Re: Let's keep our enthusiasm going! Susana Baumann 2008-03-26T19:28:35Z 2008-03-26T19:28:35Z

Correction! Workshops offered were 2 in Nov/Dec 07 and 7 more to go. Sorry!

Susana Baumann 2008-03-26T19:28:35Z Susana Baumann 2008-03-25T13:47:37Z 2008-03-25T13:47:37Z

We are getting ready to start our Spring workshops in PA. We only conducted one last year due to low registration and scheduling but now enthusiasm has picked up thanks to the advertising efforts of our Coordinator Claudia Koenig. Steph and Ineavelle conducted the first one with great success, I will be doing solo presentations. Philadelphia looks promising with over 20 people registered. Thanks for all the insight and sharing, it really helps while preparing the workshops.

Susana Baumann 2008-03-25T13:47:37Z Jo Caisse 2008-02-04T20:38:34Z 2008-02-04T20:38:34Z

Unfortunately, the Library had to cancel the World Cafe Event-two of the presenters were stuck in Portland due to weather. We've had a lot snow dumped on us this past week.

Jo Caisse 2008-02-04T20:38:34Z Laura Staley 2008-01-31T16:33:23Z 2008-01-31T16:33:23Z

Great article Jo! Thanks for posting the link. <br /><br />The first article in the newsletter also caught my eye too. Please let us know how the event on the shifting demographics of Bend goes tonight. WJ&#039;s rural libraries program has utilized the World Cafe model with great success. I hope it goes well!<br /><br />Regards,<br />Laura

Laura Staley 2008-01-31T16:33:23Z Jo Caisse 2008-01-31T00:44:36Z 2008-01-31T00:44:36Z

Hi&#045;<br />I recently wrote an article about the WebJunction training experience in Deschutes Public Library&#039;s newsletter. Here&#039;s the link...<br /><br />http://newsletter.dpls.lib.or.us/NewsletterAll.pdf<br /><br />All the best from snowy Central Oregon!<br />Jo &#040;Team Oregon&#041;<br /><br />Message was edited by: <br /> jcaisse

Jo Caisse 2008-01-31T00:44:36Z Eleanor Stafford 2007-12-04T20:30:50Z 2007-12-04T20:30:50Z

I&#039;m posting from a workshop!

Eleanor Stafford 2007-12-04T20:30:50Z Eleanor Stafford 2007-11-15T20:41:36Z 2007-11-15T20:41:36Z

Hey! I&#039;m posting from workshop number 3 in Massachusetts!<br /><br />Eleanor

Eleanor Stafford 2007-11-15T20:41:36Z Susana Baumann 2007-10-31T23:42:41Z 2007-10-31T23:42:41Z

Hello everybody!<br />It is exciting to know that workshops are going so well and that trainers are having all sort of creative resources to adjust and deliver the information based on local circumstances. <br />If you need some hard core information, don&#039;t forget the Pew Hispanic Center fact sheets at <br />www.pewhispanic.org<br />They have valuable information about Latinos in education, labor, use of computers and much, much more that can sustain your stats. <br />My first workshop in PA will be Dec 12. I&#039;m planning to bring some champagne to celebrate the holidays! <img alt='emoticon' src='http://il.webjunction.org/webjunction-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif' />

Susana Baumann 2007-10-31T23:42:41Z Hagar Shirman 2007-10-30T21:51:11Z 2007-10-30T21:51:11Z

Hello everyone,<br /><br />As Shelley wrote earlier, Eleanor and I presented the first workshop for Massachusetts librarians last Thursday. I really enjoyed the experience, and the reactions we received from the participants echoed my attitude after I was first exposed to this material. <br /><br />In the weeks prior to the presentation, Eleanor and I reworked the curriculum and divided up the different modules so that they would work better for our presentation style. Things went pretty smoothly for the most party, and the mini&#045;glitches the I encountered &#040;for example&#045; having the exercise pop up sooner than I expected it, despite numerous reviews of the slides&#041; served to prepare me better for next time. <br /><br />We had a really mixed audience&#045; librarians from a number of libraries in the region along with coordinators of library&#045;based literacy programs. This provided for diverse points of view and got some great discussions going. Our panel brought up some excellent points and our participants seemed to enjoy their comments and ideas. I am really excited to see the outcome of the workshop in terms of new programs or new ways of doing things at each of the libraries.<br /><br />Nancy and I will be presenting at the next workshop on the 8th in Western Massachusetts. I am looking forward to seeing that part of the state &#040;we haven&#039;t really left Boston since moving here almost two years ago&#041; and meeting the librarians from that region.<br /><br />All the best,<br />Hagar

