Library Instruction 2.0: Building Your Online Instruction Toolkit
2008 ALA Annual Conference
Rachel Bridgewater, Reed College
Anne-Marie Deitering, OSU Libraries
Karen Munro, University of Oregon
Links to our examples, and many more resources to browse can be found at our Library a la Carte page: Library Instruction 2.0
Web pages, CMS tools, LMS tools
LibGuides (SpringShare)
Library a la Carte (Oregon State University)
Haiku (web-based LMS, free service is limited)
Viviti (still in private beta)
Widgetize-able tools and applications
Sprout - use Sprout to create widgets out of RSS feeds and more
YouTube’s Embeddable Custom Player (you must be signed into YouTube)
VodPod (to include videos from providers other than YouTube)
Resources for Keeping Up
Wikipedia’s page on RSS aggregators - lots to choose from!
Infodoodads
[…] I had the privilege of presenting a preconference with Karen Munro and my fellow ⌘-F-er Anne-Marie Deitering. Our talk was about instruction and social software and I was delighted and gratified that both Anne-Marie and Karen were excited about spending some of our valuable time talking about copyright issues and, particularly, advocacy around fair use and the use of Creative Commons licenses. Lesser mortals wouldn’t have seen the strong connection there. And I was even more excited that they let me lead that part! What really got me, though, was how energizing the topic seemed to be for this room of librarians who didn’t know in advance that they’d be hearing a copyright sermon. I was amused to be delivering this ode to fair use from the belly of the beast - the Disneyland Hotel. I warned everyone in advance that if the mic cut out and the goons came to take me away, they’d know why. I felt so proud to be part of our profession while I looked out at our participants who were all nodding emphatically, smiling, and generally seeming completely energized by my assertion that fair use is a speech issue, that fair use is our issue, and that we need to unite with others who care about these things - with the OSS programmers, with the artists and musicians, with the activist groups working on these issues like the EFF, etc, etc. Anne-Marie commented that she felt like people were energized in part because what I was talking about was a vision for our profession, describing a vital role for us in one of the defining information issues of our time. Personally, I couldn’t be more thrilled that, at least for that moment and for those librarians, that vision for our profession included passionate talk and action about copyright. I left the room feeling so optimistic. […]