ILDS Training Webcasts
CARLI will provide training for all ILDS participants by webcasts on June 24, and June 27. Each webcast will run approximately 90 minutes and each will cover the same material. Advance registration is required. The webcasts will be held at the following times:
Tuesday, June 24, 10:00 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.
Friday, June 27, 1:30 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.
For those who cannot participate in the webcasts, the slides presented on the webcast will be made available on the ILDS website for use on your own, along with a sample training exercise.
For those unfamiliar with webcasts, the system allows a remote presenter to display a presentation to a geographically distributed audience via the audiences’ computers. CARLI uses a system called Horizon Wimba Live Classroom (Wimba, for short), which you may be familiar with from WebJunction. Audio is provided by a telephone conference call. So, to participate you will need a PC with a web browser; and a telephone, preferably with a speaker phone. You may also wish to use a computer projector if you want to gather a group of staff together to watch the presentation. Please review and complete the detailed setup instructions on the next page well in advance of your session.
Note that due to the caller limits on our conference call system, each session will be limited to 29 callers. If multiple members of your library staff plan to participate as a group using a shared speakerphone, they only need to register as one participant. If your staff will connect from separate phones, please register one person for each phone connection. In the event that we surpass 29 registrants, which is unlikely, preference for these sessions will be given to the new ILDS participants that are becoming delivery stops on July 1, 2008. If need be, we will schedule another session to accommodate any site that is unable to attend one of the sessions due to capacity issues.
Please register at least 24 hours in advance of the session by completing the form below. After completing your registration on the web form, the confirmation message will provide you information about the url for the webcast and the conference call number. We will also resend this to you in email the day before the webcast.
CARLI uses the Wimba webcast system. As far in advance of the webcast as possible, please make sure you can access the Wimba system. Instructions for setting up access to both the web connection to Wimba and the conference call connection for audio are provided in the attachments or http://www.illinoisdelivers.net/wimbaprep.html.