Presentation at the 2023 GALILEO Conference from 11:05 am to 11:50 am. GALILEO, known as Georgia's virtual library, is an initiative of the University System of Georgia.

Abstract

Homeschooling parents, students, and instructors across the state all know that it can be tricky to connect authentically with this underrepresented community, and that traditional outreach, promotion, and participation formats can present design and instruction challenges. So, in February 2023, librarians from the Digital Library of Georgia in connection with members of the Firefly Homeschool Community, delivered a hybrid online webinar/workshop built to seek strategies to improve academic outcomes.

We have developed a case study from our most recent efforts, and plan to discuss our timeline from brainstorming our initial event, to implementing future ideas and plans, and discovering new learning opportunities by using DLG and GALILEO resources within these increasingly popular nontraditional K-12 venues.

Takeaways will include lessons learned about how to build successful outreach and promotion mechanisms, to assess the variety of assorted instructional technologies purportedly built to support homeschooling, and to respond to survey results we collected from the homeschool community at the beginning of 2023. We will close with an open discussion that invites the audience to share their own success stories about how they have developed engaging and rigorous educational programming on behalf of their homeschoolers.

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