Julie Edwards: And i'm gonna start. Sl everybody in if you want to actually bring up your introductory side. Just so. They know where they're coming in. Yeah, it looks great, and we'll get started.
Julie Edwards: Hello, everybody, and welcome.
Julie Edwards: We're gonna get started in just a few minutes here, but feel free to head over to the chat and introduce our yourselves. Let us know where you're from, and if you feel like it, let us know how much experience you have with online instruction.
Julie Edwards: I'll throw that in the chat. We do full transparency. We do save the chat because there's often so much good information going back and forth. You do not have to go into the chat if you don't want to. We do put it on our blog after. So if you don't want that, and up there you don't have to. But if you are willing to say hi, we would love to know where everybody is
joining us from
Julie Edwards: this morning or this afternoon. wherever you are.
Julie Edwards: Hi, Tennessee, hey? Oklahoma! Hi, Chicago. My job title includes online learning awesome Missouri, South Dakota. Hi, that's a place you don't see too often. Hey? New York, Santa Fe.
Julie Edwards: My favorite places. Hey? California.
Julie Edwards: Colorado, Georgia so and I see everybody. Hey? New York City. more New Yorkers Oregon, Riverton, Wyoming. Oh, my goodness! I I taught for a couple of semesters at Central Wyoming College, which is, i'm guessing where you're at. Wow! So nice to see somebody from Teeny, tiny little central Wyoming.
Julie Edwards: Oh.
Emily Mroczek: i'm excited to see a bowling brooks because I live in Water Edge, and we have them 2 Chicago friends, too. But
Emily Mroczek: Colin Brook is my next door name.
Julie Edwards: Awesome. Thank you all so much for joining us. We you know we're right at the top of the hour. We're gonna go ahead and get started. So I am Julie Edwards. I am the a librarian and an instructional designer with Niche Academy, and I am joining you from Missoula Montana, where it is trying so hard to be spring outside.
Julie Edwards: So we'll get started here. Let me start by introducing Niche Academy really quickly, and then we'll jump right in. Niche Academy is an easy to use all in one learning platform that helps libraries create and deliver effective training and measure student success.
Julie Edwards: So our software is the perfect tool for libraries looking to increase your E resource, usage, deliver information, literacy, instruction and measure student success and provide training for your patrons and your staff, including your essential student employees.
Julie Edwards: So if you're interested in finding out more about our e-learning solution, chatting with a member of our team. Hearing what your colleagues and other academic libraries have to say, i'll drop a link in the chat so that you can see a little bit about what we do.
Julie Edwards: We are recording this Webinar and I will make the recording and the slides and the chat and audio transcripts available on our blog after the Webinar. So i'll email you directly in a few days with all of that information. So you can just sit back, relax, and listen to what Emily has to say this afternoon or this morning, depending on where you are.
Julie Edwards: you can turn on the closed captioning at the bottom of your screen. If you would like to use that, the chat is open, please go ahead and talk with each other in the chat. Share your ideas and experiences. If you have a question for Emily, though, please put it in the question and answer box. There are quite a few of us here, almost 250 already.
Julie Edwards: and things can get lost in the chat. So if you have a question for Emily, put it in the Q. A. Box, and I will do my best to moderate the questions. Towards the end of the Webinar. This Webinar series is part of our commitment to solving bigger problems in the library world and providing continuing education for librarians. I'm so happy that you've joined us today. I'll drop a link to our blog in the chat so that you can see some of our upcoming webinars, including specific webinars for academic librarians. We have one coming up in June on partnerships for student success, that you may all be interested in. I'll drop a link to that also.
Julie Edwards: So without further ado. Our presenter today is Emily Morotech. Emily is a children's Services librarian in the Chicago suburbs. And while that may seem strange at first glance for an academic Webinar, I think those of us who have been in teaching know that some of our biggest
Julie Edwards: allies and supporters and co- collaborators are youth and school librarians, because we see all their students when they get into our classrooms.
Julie Edwards: She's worked in various libraries across the Us for the past 5 years and has a focus on bridging the digital divide and online learning.
Julie Edwards: Her experience includes working as an instructional design assistant at the High School at the University of Illinois, at Urbana Champaign, which is also where I went to school designing computer labs for churches and training children and seniors in the use of technology. I'm super happy to have her with us today, and with that I will turn the Webinar over to Emily.
Emily Mroczek: Hi, everyone, and thank you so much for that introduction, Julie, and Yes, High School forever. I'm forever indebted to that place, and loved it so much
Emily Mroczek: and so much. Chicago suburbs. Love today that makes me happy. Great place to live. Weather is everywhere always
Emily Mroczek: so. I'm so excited to see so many of you and seeing where everyone is from today. And yeah, we're here to talk about online instruction and kind of looking at practical tense.
Emily Mroczek: Oh, thanks, list. We do know our stuff and my name's Emily, my own check, my maintenance names. They see it's hard. I used to go by that. It's how I remember people.
Emily Mroczek: and I know we already introduced yourself in the chat. But well, i'm talking about me if you want to say what type of library you're at. I know we have a lot of academic librarians, but age level helps, and just how much experience you have with online instruction that does help me show what you're looking for today, and just how I can really be of service to you.
