[Baynet] Infopeople's "Web 2.0: How to Teach the Public about Social Software" workshop

[Linda Rodenspiel]

There is a lot of buzz in the library press about Web 2.0 and its 
impact on libraries. The California State Library believes that Web 
2.0 has tremendous transformational potential, perhaps second only to 
the introduction of the Internet itself. In recognition of the 
importance of Web 2.0, the State Library has made a special grant 
award to Infopeople for a series of free training events titled 
"Moving Libraries Forward to Web 2.0". The following workshop is part 
of the Web 2.0 series.


Title:  Web 2.0: How to Teach the Public about Social Software

Dates and locations:

Friday, July 20, Los Angeles Public Library
Monday, September 10, San Francisco Public Library
Wednesday, September 12, San Diego County Library Headquarters
Tuesday, September 25, Buena Park Library District
Thursday, September 27, Fresno County Public Library
Tuesday, October 9, California State Library
Wednesday, October 10, San Jose - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

To register for this workshop:  Use the online registration form at
http://infopeople.org/workshop/348

Fee: Thanks to a special LSTA grant award from the California State 
Library, Infopeople is able to offer this workshop to the California 
library community free of charge.



The digital divide isn't about the Internet haves and have-nots 
anymore; instead, it is about who has access to fast broadband 
connections for streaming media and exposure to content creation 
tools. The Internet has evolved to become a participatory medium, and 
libraries, in their role of providing information and resources, may 
be the only vehicles for citizen's voices to be heard in the Web 2.0 
culture. This workshop will:

--Empower you to teach the public how to use specific Web 2.0 tools
--Learn to field challenging questions specific to Web 2.0
--Develop best practices for designing workshops that address the 
specific needs of adult learners


Workshop Description: Web 2.0 makes some people nervous; privacy, 
safety, attribution, authority and standards are major issues. In 
this all day, hands-on session, we'll cover fielding challenging 
questions specific to Web 2.0, and focus on best practices for 
designing workshops that address the specific needs of adult 
learners. Group discussion and hands-on exercises will help you 
develop the skills and handouts to better help your users understand 
the ins and outs of Web 2.0 concepts and applications.

Preliminary Course Outline

Conveying Web 2.0
--How to explain Web 2.0 concepts
--Creating helpful handouts

Social Bookmarking
--How to explain the tagging phenomenon
--Applying tags through applications such as Google Images, Flickr, 
and del.icio.us

Blogs, Wikis and RSS
--How to explain the subscription and collaborative elements
--Applying the concepts through applications such as Bloglines, 
Blogger and PBwiki

Social Software
--How to explain online communities
--Finding the right community by age, ability, and interests: 
examining communities such as MySpace, Ning, and Eons

Instructor: Beth Gallaway.  Beth, a Library Journal Mover & Shaker 
(2006), is an independent library trainer/consultant. She is an 
adjunct lecturer for Simmons College and teaches online classes for 
YALSA. She has been playing video games since she was five and is 
currently playing Katamari Damacy, Donkey Konga, and Dance Dance 
Revolution (not all at the same time). Beth is the founder of the 
LibGaming listserv, an active YALSA volunteer, and the co-author of 
Get Your Game On: Video Games and Libraries. (Neal Schuman, 2007). 
She is a member of many social networking applications, and you can 
find her using the handle "informationgoddess29."

Who Should Attend: Anyone from the California library community with 
an interest in Web 2.0. This FREE course is also appropriate for 
library business managers, procurement officers, public information 
officers, systems staff, facilities managers, custodians, and 
volunteers. As Beth's friend Bonnie Peirce says, "If you don't 
participate in Web 2.0, you will never understand it."

Prerequisites: This course requires that students be comfortable with 
basic computer skills, including using a mouse, navigating the web, 
and basic keyboarding. For help with these basic skills, we recommend 
the New Computer Users section of the Infopeople Resources Guides, at 
infopeople.org/resources. Students will be referred to the Infopeople 
Web 2.0 wiki for background. For students who haven't taken a 
previous Infopeople Web 2.0 course, catching up using the Infopeople 
Web 2.0 wiki will be a prerequisite.

Other Logistics:

*On-site check-in is from 8:30-9:00 AM;  instruction is from 9:00 AM-4:30 PM.

*Maps, directions, and parking information are available on the 
Infopeople Web site at 
http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop/Directions.  Infopeople does not 
validate or pay for parking.

*Infopeople does not provide refreshments or lunch.  Since some 
training locations do not have in-house or convenient food service, 
Infopeople recommends that participants bring a sack lunch.

To view a complete list of Infopeople workshops and for general 
information about Infopeople training opportunities, go to the main 
Infopeople Workshops page at http://infopeople.org/WS/workshop

If you have questions about registration or scheduling of workshops, 
please contact Linda Rodenspiel, the Infopeople Project Assistant, at 
assist at infopeople.org or by phone at 650-578-9685.