CE Around the State; Podcasting Tips; Aesop's Fables Flannelboard Kits
First of all, it's good to be back online! It has been a challenging 3 or 4 weeks and we still have a few things to clear up and update but we're happy to be--for the most part--back. Thanks for your patience as we dealt with simultaneous connectivity and webserver issues. In the last podcast I updated you on upcoming plans for continuing education. This week I'd like to review briefly the larger continuing education picture. One of the great things about the Iowa library community, aided by technological tools available to us now, is that continuing education is offered to any librarian or trustee in the state. It has always been so, but traveling to different and distant LSAs for a workshop was difficult for many librarians. With ICN and online classrooms available to us now there are even more opportunities to take advantage of workshops offered by other LSAs. We hope, of course, that we're meeting many of your CE needs but there are a great many great workshops and classes offered by our colleagues in other LSAs and at the State Library. All of us at the LSAs and State Library have heard librarians say, "Such and such LSA is offering this class online; will you be offering it, too?" The beauty of the online environment is that anyone can attend from anywhere in the state. Occasionally an LSA may have limited "seats" in a class and will give preference to librarians in its own LSA, but for the most part you are welcome to register for any class anywhere in the state. We are planning a regular e-mail "newsletter" that lists upcoming CE around the state, so you will have the announcements in that format, as well as checking the statewide CE catalog for classes you might be interested in. That's about it from me today; I just wanted to remind you that there are a great many classes available to you--don't hesitate to take advantage of them. If you need assistance in getting set up in a Wimba online classroom just let me know and I'll help you get started. We also plan to offer, periodically, a "How to Be a Successful Online Learner" class. Online learning may not be your ideal learning style but we can help you to maximize its effectiveness for you so you can tap into the great wealth of continuing education opportunities you have--literally--at your fingertips. --Karen
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