Hagar Shirman 2007-10-30T21:51:11Z Jamie Matczak 2007-10-30T19:07:01Z 2007-10-30T19:07:01Z

Thanks for sharing about the workshop &#045; it sounds like it went very well! <br /><br />I&#039;m in the process of going through the SLO Online Course, and there&#039;s some really good additional info on it. It&#039;s nice, because it&#039;s self&#045;paced and you can come and go as you want. Laura said we can use this information in our presentations, so I &#034;snagged&#034; the screens I wanted. They are attached. I thought they were nice visuals to go along with the &#034;Cultural Perspectives&#034; slide &#040;&#035;44&#041;. I&#039;m going to put these 4 question and answer slides after &#035;44 before I go into the Action Plan Exercise 3. I like pictures, because they help break up all the text.<br /><br />I downloaded the program and went to view, slide sorter. You just have to put your mouse where you want to add the slide, go to &#034;insert, new slide,&#034; for every new slide you want to add. I added &#034;Cultural Perspectives&#034; as a title for each, adjusted the pic, and that was it!<br /><br />Jamie

Jamie Matczak 2007-10-30T19:07:01Z shelley quezada 2007-10-30T13:58:42Z 2007-10-30T13:58:42Z

Hello to all our colleagues in other states. Massachusetts held the first of nine trainings last Thursday in Waltham &#040;a city located in the metro Boston area&#041;. Since it was our first training we felt pleased to reach 14 people. We have been widely advertising subsequent meetings over the next seven months and hope to reach many more people. Eleanor Stafford and Hagar Shirman served as our first set of trainers and did a great job! They are both naturals.<br /><br />Our community panel was made up of three people. &#040;We were so glad that they showed up!&#041; Moreover, they did a great job of communicating the needs/issues of the local Hispanic community. People asked a number of questions and some suggestions about how the library could better respond came to the fore as a result. Participants seemed to be genuinely pleased with the training curriculum and materials that were offered. I think the room that we trained in was a bit small and am happy that our subsequent sessions will be roomier and give people more of a chance to move around. All in all, we looked upon this as a learning experience for the future. <br /><br />Our next session will be in Western Massachusetts. A good number of participants have already signed up. Nancy Rea, Hagar and I will be doing the training for that session.<br /><br />I have attached pictures from last week. Good luck to all of you as you begin to launch your own programs. Regards...<br />Shelley Quezada, Boston

shelley quezada 2007-10-30T13:58:42Z Eleanor Stafford 2007-10-25T19:27:55Z 2007-10-25T19:27:55Z

We&#039;re at our first training right this very minute in Massachusetts!

Eleanor Stafford 2007-10-25T19:27:55Z Marcia Sarnowski 2007-10-15T14:17:10Z 2007-10-15T14:17:10Z

Hi, just a quick followup to the message about Marc Prensky&#039;s article on digital immigrants&#059; I did contact him, and mentioned that I would like to use the article, and that other Round 3 trainers might like to use some of the concepts also, and I received this message: &#034;Please feel free to use whatever works!&#034; So I think we can go ahead.<br />Cheers,<br />Marcia

Marcia Sarnowski 2007-10-15T14:17:10Z Marcia Sarnowski 2007-10-12T14:51:48Z 2007-10-12T14:51:48Z

Hello, I am also still savoring the wonderful energy and excitement generated by our team and hoping to be able to share that with the groups I will be addressing in the next few months. <br /><br />In my part of our state presentation, I used the phrase &#034;digital immigrants, digital natives.&#034; I had first heard this at a presentation by Sarah Long of Illinois. She told us she had found it in an article by Marc Prensky. I have found a link to the article &#040;See the first red title under the heading, &#034;The Classics.&#034;&#041; I plan to write to him to say I&#039;ll be using some of his concepts in my presentation, and I&#039;ll mention that I may not be the only one. Then maybe each of you won&#039;t have to do that. <br />http://www.marcprensky.com/writing/<br /><br />Let me say again, I enjoyed meeting all of you, and I appreciated your camaraderie and good cheer. And my thanks and admiration to Laura and Emily and their team, for ably coordinating so many details and providing a great training experience.<br />Marcia Sarnowski

