Creating or strengthening a TLT Roundtable. At your institution, who is responsible for coordinating institutional strategy for improving information literacy? for finding and filling gaps in support for faculty use of technology? for assuring that learning spaces work well for faculty and students as they use technology?   A Teaching Learning and Technology Roundtable usually advises the Chief Academic Officer and others on budgets, policies and practices. A TLTR helps to insure that information moves rapidly up, down and across the institution and that people get together across institutional lines to tackle important opportunities and problems. (Click here for details about TLTRs; does your institution already have one, perhaps called by some other name? or do you need one?). Because TLTRs have representatives from many constituencies (including faculty who are dedicated to improving teaching but who are not zealous technology users) they are great bodies for organizing or supporting initiatives the very kind of initiatives for which TLT Group materials are designed (e.g., improving the scholarship of teaching, building community, or considering how technology can be used to improve general education). Bottom line: a healthy TLTR makes dissemination of good resources easier.

Strategies for attracting people to workshops: One way to help assure turnout for a workshop is to work through deans or department heads. Let them know that seats are limited in this workshop and that they each have been given a maximum of, say, two seats in the workshop for faculty members or staff members in their units. Give them plenty of time to find people and get your event in their schedules. Pick high priority issues for your institution: building information literacy? scholarship of teaching? general education reform? learning space design?

Buy TLT Group Online Institute "seats" in advance: Suppose, for example, that your library and teaching center want to encourage the development of an institutional strategy for promoting information literacy. The TLT Group and ACRL offer a series of online workshops throughout the year on this topic (one of many types of workshop and webcast available).  You could buy a set of seats in advance from The TLT Group and then give them to faculty and librarians as needed; they can be applied to any event and by anyone.   Instead of waiting for people to come to you and then filling out a separate purchase order for each one, take the lead, buy seats, and then organize teams. You can even give free seats as rewards or prizes for people who attend your own workshops on campus. For information, e-mail online@tltgroup.org or phone 301-270-8318.

Post copies of password-protected TLT Group materials on your own web site, so long as access is restricted just to members of your institutional community. That way, it will be 'single sign-in', and you'll be able to see how often people look at the materials. Just be sure to update your copy of our materials periodically we make changes.

Put copies of TLT Group item banks or surveys in your institution's own survey system (if you don't have Flashlight Online.