system to another. Each of these initiatives will contribute to saving librarians time and eventually money in managing their operations.
Speakers and topics for the program are:

– “The Landscape of Data Movement and Management in Libraries” by Tim Jewell (Director, Information Resources and Scholarly Communication, University of Washington Libraries)

– “The Extensible Catalog – Reusing Library Metadata” by Jennifer Bowen (Director of Metadata Management, River Campus Libraries)

– “CORE: Cost of Resource Exchange: Combining Cost and Use Data in Libraries” by Jeff Aipperspach (Senior Product Manager, Serials Solutions)

– “The OAI-ORE Project – What It Is and How People Can Apply It” by Michael L. Nelson (Dept of Computer Science, Old Dominion University)

Registration is $79 for NISO and NASIG members in the U.S. and Canada and $99 for non-members. There is a separate international rate and a discounted student rate. Registration is per site (access for one computer) and includes access to the online recorded archive of the webinar. For more information and to register, visit the event website: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/datawebinar09.

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[Innovate] February/March Webcasts

February 23, 2009 at 6:05 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , , , ,

Innovate (www.innovateonline.info) is published bimonthly as a public service by the Fischler School of Education and Human Services at Nova Southeastern University and is sponsored, in part, by Microsoft.

Innovate-Live webcasts, produced as a public service by our partner, ULiveandLearn, allow you to synchronously interact with authors on the topics of their articles.

You may register for the February/March webcasts at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/PortalInnovate/. Webcasts will be archived and available in the webcast section of the following articles and in the Innovate-Live portal archive shortly after the webcast. All times are Eastern (New York) time. You may use the world clock at http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to coordinate with your time zone.

Schedule

February 23, 2009

1:00 PM Eastern
H. Sapiens Digital: From Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom
Author: Marc Prensky
See
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=705&action=article

5:00 PM Eastern
What’s Wrong with Copyright: Educator Strategies for Dealing with Analog Copyright Law in a Digital World
Authors: Patrick McGrail and Ewa McGrail
See
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=630&action=article

February 26, 2009

1:00 PM Eastern
Learner-Interface Interaction for Technology-Enhanced Active Learning
Authors: Neelu Sinha, Laila Khreisat, and Kiron Sharma
See
http://www.innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=622&action=article

4:00 PM Eastern
Integrating Digital Learning Objects in the Classroom: A Need for Educational Leadership
Authors: Annick Janson and Robin Janson
See
http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=581&action=article

Innovate-Ideagora Webcasts

In addition to the webcasts with Innovate authors, Innovate Ideagora editors Alan McCord and Denise Easton will conduct a number of open access Ideagora webcast interviews in the Innovate Live Portal at http://www.uliveandlearn.com/PortalInnovate/ on March 25,  2009. The interview schedule is below:

1:00 PM Eastern
Nibipedia Makes Video Even Cooler for Education!
Interview with Nibipedia’s Troy Peterson

2:00 PM Eastern
Ideagora Mash Up
Denise Easton and Alan McCord

3:00 PM Eastern
Can the CrowdSPRING Model Help Education?
Interview with Crowdspring’s Ross E. Kimbarovsk

6:00 PM Eastern
Avatars Turn Corporate Training Around
Interview with iClone’s Miriam Scurrah

All interviews are described at
http://innovate-ideagora.ning.com/notes/Upcoming_Ideagora_Live_Interviews

Thanks!

Jim
—-
James L Morrison
Editor-in-Chief, Innovate
http://www.innovateonline.info
Fischler School of Education and Human Services
Nova Southeastern University
http://www.schoolofed.nova.edu/home.htm

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Webcast Alert! Spring Book Buzz

February 23, 2009 at 5:14 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , ,

Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 |   Time: 2–3 PM EDT

Register for this FREE webcast today at www.LibraryJournal.com/bookbuzz
Join Library Journal for a one-hour webcast event as we host four outstanding publishers as they present their newest, hottest, must-have titles and authors for Spring!
You’ll hear HarperCollins, Kensington, W.W. Norton and Random House as they discuss their top fiction and non-fiction picks for the season. This hour-long presentation is designed to help guide your collection development and selection decisions, as well as give you the inside scoop on author appearances, tours and reading group information.

The webcast is also brought to you by Baker & Taylor, who will provide a complete list of presented titles and ordering information.
For expert information and advice, register today!

Can’t make it on March 10? No problem!
LJ webcasts are archived for 12 months after the live event. With your webcast registration, enjoy the ability to access this event on-demand as often as you’d like.

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Online PHP and Javascript Courses

February 20, 2009 at 6:08 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , ,

Looking for an introductory class in PHP or Javascript?  We have both coming up, but the PHP class has just a few seats left.

PHP: The Basics
March 3, 5, 10, 12 (Tuesdays/Thursdays)
10:30am – 12:30pm
Registration deadline: February 24th

This live online course will introduce the learner to the basics of the PHP scripting language including: creating dynamic Web content from dead, static HTML pages; and processing form input by formatting and sending it to appropriate e-mail addresses. After this introduction, the learner will be able to move to more advanced PHP where you can create APIs to access certain ILS databases, Amazon.com, etc. The possibilities are too numerous to list.

