Gold/Diamond OA: Week Three summary
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Showing posts with label "social networking". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "social networking". Show all posts
Monday, August 25, 2008
Monday, December 10, 2007
Is anyone else "Twittering"?
Are you "Twittering"? What do you use Twitter for? Would this be useful for librarians? Would this be useful for us?
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Social Networking ...or how I learned how to use Facebook...and why I think we ALL should!
I am teaching two sections of Success Strategies. I actually love teaching and enjoy the challenge to juggle both librarian and faculty duties.
One section is a Monday night class. The other is Tuesday and Thursday morning ... 8 am. Unfortunately, the students in the 8am class aren't what I would call "morning people." To make it more interesting, I'm a bit tired on Tuesday mornings from teaching the night before.
One Tuesday morning a few weeks ago, I was teaching on the topic of how to find information on the internet effectively. The 6 students in the class were following along with me on their own computers as we were looking at meta search engines and subject directories online. For some reason, I mentioned Facebook, and how I had just made an account with my Rasmussen.edu email. I opened up Facebook to show them my account, and I was stunned to see 5 new "friends" notifications! They were from 5 of the 6 students in the classroom! These students have since then "thrown ghosts", waved, shared pictures on their profile I can use as "fodder" in class (nice costume, Caleb!).
I definitely think students, especially of that particular age group that is not afraid to use technology, will find me more approachable. The students who are willing to try new technology (like the 6th person in the classroom who didn't yet have an account) has tried it out and feels more like the other students, despite the age difference.
Facebook is only one of many social networking tools that librarians obviously are using to their advantage (see all of the library-related groups available)! I'm attempting to load meebo.com as a widget on the site as well.
Feel free to add me when / if you have a Facebook account. It's pretty darn fun besides.
One section is a Monday night class. The other is Tuesday and Thursday morning ... 8 am. Unfortunately, the students in the 8am class aren't what I would call "morning people." To make it more interesting, I'm a bit tired on Tuesday mornings from teaching the night before.
One Tuesday morning a few weeks ago, I was teaching on the topic of how to find information on the internet effectively. The 6 students in the class were following along with me on their own computers as we were looking at meta search engines and subject directories online. For some reason, I mentioned Facebook, and how I had just made an account with my Rasmussen.edu email. I opened up Facebook to show them my account, and I was stunned to see 5 new "friends" notifications! They were from 5 of the 6 students in the classroom! These students have since then "thrown ghosts", waved, shared pictures on their profile I can use as "fodder" in class (nice costume, Caleb!).
I definitely think students, especially of that particular age group that is not afraid to use technology, will find me more approachable. The students who are willing to try new technology (like the 6th person in the classroom who didn't yet have an account) has tried it out and feels more like the other students, despite the age difference.
Facebook is only one of many social networking tools that librarians obviously are using to their advantage (see all of the library-related groups available)! I'm attempting to load meebo.com as a widget on the site as well.
Feel free to add me when / if you have a Facebook account. It's pretty darn fun besides.
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