Blog 5
What specific plans do you have for implementing technolgoy in an educational setting as a result of what you have learned in 5720?
I plan on teaching teachers about blogs and how to create their own blog. I would create a blog for a student book club for elementary school students so, they could discuss books they read at the media center as well as offer suggestions of books that I should buy. I would like to show teachers how to tag their favorite webssites using Delicious. Delicious would help teachers because they can tag websites they would like to show students for science and social studies projects. I would develop a Wiki for teachers and faculty to ask library and non-library questions that would be helpful in the school environment. The Wiki would be a great place to collaborate with teachers about books and materials for research projects without coming to the media center becaue of time constraits. I would show teachers how to do presentations using Slideshare instead of powerpoint. I would give students and teachers orientation of the media center using Slideshare. I plan on using the tools that I have learned in this class and expanding upon the technology by taking more classes.
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Blog 4 The Job of Organizing
Blog 4 SLIS 5720
The Job of Organizing
Organizing books and materials used to be in the domain of professionally trained catalogers and indexers. Now, through Web 2.0, it is in the hands of everyday “folk”. What are the implications of this trend for librarians? Also, for additional food for thought, go to your Delicious site and examine your list of tags. In your opinion, are these tags more or less helpful than traditional subject headings?
Organizing books used to be in the hands of trained catalogers and indexers but, with trained librarians on Web 2.0 I don’t think it is in the hands of everyday “folk.” Librarians and teachers can be trained on Web 2.0 tools for LibraryThing, and Delicious. Librarians and teachers can catalog and index their own books and tag their own websites. Least we know that librarians and teachers are trained on Web 2.0. Now, everyday “folk” trying to catalog and index with Web 2.0 should be a concern because unless trained they don’t know what they are doing. But, I guess it is giving everyone the experience of cataloging like in LibraryThing and tagging websites like delicious. I personally think my tags are much more user friendly than subject headings. I feel that I can look to the right and pick the tag and find the subject that I am looking for.
The Job of Organizing
Organizing books and materials used to be in the domain of professionally trained catalogers and indexers. Now, through Web 2.0, it is in the hands of everyday “folk”. What are the implications of this trend for librarians? Also, for additional food for thought, go to your Delicious site and examine your list of tags. In your opinion, are these tags more or less helpful than traditional subject headings?
Organizing books used to be in the hands of trained catalogers and indexers but, with trained librarians on Web 2.0 I don’t think it is in the hands of everyday “folk.” Librarians and teachers can be trained on Web 2.0 tools for LibraryThing, and Delicious. Librarians and teachers can catalog and index their own books and tag their own websites. Least we know that librarians and teachers are trained on Web 2.0. Now, everyday “folk” trying to catalog and index with Web 2.0 should be a concern because unless trained they don’t know what they are doing. But, I guess it is giving everyone the experience of cataloging like in LibraryThing and tagging websites like delicious. I personally think my tags are much more user friendly than subject headings. I feel that I can look to the right and pick the tag and find the subject that I am looking for.
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