Media and Technology Section
Updated: March 30, 2007
Online Classes & Tutorials
OPAL (Online Programming for All Libraries) OPAL is a collaborative effort by libraries of all types to provide cooperative web-based programming and training for library users and library staff members. OPAL allows library patrons and library staff members to participate in online library programs from anywhere. Everyone is welcome to participate in OPAL programs, and libraries of all types are encouraged to become OPAL members. Examples of OPAL public online programs include book discussion programs, interviews, special events, library training, memoir writing workshops, and virtual tours of special digital library collections. Listen to previously held programs or join OPAL for a small annual fee to offer your own library's meetings or workshops.
Podcasting Wiki Put out by the Infopeople project in California, this website is a great place to find tutorials to create podcasts using MACs and PCs.
"101 Tips to Motivate the Online Learner" (.pdf) If you have reluctant online learners, check this article for motivational tips from WebJunction.
The Infopeople Project is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the provisions of LSTA, administered in California by the State Librarian. This site lists current and past workshops as well as archived Webcasts with training materials that include the Powerpoint presentations, handouts and exercises if you would like to adapt any of the topics for training your staff. Included in the freely available past workshop webcasts are the following: "Leading Edge Technologies for Libraries" by Roy Tennant and "Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources" by Joan Frye Williams and George Needham from OCLC.
Learn Web Standards: Online Tutorials
WESTCIV offers several tutorials on XHTML and CSS that can be used at
no charge. They also have classes you can download for a fee, but try
their "current free course" to see if you like them first.
Simmons College
Their Graduate School of Library and Information Science offers a nice
variety of online workshops. Topics include: Alternative and Nontraditional Careers for Information Professionals, Creating Online Tutorials-A Designer's Challenge,Podcasting, VideoBlogging, and Children's Services, New Technologies You Need to Know and Blogging Camp: Easy Content Management Through Web Logs.
SirsiDynix Institute
They offer free web seminars on a variety of library and technology topics.
UW-Madison School of Library & Information Studies Education2Go
For a small fee, you can take an online course on a wide variety of computer
programs and applications. Check out their list and sign up for a 6 week class
today.
UW-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education - Information Technology/Web
Web Design Training
The International Webmasters Association/HTML Writers Guild offers some
good online classes in there web design training program. Fees are
cut substantially if you become an official member.
WebJunction
Learning Center
If you haven’t stopped by WebJunction,
take the time to check it out. This site, created by OCLC and the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation, includes classes on everything from using
the Internet to managing public access computers to HTML and CGI/Perl.
Some classes are free, but many now require a small fee to participate.
W3 Schools Online Web Tutorials
HTML, XML, scripting and more are covered in these walk-through lessons.
