Tasty Tech Tidbits and Tools

Pilot training program

A Taste of Web 2.0

A Learning Snack

GOALS:

• HAVE FUN
• Raise awareness of web based tools in a fun, fast-paced, non-threatening environment
• Increase web 2.0 literacy across LIS
• Encourage innovation and fun in the workplace
• Welcome all LIS staff to present fun new tools they are using
• Foster a collaborative working environment
• Cross-departmental format
• Encourage use of tech tools to enhance efficiency
• Have fun and enjoy each other's company
• Encourage all LIS staff to present and/or attend
• Encourage playing with web tools
• Save money - many tools are in beta and are "free"
• Celebrate community and collaboration
• Enjoy a meal together; learn together outside usual workgroups; learn from each other
• Sandbox for staff to play with technologies and tools
• Tame technostress, technodivorce, technoshame, technophobia, technolust
• Did we mention...HAVE FUN!

Monthly lunch and dinner time presentations - cool and fun web tools

• Pilot project to begin Fall 08

• 1 hour each during mid-day and early evening
• Twice monthly; 2 in Oct; 2 in Nov; 1 in Dec
• Lunchtime program repeated at evening program - do we need the same person presenting at both sessions - even if the topic is the same - or do we want to be more fluid with topics and presenters?
• Raffle to encourage participation; all participants are eligible for the drawing at each session; all participants throughout the semester are eligible for the grand prize at the end of the semester
• Everyone brings their own bag meal
• Each presentation - 10 - 15 minutes long max for a total 30 - 40 min
• Time to share recent discoveries and new fun web tools at the end
• Create a blog to document training series?

• Staff across LIS as presenters - starting with 3 presenters the first meeting:

Schedule: Location Main Lib 105

10/9 12 - 1 pm : [Mike Roy on Cha Cha, Jott, and Remember the Milk| https://mediawiki.middlebury.edu/wiki/LIS/Mike_Roy_on_Web_2.0]
10/23 6 - 7 pm

11/6 12 - 1 pm
11/20 6 - 7 pm

12/4 - last meeting of the semester - grand prize drawing

Possible topics - please add other wicked good web tools and ideas!

• Sign up for a feed reader/RSS
• Bloglines/Google Reader
• Delicious
• GoodReads
• Flickr
• LibraryThing
• Facebook
• iTunes U
• Download a Podcast
• Feedzie
• Mozio
• Twitter
• Hiogi
• Ning
• Youtube
• Comment on a blog
• Meebo
• Librivox
• Podcast Alley
• Gabcast
• Image generators - Imagechef, Add Letters, Dumpr,

• • What will the prizes be?
    • Small monthly prizes
      • Coffee card
      • Bookstore gift certificate
      • Coffee/tea mug with coffee card
      • Other ideas?
    • Large prize at the last meeting of the semester
      • iPod/iTouch
      • Canon Flip camera - perfect for Youtube and Flickr
      • Other fun tech toys?

• Encourage managers and supervisors
  • To give release time
  • Acknowledge participation in annual performance review

• Where and how to advertise and encourage other LIS staff to present and/or participate?
  • LISt blog
  • All LIS email from Mike
  • Flyers in staff mailboxes

• Catch phrases - ideas welcome! Please!
  • Take a bite out of web tech tools
  • Wicked wonderful web tools
  • Fun with Web 2.0
  • Tricks, tips and tools
  • Discover Web 2.0

Proposed text for the announcement:

• Save the date! Announcing an all LIS web2.opportunity!
• When: October 9th at 12 noon; with repeat session on 10/23 at 6 pm
• Where: Lib 105
• What: 1st in a series of brown bag mealtime sessions to discover and share cool new web 2.0 tools. Come and hear Mike, Mary and Bryan share some fun web tools they are using
• Get together with your coworkers across LIS to share fun web tools.
• How long: 1 hour max; 3 presentations - 10 minutes each; time at end to share the web tools you are using!
• Bring your own bag meal
• There will be prizes drawn at each session; everyone who attends will be eligible for the grand prize drawing in December.
• Looking for volunteers to present in November - please contact Elin Waagen or Bryan Carson.

