{"id":5417,"date":"2012-11-12T00:01:51","date_gmt":"2012-11-12T05:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=5417"},"modified":"2012-11-07T11:44:22","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T16:44:22","slug":"your-colleagues-recommend-alsc-online-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/your-colleagues-recommend-alsc-online-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Colleagues Recommend ALSC Online Courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/edcareeers\/profdevelopment\/alscweb\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2067\" title=\"onlineedlogo_web\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/onlineedlogo_web.gif\" alt=\"ALSC Online Education\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s true: ALSC online courses come recommended.<\/p>\n<p>These recommendations don&#8217;t just come from anyone, they come from your peers, the people you work with, the people you see at conferences. Those people. They think you&#8217;ll like <a title=\"ALSC Online Courses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/edcareeers\/profdevelopment\/alscweb\">ALSC&#8217;s online courses<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the best way for people to share the information is by word-of-mouth. But because word-of-mouth doesn&#8217;t travel always travel quickly as the internet, we&#8217;re sharing some of the information from the surveys that we complete after each of the online courses. These are real quotes from real learners. So, almost as good as word-of-mouth.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll notice that the information below is from three of our online courses. We&#8217;re offering five this semester. Two of them are new which means that if you take the course, you&#8217;ll be evaluating them for the first time! Help us spread the word!<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Series Programming\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/edcareeers\/profdevelopment\/alscweb\/courses\/seriesprogramming\">Series Programming for the Elementary School Age<\/a>*<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;I think this course was well-run, and the requirements for reading, projects, and group feedback were reasonable and very helpful.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;I thought the articles on series reading very useful. The completed project I did will be used for future programming at my library.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Caldecott Medal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/edcareeers\/profdevelopment\/alscweb\/courses\/caldecottmedal\">The Caldecott Medal: Understanding Distinguished Art in Picture Books<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;I knew nothing before taking this class and feel like I have learned much about art. I now look at picture books with delight and wonder and knowledge that I did not have previously.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;I appreciate the\u00a0affordable\u00a0classes since I can not afford to attend conferences.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;I really enjoyed this course and benefited professionally from it.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Information Literacy\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/edcareeers\/profdevelopment\/alscweb\/courses\/infolit\">Information Literacy<\/a>*<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>&#8220;The teacher and students in the class were very insightful, helpful, and friendly.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>&#8220;I thought the discussion element of the course was very useful. I also found that doing the readings and pondering of concepts was very helpful for me to organize my<\/em> <em>thoughts about Info. Lit.&#8221;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"ALSC Core Competencies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/corecompetenciescourse\">ALSC Core Competencies: Serving Children with Distinction and Commitment<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This is a new course; no reviews available<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"STEM Programs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/science-technology-engineering-and-math-stem-programs-made-easy\">Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Programs Made Easy<\/a>*<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a new course; no reviews available<\/em><\/p>\n<p>* &#8211; This course is eligible for CEUs.<\/p>\n<p>Registration is easy! Just visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsc\/edcareeers\/profdevelopment\/alscweb\">ALSC Online Course<\/a>\u00a0 section of the ALSC website to get registered. Don&#8217;t wait! Courses start <strong>Monday, January 14, 2013<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p>Detailed descriptions and registration information is available on the ALSC website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsced\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/alsced<\/a>. Fees are $115 for personal ALSC members; $165 for personal ALA members; and $185 for non-members. Questions? Please contact ALSC Program Officer Jenny Najduch at <a href=\"emailto:jnajduch@ala.org\">jnajduch@ala.org<\/a> or 1-800-545-2433 ext. 4026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s true: ALSC online courses come recommended. These recommendations don&#8217;t just come from anyone, they come from your peers, the people you work with, the people you see at conferences. Those people. They think you&#8217;ll like ALSC&#8217;s online courses. Now, the best way for people to share the information is by word-of-mouth. But because word-of-mouth doesn&#8217;t travel always travel quickly as the internet, we&#8217;re sharing some of the information from the surveys that we complete after each of the online courses. These are real quotes from real learners. So, almost as good as word-of-mouth. You&#8217;ll notice that the information below is from three of our online courses. We&#8217;re offering five this semester. Two of them are new which means that if you take the course, you&#8217;ll be evaluating them for the first time! Help us spread the word! Series Programming for the Elementary School Age* &#8220;I think this course was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"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":[88,186,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alsc-online-courses","category-blogger-dan-rude","category-programming-ideas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417","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\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}