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Creating the One Shot Library Workshop Step-by-Step

ACRL Professional Development Workshop
January 19, 2007
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Seattle, Washington

This full-day workshop will provide an overview and hands-on practice of a well tested process for designing one-shot library workshops. The process, covered in the book by the presenter called Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop: A Step-by-Step Guide (ALA Editions), helps librarians build effective and interesting sessions that ensure learning objectives are being met. The day-long workshop will follow the basic instructional design cycle: assessment, development, design, implementation, and evaluation that is broken down into 20 steps.

The first part of the workshop will help you determine what content to cover and how to assess immediately whether your students are learning the content. The second part will focus on choosing from a suite of instructional methods to spice up your teaching and improve your effectiveness as instructors. Issues including cognitive overload, learning styles, and memory retention will be addressed and illustrations from workshop design teams at the University of Minnesota will be used throughout.  Throughout the day you will work hands-on in teams to design components of an actual workshop.

Learning outcomes:
1. Find out how to employ specific techniques to avoid information overload and increase learning.
2. Learn how to conduct an effective needs and learner assessment with both clients and learners.
3. Be able to analyze content and choose the most essential “need-to-know” items.

Presenter: Jerilyn Veldof, Director of Undergraduate Initiatives, University of Minnesota

Registration: Registration is now open!  Click here to access registration materials.  (Event Code AR3.) December 8, 2006, is the advance registration deadline.  Registration fees: ACRL member - $205; ALA member - $255; Nonmember - $285; Student - $95.

Questions?  Contact Margot S. Conahan at msutton@ala.org, 312-280-2522.