Welcome Class Leaders of the Laptop Lab!

For information on taking classes of the Laptop Lab, please visit the Laptop Lab homepage. Find hands-on classes via the ACPL Events calendar.

This is the resource area for the leaders and planners of the ACPL Laptop Lab program. Staff and volunteers will find links to the documents and materials to run the class. If you are logged in via Google Docs you will be able to edit (as collaborator online) or view and download locally to your computer as PDF, Doc, PPT, etc. or to customize and print as you need.
*What classes can I offer?
*Class Leader Checklist
*Inventory
*Frequently Asked Questions
*Survey
*Flyers
*What if? How to handle speed bumps...
(Currently a work in progress.)

Don't forget that whatever publicity you produce needs to include the following language:

This project is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Service and Technology Act, administered by the Indiana State Library.

Aware of your visitor's needs, you as Class Leader will organize and lead the use of the Laptop Lab at your location. While the Library Technology Trainer Vincent Shaw is here, he will help you become comfortable in leading class. When scheduling the lab with Vincent, ensure that you have staff or a volunteer in-class to observe, participate, lead and perhaps create new class offerings.

If you have any other questions regarding the use of the Lab, access to files and more, you may e-mail pmartin@acpl.info Such as "Can I schedule the lab for use?" A library worker needs to go with a lab.

Class feedback to help the Laptop Lab classes

Feedback has been great about the classes in the program! For the grant, I've used SurveyMonkey to collect feedback during classes.

From running it, I believe I can improve things by stacking classes together that help each other instead of a single 90 minute class. For example, with 2 classes on photography, there will be 1 shorter class of how to import and manage your pictures as well as sharing them to friends; but next a more thorough hands-on class on special effects and projects, such as taking things unwanted out and cropping in a family member who wasn't at that special event. One can sit in both, back to back, which provides maximum learning in 2 hours, instead of squishing too much in less time.

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