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<ul><li>Planning to learn</li><li>The Take 5 Conference is April 24th</li><li>A
Teen Reading Challenge explainer</li><li>Be My Eyes</li></ul>
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<p>At a recent museum trip, I saw kids running around with notebooks
busily writing. They looked like the first journalists let loose in
Willy Wonka’s factory, and they were definitely working on assignment.
They probably learned a lot more from their trip than I did. Why? They
were looking for something.</p>
<p>Learning and attention go hand-in-hand for grownups, too. If you walk
into a classroom with no ideas of what you’d like to learn, you might
leave empty-handed. What if you aren’t sure what they’ll teach or how it
might help you? <a href="http://speeddemosarchive.com/Pitfall2.html">Dodge
that pitfall</a> and set your own learning goals.</p>
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<p>Whether you’re walking into a week-long conference or logging onto a
one-hour webinar, you can set learning goals and meet them. To start,
literally make space for your goals by writing them down briefly and
creating a space for what you hope to discover.</p>
<p>If your goal at a workshop is to take home five programming ideas,
draw five lines on the page with room enough to fill in some details. If
you make it your mission to fill your five, you might end up with more.
If you wait with blank paper for something to wow you, you might not
leave with much to show.</p>
<p>Networking can work the same way. Meet-and-greeting can feel <a
href="http://peanutsroasted.blogspot.com/2010/06/december-3-1952-wishy-washy.html">wishy-washy</a>,
especially if you leave with a stack of business cards and only vague
memories of the people who gave them to you. Instead, draw lines for
names and contact info, plus space to write down why you might contact
them. If that’s a space you set out to fill, you’re more likely to make
useful contacts.</p>
<ul><li>Nathan Swartzendruber, SWON Technology Educator</li></ul>
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<p>The Take 5 conference sets this approach as one of their guiding
ideas. The organizers invite attendees to take away at least five new
contacts, five new ideas, and five action steps. With dedicated time for
conversations as well as for speakers, Take 5 is a great opportunity to
try this take-charge approach among teen- and youth-services peers from
libraries, museums, arts groups, educators and others.</p>
<p>Take 5 is in Cincinnati this year, at the downtown branch of the
Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, on April 24th. It’s
just $20 to attend, so make your plans now.</p>
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<p>Curious about the Teen Reading Challenge, but want to know more about
how it works? Read the new <a href="http://swonlibraries.org/?trc_2015">Rules
and Instructions</a> page, which cheekily but accurately describes how
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<p>A new smartphone app lets sighted people help the blind from afar. If
a non-sighted person needs to read a label, for example, they can use
the app to open a video chat with a sighted user of the app. The sighted
person simply reads the label out loud. It's an obvious solution in
hindsight, but I'm sure it took plenty of work to create. The app, <a
href="http://www.bemyeyes.org/faq/">Be My Eyes</a>, is currently
available in the <a
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<ul><li><strong><a
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Novels 101: From Newb to Know How in 60 Minutes</a></strong><br>January
27, 2015 - Online</li><li><strong><a
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Baby Spaces in Public Libraries</a></strong><br>January 27, 2015 -
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Upon a Storytime: Sharing Folk and Fairytales in Children's Programs</a></strong><br>January
29, 2015 - Online</li><li><strong>ALA Midwinter Meeting</strong><br>January
30, 2015 to February 3, 2015 - Chicago, IL</li><li><strong><a
href="http://swonlibraries.org/events/event_details.asp?id=578352&group=">SWON’s
2015 Teen Reading Challenge</a></strong><br>February 1, 2015 to April
30, 2015 - Online</li><li><strong><a
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to Avoid Burnout</a></strong><br>February 3, 2015 - Online</li><li><strong><a
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Summer Library Programs</a></strong><br>February 4, 2015 - Online</li></ul>
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