Emily Mroczek: And yeah, I mean, you services like room, but I have always been called to technology. I think, when I started at the High School I was a leap Ta, and so I worked at the help desk, and I also worked as a ta in all the online clash
Emily Mroczek: closes. So we really worked individually with the instructors and with the University, and that's really how I learned everything I know, and kind of carry that over to every job I have, and worked a lot with instructions. So I see we have a lot of reference instruction librarians here, some newbies, some traditional. This is good to hear from. Thank you.
Emily Mroczek: Oh, a few 100% remote and different things on Moldy Dale. I know you. Hi
Emily Mroczek: and Academic librarian. Oh, so good to see all these different types of people and everybody. Thank you. Thank you.
Emily Mroczek: And now we get to have a poll Just kind of just see what you're looking to learn about today. It'll be coming up on your screen. And what information are you most looking to learn about on today's Webinar? And what you do is you get to rank your top 3.
Emily Mroczek: So we have pedagogy, transferring that, we have practical tips, making policy, building, community copyright to develop accessibility and finding and recommended resources.
Emily Mroczek: Because if there's something that everyone is more interested in or just wants to know a little more that can help me out.
Emily Mroczek: Yes, Hi, Brandy, a former guest listener leads classes, and Jill are amazing that definitely so. Yes, If you can answer this poll, we'll give it a little more time, and
Emily Mroczek: this helps me see what you're interested in. And to me that something that's always important and online instruction is trying to know your audience and trying to find where they're at, which can be hard when you're over the digital screen.
Emily Mroczek: I see I have one that said the submit Doesn't work column. One would mean most important and column 3. It would mean at least import it.
Emily Mroczek: So if you put them in 1 2 3, and you ring them all, then you should be able to get it in. which is the same 3 yeah selections.
Emily Mroczek: So you can scroll down to see options, and then, if you select 3 at times.
Emily Mroczek: you should be able to somewhere cut down at the bottom.
Emily Mroczek: Hopefully. That helps some people that I haven't problems
Emily Mroczek: and thanks everyone else that is helping to. I appreciate that. And that's something else so important. And I online
if it's other way, the most important is one. And then lease is 3,
Emily Mroczek: and there's a lot of people here. So it just helps me get a little general consensus, and I do, and we're going to give it about 5 more seconds, so put it in.
Emily Mroczek: I will be able to see what the top 3 are, and then that kind of helps me see. And then, if there's more like underneath those aren't going to come off in my top 3, and it's okay. If it's not perfect, it's definitely okay.
Emily Mroczek: If it's not perfect or they're going area for someone. We're just getting a general consensus here.
Emily Mroczek: Okay.
Emily Mroczek: Now I'm able to see it. It looks like we have a lot of interest
Emily Mroczek: and pedagogy practical tips
Emily Mroczek: policy, and we have interest in everything. So that's good
Emily Mroczek: and asking for tips and everything. Okay, this is all good information, and this helps me out because I just want to know more about what everyone is looking for. So you're welcome to say in the chat to if you have specific questions and in the question and answer, because
Emily Mroczek: I just really want to be able to be here for what people are looking for. Confidence online. Yes, that's definitely a good one, too.
Emily Mroczek: and it can be really hard. But I also think that's confidence anywhere, and it's we don't have to always think about it online and think about it such as a box.
So i'm here also because I wrote a book.
Emily Mroczek: and this is called Online Instruction, a practical Guide of Librarians.
Emily Mroczek: and I was approached at the beginning of the pandemic to come up for something that was more based for librarians and kind of looking at librarians and speaking to them and talking about being online and what can really help them. So I kind of went through the chapter. 2
Emily Mroczek: items that we could talk about today is looking at pedagogy, changing that to the online perspective, making a community finding a collect platform and just seeing how you can take resources and know everything that you need. And you're like giving the best services both to people that you're instructing to and to people that are coming and talking to you and trying to engage. Yes, it's really really hard and really complicated. But something I always remind everyone is.
it's hard, and it's complicated in recent to.
Emily Mroczek: and it's easy to think of online as this whole separate thing and something totally new. But something during mygrade. You're gonna make mistakes in real life, too. You're gonna have bad days you're gonna be off. It happens everywhere and
Emily Mroczek: online doesn't need to be anything different. Or this perfect foolproof world that's hard because it's recorded a lot, and then it doesn't go away. But we do our best.
Emily Mroczek: Something that comes up a lot and online instruction that I try to remind people is
Emily Mroczek: that looking at your content first is always, what's more important, your message and what you're teaching and kind of reminding to keep your teaching to keep your content and deliver that first, and then think about adding technology, and then think about adding bells and whistles and more things.
Emily Mroczek: and also that you're going to make mistakes. Technical difficulties are gonna happen. Everything is going to break stuff is gonna shut down, and you're going to figure it out. And that happens in real life, too.
Emily Mroczek: that the lakes might go out, or something gets cancelled, or there's something going on outside, and everyone arounds and looks at that.
Emily Mroczek: I know we can have a lot of rules and online instruction, or even a lack of rules which can be complicated. And it's important to listen to your administration and listen to what policies they have, and to follow them, to keep yourself on the good edge. And if you don't have policies.
Emily Mroczek: you should, and that's something that's really important is talking to your administration and making sure that there's something streamlined, because if they want you to do your best job as an instructor, that's what we need.
and just don't reinvent their wheel. It's always important to remember. There's so much out there. There's books like this. There's so many other books that have ideas
Emily Mroczek: that have check. It can be hard to navigate at all. But there's so many communities out there that can help you, and people that might have questions. And that's something even today is we can make a here and talk to people and see if anyone has touch their questions.
