Jumping In
Submitted by ellieswanson on Wed, 2007-01-10 14:58.
My name is Ellie Swanson and I am the Cataloging/Reference Librarian at a community college in Illinois. Our library is quite small and lightly staffed. We each have a variety of duties. Even though I am only part-time, I am the only cataloger. I am one of several part-time reference librarians who also teach many information literacy classes.
We are always looking for ways to keep our students' interest and communicate in new ways. I hope that we will be able to start a library blog. I also hope to learn if wikis or other social networking tools would be useful in our classes.
Like someone else in an earlier post, I am the mother of two teenagers. That helps me have some awareness of new technology. It also creates a desire to keep up with what they are interested in doing.
I look forward to hearing others' points of view and experiences and learning many new things.
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Teens and Tweens
I work at a university and I am interacting with millennials all the time, but I am very interested to see what you, as a parent, think about these new technologies in relation to teens. You are able to see millennials in their *ahem* natural habitat, so I think your views are invaluable in reaching these users.
I feel fortunate to have
I feel fortunate to have that opportunity to see them in their "natural" habitat (which I think would be dirty socks and candy wrappers). I have a boy (15) and a girl (13) and I think I get a bit of a range that way because of the gender difference, age difference, and temperment differences. My son is very interested in gaming and anything computers can do in general. My daughter is not but would have her cellphone and ipod surgically implanted if we would let her (my son cares for neither) and enjoys myspace and IM. I think between the two I get a full range of perspective but I think it would be at our own peril if we forgot that the millennials have a wide range of preferences with regard to their tools.