Subject: ALCTS event: 2013 ALCTS Midwinter Symposium
From: ALCTS-CE Announce <alcts.ce.announce_at_gmail.com>
Date: 11/12/2012 12:24 PM
Coming Soon to Midwinter in Seattle - 2013 ALCTS Midwinter Symposium!
Friday, January 25, 2013, 8:00am to 4:30pm
Washington State Convention Center – The Conference Center (WSCC-TCC)
Rooms 301-302
Seattle, WA
Libraries and Online Learning: A Powerful Partnership
Libraries and learners have long been engaged in a successful
partnership. Never has this partnership been more important or
wide-ranging than in today's online environment. From local public
libraries to national and transnational digital public libraries, from
primary schools to research universities, libraries increasingly provide
for learners' virtual educational experiences. In this symposium
attendees will learn to foster the strategic relationships possible
between libraries and online learners.
8:00-8:25 Registration
8:25-8:30 Welcome
8:30-9:30
Speaker: Mike Eisenberg, Dean Emeritus & Professor, University of
Washington, Information School
Title: Online Learning and Libraries
Abstract: Based on research and over 15 years’ experience in online
teaching, learning, and program planning, Mike will offer an overview of
online learning approaches (synchronous, asynchronous, video, online,
virtual), instructional strategies and tactics in online environments,
and the roles, challenges, and opportunities for libraries and librarians.
9:30-10:20
Speaker: Karl Nelson, Director of the Digital Learning Department,
Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Washington
Title: Online learning in K-12 education
Abstract: Nelson will look at the role libraries and librarians play in
K-12 online learning and will provide an overview of an online learning
activity in K-12.
10:20-10:35 Break
10:35-11:25
Speaker: Meredith Farkas, Head of Instructional Services, Portland State
University
Title: Embedding the Library into the Online Learning Experience in
Higher Education
Abstract: In spite of libraries' significant online collections and
services, online students can often feel quite distant from the library.
With online courseware essentially acting as an online student's campus,
libraries need to develop a strong presence in online courseware as well
as in the online courses themselves. Farkas will explore ways to embed
library services, collections and instruction into students' learning
experiences and points-of-need online. Potentials and pitfalls as well
as the sustainability of different approaches will be discussed.
11:25-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:00
Speaker: Félix Reyes, Public Instruction Specialist, King County Library
System
Title: Services Strategy for Multifaceted Public Instruction
Abstract: The King County Library System Services Strategy is an
opportunity for integrated learning in public libraries. Through
multifaceted public instruction, KCLS provides an engaging and
encouraging learning ecosystem for patrons to explore and learn;
in-library, off-site and online.
2:00-3:30
Hands on activity: Online learning program development (Felix Reyes)
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:40
Speaker: Jonathan Grudin, Principal Researcher, Natural Interaction
Group, Microsoft Research
Title: “I’m not sure where we’re going, but push the accelerator pedal
to the floor.”
Abstract: He will discuss shifts in the skills required of students and
workers in heavily digital environments and implications for those in
support roles. He also has thoughts about opportunities as well as
challenges for archiving potentially useful information based on
observations from efforts to explore computer science history.
Speaker biographies:
Dr. Mike Eisenberg is the founding dean of the Information School at the
University of Washington, serving from 1998 to 2006. Known as an
innovator and entrepreneur, Mike approached the iSchool as a
startup—transforming the school into a broad-based information school
with academic programs on all levels (bachelors through doctorate),
increasing enrollment 400%, generating millions in funded research, and
making a difference in industry, the public sector, and education on all
levels.
Mike’s current work focuses on information & technology literacy,
virtual worlds, and library information and technology programs, K-20.
Mike is co-author of the “Big6 approach to information problem-solving”
– the most widely used information literacy program in the world. Mike
is a prolific author (9 books and dozens of articles and papers) and has
worked with thousands of students—pre-K through higher education—as well
as people in business, government, and communities to improve individual
and organizational information and technology access and use. Mike
particularly enjoys working with undergraduate students, introducing
them to the opportunities and challenges of the information field.
Karl Nelson is the Director of the Digital Learning Department for the
Washington State Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction. Prior
to that, he was the Director of Technology and Operations for the
Digital Learning Commons, a non-profit focused on providing digital
resources and online courses to K-12 schools. Karl has a Master’s of
Science in Information Management from the University of Washington
Information School.
Meredith Farkas is the Head of Instructional Services at Portland State
University and a lecturer at San Jose State University's School of
Library and Information Science. She previously worked in positions
related to supporting online learners and instructional innovation at
Norwich University in Vermont. Meredith is the author of the book Social
Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication and
Community Online (Information Today, 2007) and writes the monthly column
"Technology in Practice" for American Libraries. She was honored in 2008
and 2011 with the WISE Excellence in Online Education Award and in 2009
with the LITA/Library Hi Tech award for Outstanding Communication in
Library and Information Technology. Her research interests include
change leadership and management, assessment of student learning, and
the impact of social technologies on scholarship and pedagogy.
Félix Reyes is the Public Instruction Specialist in the Virtual Library
Services department at the King County Library System in Washington
State. He has worked for KCLS since 2007; previously as Library
Technical Assistant and then Public Computer Instructor. Prior to KCLS
he worked in bilingual-bicultural education, and Spanish-English
interpretation, translation and localization. Currently, he is obtaining
a certificate in technical writing to apply to instructional design and
pursues his interest in music and writing.
Jonathan Grudin is a principal researcher at Microsoft and an affiliate
professor at the University of Washington Information School. Prior to
joining Microsoft’s Collaboration and Educational Technology group in
1998, he was Professor of Information and Computer Science at the
University of California, Irvine. He worked designing and assessing
streaming media prototype systems for several years, then shifted to
focus on enterprise adoption (or lack thereof) of new communication
technologies—blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and so on. He has
been active in the Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Supported
Cooperative Work fields since their inceptions. He served six years on
the National Academy of Sciences Board on Human-Systems Integration, was
Editor in Chief of ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, and
co-chaired iConference 2011. Recent publications include a chapter in
the final volume of the Annual Review of Information Science and
Technology and a forthcoming article in The Information Society.
Registration is through the ALA Midwinter registration form and is $219
for ALCTS members, $269 for ALA members, and just $99 for students and
retired members.
ALCTS is a division of the American Library Association.
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