Emily Mroczek: And Another huge thing is, remember the online instruction. Virtual programming is here to say, hey.
Emily Mroczek: it's constantly developing is constantly state changing. But it's not going anywhere. We're going to have online classes. We're going to have some form, and it's something that will make you marketable as you move on, and it can be easy to try to resist it or just keep it in person.
Emily Mroczek: But it keeps us going. And as technology moves, so is this.
Emily Mroczek: I think we are a little bit back out of the basics and everything. So i'm just going to speed through this. But I think what's important to remember is that
Emily Mroczek: online instruction in a general teaching, I think, opens a lot of doors that you didn't have. In the first place, the type of people you can collaborate in the guest speakers you can bring
Emily Mroczek: the options, for who can attend your courses? For who can come are a lot different than what you would have. As for getting a person to come physically into a class physically into a program. You can have different ways of people coming in and just getting on a zoom.
Emily Mroczek: And as you see right now, we're here from all over the world, and these are things that just don't as easily happen this isn't a big conference. That's just a Wednesday afternoon.
Emily Mroczek: and I think we all know the cons, too, is that connectivity and the learning curve and the change in keeping track of everything. It is hard. but we are here. You can do it, and you are all able to conquer these challenges.
Emily Mroczek: I know I had a lot of people talking about pedagogy, and there's a lot of different pedagogies that come in teaching and something Julie even said to is that wasn't always teached
taught a lot in librarianship.
Emily Mroczek: even not a ton just on teaching. But you kind of look at everything that is out there, and you can transfer a lot of the different PE the gadgets to the digital world, and see
Emily Mroczek: different uses of how it can help in what you're doing after your day. I'm gonna get a little more into Blooms taxonomy that has main words how you operating and teaching every day.
Emily Mroczek: But I think another one looking at is the hierarchy of needs where we look at safety. Such?
Emily Mroczek: Yeah, I can't talk today and self actualization. And you see, kind of go back to Covid and how much technology played a role in being there for people and for helping people, and how it continues to do that today, and seeing how you can reach people and connect with them through the technology.
Emily Mroczek: but not everyone can always reach, because not everyone might have access to a nice. quiet place to listen to a program where I have the Internet or I have
Emily Mroczek: the hardware to do something
completely. And that's something to always remember when you're looking at your students. You're looking at people that can be hard to see what they visibly have. But they're all coming from different areas.
Emily Mroczek: And then communities of practice is something huge and really hard in this digital world
Emily Mroczek: is building. A community online can be a lot different when you don't have that physical seeing each other and being there every day, and being able to go get a drink after class, you just go on a walk or something, but there are ways, and there are ideas to see how you can do that digitally. And that's something, too, If you want to put in the chat. If you have any ideas of kind of transferring to online to creating that community. You're welcome to put that in.
Emily Mroczek: I know, for me, just to really, in asking for participation and kind of doing like specific questions, or even doing things that are more informal, like kind of meeting, maybe 5 min before, to have some casual attack
Emily Mroczek: talking before or after. It can really help people connect together. Yes, face breakers and polls can be really good. That just kind of keep people going and interacting, because, like now on my screen. I cannot see all of you, so it's hard to know exactly how engaged someone
Emily Mroczek: is, or if they're helping someone do something else, which also is totally okay. We're all human.
Emily Mroczek: Another thing is looking at your different presence and looking how they can be
Emily Mroczek: a part of your teaching and learning. And then we have the social teaching and cognitive presence, and seeing how you can connect, which you've already talked about, that in a while your teaching presence is seeing how you prepare, and there's preparing just your general lesson. And then, seeing what you can do
Emily Mroczek: for engaging with each other for having breakout sessions, Lisa said. That's great for communicating to one another. It's kind of seeing what works for you.
Emily Mroczek: because I know, like myself, personally, I like doing the chat and having people. Look at that and see items through that. But not everyone is going to be able to multitask that way.
Emily Mroczek: and it's about trying things out as an instructor and kind of seeing what works and what doesn't.
Emily Mroczek: And that's something in cognitive presence, too, as when you look at beliefs and learning outcomes and kind of seeing what you can get through this digital environment. Are some people not wanting to have
Emily Mroczek: a camera on? Is that something that's important to them that they don't feel comfortable, or do they not feel comfortable talking and using the microphone because they might
Emily Mroczek: just be having a day where their voice is going so well, or just something's going on at home that you do not need to see that there can be so much going on in an individual person that might be harder to see, too.
Emily Mroczek: when you're going online.
Emily Mroczek: And then I see a question, too, about connecting one in courses is not an instructor, and that's really good. We'll get to that later, and I will keep that question in mind.
Emily Mroczek: And then we talked a little. I talked about blooms digital taxonomy, and it's a bunch of different words about learning and growing, and these are kind of taking it and using the digital ones and having your digital words, so create.
Emily Mroczek: which is, what can you make on line? And these can all be good for projects for things you do in a little bit during the class. Are you making a video a blog? Are you using an edit tar? Are you using the QR code of me
Emily Mroczek: and using these can definitely also be ways to engage community. And oh, thanks, Michelle. Very good also ways to build the technical use during
Emily Mroczek: class, and there's a lot of bells and muscles, listened here too.
