Training: Redundancies?

EDIT: (Authored by Mike)

I was thinking about my presentation and training, specifically about explaining some basic Web2.0 concepts and the schedule of the sessions. Here is a list of 2.0 concepts that Flickr demonstrates well:

Tags/Tag clouds/Folksonomy
Ajax
Shared/Creative Commons/Open API
Comments
Feeds

It's occurred to me, though, that some of these concepts will already have been introduced in another training session--obviously Karen will explain feeds in the morning, and I imagine Greg will outline AJAX. In the afternoon, Trudi and I will both be dealing with tags (she more than I). 20 minutes isn't a ton of time--should we be taking into consideration what other sessions will cover, maybe divvying up some of these broader themes to each session?

What specifically led me to thinking about this was realizing that both Trudi and I (and our assistants) will be dealing with tags in back to back sessions, and wondering if we should coordinate. What I mean is, in our respective first sessions we explain what a tag is, what a tag cloud is, etc., then in our second sessions we can say "As Trudi/Mike showed you with delicious/flickr, we once again see tagging at this site..." That led me to think, "hey, I bet they'll all have been introduced to rss and AJAX earlier in the day!" Or is all this just going to complicate things? Alternatively, are these concepts complicated enough for newcomers that they should be covered repeatedly?

Obviously, it would be easier to coordinate our presentations if everyone had finished them already [hangs head in shame].

SDD test presentation on September 11

Would someone please list what we should bring to that meeting? I think it was 20 copies of each of our handouts. Am I correct? Was there anything else?

-Karen

Lunch Menu

Hi Everyone,

Below is the menu for SDD lunch. Lunch will be delivered by Lee Epting Catering. This menu is for 80 people and will be a total of $900.

All vegetable dishes on the menu are vegan. Also, both unsweet tea and sweet tea will be provided.

-SDD Food Committee

Staff Development Day

Delivery to Athens Clarke County Library

September 27^th, 2007

~ Chunky Chicken Salad with Grapes & Walnuts ~

Accompanied by Croissants

~ Sliced Ham ~

Accompanied by Cheese Biscuits

~ Grilled Veggies with Balsamic Vinaigrette ~

~ Grilled Tofu ~

Marinated in a Sesame - Teriyaki Sauce and Grilled

Served with Multi-Grain Bread

~ Vegetable Pasta Salad ~

~ Fruit Salad with Fresh Melons & Berries ~

Fresh Cantaloupe, Honeydew,

Pineapple, & Strawberries

~ Pick-Up Sweets ~

Lemon Bars, Brownies, & Assorted Cookies

~ Lightly Sweetened Iced Tea ~

Meeting Reminder

The next Staff Development Meeting is tomorrow, August 28 at 9:30 a.m. in the Small Conference Room.

New Speaker

Cliff Landis, who recently gave two presentations on Library 2.0 at the GOLD/GALILEO meeting, is our new Staff Development Day speaker. He works at the library at Valdosta State University, and was recommended by staff who heard him at the GOLD meeting, as well as Helene Bowers (who was unable to come). He's very enthusiastic, and I think he'll be a great opening speaker for us. Check out his blog at http://www.clifflandis.net

Attention trainers!

Please send me any web sites you will be using for your training, whether it's the main site, like Google, or a site that you're referring to (I know Karen has some of these). I'm going to put them all in del.icio.us and use it for my hands-on session. E-mail them to me at tgreen@athenslibrary.org or post them in the comments here. I'm not in any big hurry, so just get them to me by Sept. 7 so they can be ready for our practice run on Sept. 11.

Thanks!

Meeting minutes and schedule

Here are the minutes from our July 31 meeting. Please check over the proposed schedule. I seem to have an extra 5 minutes toward the end of the day.

To see them, you'll have to log into Google docs with the arls.sdd gmail account.

South Carolina & Emerging Technologies

Michael Stephens at ALA TechSource writes about the success of the State Library of South Carolina's emerging technologies training. What's so interesting to me is the responses to the Before and After survey and comments (best seen through the pdf file). "Before" comments were "emerging technologies are scary," and "I ... take a wait and see approach." But after completing the training, the librarians were thinking of new and exciting ways to use what they've learned.

Hopefully, we'll see similar results from our Learning 2.0 workshop!

Trudi (team del.icio.us)