Audience: Librarians interested in Internet Training for Staff or Public Training Classes Length: 55 minutes Handouts: (in TS binder) Learning Styles Activity Interactive Training Ideas Determining a Website's Credibility Lesson Plan Putting the Steps Together Activity Independence in Learning Creating Subject Specific Classes Supplies: Training Strategies Resource CD Guess the URL PowerPoint on disk (optional) Post-it notes Objectives: Participants will be able to: Use learning styles to help shape delivery of training Add interactivities to training Explore subject specific class ideas Estimated Time Topic 7 minutes Introduction & Why do we do this class? 3 minutes Learning Styles Review 15 minutes Learning Styles Activity 3 minutes Making Training Interactive 7 minutes Interactive Training Examples 5 minutes Independence in Training 10 minutes Subject Specific Classes Brainstorm 5 minutes Last Thing to Remember: Resources for Trainers LESSON PLAN CONTENT Time Activity Notes 7 minutes Introduction Training Tip: When you begin planning your class, try to limit yourself to only 3-5 objectives. For example, you might want class participants to understand the structure of the Internet, type in a URL that they have found in an ad, and understand the layout of a web page. Any more can be too overwhelming. What Internet classes do you currently offer? What issues have you run into? Facilitate brief discussion of ongoing Internet training being done in their libraries **Usually this is best if they randomly take turns, rather than going around the table and having every participant speak. Why do we do this class? This class was developed because we saw that many libraries were already doing Internet training, but we got requests for new ideas for their classes. One of the most difficult things about planning Internet classes is that there is so much material to be covered. Even in an introduction class, how can you narrow what you teach? The best way to do this is by setting objectives. 3 minutes Learning Styles Review Guess that Learning Style… Draw an EYE, EAR, DANCERS on the board. Have students guess the characteristics of each learner illustrated. Handout: Learning Styles Activity When teaching beginners about the Internet, it is often difficult to explain some of the complex concepts involved. It is a challenge to present ideas such as the way a web page or email is delivered to a computer. One way to insure that everyone in your class will be able to understand the concepts presented, is by addressing different learning styles. Time Activity Notes 15 minutes Learning Styles Activity Question A: What is the Internet? Question B: What is a Web Address? Possible answers: Show Encarta Internet Interactivity Training Tip: When designing your training classes, examine each of your objectives and make sure that each learning style is addressed in your exercises and explanations. 1) Give out cards, face down. Have each person draw one card. Find the people with the same card. 2) Answer the question in such a way that people with that learning style will be able to understand the concept presented. For example, the first question asks, “What is the Internet?” If you selected an eye for visual learners, you will need to think of ideas for explaining the Internet to people who learn best through sight related motivation. Have participants raise their hands for each individual learning style so they can move into their groups. . Make sure each group has finished before starting discussion. Have each group talk about their ideas, making note of one good example from each group. Finish the first question, and move onto the second if you have time. After we have had a chance to brainstorm, each group will explain to the class the ideas they generated. Discussion: What do you think would happen if you were to do use all three examples in one class? Do you think all three learning styles would understand what the Internet is? Time Activity Notes 3 minutes Making Training Interactive “If you tell me, I may listen; if you show me, I may understand; if you involve me, I'll learn.” - Proverb Q: How many of you would like to stand up and give a lecture on the Internet to one of your training classes for an hour straight? Q: How many of you would like to sit through a lecture on the Internet for an hour? How much of the information do you think you would remember? Research show that most people retain more information from training sessions when they are active and involved in their own learning. This type of training benefits those trainers who don't really enjoy standing in front of a room for an hour as well. For example, the Learning Styles exercise that you just did—did I have to do a lot of work during that? No! You did it for me! But the great thing is that people learn better when they are actively involved, so not only do you get a break as a trainer —your trainees will retain the information they learn and will be more interested in your classes. 7 minutes Interactive Training Examples Handouts: Interactive Training Ideas Determining a Website's Credibility Lesson Plan Putting the Steps Together Activity Supplies: Guess the URL PowerPoint (optional) As a group, look over the Interactive Training Ideas handout and lesson plans in the book. Have participants discuss activities they might want to try. Ask for any additional activity ideas. What other Interactive training ideas have you seen used in class? What made these activities successful? May want to briefly discuss challenges to making training interactive. . . time constraints, dif. skill levels, instructor can't relinquish control, etc - briefly discuss some of these and any ideas for tackling these hurdles. Optional: Display Guess the URL game PowerPoint as an example of making teaching fun. 5 minutes Independence in Training A broad range of skill levels in one class is often one of the most challenging issues when teaching Internet classes. What are some strategies that you have used or that you have seen other instructors use to deal with different skill levels in class? **Independent exercises are a great tool to allow students to work at their own pace. Handout: Independence in Training The Independence in Training handout contains examples of activities students can complete individually. This list is mainly drawn from activities the Gates Foundation trainers use in their Internet classes as they often encounter a wide range of skill levels in class. In the On-Site lesson plans on your CD's, you will see “If you have time” sections built into the curriculum. These are often independent activities created for those faster participants who finish before the rest of the class. Quick Activity: Give the participants a few minutes to look over the Independence in Training handout individually. Have them highlight 1 or 2 activities on the list that they could use in training OR write down another idea that they may have or have used in the past. Briefly discuss ideas as a group. 2 minutes Subject Specific Classes This concept has been very useful in many of the libraries that have come here for training. Handout: Subject Specific Classes Often when doing Introduction to the Internet classes, you can easily become very bored as the trainer—having to teach the same thing again and again. Re-energize yourself by adding different elements to your classes. You don't need to be a subject matter expert; you can bring in an expert to deliver the class. These classes also allow you to focus and not feel like your information is so broad that your patrons can't relate. You should also consider who you might be able to partner with in the community to create the class and how you will get the word out to people in your area. 8 minutes Subject Specific Class BRAINSTORM ACTIVITY Additional Examples: Buying a House/Car (Partner with Fanny May Foundation, etc.) Home Maintenance—There's No Place Like Home Gardening Recipes Wedding Planning Scrap booking (Partner with Craftshops) Pregnancy Antiques Ebay—One Person's Trash Climbing the Family Tree Fishing Resources--Reel `em In Ceramics (Partner with local artists, art centers, colleges) Day Trips in Your Backyard Discuss classes listed on handout. In pairs or small groups, give class time to brainstorm ideas of other classes that would be of interest in their community. Ask them to consider not only the class but who they might be able to collaborate with to create the class and ideas for promoting it within the community. Suggest that they come up with at least two ideas, and be prepared to discuss them with the class. 5 minutes Last Thing to Remember: Resources for Trainers There is no need to reinvent the wheel!! Trainers have been teaching Internet classes for many years now and there are many wonderful lesson plans already out there. Open TS Resource CD on screen. Point out the variety of Internet lessons, handouts, activities, etc. to be used and modified to fit their needs. Point out the Additional Resources section on the CD as well (also in their book). Optional (if time): Give participants a few minutes to explore some of the resources on the computers either independently or with a partner Gather participants as a group and ask them to briefly share resources they found to be useful. 
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How to Score Big with Internet Training
= Visual
= Auditory
= Kinesthetic
Visual Learners: Show Encarta's Multimedia Diagram of networks lit up with connectivity
Auditory Learners: Have each class participant turn to someone next to them and give their definition of the Internet, then have the class discuss what they came up with. Read a definition of the Internet. Use analogies.
Kinesthetic Learners: Take a ball of string and link all class participants together in a web like fashion to display how computers and networks are linked together.
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