Day 2: Distance Learning Discussion Group
Saturday, January 12th, 2008I first attended the discussion for LITA’s Distance Learning Group. Seeing as how part of my job at OHIONET is going to be developing a distance learning training schedule, I figured its topics would be of interest–and I was right!Many of the librarians who attended were academic librarians–and they recounted some of the most successful technology integration strategies at their various libraries including, but not limited to:
- Using Twitter as a way of communicating such “immediate” things as printers not working, emergency closings, etc.
- Implementing a text-messaging service to alert those users that have signed up for the service of various library-related things
- Adding a “blog-like structure” to online classes in addition to any other type of e-classroom module for those users that are more familiar with the blog style
