Workshops ideas from attendees of ‘Teaching Faculty and Staff How to Be “Social”: Reinventing the Drop-In Workshop’ presentation at the 2009 SUNYLA Conference on 6/19/09.

Attendees were asked to write down new and innovative ideas for possible drop-in workshops and list a target audience if they had one.  Thanks everyone!

• Publishing opportunities/alternatives online and/or open source-faculty (Kim Hoffman, Lisa Forrest, Michelle Costello)
• Using multimedia or Web 2.0 ideas in teaching, such as Youtube, wiki’s, skype {maybe invite guest lecturers to class}, alternative uses for blogs-faculty (Kim Hoffman, Lisa Forrest, Michelle Costello)
• Becoming a better tagger {film}
• Film Critic in all of us {filmcritic.com?}
• Film Critic in ten easy steps
• Using RSS feeds for research-faculty
• RSS-the New Way to do an Alert
• Spacebook: What are MySpace and Facebook?  How are they used professionally?
• How to do your own interlibrary loans-faculty & staff
• Zotero-faculty, students
• It Came From The Stacks: Books that are Lurking in the Collection-students, faculty & staff {Halloween themed}
• End The Madness: Endnote-graduate students
• Try Something Yummy: Delicious-graduate students and faculty
• Reefer Madness: Learn networks at the library-graduate students
• Go Green: Use Zotero to save paper-graduate students
• Tweet here, Tweet There: What’s all the tweet about?-graduate students, faculty
• Tutorial on Social Networking
• Tutorial on using GPS devices
• Feed your Quest: RSS feeds for Scientific Literature
• Hidden Treasure: Geocaching {exercise for workshop: use geocaching.com or Google maps, write down GPS coordinates and have a scavenger hunt}
• Bbbbbbeat Banner!-students {workshop on using Banner}
• Thesis writing bibliography/sources-graduate students {co-teach with computer science/telecommunications faculty}
• Workshop on using citation generators-students or faculty
• Workshop on RSS feeds-students or faculty
• Get to search your health information before seeing your doctor-students, faculty, staff {workshop on PubMed}
• Podcasting tips and tricks-faculty
• How to Hide from your Students-faculty
• Print is Dead? The future of print journals & books-faculty {addressing collection development policy/allocation} (J. Little, SUNY Brockport)
• Find everything Fast: Using SearchMe-faculty or students {a federated search tool that searches multiple e-resources, we asked faculty to either co-present with us or be available to say how they, or their students, use the featured resource/database/topic} (J. Little, SUNY Brockport)
• Zotero: Managing your Resources in the 21st Century-faculty, staff, graduate students {taught by librarian, tech staff or faculty; Manage you resources for research or organize your DVD collection fast and easy through your internet browser} (Fiona Grady, Stony Brook University)
• Smile, it’s Photoshop!-art students {art professor as presenter}
• Google yourself! Or Where’s Waldo?-faculty, staff, students
• Delicious-faculty (Fran Sigurdsson)
• LibGuides: what are they?-faculty (Fran Sigurdsson)
• Let your Research Come to You: using RSS feeds for research-faculty
• Sailing Through the College’s Site: college website navigation-faculty or students
• GoogleYourself (Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo; Alice Wilson, Monroe Comm. Coll.)
• Citation Generation (Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo; Alice Wilson, Monroe Comm. Coll.)
• Google Applications (Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo; Alice Wilson, Monroe Comm. Coll.)
• ArtStor (Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo; Alice Wilson, Monroe Comm. Coll.)
• RSS Feeds From Database Table of Contents (Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo; Alice Wilson, Monroe Comm. Coll.)
• Scholarly Communication Copyright (Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo; Alice Wilson, Monroe Comm. Coll.)
• How to Get Published-new faculty (Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo; Alice Wilson, Monroe Comm. Coll.)
• The Publication Cycle-faculty (Kate Pitcher, SUNY Geneseo; Alice Wilson, Monroe Comm. Coll.)
• The Two Faces of Facebook-faculty {Teach Facebook to faculty so they can connect with students and know how to address situations when students behave inappropriately on the site in ways that can affect their futures} (Marianne Hebert, SUNY Postdam, has given this presentation.  See her slides).
• Clean Up Your Outlook Act: Proper Use of Outlook- faculty, staff (Tom Trinchera, Dutchess Comm. Coll.)
• The Sexy Side of Saving Trees: Proper printing of Power Point and other Documents to Save Paper (Tom Trinchera, Dutchess Comm. Coll.)
• Google Knows What You Need OR Google Does That Too-faculty {Google applications: docs, maps, forms, etc.}
• Interactive Classrooms: Using Web 2.0 Technologies (Marianne Hebert, SUNY Potsdam, has given this presentation.  See her slides.)