Emily Mroczek: But I think what's also important to remember. And I said this a few times, seeing what works for you and your students and seeing what can help. And that is okay to try
Emily Mroczek: It's okay to try using something. Then, using a certain poll, you're using an application and then, being like, okay, that didn't go so well today. All right. Maybe we'll try that more last time
Emily Mroczek: next time, Western.
Emily Mroczek: and then we look at the value a. It's kind of seeing how there's big and little ways that you can get. People's feedback. For example, you can go through
Emily Mroczek: doing online. Grading is the big feedback or the big idea as well. So how you can do little things? Can you ask for check in questions in the middle of class? Can you do surveys? What can you do casually? I know on zoom, for example, another way for feedback is just using the reaction buttons
Emily Mroczek: and seeing where people can be part of that.
Emily Mroczek: and then analyzing it's kind of another way of actually working in a class. What can you make? What can you collaborate together
Emily Mroczek: and
Emily Mroczek: kind of survey and link to actually get data and see what is happening in the class, either not only about your class, but also about what you're learning the content.
Emily Mroczek: And then we see there's more at the bottom. Just apply. Understand any member, and this kind of all shows different ways of getting information and how you can give it out there. And all of these are different. Basically buzz words
Emily Mroczek: that show what you can see in different tools that you can search for, and kind of see a lot of what's recommended, or what's not. And I know it's always been nice for me, too, is that there's so much that can be built into the program. And you're doing
Emily Mroczek: which is really nice. But it's also finding the tools that work for you, too.
Emily Mroczek: Okay, I got a little bit of love for policies and procedures, but not a ton. So if we have any specific questions on that, please throw them in.
Emily Mroczek: But the biggest thing about policies and procedures, I think, is that it's really important to state intentions to ever is in your class, maybe stating something at the beginning or working together for community agreements and coming up with something so people know it's a safe space. They're all a part of it together
and depending on what type of teaching you're doing. If it's a one off Webinar like this, or a whole long course, that kind of changes. What type of interaction you can have.
Emily Mroczek: and maybe people even say things like I don't feel comfortable with this session being recorded, or I don't feel comfortable on camera. This is kind of how you can get a feel for what everyone has.
Emily Mroczek: and something to remember as we go through. All of this is that your institution might have individual policies that you have to go by, and just like in a regular class or something. You might have those policies, and then you have smaller ones that you can make for your individual classroom, and that's something to look at, as you're doing the usual things in the classroom, but also going on online. Do you want to ask people to not take screenshots?
Emily Mroczek: Are you asking them for a certain thing? How? What are the rules and what do people want to respect? And security is also something important. That kind of goes on. The broader institutional level, too.
Emily Mroczek: is this seen in playing something like a waiting room, only having access.
Emily Mroczek: Academic institutions are going to be more locked typically, but I know if it's a smaller one, it's not as common.
Emily Mroczek: but having all this information is really helpful, and if I know we have a lot of people that are general librarians, and if you don't have this for you. This is something to talk to your supervisors about.
Emily Mroczek: and say that we need more policies, and we need more information. I know sometimes it can be hard to have more, but having stuff
Emily Mroczek: and having it laid out there. So you know what to do can be really helpful.
Emily Mroczek: especially if there's an in situation where something weird happens. There's something wrong. Then you can send it up the letter, and it's not something that has to be your worry, because what you want to worry about most is sharing that information and doing your best job team chain.
Emily Mroczek: and that can be really hard. Another thing I know is like looking at technology, and something I always try to do for that is, if I have a syllabus, or if i'm learning something, I might say like
Emily Mroczek: we could. We ask questions or simple troubleshooting advice is something I gave
Emily Mroczek: for a class. I had it. It's almost like a checklist to go through. If you don't have audio, this is what you can do. Check that you are connected.
Emily Mroczek: Check that the right boxes are pressed in your audio settings. If that still doesn't work, turn it off or turn it back on, and just having a list of like 10 things that people can go through because a lot of times if you're the only person teaching a class. What you really want to do is teach.
Emily Mroczek: and you don't necessarily have time to be troubleshooting. Every individual person and seeing what they need.
Emily Mroczek: And that's also like today. I have Julie with me. Thanks, Julie, and that's really great helping her to help people out and to guide.
Emily Mroczek: But that's not always going to be possible in every class and every organization. But that's something to even advocate, for if you have a bigger event, or if you have something that's a little more complicated as soon as you can get someone on one session and getting someone with you just to be there, kind of as that second person.
Emily Mroczek: And if people think you don't need that, that's the same thing you would do in person to is sometimes you have a Ga. Sometimes you have extra help. Sometimes someone else is in a room Really, in real life they probably wouldn't let you in a room alone with 400 people.
Emily Mroczek: So that's something to advocate for if anyone's getting new trouble, too.
Emily Mroczek: And yes, I saw someone talk about staff training, too, and that's something else. So to really advocate. For in your university, or even at
Emily Mroczek: chest.
Emily Mroczek: a larger level in your state is just having practice sessions at the beginning. I know it came from the High School, and it was really robust. I was in.
Emily Mroczek: The 2,000 was when I went, and just having the training and having the tutorials and having people actually practice was when they learned the most. Because your your name, by doing, and that's something that is your organization doesn't offer. You can ask for it.
Emily Mroczek: and you should ask for it, and they should give you it, and you can also see to just like, Linda said. If you can get colleagues to practice and work together, and kind of have, like a mind share session, we can even. That's a good way to to try out new tools that you might want to use
Emily Mroczek: in a different program.
