Why 5Wks? and what's happening in Delridge?
Submitted by shireendeboo on Thu, 2007-01-04 03:08.
Why am I enrolled in this course? Because I just started my job as a community college librarian, and I think my fluency in new technologies is a key criteria to making my library relevant to its audience; because the structure of a course helps focus me and force me to develop the skills I'm interested in; because everyone is talking about these tools, but I'm still not sold on their value to my patrons and my library (I guess i'll go with full disclosure up front); because it's free and my institution has limited funds for training.
How are we using social technologies at South Seattle Community College? Well, I'd say we're not. Technical savvy outside IT and the Distance Learning faculty is fairly limited amongst the faculty, with most people using email and that's about it. I don't even think many faculty use aggregators, but I'd like to share that tool with them...
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Skepticism isn't a bad thing
I think it's good to approach any technology with a critical eye; especially if you're thinking about implementing it in your library. There is definitely a happy medium between technolust and having a knee-jerk negative reaction to any new technology. The key is really to focus on your users' needs and how technology might fill those needs.