Different ways to teach a user

• In person training
• Webinar
• Proxy-Desktop sharing
• Snag it-screenshots
• Video lessons

Wiki Gardener

Try this:

http://www.jspwiki.org/wiki/WikiGardener

Too much food!

There is way too much food at this TRIPLL event!

Dinner Music -- MV

The steel drum echoing through the dining room was a great accompaniment to the opening banquet.

Relections from Seattle - Bridget D.

TRIPLL 2008 has been an extraordinary learning experience. I cannot wait to take this information back to my reference team!

Blog Session

We love this blog

How and Why to Try a Blog for Staff Communication

If you want to get your feet wet with blogging before going public with one, you might want to create one just for the library staff. For more information, see "How and Why to Try a Blog for Staff Communication."

Blogs in the Classroom

Library school sure has changed since I was a student. In a blog entry by Michael Stephens (Tame the Web) called Emerging Technologies in Education he provides some interesting examples and insight into how blogs can be used in the classroom. Will this work in a law firm environment to foster discussion after the training? Hard to say, but it's something to think about.

The Webette

There's a great article in the May 2007 issue of Peer to Peer, the journal of ILTA entitled "The Webette: A Simple, Effective Training Delivery Approach."

The author, Randall Farrar, talks about the use web conferencing tools to offer quick, live, web based training sessions, on very specific topics.

While he suggests that webettes should be hour-long, I'd suggest making them even shorter.

The Ten Minute Trainer

I haven't read this book, but I'm certainly intrigued by the description. If anyone has read it, please let us know how you like it.

Oprah is Web Casting!

Web conferencing has entered the mainstream with Oprah's weekly web conference.