Emily Mroczek: and you might not really wanna like. Unveil it with everyone, but you could try it out with some of your friends or some of your colleagues, and that could be a mass. Julie set like instructional design departments a lot of times. That's what they're here for is to help, or they might have the simple ideas which can be great.
Emily Mroczek: Okay, now, we get some more interaction that this is one of the tools that I like using. So we want everyone to go to mentee.com. You can type it in your phone. You can type it on your computer. And then we have a question. I just need you to use the code. 7 6 9 2 8 2 5 8,
Emily Mroczek: So that's mentee, m I n t, i.com 7 6 9 2 8 2 5 8,
Emily Mroczek: and then you will see a question on there saying, what is your biggest challenge in online instruction.
Emily Mroczek: and you can type in? I'm seeing a little bit. Here's some men to love technology engagement instructor buy in community and their activity. And we're all seeing this too hopefully. Someone can tell me on the chat that would
Emily Mroczek: help my confidence. See, I need it too.
Juggling presence thanks, Julie.
Emily Mroczek: Community building. The number for me is 7 6 9 2 8 2 5 8,
Emily Mroczek: And so this is a tool that is one of my favorites, because, as you see, all you're working together and building a word cloud, and then that's kind of something that's engaging all of us as you have something
Emily Mroczek: to do, and we're also comes together and creates this graphic that everyone's able to see. So now I think I need my magnifying glass to see how
Emily Mroczek: small this is getting. But that's good right. Tools, confidence, knowledge. accessibility is definitely a huge one. Okay, students turning out students sharing work, attention.
Emily Mroczek: student interest in their activity. You know, a lot of building community and assessment guidance guidance is definitely a huge one.
Emily Mroczek: Collaboration.
Emily Mroczek: This is a lot of really good information.
Emily Mroczek: and I don't know to. I can probably Julie save the image, too, so everyone can see the answers. I can add it to the slides after
Emily Mroczek: before you send them out. I think we're able to do that, because it's kind of really fun to see what everyone is saying. And this is something that you can use in a course, too. And people can
Emily Mroczek: just having the different ways for interactivity. And yeah, I like using the mentee because it engages. But it's not like overly complicated that I end up breaking something
Emily Mroczek: correct. Linda. You need to be engaged for it because I've had times to where I put it up, and then I only got like 2 answers, and I like super cool, then
Emily Mroczek: completely. Oh, okay, I've seen a lot of information and some good answers to your attention and structure. Time, and I think sometimes it can be good and
Emily Mroczek: see and identify what your biggest challenge is, and then kind of try to focus on how you can improve that. Okay, now, i'm trying to get back
Emily Mroczek: for myself right now. A lot of times when i'm doing instruction. One of my biggest challenges
Emily Mroczek: is not having 2 screens, and not being able to see the questions and my slides.
Emily Mroczek: And that's something right now is I do have 2 screens, and I think if you do a lot of instruction, that's something you should definitely ask for having some space you can go to.
Emily Mroczek: And now i'm seeing if Mentee works with international students. Yes, like what I was just using what's totally free. And then it works with anyone with the word connection.
Emily Mroczek: and I see kind of dealing with different thanks for the accessibility statement. I feel dealing with different levels of tech stuff and techability and going through that
Emily Mroczek: definitely to. So I saw a lot of people talking about building community to. and that's something also that's really hard, and I think to remember is.
Emily Mroczek: I've said this a 1 million times in this Webinar, but it can be hard in real life, and it can be held online. And I just want everyone to remember to give themselves grace. and that you're always gonna have
Emily Mroczek: classes or people that aren't exactly your best ones or your best days, and all you can do is, bring your tools and bring your best.
Emily Mroczek: and
Emily Mroczek: try as much as you can, and I think finding ways to have engagement and really helpful finding ways to expand. As one of my favorite parts of teaching online is, you can bring it out so much better. You can have panel discussions with people from other libraries.
You can have guest speakers. You can also screen, share, and use the virtual field trips for a lot of different items that you might not necessarily be able to pull up quite as easily. You don't need to get the full projector or get the full. I have a video.
Emily Mroczek: and I know myself is Sometimes I even go back to like those early Covid blog posts and articles, and I find myself that I didn't really have time when I was so overwhelmed in 2020
Emily Mroczek: that I didn't look at everything. But now I see what still exists. and I go back, and i'm looking at the virtual field. And i'm looking at the virtual ideas. And i'm like, okay.
Emily Mroczek: Now that I have a little more time. What can I use from this? What can I transfer into what I'm doing? Kind of seeing it after and leaving time for reflection and fun is always important, and I think it's really easy. You can see me doing it right now.
Emily Mroczek: just like talking away on the screen. But remembering that like it's okay to spend some of your minutes doing a poll, or it's okay to just end 5 min early and have people talk for a little bit.
Emily Mroczek: and I know something that's gonna happen to is that
Emily Mroczek: you might have 5 min for people to talk, and then they'll just log off because they want to be gone. which is totally normal, and will happen in real life, too. And then i'm, seeing that yes, not every student will be in a mental, emotional place where they can learn, and having one on one.
