tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63547457093488258832024-02-06T23:30:53.423-08:00Social Networking and the libraryA Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-87048739448047469172013-02-01T22:14:00.001-08:002013-02-05T15:57:13.675-08:00Evaluative and Reflective Statements on INF506<style>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">EVALUATIVE STATEMENT</span></i></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">This last post in Social Networking and The Library will
evaluate and reflect on my learning over the summer session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Engaged in the module readings and responding
to those readings has allowed me to achieve the learning objectives of INF506.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The following three posts are those I
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><b>1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"><b> </b><span style="font-size: small;"><b> </b> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></b></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://jelmoyg.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/blue-mountains-city-library.html" target="_blank">Blue Mountains City Library</a></span></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">2. <b><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <a href="http://jelmoyg.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/the-participation-gap.html" target="_blank">The Participation Gap and Online Privacy</a></span></b></span></b></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: large;">3.<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> <a href="http://jelmoyg.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/social-media-and-library.html" target="_blank">Social Media and the Library</a></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">1.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Social
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Social networking technologies are about
participation and creation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my post <a href="http://jelmoyg.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/social-media-and-library.html" target="_blank">Social Media and the Library</a>, I examined three school libraries, and the social
networking tools they have employed to engage their library community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These range from social bookmarking tools,
blogs, RSS and Facebook, to specialized applications such as GoodReads and
Bookcrossing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">It is not enough to simply set up a Facebook page, or a blog
or link to GoodReads, it is essential to have an understanding of the culture of
whichever social networking tool is being used (Hafaele, 2008).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is this grasp of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">how </i>users are accustomed to using an application like Facebook that
is a deal breaker for success. The library webpage can’t expect to operate
outside the conventions of an application, if the point of using </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">web
2.0 tools is to meet people where they are familiar and
comfortable, we need to be consistent with the accepted format (Brookover,
2007).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">If Web 2.0 is about participation and creation, Library 2.0
is customer driven – responsive to and informed by the use of social networking
tools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Casey and Savastinuk,
2006).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Library 2.0 occurs in the context of user
needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Additionally, Miller (2005)
points out that libraries themselves are participants also, not just the end
user, an interesting perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I explored this new style of responsive library by looking
at the <a href="http://jelmoyg.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/blue-mountains-city-library.html" target="_blank">Blue Mountains City Library</a> website on the 4/12/12. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Creating a list of 8 criteria for effective library websites
by selecting those that seemed most relevant from Matthews (2009), I applied
them to BMCC library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My number one
criteria at that stage, was looking for up to date information and regular
postings. Under this criteria, I included response from the library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A facebook page or blog which is not
regularly updated or unresponsive will not engage the community (Crawford,
2008).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">By the end of the semester, I would include in the list one
further criteria – understanding the culture of the tool being used (Hafaele,
2008). </span></div>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Examine features and
functionality of SN tools to meet user needs</span></span></b>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Social networking tools are not static applications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To keep users interested, they must be busy, there
should be change, it is not “finished” once it is set up, setting up is only
the beginning. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facebook for example should include the things that people
expect to see there, yet be blended with library business.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The average Facebook wall is a patchwork of
updates, photos, videos, stories and humour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How does this translate to a library Facebook page?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">There are libraries harnessing Facebook, and the key to
their success seems to be their grasp of the concept of culture that Hafaele
(2009) describes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I identified
Goldenview Middle School Facebook page as an example <a href="http://jelmoyg.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/social-media-and-library.html" target="_blank">(27/1/13)</a>.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facebook is a medium (at this stage) for people over 13, so
is unlikely to be utilized in a primary school library.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That said, the Facebook “rules” could easily
be applied to a school library blog – a safe place for students, that could
serve a similar function.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is how I
would approach a primary school library blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Unless we are able to determine what our user communities
want from their online library experience, we will not be able to effectively
meet their information needs.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the <a href="http://jelmoyg.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/social-media-and-library.html" target="_blank">Social Media and the Library</a> post,
I observed that Brisbane Grammar School use 11 SN tools.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of these tools double up in function,
and there is little to be gained from using for example 3 different social
bookmarking applications.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Evaluating
which is the right tool for the situation is essential (Harvey, 2009).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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cultural, educational, ethical and technical management issues in a socially
networked world, and its implications for policy development.</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Developing policy around use of social media must be
purposeful, the guidelines must be clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I considered this in some depth in my post on the <a href="http://jelmoyg.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/the-participation-gap.html" target="_blank">26/12/12</a>, in
particular, what is called The Participation Gap (Jenkins et al, 2006), and
online privacy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">We cannot expect students to intuitively know what is right,
so teaching must be explicitly informed by well developed policy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Online etiquette is a developing subject, as
it is a relatively new medium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Students
need more than the device and the connection they need comprehensive
instruction and guidance about online culture, ethical expectations and
technical issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">At the beginning of the course, when I listed my use of
social networking for the <a href="http://jelmoyg.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/assignment-one-inf506-what-is-social.html" target="_blank">first assignment</a>, I realized that I was already well
connected online – a user of Facebook, forums, games, twitter, photobucket,
