CaRILLO event at Birmingham

I've been very slack at updating the blog since last year. It's high time that I posted a few entries on what has been happening in the world of IL RLO sharing.

In August, we held the first CaRILLO (Creating and Re-using Information Literacy Learning Objects) event at the University of Birmingham. This came out of a symposium that I co-ran at LILAC in March 2009. One of the outcomes from the group discussion was that a community of practice was needed to share ideas, expertise and actual resources. Soon after I set up the IL RLO Share wiki at http://ilrloshare.wetpaint.com but also set about planning a face to face event at which librarians could meet and discuss ideas.

I contacted the speakers, who all agreed to take part. The scariest moment was putting out the advert on LIS-LINK and LIS-INFOLITERACY, not knowing if anyone would be interested. I needn't have worried as we had sold out the thirty places within five days and had about twenty more librarians wanting to attend.

The event took place on Tuesday 3rd August and the presentations from the day are now available on SlideShare at www.slideshare.net/NancyGraham.

A few of the attendees blogged about the event afterwards:

Jane Secker at http://elearning.lse.ac.uk/blogs/socialsoftware/

Paul Ayres at http://virtualtrainingsuite.blogs.ilrt.org/2010/08/04/carillo-information-literacy-and-repurposing-learning-objects/

We have been asked to organise further events, focussing on creation and sharing of learning objects, so watch this space for further events!