Marcia Sarnowski 2007-10-12T14:51:48Z Jamie Matczak 2007-10-09T15:28:40Z 2007-10-09T15:28:40Z

Hey Ineavelle! <br />Yes, I made it back safely, and I think I&#039;m finally feeling more like my &#034;normal&#034; self this week. I hope everyone else is, too!<br />My first workshop is November 29 in Minocqua, WI. I should have some assistance in presenting, which will be great! That&#039;s great that you and Stephanie can present together.<br /><br />Next week is our big WLA &#040;Wisconsin Library Association&#041; Conference, held in Green Bay, so many of us are involved with that. Once that is done, I will have to kick it in high gear! <img alt='emoticon' src='http://il.webjunction.org/webjunction-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif' /> <br /><br />You can also email me directly: jmatczak@mail.nfls.lib.wi.us. <br />&#045; Jamie <img alt='emoticon' src='http://il.webjunction.org/webjunction-theme/images/emoticons/happy.gif' />

Jamie Matczak 2007-10-09T15:28:40Z Ineavelle Ruiz 2007-10-09T15:19:09Z 2007-10-09T15:19:09Z

Hi Jamie! I hope you made it okay and are back in the swing of things. Thanks for posting this, Stephanie Zimmerman and I will be using it during our workshops. We already have 2 lined up for November and December. I&#039;m woking on community panelists. Have you scheduled any yet? Let&#039;s keep in touch! Ineavelle

Ineavelle Ruiz 2007-10-09T15:19:09Z Susana Baumann 2007-10-08T13:18:37Z 2007-10-08T13:18:37Z

We have our first dates in November&#045;December already, we are conducting one each in Berks Co., Lancaster and Easton, PA. Claudia is coping with coordination issues, and we are contacting our community leaders. I thought to summarize the interviews and give my participants an advance copy so they can make more informed questions to the panelists. Please post your progress and your ideas, so we can all energize from them!

Susana Baumann 2007-10-08T13:18:37Z Stephanie Zimmerman 2007-10-05T20:53:15Z 2007-10-05T20:53:15Z

Thanks Jamie,<br /><br />Ineavelle Ruiz and I were trying to remember that exercise today to build into our workshops &#040;I&#039;m lucky enough to get to team up wtih her&#041;. How nice to find it right here!<br /><br />Stephanie Zimmerman &#040;PA&#041;

Stephanie Zimmerman 2007-10-05T20:53:15Z Jamie Matczak 2007-10-03T20:28:29Z 2007-10-03T20:28:29Z

Hello everyone! <br />Are any of you like...super tired this week!?! I think the travel, excitement and craziness of being back at work is catching up! <br /><br />Anyway, some people asked if I would share my &#034;close your eyes&#034; thing I did during our state presentation. It was during Module 3: Providing Services, on page 21. <br /><br />I was reiterating that we need to really look at ourselves and look at where OUR values and OUR cultural beliefs come from before we can understand values and beliefs of others. I asked you all to close your eyes and refer back to the activity where we talked about our names. Then I asked a series of questions.:<br /><br />&#045; Where did your name come from? <br />&#045; Did you have any siblings growing up? Were you an only child? How did your older siblings influence you? How did YOU influence any younger siblings?<br />What is your education level? How has that impacted you?<br />What were your religious beliefs growing up? <br />Where were you born?<br />Were you raised in a big city? A small town? <br /><br />&#040;I&#039;m sure you can think of more!&#041;<br />Then I asked: Who is &#040;insert name of person at workshop&#041;? Who influenced &#040;insert another name&#041;? How did &#040;insert another name&#041; influence others? <br />Who are You? <br /><br />Wait a few seconds and ask them to open their eyes. Hopefully it will get their minds thinking! <br /><br />That&#039;s it! <br /> &#045; Jamie

Jamie Matczak 2007-10-03T20:28:29Z Stephanie Zimmerman 2007-10-03T13:36:24Z 2007-10-03T13:36:24Z

Great thread to begin Susana. PA is busy coordinating all the dates for our workshops &#040;as you know&#041; and coming up with what we want in our binders, what SWAGs to use, etc. I&#039;m excited to be a part of this and thought the institute was so well done!<br /><br />Stephanie Zimmerman &#040;PA&#041;

Stephanie Zimmerman 2007-10-03T13:36:24Z