youtube, pinterest, delicious, rss, blog reader and writer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My use was not always well informed, and I didn’t feel that I was
exploiting at least some of the applications to their full potential.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>INF 506 has guided me through an extensive
reading list, which has informed my use of various social networking tools far
beyond my knowledge prior to the course.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Initially, I found the Facebook platform for our class
discussions difficult to navigate, and felt that our contributions lacked some
of the depth of the discussion on the university forums.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As the course draws to a close, my opinion
has changed, we have met on Facebook as colleagues, sharing in ways that I have
not seen on the forums - sharing articles, ideas and pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am glad I continued to post, I described
it as feeling “exposed”, but was encouraged by the contributions of
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I had already tried out Delicious before this semester, but
didn’t persist, I was determined to make a bigger effort this time around, and while
I still find it difficult to use, I have persisted, and found that tagging
became easier as I forced myself to consider it logically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I used it when researching my assignment, and
found it was far more helpful as an organizational tool than I had anticipated
– mostly because of the tagging feature which I had been resistant to
initially.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even searched for similar
tags, which produced some useful resources.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I still feel that I am not using it to potential, but I am
beginning to see how social bookmarking is a useful tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have discussed my use of Delicious in this
blog on the 27/1/13.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I would like to try a different social bookmarking
application, such as diigo, to explore whether it would suit me better.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have used RSS to set up the beginnings of a personal
learning network.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Google Reader is
embedded in my iGoogle homepage, and feeds from various journals and blogs are
delivered there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am still not reading
everything that appears there, and think I need to be even more selective about
the things I subscribe to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I look
forward to refining this, and now have the skills to do it.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I participated in two guided tours of Second Life with Carol
Gerts over the course of the semester.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It wasn’t until I watched the youtube videos shared by Northern Beaches
Christian School that I really started to understand how exciting virtual
worlds could be in education.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
something I would like to explore further.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have had a blog since 2004, that I work on
sporadically.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not a super blogger,
and my posting history is most remarkable for its lack of regularity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">Looking back over the course, it is interesting to see my
understanding of social media grow.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I appreciate the discipline needed to write
regularly in response to my reading.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
have also enjoyed following the posts of my colleagues as they wrestle with the
same issues, highlighting the social aspect of blogging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although I <span style="font-size: small;">acknowledge</span> that I am part of the 90% who do
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creative commons images.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve looked at
the photostreams of various schools, and for the most part, I think it is
underutilized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Comments are sporadic at
best, but often non existent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I will persist with Flickr for creative commons image, and I
would like to try a photo challenge, uploading a photo of something specific
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have started to develop a twitter network, following 20,
with 5 followers of my own (although this number ebbs and flows).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am still not a regular tweet-er, though I
have come to understand the value of these short bursts of information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having a more thorough understanding of the
function of tagging has been useful.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">The research involved in my project gave
me renewed confidence in my development as a social networker.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My hypothesis was that it wasn’t necessary to
utilize every tool available when designing a library website and that
judicious selection was more useful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
would extend this to my own use of social media.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is acceptable to not use every social
networking tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the moment, I am
comfortable with Google reader to collect my RSS feeds, Facebook groups to keep
me in touch with colleagues, and a blog to articulate my thoughts about what I
read and learn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I anticipate that
gaining employment in a library will push me to extend that to twitter, and to
reaching out to my library community.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have travelled from using social media
for primarily social reasons, to understanding how valuable it is to me as an
information professional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both to engage
and enrich student learning, but also to keep up to date and in touch with new
developments of interest professionally. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have set up my presence as a librarian
online, using a consistent user name across accounts on twitter, delicious and
flickr.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My PLN is developing, and I use
Google Reader to catch my RSS feeds, this is set up to appear on my homepage. I
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<span lang="EN-US">Use of Social Media at 3 different secondary schools across the world. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Castilleja</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Brisbane Grammar
School</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Goldenview</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Pinterest</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Facebook</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Twitter</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Flickr</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Goodreads</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 71.5pt;" valign="top" width="72"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">LibraryThing</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 71.5pt;" valign="top" width="72"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Blog</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 42.2pt;" valign="top" width="42"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 71.5pt;" valign="top" width="72"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
</td>
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Delicious</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 42.2pt;" valign="top" width="42"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 71.5pt;" valign="top" width="72"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US"> * </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Diigo</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 42.2pt;" valign="top" width="42"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 71.5pt;" valign="top" width="72"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 80.1pt;" valign="top" width="80"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">RSS</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.65pt;" valign="top" width="59"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 42.2pt;" valign="top" width="42"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 71.5pt;" valign="top" width="72"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 80.1pt;" valign="top" width="80"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">Spineout</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.65pt;" valign="top" width="59"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 42.2pt;" valign="top" width="42"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 71.5pt;" valign="top" width="72"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 80.1pt;" valign="top" width="80"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">Goodreading</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.65pt;" valign="top" width="59"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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</td>
