Get Online Week webinars

The Good Things Foundation is hosting some webinars aimed at the public, which could be promoted to your own public/ clients. This is to celebrate Get Online Week (14-20 October 2024). They are How to spot and avoid online scams (October 15), How to find affordable internet for your home (October 16) and Getting started with AI (October 17). You can find further details here https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/live-learning-for-get-online-week-3624809?just_published=true
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Award winners: Esther Grassian and the state of New Jersey

The Universal Information Literacies Association (UiLA), Washington, DC USA has announced that the 2024 UiLA Paul G. Zurkowski Esquire US Individual and State Award winners are Esther Grassian, "distinguished librarian emerita at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) for playing a pivotal role in advancing Information Literacy instruction for over two decades and the state of New Jersey, USA, for being the first state in the nation to pass bipartisan legislation requiring K-12 schools to teach information literacy." Congratulations in particular to Esther Grassian, who has indeed made a great contribution to IL.
"This announcement coincides with the 50th anniversary of the launching of IL by Zurkowski in November 1974 and the 15th anniversary of the U.S. Presidential Proclamation designating October as Information Literacy Awareness Month. As part of the proclamation former president Barack Obama stated that, 'An informed and educated citizenry is essential to the functioning of our modern democratic society.'"  The UiLA website is here https://uilaz.info/
The press release photo shows the certificates and accompanying individual press releases

Data literacy articles

All from Information and Learning Sciences (priced publication):
- Höper, L. and Schulte, C. (2024). The data awareness framework as part of data literacies in K-12 education. Information and Learning Sciences, 125(7/8), 491-512. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0075
- Oh, S. and Mon, L. (2024). Community-based learning and data literacy: the role of the public library. Information and Learning Sciences, 125(7/8), 456-474. https://doi.org/10.1108/ILS-06-2023-0078
and numerous articles in two special issues:
Perspectives on Data Literacies Part 1 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2398-5348/vol/125/iss/3/4 and
Part 2 https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2398-5348/vol/125/iss/5/6Photo by Sheila Webber: autumn, September 2024

Power hour webinars with Phil Bradley/ Bev Humphhrey - #AI Search engines; #ChatGPT; #Canva

- AI search engines – a Power Hour with Phil Bradley - 4 October 2024. £35. "In this Power Hour we will look at how search has developed and changed into something that is far more relevant and helpful for searchers. Delegates will look at over a dozen different AI search engines, carefully curated to provide the very best tools for search." Info and registration at https://tinyurl.com/ycyeb3rp 

- Chat GPT and beyond: demystifying AI chatbots – a librarian’s Power Hour with Phil Bradley.  11 October 2024. £35. "This Power Hour will take a deep dive into chatbots. It covers how they work, what they are good at, and what their limitations are. A key component of the hour is learning how prompt engineering (the search query) works in order to get the best possible results for your questions. Info and registration at https://tinyurl.com/2x6wek4u 

- Creating amazing video content with Canva – a librarian’s Power Hour with Bev Humphrey on 18 October 2024.  £35. "During this session you will learn how to create impactful videos with Canva including how best to record, edit and present your content whilst making use of Canva’s handy AI tools. Canva can also be used to edit and polish videos you have already recorded" Info and registration at  https://tinyurl.com/yffhyx9a
Image by Sheila Webber using Midjourney AI of a man sitting at a computer at home