Did you miss it? Last Friday, American Libraries Live held Episode 2: Landing Your Ideal Library Job via Google Hangouts. Host David Connolly led a fantastic discussion with panelists Jill Klees and Bohyun Kim. Checkout the recording of the webinar/hangout at http://americanlibrarieslive.org/blog/archive-episode-2
While you’re there, also be sure to take a look at the left panel; it provides a listing of upcoming American Libraries Live episodes.
Britannica is available to your school at no charge through the Electronic Library for Minnesota (ELM). Please consider attending one of these free one hour seminars if you need to brush up your skills. Or, consider sharing the information with key teachers too.Join Darcy McCanless of Britannica to learn about the NEW Britannica School (part of ELM) in this one-hour webinar.
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Check out the WebJunction Events Calendar to see the list of new, free webinars that are available to the full Minitex library community. The calendar also provides access to archived versions of recent webinars.
Several upcoming webinars available to the full library community are:
Outreach Programs in Rural Communities: Simple Steps for Surprising Results
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1 p.m. Central
What Would Walt Do?: Quality Customer Service for Libraries
Wednesday, Dec. 12, noon Central
The Impact of an Ice Cream Sundae
Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1 p.m. Central
Creating a Culture of Innovation in your Library and Community
Wednesday, Jan. 23, noon Central
In one of last week’s blog posts we highlighted EduTech’s Smackdown Open Mic Night with Dr. Joyce Valenza, which took place Monday (December 3rd) at 7:00 PM. Though there were maybe other places I would’ve rather been at 7:00 PM on a Monday :), I have to say I turned out to be very glad to have attended this online (Blackboard Collaborate) event. It was a great 
experience all around! The “open mic” approach was really quite fun, quick, and refreshing. Attendees that wanted to share a resource with the virtual audience had been asked in advance to create a slide and embed it in the larger slideshow so that they’d have a “spot” in the line-up of presenters. As the night progressed, one-by-one each slide appeared on the screen and the mic was turned over to the presenter.
The host of the evening was Dr. Joyce Valenza, along with a few other (big name) moderators. Throughout the hour-long open mic webinar scads of helpful tools, apps, and other resources were shared. I literally have four notebook pages full of tools/resources with helpful ideas and suggestions for how to effectively utilize them. I anticipate that I may be sharing some of these resources/tools/apps in upcoming blog posts, but know that they ranged from holocaust survivor story websites, to apps like Reflection, to storytelling sites/apps, to poster making resources. Really, the whole gamut was covered here! It was an energizing experience, and I definitely plan to attend similar events in the future.
Lucky for you if you missed it… There is an archived version of the webinar now available! If you participated as well, we definitely want to hear from you! Please share (in the comments area) the ideas and resources you found the most useful!
From Education Week:
The flipped classroom model—in which students watch video lessons for homework and receive more direct, individual instruction from teachers during class time—is rapidly gaining popularity in K-12 schools, with websites such as Khan Academy offering thousands of free video lessons. Some teachers see flipped learning as a way to spend more time working with their students and less time lecturing. But critics of the approach have called it nothing more than a high-tech, time-shifting tool that often leaves students confused about the content they’re supposed to be absorbing at home. Our guests will discuss the pros and cons of this approach and highlight the best methods for making a flipped classroom successful.
Guests:
Webinar Date: Wednesday, November 28, noon – 1 p.m.
“Underwriting for this webinar has been provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation”