Information Literacy with Web 2.0 - 2. ONLINE event

Information Literacy with Web 2.0 - professionl development for teacher-librarians
Web 2.0, Round 2.0
Frist 15 april
Tid: juni 2009?

The first Your School Library online conference – Transforming School Libraries with Web 2.0 – was held over February and attracted in excess of 200 delegates. According to participant feedback, it was highly successful in stimulating debate and discussion about the school library in the Web 2.0 world. Delegates identified the topic that they wanted to next investigate Information Literacy in a Web 2.0 world, which would look at the emerging digital tools but with a sharper focus.

The second conference will be bigger and bolder that its predecessor in a number of ways. It will be held in June with some special presentations coming online in July. The majority of presentations will be in English but some will be available in Dutch (during June) and in Portuguese (in July). This inclusion of languages other than English will grow as future conferences are developed – others may include German, Swedish, Italian and possibly Chinese.

The cast of presenters continues to unfold but is already impressive. There will be many presentations and delegates will have time to digest them before moderated discussions take place.

Again, the conference will be “held” on the collaboration website Sosius.com. Delegates will use this as a base camp to explore the Web 2.0 world.

The fee structure has been tweaked to encourage workplace teams to engage in the conference. Please take advantage of these special rates. Special fees have been arranged for participants from developing countries.

Our friends in Germany, the Netherlands, Brazil and Portugal will be able to pay in euros by special arrangement. [For Germany, the Netherlands contact Lourense Das, and for Brazil and Portugal contact Maria José Vitorino.] All others pay by paypal in US dollars. Again, feedback from the first conference suggested that this arrangement worked very well and avoided all sorts of currency issues and bank fees.

Please join us as we attempt to work towards a transformation of school libraries.

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