Other+OLJ+Tasks

Delicious is great - it optimises collaboration i.e. many people working together to find resources of common value. So easy to use, navigate and to upload your resources for contribution. The number of resources on a given topic are outstanding especially when working in a group setting. In schools Delicious.com would be so advantageous for; to name a few. Isn't it great to have the opportunity for the sites you love and commonly access to update you constantly rather than you needing to find the time in a busy day to access them. What a great way for staudents and teachers to be constantly be updated by favourites in subject or even topic areas. Do I forsee more risk than value in the use of this in a student environment - yes! It feels like there is less control over just who comes in close contact with you and do you really know who they are - I wonder. Thank goodness this is blocked by the Department so that I wont have to make the ultimate decision - it is a definite worry for me. I don't seen the learning value beyond the game value in this one and I am happy to say that I am very content in the real world. So many other social netwrking tools have you living in the real world this one doesn't for me and I can't help but feeling I am always just playing a game - a kind of creepy one! Not for me. The 4 C's are collaboration, community, content or co-creation and conversation. The key is to find the "right" technology that may be just around the corner". An excellent quote that is perfect for the case study task. "will our library users actually use the tool we provide? " []
 * OLJ Task 1 - Delicious.**
 * student tasks
 * librarians online cataloging
 * librarians aiding student research
 * students developing research skills
 * student to student collaboration.
 * Student to teacher collaboration.
 * teacher to teacher collaboration.
 * pragramming.
 * lesson planning.
 * COP
 * OLJ Task 2 - RSS Feeds**
 * OLJ Task 3- Second Life.**
 * OLJ Task 4 - The library Minute videos -**
 * OLJ Task - 7 Website criteria - Liz Greefs library site to assess is** @http://sacsnet.sacs.nsw.edu.au/library/
 * 1) captivating
 * 2) user friendly / easy to navigate
 * 3) simplistic
 * 4) promotional
 * 5) links with other web 2.0 tools e.g. social bookmarking like delicious, facebook ect.
 * 6) search options
 * 7) direct help options
 * 8) visuals
 * 9) feedback opportunities
 * 10) suited to age demographic
 * "Are they fulfilling a need?
 * Are they helping us to do a better job of reaching our library users?
 * Are they helping our patrons find what they need or are they possibly creating another barrier to accessing their information?
 * Are they enabling us to do a better job of providing services or are they simply demonstrating that we know //how// to use these new tools? " Good questions to ask.

**OLJ – 3 Stages of PLN Adoption **  Jeff Utecht outlines 5 Personal Learning Network (PLN) stages including immersion, evaluation, know it all, perspective and balance. I find that whilst I am new to social networking and relatively new to the use of Web 2.0 tools, I am already in the balance and perspective stages. Whilst I agree with the sta ges, I believe that your personality, personal and working life also play a major role in your progression through the stages. This is supported by Utecht who believes that you do not have to go through all these stages and that some people jump from stage 2 to stage 5 or do not become so immersed into their PLN that they ever reach stage 3, that sense of having to “know it all.”  As a mum of two small children and a very family orientated person, I believe that whilst I enjoy learning and applying Web 2.0 tools, it has and never will be something that I am totally immersed in. I believe that I have skipped stages 2 and 3 as I choose to learn about specific tools in a balanced way. Whilst I recognise the diversity and complexity of technology, I am not obsessive about needing to learn everything at once, I utilise my PLN for assistance and have subsequently achieved the sense of ‘calm’ that Utecht (2010, p.1) describes. Utecht recommends that we "try and find that balance between learning and living”, I find that my personality, personal and working life unconsciously takes precedence and therefore finding the balance is not difficult. He talks about finding the balance between the online and offline world and maintaining a grip on reality, this is an essential piece of advice that we should be passing onto students, that whilst Web 2.0 tools are great they should be only part of the way in which we learn or that we should use them in combination with other people and resources in our PLN and that there is life beyond our PLN and the internet.
 * My Meme Map **
 * The following is a map of tools and people which are instrumental to my successful completion of the Masters in Teacher Librarianship. **

**Reference** Utecht, J. (2010). Stages of PLN Adoption In //The Thinking Stick//, Retrieved 23 January 2010 from [] . <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">OLJ 2 – What are the essential knowledge, skills and attributes of information professionals in a Web 2.0 World? ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Life-long learning and being a successful member of a global society are the primary goals of an information professional, that is the life-long learning of oneself and of those we are responsible for. We must learn the necessary skills, knowledge and attributes that enable us to continually evolve and learn throughout the course of our lives, therefore adapting to change and making us successful members of the global environment. These skills, knowledge and attributes are then passed on to students allowing them to achieve the same goals. Constant developments in technology and the Web 2.0 world are an excellent example for the need to be able to learn how to learn. Web 2.0 is a range of valuable tools that can be used to achieve the goal of life-long learning, as they enable us to collaborate, participate, share, create and publish information. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">For the information professional to be able to utilise Web 2.0 as a tool to aid the above mentioned goals, they need to: <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Understanding the ways in which students learn; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Adopt resource based learning approaches; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Recognise and apply the skills, knowledge and understanding already possessed by students and adapt these into classroom settings; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Utilise Web 2.0 tools that students can relate to; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Don’t be too quick to throw out the old, as Fudrow (as cited in Harvey, 2009, p.1) states "Web and Library 2.0 isn't about finding that next 'new' technology, but instead about finding the 'right' one"; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Select appropriate tools to meet needs, as Abram (2011, p. 1) states understand the power and potential of Web 2.0 and use it to meet the needs of the user; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Embrace the benefits of Web 2.0 by encouraging collaboration, participation, sharing, creating and publishing information; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Value and utilise Web 2.0 tools as a useful asset to coincide with existing library resources; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Promote professional development; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Stay abreast of change; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Foster a progressive and flexible library; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Encourage user contribution, as Cohen suggests “I will recognise that the universe of information culture is changing fast and that libraries need to respond positively to these changes to provide resources and services that users need and want”; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Provide safe and secure Web 2.0 solutions; <span style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 45.8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-align: justify; text-indent: -18pt;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Teach students the etiquette relating to Web 2.0 tools <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Reference ** <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Abram, S. (2011). <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the 2.0 World In // SirsiDynix One Source //. Retrieved on January 23rd from <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Cohen, L. (2006) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">A Librarian's 2.0 Manifesto in // You Tube //. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> Retrieved on January 23rd from <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZblrRs3fkSU <span style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 1;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Harvey, M. (2009). What Does It Mean to Be a Science Librarian 2.0? In // Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship (Summer) //. Retreived 23rd January 2011 from <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">[] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">.