one: Last class, Bobbi Newman (@librarianbyday) spoke to our class via webinar. Truly an example of "ask and ye shall receive." I definitely appreciated getting to hear Bobbi's perspective and getting to see the software we're going to be using to do our webinars before we actually have to produce programming with it. However, I found it hard to follow what she was saying after a while, probably due to the poor audio quality and the fact that we couldn't see her. Life needs to be subtitled, darn it!
two: No readings this week, since we're all busy creating our one-shot workshops to deliver tomorrow. Josh and I are presenting on the Children's Internet Protection Act. I have to say that I am approaching this workshop with slight trepidation, since most of my formal teaching experience in the past has been along the lines of teaching Brownies basic knife safety skills (aka how to not have your first graders kill themselves with pocket knives), camp songs, and edible fires, and teaching adults something more academic seems like it would require a rather different skill set. It's also difficult because there's no real community need we're responding to for our workshop; it's just pretend with our classmates, which makes it difficult to really assess what we want people to get out of it. But it will probably go just fine, and if not, it's only 20 minutes out of my life anyway.
That's too bad--you aren't the only one who blogged about audio problems with the webinar, I was fine though. I'm sure your workshop will go well tomorrow. CIPA is an interesting topic and is relevant since most libraries provide computers with internet access to their patrons. Good luck!
ReplyDeleteI think a workshop about the CIPA would be really interesting - I don't know much about it (other than what just came up in a quick Google search), but it seems like an important issue for librarians to discuss. Looking forward to hearing how your workshop goes, good luck!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I am intrigued by the notion of "edible fires," I may need you to explain that one to me sometime!
As a member of work workshop, everything I learned was new to me, so I learned a lot, so thanks! I would agree that the instruction part is the hardest. It was difficult for my group to decide what information we actually wanted to teach. But now that it is done, I have to say that it wasn't as bad as I anticipated. Plus, I have a good idea of what works and what doesn't work for next time.
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