Library Instruction 2.0: Building Your Online Instruction Toolkit

Friday, June 27, 2008
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Anaheim, California

Teaching librarians have long used the Internet to create flexible, shareable learning objects and to augment their classroom instruction. Emerging web technologies now offer the potential for library instruction tools that are ambient, user-centered, agile, and responsive. In this preconference, explore the continuum of technologies available for web-based instruction, from proprietary screencasting software to open-source, "2.0" services and technologies. Become introduced to the conceptual and philosophical underpinnings of Web 2.0, and gain practical, hands-on experience applying these principles to your teaching.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Compare traditional e-learning formats to emerging, "Web 2.0" instruction tools
2. Draft a plan for implementing social software into an academic library instruction program
3. Create a "proof of concept" learning object using a Web 2.0 approach or tool

Presenters: Karen Munro, E-Learning Librarian, University of California, Berkeley; Anne-Marie Deitering, Undergraduate Services Librarian, Oregon State University; Rachel Bridgewater, Reference Coordinator, Washington State University- Vancouver

Registration fees: ACRL member - $235; ALA member - $295; Nonmember - $325; Student - $95.  Registration is now closed.  This preconference is sold out. 

Questions?  Contact mconahan@ala.org; 312-280-2522.