Emily Mroczek: Appointments are having time and being available, is definitely, really really important for building community, but also establishing boundaries for yourself is important
Emily Mroczek: and trying to set when your business hours are, or one you're available, or you could have times or in an open meeting room and zoom, and you have people talk to and ask them to reach out to you. But I know, with this online education and
Emily Mroczek: the natural personality of libraries that can be hard to check out or turn it off, and we want everyone else to have boundaries to. so that
Emily Mroczek: you stay same. We do our best reading the room, which can be harder on line than anything
Emily Mroczek: you can even see, like some things I did today, or using chat to engage. If you have people's videos on, and you're looking at that, it can also help using emojis as seeing what you can do and just asking for feedback and moving your open to it
Emily Mroczek: is something
Emily Mroczek: I know that, like sometimes i'll say, I try to always repeat that i'm open to feedback, and that means
Emily Mroczek: after I said a few times, people are more likely to give me something, and then
Emily Mroczek: it's not always necessarily feedback, I want to hear, but I really try to develop the tiff thick skin and realize if they're comfortable coming to me that that's important, and having that comfort and just reminding people. That is okay.
Emily Mroczek: And then if it's feedback. But I don't like I can go cry about it for a little bit and then move on with my life. It's okay.
Emily Mroczek: And now we talk a little about thinking about platforms, and you can even say in the chat here. But I think it's a big thing like looking at your requirements. I'm sure a lot of you might use certain Lms systems as a whole, or for learning.
Emily Mroczek: and that you might be pigeon hold into that or pigeon hold into what you use for video conferencing
Emily Mroczek: and video editing. And I know, like doing this webinar today. It's like you're doing zoom, and that's fine. Zoom is great. And sometimes it's you're doing Google meet. This is what's happening
Emily Mroczek: and
Emily Mroczek: using the different ones. Sometimes you can really be just tool from higher powers to be what you're doing. But it's also kind of remembering, too, that you do have the freedom to make recommendations
Emily Mroczek: and see if something might work better for your institution, and also see where your freedom lies on a smaller level like. Could you use a different video conferencing for one on one meetings something that might have a little more privacy or capabilities for you, or more accessible to some of your students. Is it easier to get on something else.
Emily Mroczek: Is it easier to record and do something using Youtube or Facebook live? Or Yes, I had to put in the Academy, because that's what we ended up using at one of my old libraries for
Emily Mroczek: all of our videos for virtual story times, and they were very strict that we could only use Nature Academy because they knew that we had the privacy and the closed access on there.
Emily Mroczek: and that was what they had us do. Yes, live captioning is a big consideration, I know, like we have this one on zoom. But it
Emily Mroczek: the one that comes with the zoom Can I vary in quality, and there's a spine more that might be a little bit better
Emily Mroczek: that can help it for your people. Yeah, Zoom is like, Are you getting people come in. They've really tried up the security with passwords and everything, but it's kind of seeing what they can do better.
Emily Mroczek: And yeah, so we could just shout at each academy all the time, Julie, look at that.
Emily Mroczek: And I think the combining is something that I try to realize more. Is that looking at what i'm doing individually, who i'm speaking to, and I don't need to use the same platform every time.
Emily Mroczek: and that it could be. Sometimes it's easier for me to just go. I know zoom Zoom is fine, but really they do all have a lot of similarities, and if you understand one you will be able to jump on another one and kind of see how it goes.
Emily Mroczek: And then we've talked a little bit just about different resources, and I know, like we used to. We kind of use the bill in the ones on zoom like we use the pull session there. And if you want to even say in this chat
Emily Mroczek: like resources that you think could be helpful, and ones that you like using. I know people always like sharing and seeing. I know Sometimes I just really like the Google Form builders, and that's how a lot of people did like for your escape rooms. But I just use it for a lot of different resources, and I can go fast
Emily Mroczek: and send it out.
Emily Mroczek: And that's definitely one that I like. And I think when you're looking at resources. It's important to think about what can add to your programming. What can add to what you're doing and what it's just gonna be 2 months
Emily Mroczek: like. I recommend only trying one new one during a session. So you're not just overloading people and also
Emily Mroczek: trying to see if you're getting
Emily Mroczek: good feedback from people Google form who
Emily Mroczek: builders. So on Google, you kind of can make a form and Google forms it's just available on there and a lot of times it's used for people just to fill out like addresses or information, but it can also be used for like a survey. I've used it for dates for trying to
Emily Mroczek: find a meeting time, but I've also used it a lot for, like digital escape rooms, or, like find your own adventure, and I find that it's pretty simple to build and put together, and for people to access which can be really helpful.
Emily Mroczek: And Google does have a lot of different tools.
Emily Mroczek: and a lot of sites do, and then it's finding what works best for you and your audience, seeing what accessibility resources they have. And sometimes there's some add on to that can help you with accessibility, or do like read and write. Has text to speech. Doesn't always work the best for me.
Emily Mroczek: But Rev. Has the live captions, and there's different ranging types of how good that can help you. And yeah, if anyone I see someone talked about play posts
Emily Mroczek: it to incorporate into canvas. I saw people talking about teams, and there's a lot of different resources out there, and I think that's what I also recommend is
Emily Mroczek: creating networks and talking to people, and asking who's using what and what work do what not, because that's your first level of seeing what can work in your classroom, and if it totally bombed in someone's knowing why and knowing what you can do.
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Emily Mroczek: Happy Guy.
Emily Mroczek: all these is complicated and hard and tricky. Something to remember, is it H. Everyone
Emily Mroczek: I don't even know we could do a little thumbs up here if anyone's received this season. Desist Letter
Emily Mroczek: I, that's something that can be really terrifying and scary. If someone says you're using their information. But really it happens to people all the time that just
Emily Mroczek: about correcting something, then, and taking it down when you're changing the name and working with the organizations. And this is another time where your institution needs to have their policy on copyright. There needs to be something, and I know someone set up there, too, is. It can be helpful to have real. So you know what to do.