<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 42.2pt;" valign="top" width="42"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 71.5pt;" valign="top" width="72"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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<span lang="EN-US">Vimeo</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 71.5pt;" valign="top" width="72"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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<td style="border-top: none; border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 80.1pt;" valign="top" width="80"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
<span lang="EN-US">Bookcrossing</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 58.65pt;" valign="top" width="59"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Menlo Regular";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>✔</span></div>
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<td style="border-bottom: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-left: none; border-right: solid windowtext 1.0pt; border-top: none; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-border-top-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; padding: 0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; width: 71.5pt;" valign="top" width="72"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 150%;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>11</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>5</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Web 2.0 is about
participation, it is dynamic rather than static in nature. Users are
contributors.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johnson and Valenza
(2009) insist that we maintain an online presence, as our future relevance
depends upon it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d we don’t keep up,
we will be left behind and our users will find other ways to fill their
information needs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a user, when I
want to know something, I do go to google and look for it, and increasingly,
Facebook pops up in the search results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some pages are well done and worth having, others hugely frustrating,
and better off not being there with the lack of helpful information given.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As an example of a truly useless page that
had me gnashing my teeth in frustration here is the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Fireworks-at-Panthers/141346695922192?ref=ts&fref=ts" target="_blank">Penrith Panthers Fireworks for New year page</a>).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could have been great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>New Years Eve, it had even less information
than is on there now, almost a month later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>A Facebook page that is not updated, or a blog with infrequent posts are
not going to engage patrons (Crawford, 2008), and become a tool that frustrates
users rather than being useful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Facebook is primarily
seen as a tool for connecting socially, so where does the library Facebook page
fit into that culture?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And education in
general?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #231f20; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With 1.01 billion
users in September 2012 (figure from Yahoo Finance, 2012), it is clear that
Facebook is an important social media tool that has potential to impact
education for students over 13.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Goldenview Middle
School have created a lively page, and in 2012, made 112 posts. There are a
significantly higher number of comments and likes, and the library staff are
responsive to their community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Questions
do not remain unanswered for long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Goldenview understand the culture of Facebook.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Their posts are
relevant, yet interesting and varied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
is not just a list of announcements –there are pictures and videos linked, some
humorous, interspersed with announcements. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The librarian also uses it to have
conversations about online safety issues.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Used well, social
media can make the library feel more personalized, and the connection is in a
form that is already very familiar to most patrons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Blogs fall into this category also, and
increasingly, schools are using blogs as a way of connecting.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">BGS have used a lot
of tools to engage their community, and perhaps have taken on too many things,
as there is little participation evident in the form of comments on blogs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When only 10% of a community are active
participants, while the other 90% watch, using more than one or two social
media tools will be unsuccessful at engaging patrons in discussion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Using multiple
applications that have the same purpose is not a good use of time, and the
effort of keeping each one up to date is unlikely to be worthwhile as far as
community benefit (Harvey, 2009).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
same can be said of using more than one social bookmarking application, which
allow users to save articles and websites to one place (DesRoches, 2007).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If two are used, it is no longer simple.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">When considering how
patrons will contact the library, it is unnecessary and potentially damaging to
provide more than a couple of options, as it increases the likelihood that
messages will be overlooked (Harvey, 2009).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The patron who feels ignored, is not happy, and an unhappy community
member has a wide scope for expressing their dissatisfaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Customer response must be fast, positive and
consistent</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Crawford, W
(2008), Libraries and the Social Web<i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, </i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Volume
8, Number 11.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Retrieved on January 15,
2013 from http://citesandinsights.info/v8i11b.htm.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">DesRoches, D. (2007). All Together Now:
Social Bookmarking Offers a New Way to Store and Share Web Sites. <i>School
Library Journal</i>, <i>53</i>(1), 33.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Retrieved
on January 18, 2013 from </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://ezproxy.csu.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ755104&si"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://ezproxy.csu.edu.au/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eric&AN=EJ755104&si</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Harvey, M.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(2009).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What does it mean to be a science librarian 2.0?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Retrieved on January 1, 2013 from </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.istl.org/09-summer/article2.html"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">http://www.istl.org/09-summer/article2.html</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Valenza, J and Johnson, D (2009).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Things that keep us up at night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">School
library Journal, v 55, no 10 pp28 -32.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i>Retrieved
on January 14, 2013 from <a href="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6699357.html">http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6699357.html</a></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Yahoo Finance (2012) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Number of active Facebook users over the
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Retrieved on January 17, 2013 from
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/number-active-users-facebook-over-years-214600186--finance.html</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Castilleja Girls School (USA)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://library.castilleja.org/category/recent"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">http://library.castilleja.org/category/recent</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt;"></span>
