Washington Library Trainers (WALT) http://walt.wla.org The official blog of the WALT interest group Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:14:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Gadgets and Tools and Apps, Oh My! http://walt.wla.org/2010/02/16/gadgets-and-tools-and-apps-oh-my/ http://walt.wla.org/2010/02/16/gadgets-and-tools-and-apps-oh-my/#comments Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:14:14 +0000 dpearsall http://walt.wla.org/2010/02/16/gadgets-and-tools-and-apps-oh-my/ Below is a link to the online class sponsored by Polaris Library Systems.  This was an excellent presentation of new tools on the web and new gadgets you can buy — including dishwasher safe keyboards and mice!  There were so many links, it was hard to keep up with them all. 

Great resources for reference librarians!

Link to the archived class

]]> http://walt.wla.org/2010/02/16/gadgets-and-tools-and-apps-oh-my/feed/ 0 Great Websites – assessments, games, and stories, oh my! http://walt.wla.org/2010/01/21/great-websites-assessments-games-and-stories-oh-my/ http://walt.wla.org/2010/01/21/great-websites-assessments-games-and-stories-oh-my/#comments Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:32:33 +0000 elizabeth iaukea http://walt.wla.org/?p=79 The site is called businessballs.com – loads of content make it somewhat weightly to navigate but it’s worth the clicks! These pages in particular caught my interest:
Stories & Anologies
Games & Puzzles
It’s a British site so some of the content may need modification with examples familiar to the US.

The other site is one I recently rediscovered because we’re planning to use content like this for our Staff Day – agelesslearner.com – lots of good assessments there, too!

What’s your favorite site for training tools?

]]> http://walt.wla.org/2010/01/21/great-websites-assessments-games-and-stories-oh-my/feed/ 0 Article about Gift Giving at Work http://walt.wla.org/2009/11/30/article-about-gift-giving-at-work/ http://walt.wla.org/2009/11/30/article-about-gift-giving-at-work/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:28:51 +0000 dpearsall http://walt.wla.org/?p=74 This article http://www.diversity-executive.com/article.php?in=796 talks about the challenges of giving gifts over the holidays.  It discusses the problem with giving gift cards (puts a value on the person), chocolates (dieters!) and Amazon gift certificates (not everyone uses the web).

One thing the article did not mention is that not everyone celebrates Christmas so giving them a gift at Christmas does not make them feel valued.  We have run into this issue at our crochet guild meetings.  Two people who do not celebrate Christmas have chosen to be “busy” instead of attending our December meeting. 

This brings up the other holiday questions.  Christmas trees? Menorahs? How does your library handle these issues?

]]> http://walt.wla.org/2009/11/30/article-about-gift-giving-at-work/feed/ 0 Terrific webinar on effective online presentations http://walt.wla.org/2009/09/03/terrific-webinar-on-effective-online-presentations/ http://walt.wla.org/2009/09/03/terrific-webinar-on-effective-online-presentations/#comments Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:35:31 +0000 elizabeth iaukea http://walt.wla.org/2009/09/03/terrific-webinar-on-effective-online-presentations/ This is like the online version of what Darlene, Jess and I developed for the WLA and OLA conferences…without our brilliant theatrics, of course!

It is really well done, engaging, and has great, very practical content.

Ironically I originally signed up for this more because I was interested in a demo of the webinar platform – GoToMeeting – than for the content. As you may have experienced, often online meeting software companies will advertize a great topic like this but when you get there it’s more about the product and it’s bells and whistles than the content. This was just the opposite – it wasn’t actually a great demo of the product (they had disabled many of the interactive features; when I asked they said it was because there were more than 700 attendees!).

View the webinar archive. They may ask you to register, I have no idea. It’s worth it!

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]]> http://walt.wla.org/2009/06/23/article-on-leadership-mistakes/feed/ 0 Blog from Word 2007 http://walt.wla.org/2009/04/16/blog-from-word-2007/ http://walt.wla.org/2009/04/16/blog-from-word-2007/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:21:44 +0000 dpearsall http://walt.wla.org/2009/04/16/blog-from-word-2007/ pspan style=”font-family:Verdana; font-size:12pt”I am testing Blog posting from Word for the Office 2007 class tomorrow.
/span/ppspan style=”font-family:Verdana; font-size:12pt”It was very easy to set up. It was a little disconcerting that it said that others may be able to see my userid and password!!! However, since it is in Word, I get spell and grammar check. I have also included a picture just to see what would happen. Because the web will only let you do left, right or center those seem to be the only choices I have as I create this document as well./span/p

]]> http://walt.wla.org/2009/04/16/blog-from-word-2007/feed/ 0 Crowdsourcing article http://walt.wla.org/2009/03/03/crowdsourcing-article/ http://walt.wla.org/2009/03/03/crowdsourcing-article/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:47:21 +0000 elizabeth iaukea http://walt.wla.org/2009/03/03/crowdsourcing-article/ I mentioned to several of you that I was reading the crowdsourcing book…I finally finished it (my fault for taking so long – don’t blame the book!). I found it very interesting and I’m sure there are applications for libraries but I don’t have time to pursue this at the moment.

Anyway, if you’re looking for a shorter ‘take’ on the subject, I just came across this article in a newsletter on innovation I subscribe to.

Enjoy!
elizabeth (eiaukea at piercecountylibrary dot org

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Weigle Information Commons

Patrons Gone Wild (KCLS)

Bunnies (KCLS)

1234 (KCLS)

Libraries Are Gonna Make It After All

The Wizard of Oz-a Tale of Library Circulation

Reading on a Dream (Library Musical)

What are your favorite library videos?

]]> http://walt.wla.org/2009/02/13/library-videos/feed/ 0 Made to Stick http://walt.wla.org/2009/01/14/made-to-stick/ http://walt.wla.org/2009/01/14/made-to-stick/#comments Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:35:07 +0000 jennifer fenton http://walt.wla.org/2009/01/14/made-to-stick/ Please join us on Monday, January 26 at 1:30 PM for a discussion of the book, Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die, by Chip and Dan Heath. The meeting will be hosted on Wimba, a virtual classroom.

]]> http://walt.wla.org/2009/01/14/made-to-stick/feed/ 1 Vision of Students Today http://walt.wla.org/2008/11/21/vision-of-students-today/ http://walt.wla.org/2008/11/21/vision-of-students-today/#comments Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:44:17 +0000 dpearsall http://walt.wla.org/2008/11/21/vision-of-students-today/ As I was searching my email for something this morning, I came a link to this video on YouTube that our director had referenced.  It definitely is worth the 4:44 minutes.  It makes you think about how we approach education and why we should be changing our methods — not that I have the answers as to HOW to change the methods!

http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

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