Emily Mroczek: and learning your institutions policy and going with what they have. because I know my institution that was constantly changing during Covid to just what they wanted to do and what they were comfortable with.
Emily Mroczek: and it was just keeping up with. That was how our supervisor said to that he could support us best.
Emily Mroczek: and I think it's important to use the Creative Commons to look at the different laws, to look at fair use and public domain, and the teach act, and these all like they can be read a little differently. What is fair use and what is okay, but it's reading it
Emily Mroczek: and consulting with someone else, asking your supervisor asking if you're confused and really doing the best you can. And then, if you get notification that something strong, you can take it down, and you can move on.
Emily Mroczek: And I also think what's really important to think about is what is being recorded and visible to everyone. If something's like on Youtube and public.
Emily Mroczek: And what is this closed, and only seen to people in your classroom, or that they need to have a password to see it. That's something to think about with. Everything you're putting on line is who has access to it.
Emily Mroczek: and for how long?
And yes, there's a tutorial on it.
Emily Mroczek: Julie said. Thanks, Nish Academy.
Emily Mroczek: or for all main choices of tag. I might add that for the Q. A.
Emily Mroczek: And then digital accessibility. I know a lot of people are talking about accessibility a little bit, too, and that's definitely something. I think accessibility can be harder and
Emily Mroczek: also easier on line. Is, it's awesome how you can reach people everywhere, how you can get to them how people might be having a bad day, and can listen from home or tune in from home. Or maybe they have kids.
Emily Mroczek: and maybe they have something happening, but it also can be hard. Maybe if people can't see the screen, maybe they don't have access to a computer or a good
Emily Mroczek: Internet connection or call your considerations, and that something is, there are a lot of good resources online that kind of show you what you can look at for accessibility, and seeing people that have low vision that have color, blindness that have different.
Emily Mroczek: How this
Emily Mroczek: and something I really like is the
Emily Mroczek: or principles of accessibility. Po you are. It's something really good to look at and think about when you're doing and seeing if people are able to perceive it
Emily Mroczek: by using assistive technologies or looking at it in different ways and attending online classes on phone. Yes, that can be really hard to. I think that's something that institutions
Emily Mroczek: need to look at it as a whole 2 is seeing. What can we to people having issues of activity. accessibility? Can we get them access to a device is there somewhere they can go. And seeing how that institution can help
Emily Mroczek: and what assistive technology adds: yeah, some student support offices. Thanks, Julie. There's a lot of different things you can add with headings, with making stuff easier to navigate with using alternative tax.
Emily Mroczek: And I just really recommend you to look at what you can add, and what you can put at to make things a little bit easier.
Emily Mroczek: Look at. Okay.
Emily Mroczek: So this Webinar, all this goes way faster than I think it was going to.
Emily Mroczek: but I always try to leave something with actionable steps, and as you're going, I hope you learned a little more. If there's a question in the chat that you didn't get answered, you can add it to the Q. A. And i'm on my last few times. But we have like 10 min for more questions, too.
Emily Mroczek: But I also just like to think that you have a St. Moving forward core is the accessibility.
Emily Mroczek: 4 principles of accessibility.
Emily Mroczek: and I can read them a little bit if you're asking again.
Emily Mroczek: And i'm typing in all caps that's going
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Emily Mroczek: But I think looking at. If your high level and administration is what you can change about funding about policies and about evaluating what you do. Supervisors is also what training you can give to people.
Emily Mroczek: and what support you can give to people that you're in charge of, and how you can give them feedback, concrete, constructive criticism, or a positive feedback.
Emily Mroczek: and then, if you're an instructor, it's about finding a network of people you can share advice with, or get ideas, seeing if you can find a new tool, and then, seeing who are your attendees are, and what questions you can have for them, and how you can learn from them and see what they really need.
Emily Mroczek: And so I know we covered a lot of information and a certain amount of time. And so, if you have more questions or more resources. Now, yeah, or your services you want to share. You're welcome to keep talking of the
Emily Mroczek: chat and keep sharing, and then i'm going to start looking at the Q. A. To
Julie Edwards: and so much, Emily, I just want to say, before we get to today. This is his has been great, and I just want to remind everybody that i'm going to share all of the slides and the recording and the Chat Transcript. That'll all be on our blog in a few days. So go ahead, Emily.
Emily Mroczek: Okay? Well, thank you so much. And yes, I have a lot of resources in the book I wrote, and I can send you to. I know we kind of one at the top
Emily Mroczek: the baseline of a lot of things. So if there's something you're looking for more specific resources on you are welcome to reach out to me, and I have my email on here
Emily Mroczek: and now. I'm gonna look at the Q. A a little. And yes, how do you determine when to emphasize synchronous during asynchronous?
Emily Mroczek: And
Emily Mroczek: yeah, something when I try to think about that is I try to think what.
Emily Mroczek: when i'm looking at my content and my users, what is going to be the same every time
Emily Mroczek: like, am I just teaching you how to add something to your email signature. Am I just teaching you how to use something very basic? Then that's something that can be asynchronous, and people just can watch recording.
Emily Mroczek: But when do I want to have an open conversation and kind of like today, where I was trying to answer questions and see what people are looking for.
