Category Archives: Instruction

Twitter for Beginners at NSLS Comments

I’m presenting this talk on Twitter for a local networking group of librarians involved with computer instruction. Here are my slides. Please let me know if you have any questions!

Understanding YouTube Comments

Recently, I gave a presentation on YouTube at mpow. It was a lot of fun and I even had the audience attempt to do the wave for a short video I uploaded. At the start of the class, only about a quarter of the attendees indicated an interest in both watching and sharing videos on [...]

TechMunchies: Best Websites of 2008 Comments

Had our first TechMunchies event today. TechMunchies is a new staff training series at my library to help staff get comfortable with technology in an easy-going, informal setting. It’s a lunch-time series, so staff can bring food and eat and converse while learning something new. I see it as a continuation of the Learning 2.0 [...]

Too Good to Be True? Comments

Just learned about these free software cheatsheets and initially thought that it was too good to be true. Then I started downloading them and from what I can tell, they’re great and there’s no catch to using them. You don’t even need to register with Customguide.com.
Topics include Mac OS X, Microsoft Office, CS3, Firefox, and [...]

Who’s Craig and what’s this list of his? Comments

I taught a class called  ”Using Craigslist to Buy, Rent, Sell and More” tonight and it went well. One student brought a souvenir book from the 1st Taste of Chicago in 1977. She created an ad for it and posted it under collectibles for $25 obo, which I thought was kind of a low price.
Anyways, [...]