Hi All,
As with any new service and this is what is being proposed here, some
situational analysis needs to be conducted.
What is the purpose of the new service - FaceBook site say? Guidelines
and porcedures for use/interactions (because this is public domain)
maintenance and updating? Budgeting - workload, time and people, costs
for extra bandwirdth? How will we evaluate and monitor wehther the aims
& objectives/purpose has been achieved.
Too many times we set these things up without doing the planning. If you
intend to use these technologies to achieve curriculum
objectives/outcomes then this needs to be part of the assessment
process.
Q - I wonder haow many kids actually want us in this space which is
essentially a social space? I often think that we are rushing headlong
into this without asking some of the hard questions because the agenda
is being driven large corporations who have a vested interest in
educators taking this stuff on board to make more corporate dollars. We
need to come back to educational outcomes and essentials of service
provision for libraries.
:)
BC
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Barbara Combes, Lecturer
School of Computer and Information Science Edith Cowan University, Perth
Western Australia
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From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Fox
Sent: Monday, 16 March 2009 3:01 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] Gen: Facebook, territoriality, accessibility
I'm sure 20 years ago the same things were being said about the
internet:
"stay away, it's unprofessional!"
There are MANY seminars being led by PROFESSIONALS on how to reach
students
through blogging, facebook, myspace, twitter, etc. These trainings are
for
STAFF - teachers, librarians, administrators...professionals. Our
school
even uses U-Tube extensively for everything from video production
classes to
social studies. I love showing the chicken book video to kids, to give
them ideas on how to put together video book reports. Just because
it's
mainstream doesn't mean it's wrong or more dangerous. There's as much
chance of hitting porno on those sites as on google, to be honest.
Ironically, the use of these sites during school time is limited to
teachers who have access to the district's override code, as all those
sites are
blocked on our district server. Kids often find proxy servers (such as
youngcheese.com) to get around our filter, but we do try to keep them
off these sites. This is as much because it's a waste of instructional
time as it is a waste of our limited bandwidth.
All that said, I think a facebook account for our library would be
awesome, if I had time to put it together. Even though my teen daughter
says facebook is for old farts, it's just one more way to be accessible
to our patrons. I'd love to hear that one of our patrons spent time
cruising our library facebook page for reviews and links - it's just one
more way to reach them. What bothers you: the nature of the blogs, being
accessible around the clock, more work, or just the public nature of it
all?
I've been taking a class in library science and have cruised, literally,
hundreds of library websites around the world in a search for the most
user-friendly, best-designed library homepage. I have found a lot of
libraries with facebook links that are very professional, and very
user-friendly. On another, but related, note - many catalogs are
inaccessible and password protected, which I think does a disservice to
patrons. How many of you are truly accessible to your patrons at home?
Aren't we all about disseminating information?
JMHO,
Elizabeth Fox, Technology Instructor
Newport High School, Newport, OR
keokuk@casco.net (pm)
Liz.fox@lincoln.k12.or.us (schooldays only)
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