Emily Mroczek: then that would be something that would be more open. Or if you see that you get the same question a 100 times, you're like, okay, 100 people can benefit from this. Maybe this should be a polished, permanent resource, and also kind of looking at. If something's going to go away.
Emily Mroczek: or if it's not, if we're gonna have this resource for a long time, then it's something we can make per minute.
Emily Mroczek: But if it's something new or something. We might have individuals questions. Then we'll try to do it together.
Emily Mroczek: And now I see another one is, how do you get over in nervousness regarding public speaking.
Emily Mroczek: And yeah, that can definitely be a tricky one. And I think that is also doing it more
Emily Mroczek: trying to continue. I think sometimes this is the first presentation where I did not enlist any of my friends to come in and tell me I was doing a good job. and I've been presenting for years, and usually on public presentations, this big. I would have someone here.
Emily Mroczek: and that can be really a sharing when you have someone that you know, is your fan. and can keep you going when you think you might be totally well in a presentation.
Emily Mroczek: I think also, what helps is that, realizing that you're not alone, and a lot of individuals are here people. They generally do want you to succeed, and just try to remember the positive comment. So for the negative ones. Easier said than done, I know, and just. I've said this a few times, but using what works for you when you're getting on
polls and interaction
Emily Mroczek: like if talking to the chat doesn't work for you and multitasking, then you don't need to do it.
Emily Mroczek: But if having a poll is something you can do, and isn't as hard. Then that can be helpful. And that can be something that's interactive. Because if you're not comfortable with it's not going to go well.
Emily Mroczek: And then I say, Michael, asking the 10 days what works for them.
Emily Mroczek: And yeah, I think that kind of depends on what you're exactly
Emily Mroczek: doing and like, if this is a one off kind of like today, you could. I tried a little bit like having the poll and seeing what people are looking for, and I didn't love because I kind of got all similar answers, so that didn't help me a lot. That was a way I tried to like, see if I could focus more on something.
Emily Mroczek: And I also kind of might do
Emily Mroczek: where I have in my head, like we can focus more on this or this, or even have different options like this is a video I can watch if the people want to do a short video, but if they would rather go into breakout groups, so you could have 2 options in your head.
Emily Mroczek: kind of see from attendees, which optional to work more for them. and just having the options available can be a good way.
Julie Edwards: And, Emily, we had some questions come in earlier that I have set aside. If you're if you would like to.
Emily Mroczek: Yeah, awesome. So somebody was asking, Are you
Julie Edwards: clarifying for students what authorized acceptable use of AI so like using chat, gpt, or things like that. How? How? How do you recommend being upfront about what's okay and what's not?
Emily Mroczek: And that's something that's really hard, because it's so new and ever changing, and that something. I've said this a bunch of time where it is really good to have an organizational policy or something
Emily Mroczek: that is kind of created at a larger level. So it's consistent. because that's easier for the students to, because then they're like, Well, we've done this in this class, this in that one.
Emily Mroczek: And then I think it's also just looking at
Emily Mroczek: what makes sense and kind of like. Okay, if this is a question when we want this person's individual creative juices.
Emily Mroczek: then do we completely ban it totally, or is it helping, getting the information and doing that and kind of finding a line which is really hard to enforce.
Emily Mroczek: but having the policy and having it, there can be really helpful and just having it stated in the syllabus. And because some people are going to break the rules always, but if it exists and it's printed out, you are going to have a lot of people that will follow the rules.
Emily Mroczek: The real follower is that hard? So I know not the perfect answer. But we're figuring it out. Yeah, Julie, get this chat, Gbt Webinar, please.
Julie Edwards: Not by me, though we're definitely working on it. I am. I am really trying to get a training going on. Chat. Gbt: so everybody send good wives for that.
Julie Edwards: If there are any other questions for Emily, please feel free to to drop them in the Q. A. Real quick.
Julie Edwards: You're getting a lot there, if you have like individual questions or resources you want more about.
Emily Mroczek: I was saying you're getting a lot of thank yous coming in. And in fact, someone said, I love the way you were able to steer the presentation based on the chat. I've seen many people try that on the fly, but you did an amazing job.
Emily Mroczek: So well, thank you, and I know I think that's something that's my individual style. I really try to do, and some days it goes better, and some not as much. But I also think, especially in something like this. Our biggest
Emily Mroczek: has. That is all of the people and the brains in here and see what everyone is doing, because I know you're all doing amazing work. So thank you for everything you're doing, and you can do this out there.
Emily Mroczek: I believe in all of you.
Julie Edwards: I do, too. I love having all librarians in in Webinars like this. There's so much great information being shared. I will share the Chat Transcript. I will share the slides and the recording and the audio Transcript. Emily. Thank you so much for this presentation.
Julie Edwards: and thank you all for attending. I hope to all see you all at the next presentation. Oh, one question Somebody is asking if Menti is available without a subscription. I think the answer is Yes, right.
Emily Mroczek: Yes, I used it without the subscription. and my book was published by Roman and Little Field.
Julie Edwards: and there'll be a link to Emily's book in the blog that i'll send out also, so you can directly access that, and maybe add it to your collection.
Julie Edwards: Thank you all so much for attending. We'll see you at the next Webinar, Our next Academics specific Webinar is June 20, eighth on partnering with student success offices, and we hope to see you all there. Have a great afternoon, everyone.