This is my first rough sketch of what should go on the Wimba sessions page. Please comment with suggestions for material to add, remove, and rearrange.
What are we calling these? "Live, online workshops for using library resources more effectively" seems kind of clunky.
* Introductory paragraph about using library resources effectively. Glowing talk about live sessions with opportunity to ask questions and try things for yourself.
* What is Wimba? What does it let me do? How do I get and use Wimba? Link to Wimba site. System requirements. Accessibility issues. Helpdesk contact info.
* Must take Helpdesk prerequisite session - why and how.
* Mini-catalog - sessions offered, when they're offered, basic learning objectives, class limit.
* Link to register for a session with the Helpdesk.
* Link to register for one of the library sessions (how do we verify they've already been through the Helpdesk session?)
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-Online Information Skills Workshop
-Online Library Skills Workshop
Suggestions for page content:
1. keep it simple and succinct
2. Link to details about Wimba - those should already exist somewhere - no sense recreating it here
3. When students sign up for a library session, we contact help desk and see if the student took the intro session (assuming they keep a log of student names who did)
4. List available sessions right on the page - this will only consist of 2 workshops with perhaps 2 sessions each - easily put here
5. Is it worthwhile to inquire about working with assessment people to get these sessions to count for some sort of credit for the students (i.e., towards meeting GEAR standards or something?) - that might serve to motivate participants a little
6. Another idea for motivating students and getting them to actually sign up is to work with faculty who might assign these sessions as extra credit for certain courses...
#3 - help desk does not keep list of wimba training attendees...it's not a requirement.
If training is not done on a classroom only basis, I think once we get established, we should have (something like 5) regularly scheduled trainings that rotate on a weekly basis. Perhaps one in the day and one in the evening.
I don't feel we should be so limiting by only allowing a group of 10 students sign up for any one type of training at any time. The problem is making sure these students have Wimba training prior to a libaray instruction setting. I don't have any ideas on this currently. Does anyone else?
I like Online Library Skills Workshop. I think "information skills" is probably more technically correct, but I'm not sure if it would register properly with folks who aren't information professionals.
Link to details about Wimba. I like this idea. I'd like to include a one-sentence description right there for those with a sluggish mouse hand. ;-)
List sessions on the page - sounds like a good idea. I wasn't sure whether you meant that the details (when, how many can enroll, objectives) should be included on the page, or linked to?
I'm not sure what would be involved in getting students credit for this. Can you tell me more about the process?
I like the idea of working with faculty. We could send out an email to full-time faculty inviting them to participate in this. Or we could pilot it with some faculty members with whom we already have a good relationship.
Would it be possible to include something in the Wimba training sessions where the students are told a "password" - and when they sign up for our sessions, they have to tell us the password? It doesn't seem like something that would increase the helpdesk workload by much.
From our ILLiad experience, I think we should try this out and see what kind of response we get before we set limits on how many and who and when. We can make it clear "we're in the pilot phase" for the first term, and then assess and modify for the next term.
P.S. I'm liking this blog.
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