INF506 OLJ Task 3. A to Z of Social Networking for Libraries
Activity: READ
the post A to Z of Social
Networking for Libraries (22 January, 2010) on the Social Networking for Libraries
blog.
Consider this advice in terms of a
library and information agency that you know (as an employee or user). Select
advice from five (5) letters of this A-Z list and consider how these may be
applied to this library to help it embrace a Library 2.0 ethos. Write up your
findings as a post (of no more than 350 words in your OLJ).
The school context The Primary School
has a website accessible to the wider community. Emails are sent to parents for
specific school information. Social media tools such as YouTube and Glogster
are evident in some classes.
Application suggestions from A-Z list.
The library will create a blog that would have an RSS feed to the school website and intranet.
The library blog will integrate more social media. (See F and T)
Kathleen Morris (de Haan J. 2011) states: “There are so many benefits of educational blogging and can be integrated
into so many learning areas.
- Authentic learning
- Home-school connections
- Learning about internet safety and ICT skills
- Literacy development
- Boosting students confidence and sense of community
- Global collaboration
- Teaching about social skills”
The school will join facebook and put their facebook page badge on the home page of the library blog .
An opportunity to: share library news and announcements, share photos and videos, get feedback from school community, use polls for crowd sourcing about, for a example, library layout. (Hartstein, 2011)
M- Mobile, more and more your library’s social networking needs to be able to be accessed via mobile devices. There are also more options than ever for making this a reality.
There are mobile devices within the school classrooms as well as in the library. The library willcreate mobile websites/blogs/wikis and focus on mobile applications.
T-Text messaging- Is your library using it yet? (Twitter)
The library will set up a twitter account with information related to the library.
The library will find more and better ways to engage with its followers on twitter and to increase the numbers of followers.
A twitter feed widget (see W-Widgets) will be placed on the home page of the library website.
W-Widgets- many database vendors provide these and you can use them in many ways to promote your library resources.
Widgets are small web programs that can be easily installed and shared.
Widgets include icons, pull-down menus, buttons, selection boxes, progress indicators, on-off checkmarks, scroll bars, windows, window edges (that let you resize the window), toggle buttons, forms, and many other devices for displaying information and for inviting, accepting, and responding to user actions. (Higgins, 2005)
Putting the library Widget on the school website site will provide its readers with fresh library news, that will change automatically as the library staff updates the RSS library feeds.
What ideas, A-Z for libraries and social networking and technology do you have?
References
* Brooks-Young, S.
(2010). Teaching with the tools kids really use: Learning with Web and
mobile technologies. Thousand Oaks, Calif. :Corwin.
* Brown, AnnaLaura.(2010). A to Z of Social Networking for Libraries. Retrieved
from http://socialnetworkinglibrarian.com/2010/01/22/a-to-z-of-social-networking-for-libraries/.
Retrieved February 2, 2013, from Charles Sturt University website: http://interact.csu.edu.au/portal/site/INF506_201290_W_D/page/84cf677e-ec91-4f08-8080-0f7dd953df21
* de Haan J. (2011). Kathleen Morris/Leopold Primary School.
Technology with Intention. Retrieved from http://www.techwithintent.com/2011/05/kathleen-morris-leopold-primary-school/
* Hartstein, D. (2011). How
Schools Can Use Facebook to Build an Online Community
Retrieved fromhttp://mashable.com/2011/04/26/facebook-for-schools/
* Higgins, D( Updated 2005)What is Widget?- Defnition . Retrieved
January 30th from http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/widget
* Marcus, S. (2008 April 2) Matchbox. How schools Use Facebook to increase yield
* Melton, K. (2009), Schools use Facebook, Twitter to get out their message. Retrieved from http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2009/09/schools_turn_to_facebook_twitt.html
* Reynard, R. (2008). Social
networking: Learning Theory in Action. Campus Technology magazine.
Retrieved from http://campustechnology.com/Articles/2008/05/Social-Networking-Learning-Theory-in-Action.aspx
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