tech training

Tech Training: Getting Buy-in

Attendance: Barry Davis, Hannah Winkler, Beth Filar Williams

Barry: no-hands on technology training anymore for students. Used to be hands on and now powerpoint slides.

BFW: in-person training as well as virtual (synchronous and asynchronous). Training on basic equipment available in the library, low level instruction for setting up overhead projector, using scanner equipment. Try using video training on how to correctly set up and use these technologies.

Barry: grant for workshops, inviting communtinity for idigtiazign and preserveing projects. In-person session and record sessions and put them online. It's a very dense subject and there is a lot you can do with it.

Hannah: very basic 30-minute workshops on Excel, and then next advanced for library staff and student workers, web 2.0 workshops.

BFW: web 2.0 like creative commons class;

Hannah: training for librarians needs different than students need. elluminate (online webinar)

BFW: cross-training, how to use different tools, google docs, excel ... offering a training session for librarians for elluminate. and now she has to train individually.

They want to learn it when they need it.

Barry: really the only way to get them to learn it is two use it -- how get them to do X when they have only used the program twice? For example the switch from XP to Vista. What information can i present that it will be remembered when they need to access it? what way will it be engaging? Photoshop knowledge of cropping? redeye?

Hannah: UNCG has superlab that supports these program like dreamweaver and photoshop, but they are territorial --> no way to find out where the holes are, what skills the student need to know unless they visit us in reference. there is a real disconnect.

BFW: TLC support for faculty and staff but not students -- need one-minute tutorials on how to do X --> expanded beyond how to, with video (Jenny and Beth, training opened up for students -- basic on how to include video/music in powerpoint)

Barry: online tech help blog at Wake Forest

BFW: lots of ideas out there -- like multi-campus use of tutorials (non-library specific) for google docs, ebay, etc. Now we are finding and discovering on own? Or add to wiki? or blog?