Option 1
I have been familiar with chat. I have chatted on Facebook and also with businesses such as printer supplier when I was choosing a printer for my library. I have also chatted with Norton 360 when my laptop was crashing. Chat is easy to use. I think chat and instant messaging could be very useful in a library. Real-time answers to questions and responses to thoughts could be very useful to patrons. I thought the best idea for school libraries would be Meebo widgets embedded on catalog searches. Meebo would be very helpful when catalog searches had no results.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
#8 Social Networking
Social Networking has many possible implications for libraries-- and I have read the social networking sites of many libraries that are employing them for information, public service, and publicity purposes. Twitter has many possibilities for informing patrons about services and books that are relevant to current events. I think that Twitter Search can be very useful, because the library can "pop-in" and help when people are making queries or "tweets" about the library.
Privacy continues to be an issue with social networking sites. I already have a personal Facebook Page and when I get a professional social networking presence, I will keep it separate from my personal presence. Of course, some things/sites/thoughts will be posted on both personal and professional sites but many will be obviously either personal or professional.
It is very important for my students (and my children) to understand privacy issues and implications that are possible and probable with social networking sites. I will post and teach information and lessons about these sites in my library.
Privacy continues to be an issue with social networking sites. I already have a personal Facebook Page and when I get a professional social networking presence, I will keep it separate from my personal presence. Of course, some things/sites/thoughts will be posted on both personal and professional sites but many will be obviously either personal or professional.
It is very important for my students (and my children) to understand privacy issues and implications that are possible and probable with social networking sites. I will post and teach information and lessons about these sites in my library.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Method 7: Tagging, folksonomies & social bookmarking in Delicious
Delicious may help with collaboration between teachers at my elementary school. Our teacher portal has been getting crowded with links to many sites that I think will be valuable to our teachers and students. Tagging and social bookmarking, perhaps with tag clouds rolled on our website, should help alleviate the crowding on our website and help encourage our teachers to try new sites and a new way of collaborating. It will be easier for teachers to share sites they have found useful.
Of course, it will be great to have my favorite sites in the cloud, so I can access them everywhere.
I've created a Delicious account and am most excited about exploring the sharing aspect. I am thrilled to be able to follow the sites/tags that respected, tech-savvy librarians are employing, exploring, and finding useful.
Of course, it will be great to have my favorite sites in the cloud, so I can access them everywhere.
I've created a Delicious account and am most excited about exploring the sharing aspect. I am thrilled to be able to follow the sites/tags that respected, tech-savvy librarians are employing, exploring, and finding useful.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Method 6 You too can YouTube
The Discovery Exercise in this method proved to be the biggest challenge yet of all the exercises. I enjoyed exploring YouTube and spent a few hours exploring the video sharing site. The difficulties for me began when I tried to embed a video into this blog. For some reason, everything would seem to be working but when the time came for me to not "close the window" until the sharing was completed, the waiting never ended. One time, I waited at least thirty minutes. However, when I used Slide Skins, I was able to easily add a YouTube video to the blog.
I chose the Library 2.0 Manifesto because it included beliefs that I want to remain foremost in my mind as I build my librarianship skills.
YouTube offers so many videos. Some of them are indeed, not fit for an elementary school setting but some of the videos would be very useful there. TeacherTube could be an answer to having access to only the useful videos, but many of the TeacherTube videos just do not hold the attention of elementary school students and the collection is not nearly as extensive. YouTube is blocked in the school district where I work and our students are missing out on learning opportunities because of that decision. I am hoping there is a way to allow access to YouTube in the school district, at least to teachers who could search, find, and project the videos most useful and appropriate to their lessons.
I chose the Library 2.0 Manifesto because it included beliefs that I want to remain foremost in my mind as I build my librarianship skills.
YouTube offers so many videos. Some of them are indeed, not fit for an elementary school setting but some of the videos would be very useful there. TeacherTube could be an answer to having access to only the useful videos, but many of the TeacherTube videos just do not hold the attention of elementary school students and the collection is not nearly as extensive. YouTube is blocked in the school district where I work and our students are missing out on learning opportunities because of that decision. I am hoping there is a way to allow access to YouTube in the school district, at least to teachers who could search, find, and project the videos most useful and appropriate to their lessons.
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Picasa
Picasa is a neat tool. It allows the user to edit photos right on the desktop. However, photographs seem to look a little better on Flickr. I am excited about having my student patrons use our Flip video camera to video community helpers and then share them with either Picasa or Flickr. I will probably try using both Picasa and Flickr, using the school technology, and stay with the one that is easiest.
Method 5-Online Photo Sharing
Personally, I love online photo-sharing. I live thousands of miles away from my new nieces and online photo-sharing helps me to keep up with their lives. The site they use for the babies is Shutterfly. Shutterfly has a level of security in which it does not allow pictures to be grabbed and placed on Facebook or Animoto. I enjoy looking at shared photos on Facebook and shared videos on Picasa. These photos can be grabbed and shared without the subject's knowing it, but members seem to be aware of this fact.
Professionally, I think there are lots of uses for online photo-sharing. I would love to use photographs of library events and activities to encourage more library use. I am concerned about sharing photos of children without parental permission. We have handles this posting issue with a few methods. For one of our guest reader days, we placed the children that did not have media release forms in one area of the library and were careful not to include them in photographs that we posted. We have also photographed events and used only the back of the children's heads. I would like to post past and present photographs of our school, neighborhood, and alumni.
Professionally, I think there are lots of uses for online photo-sharing. I would love to use photographs of library events and activities to encourage more library use. I am concerned about sharing photos of children without parental permission. We have handles this posting issue with a few methods. For one of our guest reader days, we placed the children that did not have media release forms in one area of the library and were careful not to include them in photographs that we posted. We have also photographed events and used only the back of the children's heads. I would like to post past and present photographs of our school, neighborhood, and alumni.
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