{"id":1921,"date":"2010-12-21T09:42:12","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=1921"},"modified":"2010-12-21T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T14:42:12","slug":"rave-reviews-for-alscs-online-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/rave-reviews-for-alscs-online-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Rave Reviews for ALSC&#8217;s Online Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At ALSC we can\u2019t help but be proud of our online education programs. They continue to get rave reviews from students and yet\u2026not everyone knows about them! If you read this blog and you don\u2019t know our online courses by now, we aim to fix that.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, registration is open for the Winter 2011 online courses. Courses begin February 7, 2011. Detailed descriptions and registration information is available on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/mgrps\/divs\/alsc\/edcareeers\/profdevelopment\/alscweb\/index.cfm\">ALSC website<\/a>. Fees are $95 for personal ALSC members; $145 for personal ALA members; and $165 for non-members.<\/p>\n<p>But really, the best way for us to describe the courses is from the responses we get. Several courses have been reviewed in the past on this blog (like, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=1899\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=1820\">here<\/a>), but we thought we\u2019d bring a few more quotes for your perusal. These quotes were taken directly from the fall 2010 reviews of our courses. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/onlinelearning\/servicedelivery\/classes\/alsc\/infolit.cfm\">Information Literacy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe instructor&#8217;s own experience in conducting information literacy courses for several age groups allowed her to give us concrete examples\u2026that helped tremendously.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe importance of teaching students information literacy made me more aware of how I help my students. Instead of giving them answers, I now try to help them learn the process necessary to find the answers on their own. I also have become more aware of different teaching techniques that have helped in my program development.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/onlinelearning\/servicedelivery\/classes\/alsc\/newberymedal.cfm\">Newbery Award<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI loved the interchange of ideas.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201d\u009dThe way the course was designed was masterful. The readings and discussions immersed us in the subject and lead us through the material in a systematic way which inspired new insights and understanding.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Reading Instruction and Children\u2019s Books<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe instructor was helpful and well organized. Excellent course overall.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot having had training as an elementary teacher, learning the various methods of reading instruction was helpful.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Sign up today! See you online!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At ALSC we can\u2019t help but be proud of our online education programs. They continue to get rave reviews from students and yet\u2026not everyone knows about them! If you read this blog and you don\u2019t know our online courses by now, we aim to fix that. Incidentally, registration is open for the Winter 2011 online courses. Courses begin February 7, 2011. Detailed descriptions and registration information is available on the\u00a0ALSC website. Fees are $95 for personal ALSC members; $145 for personal ALA members; and $165 for non-members. But really, the best way for us to describe the courses is from the responses we get. Several courses have been reviewed in the past on this blog (like, here and here), but we thought we\u2019d bring a few more quotes for your perusal. These quotes were taken directly from the fall 2010 reviews of our courses. Enjoy! Information Literacy \u201cThe instructor&#8217;s own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}