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A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-11174782679468582002013-01-27T19:31:00.003-08:002013-01-31T22:00:32.621-08:00OLJ Using Delicious<style>
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<span lang="EN-US">I had already setup a Delicious account for
ETL 401.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Set it up, but made poor use of
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, no use at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I found it confusing and clunky, and not at
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<span lang="EN-US">So I approached Delicious with a fair
amount of skepticism about its potential usefulness to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also had to set up a new account, because I
am trying to make my librarian persona online consistent, so use a different
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<span lang="EN-US">Even as the course draws to a close, and I
reflect on my learning, I don’t think I have discovered or used delicious in a
way that realizes its potential as a networking tool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have used it though, to help me organize my
research for assignment 2 – and have used tagging reasonably effectively, that
I am able to locate the things I need.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the end of assignment 2, I was not faced with the monumental task of gathering
together all of my resources and writing them into a list of references, I kept
on top of that as I went along, and even managed to keep them reasonably
alphabetical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Any reference that slipped
through the net without a URL was easily located from my delicious
bookmarks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a huge improvement on
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<span lang="EN-US">My other heavily used labels are for
teaching resources.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if I don’t have
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<span lang="EN-US">I feel that there is much more I could do
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<span lang="EN-US">Earlier in the semester I wrote that I was
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<span lang="EN-US">In a school environment, it could be used in a way that allowed students access to their teachers bookmarks, it could be used for staff to share ideas and resources. The advantages are obvious - information is easily accessible from anywhere (home or school), it is organised and it is not going to get lost. </span></div>
A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-73496231075492500532013-01-26T18:42:00.001-08:002013-01-31T21:59:51.966-08:00Assignment 2 and all the discoveries I made along the wayI was overwhelmed at the beginning of assignment 2, and unsure of how I was going to proceed. I don't have a school community I am attached to that I could create a project, so I knew it had to be a case study, but what to choose??<br />
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Then I read <a href="http://www.blogger.com/Harvey,%20M.%20%20(2009).%20%20What%20does%20it%20mean%20to%20be%20a%20science%20librarian%202.0?%20%20Retrieved%20on%20January%201,%202013%20from%20http://www.istl.org/09-summer/article2.html" target="_blank">What does it mean to be a science librarian 2.0?</a>, and it gave me my theme, can we overload our websites and our community with too many tools.<br />
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I've learned such an enormous amount in the writing of this assignment, and although my original expectations weren't born out by my research (ie, the <a href="http://www.netvibes.com/discoverycollegelibrary#DC_Library" target="_blank">school</a> that I expected to have made a hash of using too many web2.0 tools didn't have many at all, it was links that was their issue, and terrible website design), I did happily choose a <a href="http://libguides.brisbanegrammar.com/libraryhome" target="_blank">school</a> that used too many things, <a href="http://library.castilleja.org/category/recent" target="_blank">another</a> which had a very successful blog, and yet <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Goldenview-Middle-School-Library/66362675911" target="_blank">another</a> that has a lively Facebook page. All very helpful for writing my assignment and arguing that doing one or two things well was preferable to doing many things superficially.<br />
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One of the most important things about moderating a successful Facebook page is understanding the <a href="http://www.hiddenpeanuts.com/archives/2008/01/17/culture-and-social-networking-sites/" target="_blank">culture</a>of Facebook. Because it does have a culture, and people are not interested in a library that just sits on Facebook and does nothing. The librarian (or whoever does the maintenance) needs to engage with the community, by responding, and by posting in a way that is compatible with the way FB is used by most people. That is what Goldenview Middle School do well. The posts are a mix of funny pictures, announcements, responses to queries, and all the things you would find on a friends Facebook page. The librarians also slip in stuff about keeping safe online and the way Facebook itself works - many students didn't activate any privacy settings at all. As Facebook grows, it's use in education will no doubt expand. People understand it, they use it for their own social networks, it is not a big jump to use it to keep in touch with your school community. As long as you don't set yourself up as something unapproachable and dull.<br />
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I have also had a rekindled enthusiasm for GoodReads this session. This could be because being summer holidays I have read a fair number of books this January. I like to read the reviews others put up, though I'm hard to please, I don't want to necessarily love all the really popular 5 star books, I don't have a lot of faith in the general publics discernment (Fifty Shades of Grey anyone?), but I also get put off by bad reviews. I think GoodReads has huge potential for school libraries, but I haven't seen it utilised well so far.<br />
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After initially being a complainer about the Facebook page we have used instead of the university forums, I have come around. An afternoon ferreting out the whys and wherefores of <a href="http://www.bookcrossing.com/" target="_blank">Book Crossing</a> with a fellow student and I was hooked. Interestingly there hasn't been the frantic panic of last semesters pre assignment rush as details were confirmed and re confirmed, and hysteria expressed and patted down. Not sure why it has been different. I still think that there are a lot of people who sit and watch and don't participate, but that is also born out by <a href="http://web.fumsi.com/go/article/share/68693" target="_blank">research</a> - the figures are that 10% participate, and 90% just watch. it has probably been slightly higher than that on our forum but not much.<br />
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<br />A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-43051624306419494132013-01-09T23:00:00.001-08:002013-01-31T21:58:51.152-08:00eBooks and LibrariesI've only recently discovered Overdrive, and the role it plays in ebooks and libraries, and I was initially thrilled by those discoveries. Bear in mind, I am not a librarian <i>yet</i>, I am still waiting for my opportunity, and building up a great swathe of ideas that I will use when that moment arrives. So it was mostly as a kindle owner, that the discovery of Overdrive was pretty thrilling. I love having a library in my handbag that I can dip into for whatever mood is upon me. I have a long list of old favourites, and a longer list of TO READ books in a special folder (there are currently 48 waiting to be read).<br />
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Then today I read <a href="http://librarianinblack.net/librarianinblack/2011/02/library-ebook-revolution-begin.html" target="_blank">This blog</a>, and feel like I've been cheated. That it will all change and be taken away from me before I can get into it. Publishers seem to be deliberately making the access of digital content expensive and complicated. The idea of allowing a library to purchase the rights to lending a book only 26 times before it expires seems like madness. It already irritates me that having bought digital books, if I decide I don't like them, I can't recoup any of the cost of purchase by selling them on to someone else who might enjoy them, but I only buy books I expect to really love, and always try a sample of the book before I hand over any money, and they are generally not too expensive. I won't pay more than $12, that is my rule. More than that, I just don't bother. <br />
