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Lori Reed
Lori Reed, Managing Editor of ALA Learning, has over 15 years experience in training and is the Learning & Development Coordinator for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library where she oversees the learning & development of more than 550 employees. Lori's passion is in learning and technology. Lori and her associate Paul Signorelli are writing a book about leadership for trainers for ALA Editions that will be released in the summer of 2010. Lori serves as an intern for the American Libraries magazine Advisory Committee and serves as the chair for Communication and Marketing for the ALA Learning Round Table. Lori also blogs at Library Trainer and can be reached at reedlori[at]gmail.com and can be found on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter.
Homepage: http://lorireed.com
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Learn how technology can transform your training sessions!
Sep 2nd
Using Technology in Library Training with Paul Signorelli
In these two ALA TechSource online workshops, Paul Signorelli provides hands-on, interactive instruction in using current web technology to enhance in-person training sessions or conduct remote training sessions for employees in multiple locations.
Session 1: Using Technology to Enhance In-Person Training
- Incorporating YouTube, Google Docs, and SlideShare into onsite learning
- Making PowerPoint effective and interesting
- Using technology as a tool while focusing on learners
Session 2: Using Technology for Remote Training Sessions
- Using Skype, Google Talk/Yahoo! Messenger, LinkedIn discussion groups, and other tools for learning
- Adapting your onsite skills to provide effective online learning
- Building online communities of learning
And much more!
Sign up today and engage in 90 minutes of discussion and interactive learning that you can’t get anywhere else!
About the Instructor
Paul Signorelli is a writer, trainer, and consultant who explores, uses, writes about, and helps others become familiar with Web 2.0 and smartphone technology to creatively facilitate positive change within organizations. He has participated in the ALA Learning Round Table, and written for ALA Learning blog, American Libraries magazine, and ALA Editions.
About ALA TechSource Workshops
ALA TechSource Workshops are focused, small-group online discussions that give you the opportunity to learn from experts who offer authoritative answers to your questions, as well as to interact with colleagues who have similar concerns. Workshops are recorded and, along with other materials, are made available to attendees for future reference.
Read more and register at ALA Tech Source.
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Loading ...Learning Round Table Programs, Events, Battledecks at ALA Annual
Jun 9th
The Learning Round Table has something for everyone at the ALA Annual Conference this year. The following is a list of programs, meetings, and events.
Also note the icons next to each event. These icons have links that will download the program as an appointment to your calendar. If the icon does not work, try right clicking and saving the .ics file before opening it. We also have a flyer that you can print and bring with you (click the image below to download).
Friday, June 25
Beyond Face to Face: New Methods for Staff Training
8:30am-12pm 
Renaissance Hotel Congressional Hall C
Limited time and busted budgets make it increasingly difficult for library staff to leave their buildings to attend training events. Maverick library trainer Jay Turner along with T is for Training host Maurice Coleman and instructional designer Mary Beth Faccioli will demonstrate how to engage learners with effective and innovative uses of e-learning. Walk away from this pre-conference knowing how to: Identify free and cost-effective resources for presenting e-learning; Apply best practices in instructional design to e-learning; Recognize technical constraints in publishing e-content. Tickets Onsite: $150. Event Code: LEA1.
Saturday, June 26
Open Board Meeting I 
8am-12pm
WCC-159 A/B
Our Board meetings are open to anyone interested in the activities, mission and work of the Learning Round Table. We discuss both old and new business, review goals, strategize and plan for the future, plot out committee work and have fun, too. Join us for all or part of our two meetings. We’d love to meet you!
Building with Competencies
1:30-3:30pm
Grand Hyatt Constitution A
Once you’ve determined the competencies needed by your staff, what next? Competencies are building blocks—there are a variety of constructions to be built with them for guiding staff training, recruitment, and other personnel strategies. Join us as we explore strategies and case studies of competency based staff development efforts. Presented by Betha Gutsche and Sandra Smith.
Sunday, June 27
Library Trainers as Leaders
10:30 am-12pm
WCC-201
Library staff development programs are in a state of flux. It is no longer enough for administrators to tell staff what training to offer. Workplace learning and performance professionals need to be part of the strategic planning of the organization. This interactive session will include audience participation and sharing of best practices as to how library trainers can step up their leadership skills and get a place at the library strategic planning table. Facilitated by Paul Signorelli with panelists Maurice Coleman, Sandra Smith and Louise Whitaker.
Training Showcase: Best Practices in Training, Staff Development & Library Continuing Education
1:30-3:30pm
WCC-Ballroom
The training showcase is a poster session type of program celebrating innovative continuing education, staff development, and training initiatives in all types of libraries and library organizations. Participants present best practices from their organization or institution.
Membership Pavilion Learning Round Table Lightning Talk
3:30-3:45pm
Exhibit Hall
Monday, June 28
Open Board Meeting II
10:30 am-12pm
WCC-156
Our Board meetings are open to anyone interested in the activities, mission and work of the Learning Round Table. We discuss both old and new business, review goals, strategize and plan for the future, plot out committee work and have fun, too. Join us for all or part of our two meetings. We’d love to meet you!
Staff Development Discussion
1:30-3:30pm
WCC-143A
This discussion is a great energizer for those new to staff development as well as for those who’ve been doing it for years. Come early and stay for the raffle at the end of the program.
Battledecks: The ALA Rumble Royale
5:30-7pm
WCC-103A
Battledecks represent the ultimate challenge for public speakers as they are challenged to give a coherent presentation based on hand-selected, seemingly unrelated slides that they see for the very first time live on stage. This competition, often referred to as “PowerPoint Karaoke,” will see our brave and willing participants compete for the glory of being crowned ALA’s reigning Battledecks champion. The participants will face judgment from a panel of four judges, with the winner to be determined based on a variety of criteria and general overall awesomeness. Hilarity, along with some learning, is guaranteed for all!
