Wyoming Library Association 2024

Wednesday, October 9 •  1:00-1:50 PM • 

This session will dive into K-12 Open Education Resources (OER) and how to use AI to create supporting materials like pre-assessments, reviews and quizzes. Librarians are already finding and evaluating OER content. Take it to the next level and give educators in your building the tools to incorporate OER and AI to make quizzes, rubrics and supporting materials. Open education resources provide your learners with relevant, updated, equitable content while empowering educators. With the increase of 1:1 technology in schools, educators are turning towards online content and resources. We’ll look at K-12 OER sources, Creative Commons licensing and AI tools best suited for resource creation so you can go back to your school and start implementing ideas immediately!

Wednesday, October 9 •  2:00-2:50 PM • 

Extend information literacy to include AI and bring AI into your library and school. This session will focus on how librarians can transform their instruction to include AI evaluation, prompt generation, instruction strategies and more. We'll look at how the work librarians already do fits into AI and provide resources for policy development, educator instruction and student content. We're not recreating the wheel -- we're extending it! Lead the way into the latest information age with AI.

Wednesday, October 9 •  3:00-3:50 PM • 

Technology updates and changes in a flash! With the addition of AI, our online tools provide more efficiencies and features than you can imagine. This session will look at ways to use the online tools you already use more effectively. We'll explore Office 365, Google, and other online resources to save you time! Bring along your devices to follow along!

Wednesday, October 9 •  4:00-4:50 PM • 

Redefining Geek by Cassidy Puckett dives into how people learn technology. She's identified five characteristics that determine technology learning success. This session will look at the five characteristics and how you can bring them to your staff and patrons to increase their technology confidence and redefine geek for all! Bring along your laptop or device to follow along with the interactive session.