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One of the comments on the blog also surprised me, as it relayed something I didn't know - that books I've bought for my kindle aren't actually mine, I am just "allowed to read it," potentially, they could take it back off me. That seems wrong. I've done the right thing by paying for the book - when there are ways to circumvent the necessity for this, but they could take it off me if I buy it from amazon? Is this true? What incentive does that give me for doing the right thing? <br />
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</style>Initially dubious about Second Life, I was excited about the use of a
virtual environment used by Northern Beaches Christian School. All of a sudden it made sense. The immersion in the virtual world, the art gallery, and in particular the English class.<br />
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This is something I would like to pursue, because this is exciting. From my observation of my own children, these are environments that they love. It made me think of that pithy, but over used observation about discovering what you love and never having to work another day in your life. The ultimate in learning through play. Awesome. I want to go to NBSC and spend time immersed in their worlds, learning about what they are doing, and working out how I can do it too.A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-65684221228963477842012-12-26T17:42:00.001-08:002013-01-31T21:57:40.273-08:00The changing digital world<style>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Five Examples of shifts and how they
impact on us as digital citizens</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Newspaper circulation
is down 7 million over the last 25 years.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But in the last 5
years, unique readers of online newspapers are up 30 million.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">2.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">abc, nbc and cbs get ten million unique
visitors every month collectively and have been around collectively for 200
years.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Myspace, Youtube and Facebook get 250
million unique visitors every month, and didn’t exist 9 years ago (the video
says 6, but it was made in 2009).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">3.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">95% of all music downloaded last year
wasn’t paid for.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">4.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">93% of US adults own a mobile phone.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">1/3 of them don’t feel safe using it for
purchanses.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">5.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">In February 2008, John McCain raised 11
million dollars for his presidential campaign.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Barack Obama attended no fundraisers,
instead he used social media to raise 55 million dollars in that month.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Copyright
Issues </span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I started thinking about copyright issues,
and was interested to read in Dearney and Feather, that intellectual copyright
exists both to protect the innovator, but also to encourage innovation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When it is so easy to access newspapers and
music and books and articles, are we going to lose our motivation to create
unique works, to think our own thoughts?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When it is so easy to find out what other people think, when there is so
much to read that has already been written, will we have time to think deeply
enough to create new great things, or are we doomed to intellectual mediocrity
now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m thinking (in despair) of works
like Fifty Shades of Grey - a badly written piece of fan fiction with a mass audience who are just lapping it up (if I can use the word lapping at this point without it seeming deliberately distasteful).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Policy needs to address issues of
copyright, for all media platforms, words, music and photos/pictures.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Initially I was shocked by the claim that
95% of music downloaded wasn’t paid for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Then I started thinking about how I got my own music in the 80’s – by
borrowing and recording my own copy of friends tapes, which may or may not have
been originals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By recording music from
the television or the radio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The biggest
difference is probably one of quality of recording.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The illegal mp3 is invariably going to be of
higher quality than when you hoped the radio announcer wouldn’t talk too long
over the beginning or end of your favourite track.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Digital
Literacy</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Social media has changed the way the world
has until now operated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The presidential
campaign demonstrates that eloquently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those who refuse to engage in these technologies simply will not succeed
over those who can harness them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I know
people who don’t use social media, who see it as irrelevant, who refuse to
engage, some of them are only in their 30’s, and I wonder what will happen to
them as the world keeps changing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
been dragged along in the wake of my husband, who is probably one of the worlds
oldest digital natives, having grown up in a university environment with some
of the earliest computers. I am constantly out of my depth, because he changes
stuff all the time.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Mobile devices are where we are headed, and
already the percentage of adults who have a phone is very very high.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I expect that as time goes on, and there are
more adults who have grown up in this connected world, the ease with online
purchasing will also increase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
going to become more and more essential that library websites have mobile
versions, because this is how our users will be accessing our sites.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Online
Safety</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Online behavior will follow you in a way
that the mistakes you made in high school don’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Helping students to realize that Facebook is
not their diary, that online bullying is not acceptable, that posting photos of
yourself in compromising situations is not good practice needs to be part of
what we do.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">There are so many ways you can put yourself
online (youtbe, Facebook, MySpace etc), and there is a vulnerability in
this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Jenkins whitepaper observed
that young people often found that in putting content online for their friends,
they sometimes attracted unwelcome attention from strangers.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When you can hide your identity, is there
less restraint from behaving in an antisocial way?</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Content
Regulation</span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">We must look at questions of responsibility
for use, filters of content which may be inappropriate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The internet is difficult to police, because
of it’s vastness, and because it is an international entity, it allows access
to unsavoury content, and whose responsibility is that?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">When there isn’t a set of ethical
guidelines that contributors are expected to adhere to, how do we deal with
that?</span></div>
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A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-83763414478201847892012-12-26T16:39:00.003-08:002013-02-02T18:48:06.810-08:00The Participation Gap and Online Privacy<style>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">The Participation Gap</span></b><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I was
interested to read in the Jenkins whitepaper about US cities that plan to
provide free wifi access to internet. Free! The reasoning is, that
it will give families, who are at the limit of their financial resources access
to connection, because if children in these families aren’t given the same
access as their wealthier peers, then they will inevitably fall further behind.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I had an
interesting conversation at the end of the term with a deputy at a school on
the outskirts of Sydney. The school is quite isolated (not of
course in the same sense as a school in the far west of the state), and they
will have to pay for connection to Ethernet cabling to cater for the students.
