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• What were your favorite experiences in the course?
• Our Wednesday night group meetings
• The Opal exchanges
• Communicating with other librarians

• What technology did you find most interesting for your personal use? What technology did you think would be most useful professionally?
• for my personal use: Flickr, I had used it a bit, but will use it much more now.
• For my professional use the wiki has already become indespensible.

• Were there any unexpected outcomes from this program that surprised you?
• I now understand how my students feel about their on-line friends.

Here is a link to my final project which I published on the wiki:

http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/wiki/index.php?title=Holly%27s_Final_Projects

A message came across one of my library listservs this morning:

A teacher in the Metronet Information Literacy Project has been targeted on
a Facebook site. The offending student deleted the page, using his cell
phone,
while a school administrator was speaking to the class. The teacher is
quite upset and contacted me for information in how to proceed.
I am aware of 1st Amendment issues, etc. and of the controversy surrounding
what schools can and cannot control, but am wondering what policies
folks have in place and how these situations are being resolved.

I feel like I am repeating what others have said here, but I am questioning the value of a library being a member of either Myspace or Facebook. That does feel more like a personal realm for the young rather than a place for institutions, and I'm uncomfortable there. I like the library flickr accounts because they seem useful and there seems to be more for me in flicker than the other two programs. I was unable to access the MMOG program because I don't have the computer power at a place that allows access. I have exceptional connectivity compared to my patrons so I also wonder how much my people are accessing this type of program. Many people here do not even have telephones, much less high speed internet access.

It was another eye-opening week for me.

During the first week of class I think someone referred to a New York Times article about this generation and thier social networking.  It was great!  It gave examples of young adults who have their whole adolesence documented on-line.  I printed it out and shared it, but did not book mark it.  Can somebody send me that link again?

This has been a fun week up here in the Northern woods. I've been playing with wikis. I have talked one of my IT guys into seriously considering the installation of PMwiki at one of my schools. I have used a PBwiki to help a self-study committee compile responses to questions and facilitate a very interesting discussion. It's been generating requests from other committees. I have found so many interesting wikis of like-minded people on line! I really enjoyed our discussions in drupal this week and am so impressed that the presenters take the time to interact with us. This is an excellent course. I going to miss you guys when it's over.

I am constantly amazed by what we can do with these technologies. Most of the blogs I am interested in do not have feeds, so I spent lots of time just surfing looking for blogs. I have willingly and joyously spent 9 hours on this class this weekend, but am wondering if I can keep that level of time commitment. Total time this week is 16 hours! I know I will return again and again to this project for notes and instruction after this five weeks session ends.

Here is a utube presentation that fits nicely into our course:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE

In one of our chats, I had mentioned the possibility of using a blog for quizes, but have come up with an on-line alternative:  Moodle.  It's a way to put courses on line, but includes a powerful interface for assessment.  FYI!Holly Ristau