Loosely based on the concept of 23 things - topics could be used as springboard to design first sessions

• The 23 Things
• Infopeople Project 23 Things
• Vermont's 23 Things

Dartmouth October Conference 2009

October Conference Presentation Proposal – a 30 minute Prezi Presentation – Outline

Bryan Carson, Electronic Services Librarian

Elin Waagen, Circulation Services Manager

Library and Information Services

Middlebury College

Submit intro bios and handouts ahead of time:
Web tools used for planning and presentation

Presentation on Prezi - free web based tool (100 MB free and public)

Handout - card with address of presentation

Wordle? (http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/1203859/Tasty_Tech_Tidbits_and_Tools)

Slideshare?

Brief and informal presentation using web tools

Focus on tangibles - how and what; practical tips

Recreate the unit?

How many tables? Room layout?

For each table: brown bag, crayons, paper for writing names

1 drawing per table - silly prize

1 grand drawing - Midd mug with chocolates

TASTY TECH TIDBITS AND WEB TOOLS - A BROWN BAG LEARNING AND SHARING PROGRAM

A Learning snack

Developed on shared platforms - wiki, google docs

Minimum amount of meeting time

GOALS

• HAVE FUN
  * Raise awareness of web based tools in a fun, fast-paced, non-threatening environment
  * Increase web 2.0 literacy across LIS
  * Encourage innovation and fun in the workplace
  * Invite all staff to present fun new tools they are using
  * Tap into local expertise with web tools and toys
  * Foster a collaborative working environment
  * Foster a cross-departmental format
  * Encourage use of tech tools to enhance efficiency and effectiveness
  * Encourage all staff to present and/or attend
  * Encourage playing with web tools
  * Save money - many tools are in beta and are "free"
  * Low-cost/budget staff development
  * Celebrate community and collaboration
  * Enjoy a meal together; learn together outside usual workgroups; learn from each other
  * Play with technologies and tools
  * Open door to new tools; experimenting with new tools; reducing fears of playing and using new tools (that come and go...); facilitate the use of free web tools - no need to reinvent the wheel locally
  * Exposure to the ideas - not necessarily the actual how-to of the tool
  * Increase comfort level of exploring new web tool
  * Did we mention...HAVE FUN!

FORMAT

• Pilot project Fall 08
  * 1 hour each during mid-day and early evening to accommodate staff schedules/preferences
  * 2 in Oct; 2 in Nov; 1 in Dec
  * Lunchtime program repeated at evening program if possible - but fluid with topics and presenters
  * Raffle to encourage participation; all participants eligible for the drawing at each session; all participants throughout the semester eligible for the grand prize at the end of the semester
  * Everyone brings their own bag meal
  * Brief overview of tool - each presentation 10 - 15 minutes long max for a total 30 - 40 min
  * Just enough structure to provide a springboard for discussion and sharing
  * Allow time for unscheduled topics/presenters and informal sharing
  * Time to share recent discoveries and new fun web tools for the last 20 minutes of the program
  * Staff across LIS as presenters
  * Encourage managers and supervisors to give release time; acknowledge participation in annual performance review

TOPICS - wicked good web tools and ideas - constantly evolving...

• Delicious
  * GoodReads
  * LibraryThing
  * Cha Cha
  * Jott
  * Remember the Milk (RTM)
  * RSS/feedreaders
  * Bloglines/Google Reader
  * FeedDemon
  * Flickr
  * Twitter/Yammer
  * Facebook
  * Grand Central (Google Voice)
  * iGoogle
  * CommonCraft
  * Google docs

MARKETING

• Staff blog
  * All staff email from Dean
  * Support from Area Directors and Dean of Library and Information Services (our first presenter!)

PARTICIPATION

• Total numbers for all sessions - 50

BUDGET - PRIZES

• Silly (inexpensive) prizes - bubbles; party games, etc.
  * Coffee/tea mug with coffee card (5 @ $15)
  * Grand Prize - iPod (donated)

POST-OP observations

• Lunch and Learn - hope to expand the idea to offer a regular brown-bag lunch sharing/learning opportunity (currently planning a brown-bag lunch topic on cool new apps for the iPhone/iPod)
  * Marketing - not all staff were reading the blog
  * Evening sessions were not as well attended
  * Impromptu discussions brought out other user experiences (other tips, tricks, and tools people were using)
  * Met goals - had fun! :-)

Program was a part of a larger initiative - other things happening at Midd:

• LISterine (Bryan Carson and Carrie MacFarlane)
  * Zoho stats (Joy Pile)
  * Mosio texting (Brenda Ellis)
  * Voting using Uservoice
  * Google docs, blog initiatives, documentation shifted to wiki
  * Upcoming inservice theme - tech tools and music