It will be expensive, but as they are planning to be a Bring Your Own Device
school in the future, the correct hardware is essential. It is not
something that can be skimped on. Other schools have tried to do it
cheaply, and the result is that only a handful of students at a time can
connect, the network slows to a crawl, and everyone is frustrated. In my
own home the cries of “stop downloading, your hogging all the bandwidth” are
frequent, and that’s with only 6 of us, a whole school worth of users trying for
access with an inadequate connection is unthinkable.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Access is
not the end of the conversation though. Getting connected has to be
inextricably tied to education in the use of the available tools. In
fact, it is even more important. Which makes sense. So in our
teaching, once our children are connected, they must be equipped to use the
available tools. We must be purposeful in our instruction, because,
digital natives or not, these children need more than the device and the
connection. Just as most of them would not learn to read without explicit
instruction, so they won’t automatically know how to access creative commons
items to embed in their work, or why it is important that they do.</span><br />
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Thoughts
on Online Privacy</span></b><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We seem to be moving
towards more transparency online, Facebook is intended to be conducted under
your own name, and while there are those who do have multiple accounts, or use
a pseudonym, I think they are in the minority. Pearson says this is a good
thing. That anonymity loosens our restraint, and we are more likely to
behave badly, when we think it won’t have a consequence in our real
lives. </span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I’ve seen that on
forums. There is a pack mentality sometimes, and it can be brutal.
One forum I belong to has 233 000 members. Of course we won’t all think
the same thing about every issue that is discussed. For me, that’s ok,
and if I see something that I don’t necessarily agree with, I won’t dive in and
tell the person they are an idiot (I might, and sometimes do think it).
There are those however who call their unkindness honesty - and honesty is a
good thing, right? Hiding behind the screen, I have watched different
posters pulverized by others. And they are real people, vulnerable and
deeply wounded by what are essentially attacks on them. Just because you
can’t see the crazies doesn’t make their criticism less hurtful. I think
that if we were forced to use our real names, a lot of this kind of thing would
stop, that users would think twice, and not go on the attack. Anonymity confers
a degree of false bravado, and opinions can be wielded with less restraint.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On the other hand, there
have been so many dire warnings about not giving too much away online, not
allowing some predatory type to “find” you in real life, it’s hard to know what
the right course of action is.</span><br />
<br />
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The issue of facebook
and privacy is apparently very important to young people, Raynes-Goldie says it
ranks higher than acts of terrorism. Which seems an extreme kind of
comparison, but perhaps Facebook privacy is a more relatable issue, and one
more likely to have an impact on them than a potential act of terror.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The relative newness of
the technologies, and the social media sites means that as a society we haven’t
developed the same kinds of rules of etiquette that constrain other behaviours,
we are still finding out where the limits are. Getting our students to
consider these things is important. Probably as time goes on, the
expectations will become more defined, but now, when someone poses a “what do
you think?” kind of question online, be it on a forum, a youtube video or a
Facebook post, is it rude to say what you think? Even if you don’t agree?
Even if what you think is unfavourable and you can't express your opinion without
being offensive? Can we in text make our meaning clear enough, that we
can respectfully disagree without being perceived as unkind? </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya;">I had thought prior to reading the article on teachers
befriending students on Facebook that the boundary had been well defined.
Looking at NSW DEC policy, the recommendation is no, don’t befriend students.
Reading some of the policy in the article however, I can see how this
line blurs, both when the wording becomes unclear, and when schools start
adopting Facebook as a method of communication. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya;">The solution seems to be, while a student is at
school, they shouldn’t be on your friend list. Liking a school page
however, is an acceptable compromise.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Pearson, J. (2009). Life
as a dog: Personal identity and the internet. </span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Meanjin</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, 68(2), 67-77.
Retrieved from <a href="http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=200906244;res=APAFT">http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=200906244;res=APAFT</a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Raynes-Goldie,
K. (2010). Aliases, creeping, and wall cleaning: Understanding privacy in the
age of Facebook, <i>First Monday</i>, 15(1), 4 January. Available <a href="http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2775/2432">http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2775/2432</a> </span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Cambria; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Ayuthaya; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Harris, C.
