Register Here.  $80 for non-members.

As you gear up for a school year full of library instruction, spend a day at METRO building a toolkit of engaging educational activities to include in your lesson plans.

Whether your instruction focuses on in-person workshops, one-off info lit sessions, or semester-long courses, you’ll leave with a range of ideas to utilize in courses of all types and at all levels. Along the way, we’ll hear how new approaches to learning are being implemented at a variety of libraries.

This session will cover:

– blended learning

– flipped classroom

– active learning

And we’ll tackle the following questions:

– what are the best methods for bringing digital or online instruction into the classroom?

– how can we enable students to learn from digital media at their own pace?

– when does it make sense to expose students to new ideas via digital media before class even convenes? how can the flipped classroom model be deployed to ensure classroom discussion starts from a place of shared knowledge?

– how can we include flipped classroom techniques into one shot reference instruction?what are the best ways to encourage students to learn by doing?

– what place does active learning have in today’s classrooms?

– what digital tools can students and teachers use for online instruction?

This daylong session will be led by Melissa Jacobs, Coordinator in the Office of Library Services for the New York City Department of Education, with assistance from Amy Mikel, Outreach Librarian at Brooklyn Public Library, and Kellen Maluski, Health Sciences Reference Associate at NYU.

This course is intended to bring a wide range of librarians from different types of institutions together to explore the ways in which new models in education can be used throughout the learning ecosystem.

Register Here.  $20 for Non-Members

This webinar provides an overview of resources, tools, and strategies for finding, analyzing, and teaching with datasets used in humanities, social sciences, and scientific research. We will not be focusing on library systems-generated data or reports, though we’ll go over visualization and management tools that may be relevant to this kind of data.

• Identify and use various sources and strategies for locating numeric and spatial data sets collected by governmental and non-governmental organizations (e.g., American FactFinder, UNdata, TIGER) and by researchers (e.g., ICPSR, Dryad).
• Understand software and tools useful for different types of data analysis and visualization.
• Develop basic familiarity with the research data lifecycle, including best practices for data management.
• Learn techniques for integrating data into instruction.

This is the first session in METRO’s Summer 2015 Data Webinar series. Other programs in this series include:

• Linked Open Data in Libraries and Archives, July 23rd
• Managing and Preserving Data Sets, August 3rd

If you’re planning to attend all three sessions, enter the discount code SUM15DATA during registration to receive $2.00 off of each webinar.

IMPORTANT: after following the link to the right, please select the appropriate pricing option and submit your registration information. On the following information summary page, click on the Register button at the bottom of the screen in order to complete your registration. All registrants will receive an automated confirmation email.

Log-in information will be distributed to all registrants via email 1-2 days prior to the webinar. All registrants will have access to the archived recording of the webinar within a week after the live session.

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Register Here.  Tickets are $15.  Sponsored by the South Central Regional Library Council

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The answer is with authentic branding – which can do more than anything else to make an organization stand out in the minds of donors, partners and other supporters.

Takeaways:

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