Course Program
Submitted by meredithfarkas on Sat, 2006-09-30 18:53.
Introductory Content
Screencast: Community, Connecting and the Great Blogging Universe - Helene Blowers, Public Services Technology Director, Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County
Week 1: Blogs
Webcast 1: A 21st Century Printing Press: Blogs as Publishing Mechanism - Rebecca Hedreen, Distance Education Librarian, Southern Connecticut State University.
Webcast 2: Next Steps: Taking Your Library’s Blog from So-So to Superb - Nanette Donohue, Technical Services Manager, Champaign Public Library
Screencast: Duck Soup: Using a Blog to Provide Product Support - Karen Harker, Digital Infrastructure Research & Development unit, UT Southwestern Medical Center Library
Screencast: From Writer's Block to Library Blog - Anne Welsh, Bibliographic Services, DrugScope; Editor, Catalogue & Index: Periodical of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group.
Screencast: Using the Tools: How Millenials Wse the World Wide Web - Jami Schwarzwalder, Recent Graduate, Indiana University MLS Program
Week 2: RSS and Social Bookmarking
Webcast 1: Getting up to Speed with RSS Webfeeds - Michele Mizejewski, Electronic Services Specialist Librarian, Redwood City Library
Webcast 2: Make your library del.icio.us - Jason Griffey, Reference and Instructional Librarian, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Screencast: Using RSS to Add Currency to the Library Web Site - Melissa Rethlefsen, Education Technology Librarian, Learning Resource Center, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine
Screencast - Tagging, Folksonomies and the Collective Consciousness of Online Communities - Gabriel Lundeen, Adult Services Librarian, Los Angeles Public Library
Week 3: Wikis
Webcast 1: The Wonderful World of Wikis: Applications for Libraries - Chad Boeninger, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Ohio University and The "How" of Wikis - Starr Hoffman, Librarian for Digital Collections, Government Documents Department, University of North Texas Libraries
Screencast: Building Next Generation Library Web Sites Using PmWiki - Paul Lewis, Government Documents Librarian and Website Admin, University of South Carolina, Aiken and Brenda Chawner, Senior lecturer in the School of Information Management, Victoria University of Wellington
Podcast: Building Next Generation Library Web Sites Using PmWiki: An Interview with Patrick Michaud. Brenda Chawner, John Rankin and Patrick Michaud (creator of PmWiki).
Screencast: Using Mediawiki Open-Source Software as Infrastructure for Electronic Resource Outreach - Robert H. McDonald, Chronopolis Project Manager, San Diego Supercomputer Center and Jonathan Blackburn, Technology Specialist, Florida State University
Screencast: Creating a Community for the Cultural Record: Using Social Software in Special Collections - Amelia Abreu, Archivist and History Subject Specialist, University of Houston Libraries.
Week 4: Flickr and Social Networking Software
Webcast 1: Flickr: The Image of the Social Library - Steve Lawson, Humanities Librarian, Tutt Library, Colorado College and flickr: Images, Innovations, Community, Connections - Michael Porter, Technology Trainer, OCLC Western
Webcast 2: I Live Online: exploring 2-D and 3-D virtual communities - Beth Gallaway, Trainer/Consultant, Metrowest MA Regional Library System and Second Life: Get One! - Kelly Czarnecki, Teen Librarian, ImaginOn, the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County and Matt Gullett, Technology Education Librarian, ImaginOn, the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
Podcast: Flickr as a Training Tool - Lauren Pressley, Microtext Specialist, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University
Screencast: Mingle! Mingle! Or, How to Mix with Library Users in Myspace, Embrace Every Opportunity to Get Out the “Library Message” in New Ways and Not Spill Your Drink in the Process - Beth Evans, Reference Librarian, Brooklyn College Library
Podcast: Taking part: social software initiatives at the National Library of Australia - Matthew Stuckings, National Library of Australia
Week 5: Selling Social Software @ Your Library
Screencast: A puppy with a new ball: Engaging library staff in social networking tools during the MULTA project - Kathryn Greenhill, Murdoch University Library
Screencast: Library 2.0? No, thank you! Obstacles to Creating a Social Library - Kate Peterson, Reference and Instruction Librarian, St. Cloud State University; Plamen Miltenoff, Associate Professor, InforMedia Services, St. Cloud State University; and Melissa Prescott, Reference and Instruction Librarian, St. Cloud State University.
Screencast: Library Branding - Alane Wilson and Alice Sneary, OCLC
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Your course looks very
Your course looks very expansive and comprehensive. I see that Helene Blowers is contributing content to your lessons, and you mention her Learning 2.0 program elsewhere. Here at the joint San Jose Public/San Jose State University Library we are also running a Learning 2.0 course that is based on Helene Blowers' program. Just wondering - why do you call Five Weeks to a Social Library the first of its kind?
Erm, because it is. There
Erm, because it is. There have been a number of programs like it, but nothing specifically focused at the constituency we targeted -- otherwise-underserved librarians.
I think our mix of synchronous and a- and our focus on outcomes is unique, but I'm prepared to see pushback on that point. We'll see what happens when we publish about the experience.
In addition, because, unlike
In addition, because, unlike the Learning 2.0 programs, this was open to librarians all over the world, regardless of affiliation. It was also completely designed and implemented without any institutional support -- it was just six librarians who wanted to do something for the profession. This is a very different model than Learning 2.0. Both are great models, but different.