The Power of Student Questions

Thursday, July 19, 2012
1–2:30 p.m., CDT
Course fee: $50


 
This intermediate-level course will help you teach students how to pose better questions and focus on questions that will help them build their understanding of a text selection. After this webinar, you will be able to:

• Help students express their initial reactions to a text in the form of a question

• Teach students how to recognize different types of questions

• Use the power of students’ questions to engage the class in exploring answers and sharing ideas, both during discussion and in writing

System requirements
PC-based attendees: Windows 7, Vista, XP, or 2003 Server
Macintosh-based attendees: Mac OSX 10.5 or newer
Space is limited, so reserve your webinar seat now! After registering, you will receive an invoice. You will find your unique webinar URL and passcode on this invoice. On the date and time of your webinar this information will be required to join the webinar.

FREE library-relevant programs for July

These programs and others are listed on the Wyoming Libraries Planning Calendar: http://will.state.wy.us/ldo/planningcalendar.html
A big 'thank you' to Jamie Markus of the Wyoming State Library for compiling this!

TITLES OF JULY PROGRAMS:

 Nancy Pearl Presents Book Lust Rediscoveries

Identifying and Acquiring New Skills: The Key to Career Growth and Advancement

Introduction to Fundraising Planning

Grant Writing for Libraries Serving Children

Finding Diamonds in the Rough: Proven Methods for Hiring High-Potentials

Structuring Effective Meetings in Contentious Settings

Book Battle II: This Time It’s Personal

Making the Most of TechSoup.org

Fine-tuning Facebook for Libraries

Library in a Dash

Breezing Along with the RML

Organizational Drama: A Leadership Perspective on Conflict

Emerging Technologies: Tips and Strategies for Success in Libraries

Public Library Trends in Colorado

Hack Your Career: Dream Job FTW!

Designing Vibrant Libraries: Using our Strengths to Create the Libraries of the Future

Tech Talk with Michael Sauers: An interview with Andrew Blum

Bridging the Digital Divide with Mobile Services

Spotlight!on National Library of Medicine Resources

Your Board and Fundraising

Database of the Month-ProQuest Central

Managing Special Collections: Service, Security, Statistics 

The Direction of Fair Use for Education: New Law and New Possibilities

EDUCAUSE Live! Webinar 

July 12

Speakers:	Kenneth D. Crews, Director, Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia University Libraries, and faculty member at Columbia Law School and Munich Intellectual Property Law Center
Time:	1:00–2:00 p.m. ET (UTC-4); convert to your time zone
Topic:	This free hour-long webinar, “The Direction of Fair Use for Education: New Law and New Possibilities,” will examine a few recent court cases involving fair use as applied to video streaming and digital books. It will focus chiefly on a court decision handed down in May 2012 regarding the digitizing of copyrighted books at Georgia State University for electronic reserves and for student use through course management systems.

Reserve your seat now—virtual seating is limited.

Identifying and Acquiring New Skills: The Key to Career Growth and Advancement

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

 

Start Time:          12 Noon Pacific

                              1PM Mountain

                              2PM Central

                              3PM Eastern

This webinar will last approximately one hour. Webinars are free of charge.  Registration is ONLY done on the day of the event on the WebEx server starting 30 minutes before the start of the webinar. No Passwords are required.  For Tips and Registration Information, please go to http://infopeople.org/training/webcasts/tips.html

For more information and to participate in the July 10 webinar, go to http://infopeople.org/training/identifying-and-acquiring-new-skills

In these tough times, how can library staff:

• Leverage their existing skills to their best advantage?
• Learn how to acquire new skills critical for career advancement, career change, or solidifying their current position?
• Determine which of their skills are most marketable and transferable to other positions?
• Learn how to package their most transferable skills to maximize career growth and advancement?

This webinar offers practical advice for library staff seeking to expand their existing skill sets and develop new areas of expertise to broaden their career potential, maximize their earnings in their current position or gain that competitive edge for landing their next job.  The presenters will identify and discuss more than 30 of the hottest skills in greatest demand in the library world. 

Webinar attendees will be encouraged to determine which skills are most important to them and to assemble a customized skill set most likely to yield the highest payback for career growth and advancement.

At the end of this one-hour webinar, participants will:

·         Understand why expanding their skill set is the most important first step in boosting marketability and facilitating career growth and advancement.

·         Learn about the 33 most sought after skills, in greatest demand in the current library work environment and understand why these are the most important skills to acquire. 

·         Have a firm grasp on six foolproof strategies for acquiring new skills.

·         Learn how to conduct a self-assessment of their existing skill set as a prerequisite to formulating a plan to acquire the new skills they need for career advancement. 

This webinar will be of interest to library staff contemplating the next job opportunity or career change and those seeking to identify their current skills and acquiring new ones.

If you are unable to attend the live event, you can access the archived version the day following the webinar.  Check our archive listing at:  http://infopeople.org/training/view/webinar/archived