Training/Workshop
Creating a Comprehensive and Engaging Volunteer Training Program
- What information should you share with new volunteers?
- How can you turn regularly shared new volunteer info into a curriculum?
- How is adult learning different from child learning?
- How can you tell how much training new volunteers are absorbing?
- Nonprofit Volunteer Managers who are new to VolunteerMatch
- Nonprofit Volunteer Managers who are new to the field
Better Together: Tech Trainers Sharing Expertise
Virtually every library provides technology training in one form or another. How can we work together to share resources and ideas with one another?
Join our webinar on Tuesday, December 11 at 11 a.m. Pacific time to hear about existing resources that allow libraries and nonprofts to share their technology training expertise with one another.
From ABLE to WebJunction, hosts Brenda Hough and Stephanie Gerding will take you on a tour of a web places and virtual spaces that exist to make training better. Guests will be invited to share their favorite resources, too.
This webinar is part of a series of webinars exploring the Edge Initiative Benchmarks, specifically, Benchmark Nine.
Please contact webinars@techsoupglobal.org with accessibility requests 72 hours before the event.
Online Learning with Students, Staff, and Faculty with Disabilities: Knowing the Legal Landscape of Web Accessibility
Join Malcolm Brown, EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative director, and Veronica Diaz, ELI associate director, as they moderate this webinar with Cyndi Rowland. Institutions of higher education want to use the power of the Internet with faculty, staff, and students. Failing to create an architecture that can be accessed by those with disabilities can create a climate of discrimination. It is vital that those in higher education understand the legal landscape with respect to online accessibility. This session will describe current law and court cases and assist institutions that want to do the right thing and document it at the same time.
Learning Objectives
- Understand U.S. laws that pertain to the accessibility of web content in higher education today
- Identify other legal issues (e.g., state or international law) that may pertain to your institution
- Understand the current legal climate and recent court cases regarding web accessibility in postsecondary education
- Determine what you can do to put your institution on the best path and how you can document your good faith efforts during a transition to accessibility
Bozarthzone! Nuts and Bolts of Social Media
This session will cover basics of creating and sustaining community via social media tools. Rather than theory, participants will walk away with an understanding of how to implement and utilize these applications.
Briefly, we will look at several popular social media tools, such as blogs, wikis, Facebook and Twitter, then basics of using these tools for 1) Creating Community & Community Management; 2) Fostering Communities of Practice; 3) Knowledge Transfer and Management
Accessibility Handbook: Making 508-Compliant Websites
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Several audiences have difficulty using today's complex websites, including people with blindness, hearing loss, physical disabilities, and cognitive disorders. In this webcast, Katie Cunningham, author of the "Accessibility Handbook: Making 508 Compliant Websites" talks about the world of accessibility and assistive technologies.
We will discuss:
- What it means to be accessible?
- Who does it cover?
- What tools can developers and designers use to make accessible websites?
- Why should they worry about accessibility?
About Katie Cunningham
Katie Cunningham is a Python developer at Cox Media Group. She's a fervent advocate for Python, Open Source Software, and a web that's accessible for everyone. She's a frequent speaker at open source conferences such as PyCon and DjangoCon, speaking on beginners topics such as someone's first site in the cloud, and making 508 compliant websites.
She also helps organize PyLadies in the DC area, a program designed to increase diversity in the Python community. She has taught classes for the organization, bringing novices from instillation to writing their first app in 48 hours.
Katie is an active blogger at her website (http://therealkatie.net), covering issues such as Python, accessibility, and the trials and tribulations of working from home.
Katie lives in the DC area with her husband and two children.
Questions? Please send email to webcast@oreilly.com
Creating a Culture of Innovation in your Library and Community
A webinar exploring how to grow and sustain innovation in libraries and in communities.
We hear about libraries that are leaders in innovation, implementing ideas that keep the library growing and vital. Perhaps you have watched from the sidelines and wished you could kickstart some innovation at your library, but you're not sure where to start. Come to this webinar for an active and lively discussion on how to find innovative ideas, how to connect with the people to help make them happen, and how to get buy-in and support for your ideas. There is a lot to be learned from other libraries' examples and experiences.
The Impact of an Ice Cream Sundae (WebJunction Webinar)
A webinar exploring how libraries and community organizations can become innovative partners and collaborators, mixing resources, programs, personnel or funding.
When community organizations collaborate to share their resources with one another, they make the biggest possible impact on the most lives. Learn easy, understandable and powerful strategies that will give you renewed energy to create bold and imaginative collaborations among all types of community organizations.
Presented by: Kathy Jacobs, Director, Yankton (SD) Community Library.
Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) : Preparing a Portfolio
Free webinars from ALA's Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program
The American Library Association-Allied Professional Association's Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program will be offering two free webinars in December. Anyone interested in the programs are welcome to sign up by clicking the links below.
Dec. 11, 3 p.m. Central time - Preparing a Portfolio
Many LSSC candidates want to prepare portfolios to meet LSSC requirements. LSSC will offer an hour-long webinar explaining what the LSSC Program requires in a portfolio. The presentation will also give you the chance to see examples of successful submissions and learn how your portfolio will be evaluated. This webinar is open to all interested candidates.
Register to attend Preparing a Portfolio
Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) : An Introduction
Free webinars from ALA's Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program
The American Library Association-Allied Professional Association's Library Support Staff Certification (LSSC) Program will be offering two free webinars in December. Anyone interested in the programs are welcome to sign up by clicking the links below.
Dec. 10, 2 p.m. Central time - An Introduction to the LSSC Program
LSSC will offer an hour-long webinar on the program and how it works. The presentation will explain the value of this certification to Library Support Staff, employers and library users. You will also have the opportunity to have all of your questions answered by program staff members. This webinar is open to all interested candidates.
ALA Webinar on Digital Literacy and Libraries
How do librarians and educators keep up with the continual stream of new advancements? How do they motivate and support library staff in staying current?
To facilitate a national dialogue on digital literacy education, the American Library Association (ALA) will host the free webinar "Assessing Digital Literacy: Outcomes and Impact" on December 11, 2012 from 7:00-8:00p.m. EST.
The December webinar, which will be hosted by the ALA Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and the ALA Digital Literacy Task Force, is a follow-up to the highly attended web-based forum that the ALA hosted in November.
Attendees will hear from participants who are exploring ways to measure the effectiveness of digital literacy programs. Speakers include:
- Karen Hanson, federal program officer, National Telecommunications and Information Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce
- Julie Coiro, assistant professor, University of Rhode Island School of Education
- Moderated by: Renee Hobbs, ALA Office for Information Technology Policy Fellow
To RSVP for the webinar (which will be streamed live at http://www.districtdispatch.org/digilit12/), email OITP Assistant Director Marijke Visser at alawash@alawash.org, using "Digital Literacy" in the subject line.