(2010). Friend me?: School policy may address friending students online, <i>School
Library Journal</i>, 1 April. Available <a href="http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6724235.html">http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6724235.html</a></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt;"></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-US">Effective
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</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Up to date and regular
postings.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">2.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Easy to navigate</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">3.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Search bars on every page</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">4.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Relevant photos</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">5.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Mobile Friendly</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">6.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Feedback</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">7.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Ability to view catalogue and
reserve items</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family: Cambria; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">8.<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><span lang="EN-US">Contact information/online
librarian service</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Most of my criteria were selected after
reading the Matthews article which was comprehensive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I added a few of my own, and left out some of
his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The library website I intend to
review is not a children’s library, so I didn’t use anything from Lazaris.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was interested to note the difference
between what works when marketing to children, and how different it is to
targeting adults.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.bmcc.nsw.gov.au/yourcommunity/library" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US"> Blue Mountains City Library</span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">This is my local library, there are 6
different locations through the Blue Mountains (Blaxland, Springwood, Lawson,
Wentworth Falls, Katoomba and Blackheath).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is possible to get books from any of the other branches if what you
want isn’t at your local branch.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I use the library infrequently.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have a kindle, and do most of my fiction
reading on that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My children use their
school libraries, though we have used the local branch for additional material
for projects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had fairly low
expectations about them using any Web 2.0 tools to be honest, so I was
pleasantly surprised by their blog <a href="http://readersinthemist.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Readers in the mist</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s called a book review blog, but also has
announcements of events and lots of information about the library, arranged
under tabs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As far as the above criteria are concerned:</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
homepage was updated yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other
pages have not been touched for some time however, some of them for a couple
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are a few comments made, and one has not
been responded to at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lots of links
to other sites, 12 broken (checked with <a href="http://www.websitegoodies.com/tools/linkcheck.php" target="_blank">Website Goodies</a>).</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The Facebook link only took me to my own
Facebook homepage, and Twitter has not been updated since June. Further exploration,
and I discovered that the council have a website, and the library posts on that
wall.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Social media presence is definitely an area
that needs to be improved.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Both the blog, and the council site are easy to navigate.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Search bars are on every page.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">4.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Relevant photos (books and The three Sisters).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are no attributions for the
photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After making an electronic
pathfinder for ETL501, I did go looking for this, and couldn’t find
anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was a little disappointed by
this, as I know how simple it is to do the right thing as far as copyright
goes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are also pictures of book
covers, and I am dubious about whether permission has been sought to publish
them, remembering the hoops some people jumped through last semester, getting
permission to put photos of book jackets on their sites.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The blog is mobile friendly.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">6.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Feedback is possible on the blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Comments are moderated, and there is a list of what is and is not
considered acceptable, all very common sense things like not being abusive or
using bad language.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">7.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On the council site, the catalogue is available to search, and you can
see where the book you want is located, and can request that it is held for
you, and at which branch you would like to pick it up. There is no charge for
this service.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">8.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
contact point is very clear, and has it’s own tab, where all the addresses and
phone numbers for each branch are listed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There is no facility for talking to a librarian online, but during
business hours, I know they are happy to talk on the phone and help you,
because I’ve rung them before.</span></div>
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A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-34572920562776744242012-12-03T02:31:00.001-08:002013-02-01T22:32:41.521-08:00Arizona State University<style>
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</style> <span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The library
minute videos at the ASU website are really engaging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a user of these kind of services, I am as
a rule unenthusiastic about the time commitment of a ten minute video, but I
happily watched ten of those little snippets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It made me want to be an undergraduate, studying on campus again.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At ASU.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I wonder if the students there know how lucky they are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Coffee shops, exhibitions, printing from your
own laptop, group study rooms available ,wifi, whiteboards (regular and
electronic). Such a wonderful variety of really useful stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I was an undergraduate living on campus,
we shared one phone between 50 of us, and it had a cord so we were tethered to
the cold under the stairs walk through passage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We used pens, and paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We typed
our assignments on type writers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I even
hand wrote some of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel like
such a dinosaur.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">But I digress.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The time frame
of the one minute library spot is excellent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I think people are far more likely to engage with them, than a longer
piece.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Four C's – collaboration, conversation,
community, content criteria.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In addition to
the one minute videos, I looked at the Facebook page and Twitter feed for ASU.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Collaboration </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">One of the
videos asked for feedback.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ASU want to
know what it is their users are interested in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They want to give them what they want, they’ve already thought of a lot
of cool stuff, but it is clear that they are happy to hear about more
ideas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Conversation <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Facebook
page and Twitter are obviously well tended. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">At the top of
the Facebook page there is a complaint. It is from November 3, and I
don't know if it has been left there strategically, to show how good they are
responding to comments on their page, but that is what it does. A user
complains about the wifi service in the library dropping out. The librarian
responds within four hours. There is then some back and forth
establishing what the issue is, and a promise is given to look into it.
There is follow up a week later. The page is also updated regularly with
special events.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are also
several tweets every day, with reminders of services, opening and closing
