Fresh T — Tapping the Hive Mind: Notes for Ep. 10

Our tenth (yeah!) episode T is for Training is entitled Tapping the Hive Mind.  Download or listen to our second show of  2009 here. We had three new faces and a couple of returning ones making for a fantastic episode.

Links to the many things talked about on the podcast are available on the Delicious Tagged Links Page tisfortraining.

Follow us on  Our blog, Podcast Feed, ITunes Home,  Friendfeed, LinkedIn, FaceBook, or Twitter. And join us on January 30th 2009 at 2 pm Eastern Time for the next T is for Training.

Joining on the call:

Maurice Coleman Harford County (MD) Public Library
Stephanie Zimmerman Library System of Lancaster County (PA)
Bobbi Newman,  Missouri River Regional Library (MO)
Lori Reed, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County (NC)
Beth Tribe, Howard County Public Library (MD)
Peter Bromberg, South Jersey Regional Library Cooperative (NJ)

And in chat:

Julian Clark,  MLS student at University of Maryland, College Park (MD and DC)
Laura Botts, Mercer University (GA).
Jill Hurst-Wahl Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies (NY)

The opinions expressed by call participants are those of the participants and not necessarily those of any institution or group they represent or are associated with. And thanks to those who participated by chat.  We would love to hear your voice next time.

Welcome

Beth asked in FriendFeed: How do you personally handle it (emotional level per se) when someone you are trying to train or educate about something just doesn’t seem to get it no matter how many ways you come at it. They resist no matter what and rather blame technology than the human part of the equation.

Inspired by a post from Lori Reed:3 Trainer’s Tips to Start the New Year: Let’s discuss what our training tips to other trainers are for the start of the new year.

Peter tapped the hive mind with the question: What distance/virtual learning software do you have experience with and what would you recommend?

Handouts? Inspired by this article: How to: Build a Social Media Cheat Sheet for Any Topic Do you use them in your workshops?  If  so, how many? Is too much, too much or are too few, too few?

See you on the next episode of T is for Training on Friday January 30th at 2 pm Eastern Time.

Study To Be A Visionary:Detailed Notes for T is for Training Ep. 9

Our ninth episode T is for Training is entitled Study to be a Visionary.  Download or listen to our first show of  2009 here. We took a look back at 2008 and ahead to 2009.   Stephanie Zimmerman the sang us out with a great song.

Links to the many things talked about on the podcast are available on the Delicious Tagged Links Page tisfortraining.

Follow us on  Our blog, Podcast Feed, ITunes Home,  Friendfeed, LinkedIn, FaceBook, or Twitter. And join us on January 16th 2009 at 2 pm Eastern Time for the next T is for Training.

Joining on the call:

Maurice Coleman Harford County (MD) Public Library
Stephanie Zimmerman Library System of Lancaster County (PA)
Jill Hurst-Wahl Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Marianne Lenox, Huntsville Madison County Public Library (AL)
Polly-Alida Farrington – Library Consultant (NY based)

The opinions expressed by call participants are those of the participants and not necessarily those of any institution or group they represent or are associated with. And thanks to those who participated by chat.  We would love to hear your voice next time.

Welcome

2008 in Review: What new topics/trainings did you or develop this year?
Your 2008 Take Aways? Your Top Conference/Top Conference Session?

A Look Ahead to 2009: What are you looking forward to next year?
What training you think will not be needed this coming year?

A musical finale by Stephanie Zimmerman  of the Training the Trainers Theme Song.  Sung to I Will Survive.

See you on the next episode of T is for Training on Friday January 16th at 2 pm Eastern Time.

T is for Training 2: How I Stumbled Into Training

Hot off the podcast press is episode 2 of T is for Training:

Episode MP3 is here.

If you are interested in some of the training sites mentioned in the podcast, check out the Delicious Links Page tisfortraining

Full notes to follow.  Let us know if you found anything useful or want to have something discussed on the show.

Thanks for listening.

T is for Training #1- Possible Topics Needed Please

With just under a week to go before the first T is for Training podcast, (You can subscribe o the feed here,)  we are beginning to build an agenda for the show.  You can also suggest topics and appropriate sites by bookmarking in delicious using the tisfortraining tag.

Possible Topics for this show (in no particular order):

A) Colleges Confront Shootings with Survival Training (AP Article here) from the Kept Up Academic Librarian Blog .
*We talked about it in the pilot, but wanted to revisit it in the first show.”

B) Being Wired or Being Tired: 10 Ways to Cope with Information Overload an article by Sarah Houghton-Jan (also known as The Librarian In Black)
A topic near and dear to most trainer’s hearts.

C) How Enterprise 2.0 Fosters Innovation: Stop Groupthink.
A very interesting article found at I Am Not Actually A Geek

D) What is a/your personal learning environment?  This article discusses it from a Web 2.0 slant, but do you use a blend of 1.0 (websites/email) and 2.0 (read/write/socialweb) tools for your personal learning? What tool have you stopped using for your personal learning?

E) You have delivered a great training for staff forever changing your organization for the better.   But only a few employees were able to attend.  How you make sure the knowledge and information in that  training is transferred to your staff?   How about new staff?  Do they just get left behind?

F) Are there “Top Ten Techie Trainer Traits?”  Inspired by Roy Tennant’s post on Library Journal Top Ten Techie Traits

These possibilities will join these standing items:

General Welcoming of People

The Vent — An end of show moment to let it all hang out.

Please let us know what you think via the comments to this post.

Thanks and see you on Friday.  11 Eastern.  Be There.  Aloha.

T is for Training # 0.5 – Pilot Episode or F is for FollowUp

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Pilot Episode of T is for Training. T is for Training site on Talkshoe.

Let us know what you think.

If you want to listen on a device, just download the mp3 of the show.

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If you want to listen to the stream, just click on the sidebar.

On the call today:

Maurice Coleman, Harford County (MD) Public Library;
Bobbi Newman,  Missouri River Regional Library;
Jennifer Ranck, Eastern Shore (MD) Regional Library
Beth Tribe, Howard County (MD) Public Library

We discussed:

General Welcoming of People

Colleges Confront Shootings with Survival Training (AP Article here) from the Kept Up Academic Librarian Blog We liked this so much, we are going to add it to the agenda for the first show.

Learning 2.X  — Implementing and Extending the Learning (http://becoming20.pbwiki.com) started the conversation

Getting your staff to continue the “23 things” play model

The Trainer B*tch Session

Links to things discussed in the show can be found at http://delicious.com/tag/tisfortraining

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First show date set: September 12th 10am Eastern.

Looks like my sample participants can all be around on September 12th at 10 eastern, so that is when I will set up the first taping.

Details to follow about how to participate, so subscribe to this blog feed to keep up with the podcast.

When the time comes, I hope you subscribe, listen and most importantly participate.

Thank you for your support.

Help create the T is for Training podcast!

Help create a podcast that speaks to you!

Inspired by Uncontrolled Vocabulary, I am starting a podcast directed at the library training community.  and I am using talkshoe because you call in on a phone and use a VOIP client.  Yeah!

So far it is called “T is for Training”

I hope to bring together other training professionals who work in or with libraries together to share stories, information and some laughs.

If you are on friendfeed, there is a friendfeed room called T is for Training. Feel free to join and participate.

If you are not on friendfeed, leave your comments here and help to shape the show……

or you can use delicious to bookmark ideas by tagging them tisfortraining

Lets create something great!