Javascript Basics
April 21, 23, 28, 30 (Tuesdays/Thursdays)
10:30am – 12:30pm
Early Bird Deadline: March 30th

Basic HTML leads to static, dead Web pages. With the addition of some simple JavaScript, Web pages can interact with users. This course will introduce you to the basics of JavaScript, show you how to write your own simple scripts, and demonstrate how to incorporate pre-written scripts into your Web pages.

For the most up-to-date training schedule, a complete list of courses, descriptions, and a convenient online registration form, visit http://www.amigos.org/learning/calendar/ or contact Chris Brown at Amigos, 1-800-843-8482, ext. 2829, or brown@amigos.org.

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Feb WJ Goodies: Are you feeling the love?

February 20, 2009 at 5:17 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged

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We’ve already had one free live event about “Spanish Outreach in Tough Economic Times” which is archived, free to view and is full of useful info and lively conversation.

Next up, on February 17th we will have a session on “Technology Services for Children“.

And then, on the 26th we have this sesion lined up for you: “Using Wimba Classroom to Train Librarians to Apply for Grants“. Excellent!

Finally, did you notice that we seem to be having reduced costs courses fairly regularly? This month’s deal is explained thusly:
“Understand the documentation crucial to effectively carrying out your responsibilities as a library administrator, including working with your board, budget, and staff. Sign up before February 28 and get a 50% discount!”

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Writing for Museum Educators

February 19, 2009 at 10:13 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , , ,

via email

Hi!

As you know, writing is a big part of any museum educator’s job. Last year over 300 of your colleagues met live online for 2 days of learning and collaboration – focused entirely on interpretive writing.

We will reconvene next week – February 25th and 26th – for six unique sessions covering writing for a variety of audiences. The price is still only $45 for the entire event, and all sessions will be recorded for your reference throughout the year. For more information and registration for the Museum-Ed Online Conference 2009 please visit:

http://learningtimes.net/museumed/index

Whether it’s the general public reading museum labels, writing with visitors in the galleries, creating compelling audio tour scripts or writing for technology, the conference sessions will give you the tools to tackle your next writing assignment. Here is the complete program:

DAY ONE – WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2009

11:00am – 11:50am EST Writing for Technology, Kris Wetterlund

1:00pm – 1:50pm EST Writing for Audio Tours, Peter Stevenson

3:00pm – 3:50pm EST Writing for Cell Phone Audio Tours, Scott Sayre

DAY TWO – THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2009

11:00am – 11:50am EST Writing for Adult Visitors II, Philip Yenawine

1:00pm – 1:50pm EST Writing in the Galleries with Kids, Michelle Grohe

3:00pm – 3:50pm EST Grant Writing for Museum Educators, Laura Zabel

For complete descriptions of these sessions please visit:

http://learningtimes.net/museumed/program

Museum-Ed 2009 promises to deliver yet again with timely topics and engaging speakers sure to have an immediate impact on the work you do every day. We look forward to seeing there!

Warm regards,

LearningTimes and the Museum-Ed Team

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College Cheating Trends Workshop: April 5th Early Bird

February 19, 2009 at 9:24 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , ,

This is just a friendly reminder that early registration for the
upcoming workshop in our 08-09 Workshop Series Online Certificate
Program is ending on April 5.

COLLEGE CHEATING TRENDS
http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#cheating
April 20-May 1, 2009
Moderator: Tricia Bertram Gallant
Author of Academic Integrity in the Twenty-First Century: A Teaching and
Learning Imperative, which was published last April.

Learn why college students cheat today and how to better discipline
cheaters and foster an environment of integrity.

Early Registration Deadline: April 5, 2009

Please see linked website for a detailed description & course objectives
- http://www.umuc.edu/cip/ipa/workshops.shtml#cheating
SIGN UP TODAY: http://tinyurl.com/6b5f9x [Secured Server]

*Individual Workshop Early Bird Rates $150 each

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ALSC Student Sessions

February 19, 2009 at 3:38 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged , ,

Just a reminder that the first ALSC Student Session is taking place TOMORROW (2/19) at 7 p.m. CST.  Tomorrow’s session, “Feeling the Crunch: Library Programming on a Budget,” with Senior Librarian Eva Mitnick, is a free one hour workshop about stretching your pennies to provide children’s programming on a tight budget.  All you have to do to participate is sign-in to the ALA 25 seat room B on OPAL (Online Programming for all Libraries) a few minutes before the workshop beings and enter a username.  Your username is how other participants will identify you; there is no registration or password necessary.  If you have never used OPAL before, you will need to download a small piece of software called “tcConference,” which is free and available when you enter the OPAL room with the above link.  Although Student Sessions were made with student members in mind, you do not have to be a student to participate.

OPAL is extremely user-friendly, but you may want to read ALSC’s tips for OPAL participants before attending.  For more information and upcoming sessions, visit the ALSC Web site.  A recording of the session will be available on the ALSC Web site early next week if you are unable to attend the event live.

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