Online Meetings

Week 3 of 23 Things Kansas has me stretching to learn new things through the use of webinars. I recently was a part of a live webinar on Jan. 21 from Follett - it was a webinar dealing with the updates to Destiny 9.5

Just this morning I chose from a list of archived webinars from the California State Library to attend. It was titled "Finding (Legally Safe) Music and Videos for Presentations, Blogs, and Podcasts." This webinar was presented by Mary Minow and it was about an hour long.

Wow! She is a lawyer and even she had difficulty making sure that we all understood how to avoid a legal battle over using something that we don't have the rights to use. It is a complicated matter. I was pleased with the resources that she presented to us during the webinar. There were many websites given, ideas for how to locate public domain materials, and the best way to stay safe when it comes to using music or video with podcasts, presentations, or blogs.

I also appreciated the section on knowing what to ask when requesting permission from copyright owners.

I will definately use the California State Library archive webinar list more often. Most of the webinars look to be about an hour long - but I think if the topic pertains to you or something you want to learn about - an hour really isn't that long.

I saw where another librarian had mentioned something about using webinars for students to catch up or review on assignments. I also think you could turn this around and have students create a webinar to "instruct" on a topic. You know what they say - to really understand something. . .try teaching it to someone else!