Defenders of a title:
Michael Porter(Battledecks champion from Internet Librarian 2009)
Andromeda Yelton (Battledecks co-champion from ALA MW 2010)
JP Procaro (Battledecks Champ from Pres4Lib)
Bobbi Newman (Battledecks co-champion from ALA MW 2010)
Contenders for the title:
Jason Griffey
Buffy Hamilton
Lisa Carlucci Thomas
John Chrastka
George Needham
Judges:
Peter Bromberg
Julie Strange
Maurice Coleman
David Lee King
Jenny Levine
Emcee: Janie Hermann
Timekeeper/Vanna White: Patrick Sweeney
Slidemakers: Alice Yucht, Patrick Sweeney, Janie Hermann, Jaime Corris Hammond, Andy Woodworth and anyone else who volunteers.
Event and Prizes sponsored by American Libraries and The Learning Round Table.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Learning Round Table Preconference on E-Learning
Jun 7th
Beyond F2F: New Methods of Staff Training
Limited time and busted budgets make it increasingly difficult for library staff to leave their buildings to attend training events. In Beyond Face-to-Face, maverick library trainer Jay Turner along with T is for Training host Maurice Coleman and instructional designer Mary Beth Faccioli demonstrate how to engage learners with effective and innovative uses of e-learning. Walk away from this pre-conference knowing how to:
- Identify free and cost-effective resources for presenting e-learning
- Apply best practices in instructional design to e-learning
- Recognize technical constraints in publishing e-content
Date/Time: Friday, June 25, 2010 8:30am-12noon
Location: Renaissance Hotel Congressional Hall C
Tickets:
ALA Member $130
Division Member $130
Round Table (LEARNRT) Member $110
Retired Member $110
Student Member $75
Non-Member $150
Onsite: $150
Event Code: LEA1
Register: http://ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/reg/index.cfm
Bios
Jay Turner, Training Manager at Gwinnett County Public Library in Georgia, is responsible for all aspects of learning and development for a staff of 300+ employees. He considers himself a lifelong student, and delights in sharing his passion for learning with anyone willing to listen (much to their chagrin!). He is a library lifer, who began working in libraries as a teen and has worn almost every conceivable public services hat since. Jay’s diversity of experience helps him develop and deliver solutions that are creative, practical, and effective. He is a self-proclaimed information and tech junkie, who gets his fix by playing in his “digital sandbox” with new tools and neat ideas to make learning more accessible, more flexible, and more fun across any medium.
Maurice Coleman is the Technical Trainer at Harford County (MD) Public Library located in the North Eastern corner of Maryland. He has more than 17 years of experience creating and delivering training programs on technology implementation, presentation and training skills, social media and community development. In 2008 he earned a Synchronous Training Design and Delivery certificate through a Maryland State Library program. He used that knowledge to help create blended learning solutions and presentations for the Maryland Learning 2.1 program, Harford County Public Library, WebJunction, the Maryland Library Association and the ALA Learning Roundtable. For his work he was named a 2010 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. He also hosts the library training and presentation podcast T is for Training.
As the Instructional Design & Technology Consultant at the Colorado State Library, Mary Beth Faccioli uses a variety of established and emerging technologies to deliver information and training onlineShe’s an avid web designer and passionate developer of web-based library applications and information systems. She has held web services positions at Boulder Public Library and at EDUCAUSE, and also served as the director of the Allen Ginsburg Library at Naropa University, where she continued to leverage emerging technologies to enhance access to library services, resources and instruction. She served as a training consultant for the Colorado Correctional Libraries, where she began developing open-source content management systems to support staff training, community building and access to information. In her current position, she continues to build online communities using open-source applications, uses a range of existing and emerging technologies to create and support online learning, and leads the production of live online events at the Colorado State Library using web conferencing technology. Mary Beth is always looking to use technology creatively to promote and enhance resources and services, and to support learning.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Welcome to the ALA Learning Family
May 20th
ALA Learning contributing author Lauren Pressley and her husband John welcomed a new baby to the world on May 1st at 6:00 pm. He weighed 8 pounds 4 ounces and was 21 inches long. His name, Leif, is Scandinavian, can mean “heir” or “beloved,” and is pronounced “layf.”
Congratulations Lauren and John, and welcome to the world Leif!
You can read more at Lauren’s blog.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Call for Participants, Donors, Sponsors for the 7th Annual Training Showcase
Apr 21st
The Learning Round Table is accepting applications from now through May 15th for the Training Showcase which will take place on Sunday, June 27, 2010 from 1:30-3:30 pm at the ALA Annual Conference in Washington, D.C.
The Training Showcase planning committee is on the lookout for libraries, library organizations, presenters, speakers and vendors to participate – anyone who has a great training or staff development program they’d like to share. The Learning Round Table is all about sharing ideas (and stealing/borrowing ideas) and the Training Showcase is the perfect venue. The Showcase normally attracts between 200-300 attendees – all of whom are interested in training and staff development. The number of participants (presenters) varies from 20-30. It’s a fast-paced, fun event with refreshments and door prizes. Each participant has a 6′ draped table on which to put a portable table-top display unit, handouts or other related materials.
The training showcase is a poster-type session giving participants, exhibitors and sponsors a chance to showcase best practices in library training, learning, and continuing education. Participating affords you the opportunity to share information about your program as well as learn about the best practices of other libraries and organizations.
For more information visit the Training Showcase page on ALA Learning: http://alalearning.org/about/conferences/ala-annual/training-showcase/
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