A workbook designed to provide staff with an introduction to mentoring, tools for defining roles and responsibilities for all involved in the relationship, examples of a partnership agreement, and tips on evaluating the relationship.

Article for trainers about motivating e-learners

Using Excel, an example of a month by month project plan for transitioning to a new web conferencing tool and in preparation for an online event.

A best practices handout created by Karen Burns, Cindi Hickey and Jennifer Peterson in conjunction with PLA 2010 for their presentation: Expanding your world through Web Conferencing: Connecting small libraries in big ways.

Use this handout with the Presenting Like a Pro Lesson to effectively talk through the standard pitfalls of presenting and how you can avoid them.

Use this lesson to review the importance of body language and eye contact in building credibility as a presenter as well as standard practices for effective presentation delivery.

A summary of survey and interviews to assess current trends in library inclusion and diversity training.

A list of Rapid Development tools for creating online, self-paced tutorials that can be run from a website, computer desktop, or through an LMS.

I believe the goal of presenting should be to a create a change in the listener; a change of behavior, thinking and/or feeling. Any good teacher or trainer will tell you that to be effective in creating that change, you must begin with the learning objective(s) in mind, and work backwards from there to design the lesson or the talk.

Trainers should consider the impact of technology on e-learners.