Looking back on webinars -- they were all quite interesting and informative. I did reference my group's webinar in last week's post, even though we weren't required to write one. I figured it would be easier for me to write about it the day we did it, instead of a week later when the experience wasn't so fresh in my mind. When it comes to the webinars I attended (4 of them), I really like the diversity in topics that were covered. It seemed to me, for all the webinars that I attended, that the presenters were all quite well prepared.
Back in my sophomore English class in undergrad the final paper's topic had to be what we wanted to be our final career...Kinda like 500, blech. Anyway, that English paper that I wrote was about Library 2.0 and the Young Adult patrons in a public library. It was interesting for my professor to read considering I was at a strictly business school. But she was cool with it because her husband had just graduated from Library school. :) She even had him read it to make sure I had all my bases covered. I went searching around for that paper when I started the readings for this week to see how I could change it to be more aligned with the new technologies that have emerged in libraries since 2007...unfortunately, I couldn't find it. I know I have a hard copy around somewhere in storage, but that's 150 miles away.
I feel that if I were to rewrite that paper now, all three of the readings for this week would be cited numerous times. I appreciated how the Fontichiaro (and the Blowers and Reed) article(s) point out that librarians -- and teachers -- should keep up-to-date with new 2.0 tools and technologies and then share their knowledge and skills with other librarians and teachers. This is going to become crucial as my classmates and I head out into the professional workplace in -- hopefully -- the next couple of years. We're also going to have to share our skills and knowledge with others in our workplace, and above all, with patrons. The Semedini article was similar to the others seeing as how it dealt with different technologies and how to deal with problems that cropped up using 2.0 technology. Overall, I really liked the readings for this week, because they talk about issues that will be very relevant for my future career.
Sunday, April 17, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Presenting a Webinar
Today, #TeamHAAK presented our webinar about catering to LEP patrons in libraries. Thanks to the Elluminate crash course we went through during class, we were able to get through our webinar without too many problems...until we were waiting for it to save. :P Yes we all exited out of it, and waited anxiously for the next five minutes to pass so we could get the link to the archived webinar. However, after about 10 minutes, it still hadn't shown up, and we were all getting a little more than slightly stressed out. We went back in to the room to see if we could retrieve the recording, and did all kinds of stuff to try and fix it. There was still someone else in the room when we went back in, so we figured we could try and all exit out again and wait for an agonizing 5 minutes for it to hopefully save. AND THAT WORKED! Thankfully. We were all quite relieved to say the least -- and we all realized what Kristin actually meant when she said that we HAD to exit out...otherwise it wouldn't save. We closed the program under the impression that just we had to close out of the program, not everyone else in the webinar. I feel like this was actually clarified in class -- given the amount of times Kristin repeated it, but for some weird reason, it just never clicked in any of our brains...But everything is all saved. Yay! And the correct link is now posted in the wiki. :)
As a group, we are EXTREMELY glad that we got together the night before to do a cold run-through. the Pre-Meeting allowed us to work through the numerous technical we had concerning the Powerpoint presentation, and do a trial run of the presentation pointed out where some additional information/slides were needed. We were also able to get a rough estimate of how long it would take us to present, and we were all able to become more comfortable with what would be happening when we presented the webinar live.
While the actual presenting of the webinar did have some issues, such as quite a bit of lagging when we went on the web tour, and some audio issues, I feel that overall, the webinar went pretty well. We had some good chat going on in there, and the results of the polls were interesting. Overall, I feel that the webinar experience was a great way to put new information out there. And it was good experience for what we may be facing in our future careers.
My reaction to the webinars I have/will be attending will most likely be the content of next week's blog post. :P
P.S. I actually just finally noticed how incredibly annoying it is to read tiny white text...just in case you were wondering why the design suddenly changed...
As a group, we are EXTREMELY glad that we got together the night before to do a cold run-through. the Pre-Meeting allowed us to work through the numerous technical we had concerning the Powerpoint presentation, and do a trial run of the presentation pointed out where some additional information/slides were needed. We were also able to get a rough estimate of how long it would take us to present, and we were all able to become more comfortable with what would be happening when we presented the webinar live.
While the actual presenting of the webinar did have some issues, such as quite a bit of lagging when we went on the web tour, and some audio issues, I feel that overall, the webinar went pretty well. We had some good chat going on in there, and the results of the polls were interesting. Overall, I feel that the webinar experience was a great way to put new information out there. And it was good experience for what we may be facing in our future careers.
My reaction to the webinars I have/will be attending will most likely be the content of next week's blog post. :P
P.S. I actually just finally noticed how incredibly annoying it is to read tiny white text...just in case you were wondering why the design suddenly changed...
Sunday, April 3, 2011
What can I say? Twitter is slightly annoying but also a slight necessity? Hmmm, yup, I think that's how I feel about the site. Kinda annoyed, but kinda intrigued. I suppose it was a good idea to have the class get a Twitter account as an assignment, otherwise I most certainly would have refrained from it all together.
I have discovered that I feel Twitter is more of a time-sucker than Facebook. I really don't understand the point of just seeing other peoples statuses that are under 140 characters. I know a lot of people love twitter because of the job-posting possibilities, and all that other fun jazz. I actually did link my Twitter account to my Facebook account, so that my Twitter statuses would go to Facebook automatically. And some of the features of Twitter, such as the retweeting was fun. I did seem to get caught up in some conversations -- with Ayla. :P
I can see how Twitter is invaluable in the library world, because everyone involved can stay up-to-date (by the second) with everything that is happening in the industry. Book recommendations can reach countless people in a matter of minutes. News travels so fast over Twitter, that it's mind boggling. Maybe in a few years, I will come to like Twitter, but for now, I just really don't have too much of an interest in the site. I feel like Facebook is more useful to keep in touch with the people in my network. I do realize that Twitter is a good way to meeting people outside your own personal network, with comes in handy when it comes to the job-postings. So, that is the positive side I see in Twitter. And of course, #TeamHAAK!
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I have discovered that I feel Twitter is more of a time-sucker than Facebook. I really don't understand the point of just seeing other peoples statuses that are under 140 characters. I know a lot of people love twitter because of the job-posting possibilities, and all that other fun jazz. I actually did link my Twitter account to my Facebook account, so that my Twitter statuses would go to Facebook automatically. And some of the features of Twitter, such as the retweeting was fun. I did seem to get caught up in some conversations -- with Ayla. :P
I can see how Twitter is invaluable in the library world, because everyone involved can stay up-to-date (by the second) with everything that is happening in the industry. Book recommendations can reach countless people in a matter of minutes. News travels so fast over Twitter, that it's mind boggling. Maybe in a few years, I will come to like Twitter, but for now, I just really don't have too much of an interest in the site. I feel like Facebook is more useful to keep in touch with the people in my network. I do realize that Twitter is a good way to meeting people outside your own personal network, with comes in handy when it comes to the job-postings. So, that is the positive side I see in Twitter. And of course, #TeamHAAK!
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