times, and even reassurance for intimidated patrons. </span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Community</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Because Facebook
and Twitter are regularly updated, there is a sense of community in those
pages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These are librarians who want to build
relationships with their community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
responses are unfailingly professional and polite.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They want to problem solve and serve and engage their
community.</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Content <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 12.0pt;">There are regular
links on the twitter feed about what is available and what is new or coming
up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-38984637881776954542012-11-30T15:59:00.000-08:002013-01-31T21:53:25.339-08:00Second Life and Virtual RealityI signed up for Second Life last night, but haven't really looked around yet. I asked my son if he had heard of it - he's 16, and plays a lot of those first person games, and does a lot of map building. He creates beautiful, seamless maps, that other players can use, I'm actually amazed at what he can do. But he doesn't like Second Life. Pressing him, he said he didn't like the interface, the building tools he deemed inadequate, and knowing the somewhat nefarious uses some inhabitants of the metaverse put it to, he refuses to consider it. His objections are both technical and moral. He is an interesting 16 year old.<br />
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Reading the articles for module two about Second Life, I felt a growing sense of anxiety, that in ten or fifteen years, people my age will be obsolete in the classroom, and concern that I should have left this subject till I was further through my library studies, simply because I am worried that things will realign to be something different before I am finished studying, and I will need to relearn something new. I am an overthinker.<br />
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I was interested in the idea that virtual learning environments are so effective at engagement and achievement. I have heard so many people say (nurses, teachers, doctors, lawyers and so on) that they learned more in their first year on the job than they did in all the time they spent in university lectures. My mother is a nurse, and did her training when it was still a hospital based system, and I remember her concern when it switched to university training, that new nurses would have a lot of head knowledge that wasn't necessarily practical. Virtual learning could be the answer that we need. Giving people "real" experience, but in an environment that provides a safety net in case of error.<br />
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As far as Second Life goes, while I admit it looks interesting, I feel a degree of ambivalence about the time required to "learn" the world, and master the experience. Four hours is the time it apparently takes to orient oneself to the world, and four hours at the end of term four in a busy household seems like a big time commitment. And then one of the readings insisted that four hours will orient you, but four weeks is more realistic as a time frame for becoming comfortable. Four weeks!! Convince me it's worth it. A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-16817094799474474102012-11-30T02:37:00.000-08:002013-01-31T21:52:52.335-08:00RSS FeedsI started subscribing to RSS feeds a few years ago when I got my ipod nano. I would download episodes of Doctor Karl to listen to, or religious debates, or radio programs and listen to them while I went running. It was a change from listening to music.<br />
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Now, I have google reader set up on my laptop, and the blogs I follow are delivered there. It might take me a while to catch up with everything I'm interested in, but I like to have it all in one place.<br />
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Looking through the <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/services/rss/programs.htm#arts_entertainment" target="_blank">abc link</a>, I noticed that one of the RSS feeds is for a reading of a book. A book! Chapter by chapter, a whole book. Now, this excites me. I love to read aloud, and I love to listen to audio books, when my hands are busy doing something, and I need my eyes to concentrate, but still want my mind entertained. And I have been the voice for chapters in a published audio book (a one off, funny little episode in my life that I really enjoyed). I wonder how plausible it is to have a feed that publishes a chapter a week of a book. A whole book. Would people listen and be interested I wonder?<br />
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In the library situation, and bear in mind, I don't have a library situation as such <i>yet</i>, but in a library situation, I think it could kick off for book week perhaps. And perhaps in the lead up, students could vote for which book from a list they would like to turn into an audio book. The winner unveiled at the Book Week parade. And then, to make it more interesting, students could audition to be readers! How does copyright work in this situation? And the audio book, voiced by their peers, is the hook, to get them involved in my library website, because once they are there, hopefully they will look around and find even more interesting treasures, treasures that draw them in, that give them tools, and empower them.<br />
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Now this isn't completely answering questions about meeting users information needs, it's a bit of a tangent, but it's also an idea I don't want to lose because I forget that I've had it.A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-54016950665644055622012-11-26T01:51:00.003-08:002013-01-31T21:52:15.414-08:00Module Two, INF 506After a frustrating day of computer issues, which had I thought about it properly, I could have resolved hours earlier than I did, I am in the midst of the module 2 readings, which are vast. I am drowning in information.<br />
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I confess, I am flicking between my dictionary widget, and the readings with great regularity. It isn't enough to have heard a word, I need to be sure of its meaning, so I'm not confused.<br />
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So metadata, is data <i>about</i> data.<br />
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Folksonomies - a user-generated system of classifying and organizing online content into different categories by the use of metadata such as electronic tags. Thank you dictionary.<br />
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I find tagging quite hard, and have a fairly low opinion of my ability to do it well. I think this course is going to be enormously helpful, not just in my work life, but also in life outside work, allowing me to keep up with and participate knowledgeably. At the moment, I tend to blunder around, like there isn't enough light in the room, and I know that I could be better.<br />
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I need to go and do the drop box tutorial. I will come back with more thoughts, once I've thought them.A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354745709348825883.post-64891783011519374942012-11-15T17:00:00.001-08:002013-01-31T21:51:32.739-08:00<div class="post_title">
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Assignment One INF506 </b></u></div>
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<b>What is social networking?</b><br />
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Social networking is all about participation. The internet has
changed to become a place where everyone can share ideas, news,
photographs and creative interests. Networks are not limited to your
geographical location, and you don’t even have to have met in person.
Sharing similar interests is enough to connect people no matter where in
the world they live (as long as they have a computer).<br />
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<b>My current social networking sites:</b><br />
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Currently I have a Facebook account, which I use to keep in touch
with family and friends, and now for uni. Some of my friends are people
I’ve met online on other sites, some of these I have met, but some not.<br />
I have a twitter account, which until this course I have used
sporadically, ineffectively, and resentfully, because I feel out of my
depth. I’m not sure what I should tweet, and how it is different to my
status update on Facebook.<br />
I am a member of a parenting forum (Essential Baby), and contribute to discussion on a semi regular basis.<br />
I have contributed to youtube, and use it a lot for teaching, as well as entertainment and information<br />
I subscribe to a number of blogs:<br />
- Jamie the Very Worst Missionary<br />
- Head versus Desk<br />
- Making it Funky<br />
- Down to earth<br />
I now have a Flickr account, but have previously had a photobucket account which I primarily used to make memes.<br />
I write a blog of my own about things I’ve read that interest me<b>.</b><br />
I am a member of Goodreads, Pinterest and Instagram.<br />
I play online games (Words with Friends, Scramble with Friends, Gems, Bejewelled Blitz, Matching with Friends).<br />
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With all these computer activities, I’m starting to realise why I feel time poor.<br />
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<b>What do I expect to learn from INF506?</b><br />
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I want to learn how to harness social media in a meaningful way
for teaching/library. Although I don’t have a permanent position as
yet, I want to be ready, and as current in my knowledge as possible. <br />
I have reservations about using Facebook as a platform for keeping
parents informed about school excursions/activities, and want to explore
other options that may be safer.<br />
<br />A Thunder of Grousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07951921808785045782noreply@blogger.com0