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Virtual Libraries: Creating Your Library 2.0 Presence for Library Instruction and Program Promotion Buffy Hamilton, School Library Media Specialist Creekview High School media type="custom" key="4014213"

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**__Library 2.0 Smackdown: Featured Tools__**
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**__FriendFeed__**

 * [|FriendFeed]
 * [|Aaron Tay's excellent blog post on using FriendFeed as an information dashboard for your library service points]
 * [|Library Journal Article on FriendFeed]
 * [|Wikipedia Article on FriendFeed]
 * [|Demo Video of FriendFeed Interface] (longer video at 17 minutes)
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__**AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners Supported by Lifestreaming/FriendFeed**__
use, and assess.
 * 2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful.
 * 3.1.2 Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learners.
 * 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view,
 * 4.1.7 Use social networks and information tools to gather and share information.

**__Examples of Libraries Using FriendFeed__**

 * [|Unquiet Library on FriendFeed]
 * [|MSU Libraries]
 * [|American Library Association]
 * [|NUS Libraries>> >>]

**__SlideShare__**
[|Slideshare: The Unquiet Library]

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__**Uses/Applications of SlideShare**__
Use **[|SlideShare]** to create instructional screencasts, video (vodcasts) screencasts of student work, share instructional or informational presentations, and for sharing documents. You can even insert YouTube videos into SlideShare presentations! SlideShare can be a great tool for students as wellsave ink and paper and encourage sharing/collaboration by having students post their work via SlideShare rather than printing hard copies for classmates. SlideShare presentations can be easily embedded into blogs and wikis as well as traditional web pages.

__**AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners Supported by SlideShare**__
use, and assess.
 * 2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful.
 * 3.1.2 Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learners.
 * 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view,

**__Reinventing Traditional Web 2.0 Tools: Social Media as Authoritative Information in Research Pathfinders__**
Social media can be used to create a virtual library presence, but we can also tap into the power of social media as social scholarship. By utilizing RSS feeds, podcasts, blogs, Twitter, YouTube and other news media videos, and Google Maps mashups, we can provide our students access to alternative forms of quality information while engaging in dialogue about how we evaluate information. By including both traditional as well as emerging sources of authoritative information, we can create research pathfinders/subject guides that are full of rich content.

**__AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners Supported by Social Media Information Sources__**
information, and point of view or bias.
 * 1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context.
 * 1.1.7 Make sense of information gathered from diverse sources by identifying misconceptions, main and supporting ideas, conflicting
 * 1.2.4 Maintain a critical stance by questioning the validity and accuracy of all information.
 * 4.1.7 Use social networks and information tools to gather and share information

**__Readings/Examples__**
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 * [|Integrating Social Media as Authoritative Information into Your Research Pathfinders]
 * [|Social Networking Changes Everything]
 * [|This Is the Moment: Legitimize Social Media in Education]
 * [|Readings on Authority 3.0]
 * The Networked Student

An Overview of Library 2.0 Possibilities: Tools and Applications from Joyce Valenza

 * Introduction to Virtual Libraries by Joyce Valenza

__**Social Bookmarking: Delicious**__
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__**How I Use This Tool in My Own Practice**__
Two years ago, I created a delicious account for my library to tap into the power of social bookmarking. I use this tool to organize and catalog (through tags) favorite resources for specific collaborative research projects. In addition, I create "link rolls"widgets for a specific tag that I can embed in my wiki or LibGuides platform to direct students to a specific set of bookmarked resources. You can use delicious to bookmark favorite websites, specific database articles, specific database searches, podcasts, YouTube videos, and more!

Students can create their own accounts and join our network to keep up with the latest bookmarks; in addition, I add other school libraries to my delicious network to see resources others are utilizing.

Next year I will be adding another social bookmarking tool, [|Diigo,] as part of my Media 21 project. I will be creating a group account for specific classes that will allow students to add resources and encourage collaboration.

__**AASL Standards for 21st Century Learners Supported by Social Bookmarking**__
use, and assess.
 * 2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful.
 * 3.1.2 Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learners.
 * 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view,
 * 4.1.7 Use social networks and information tools to gather and share information.

__**Examples of Social Bookmarking in Libraries**__

 * [|Barrow Elementary] (Andy Plemmons)
 * [|Sequoyah High School](Elease Franchini and Jan Reed)
 * [|Murray Hill Middle School]
 * [|Teasley Middle School] (Kris Woods)
 * [|Creekview High School Media Center] (Buffy Hamilton and Roxanne Johnson)
 * [|Bishop Feehan High School Library]
 * [|Hackley School/Library]
 * [|EMS Library]
 * [|Collins Hill High] (Holly Frilot and Amy
 * [|BWS Library]
 * Embedding Your Delicious Tags in a Research Pathfinder: [|Example 1] and Example 2 and Example 3
 * [|Helpful Hints on Social Bookmarking and Libraries by Polly Farrington]

__**Wikis**__
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**__How I Use This Tool in My Own Practice__**
I use my library wiki in a variety of ways:
 * To provide students a "website" with an easy to remember URL
 * To organize our database menu
 * To organize and stream information through research pathfinders by subject area
 * To provide multiple entry points to our social media presence
 * To embed content of interest to our students

In the upcoming 2009-10 year, I will be creating a wiki as part of my Media 21 project that students will access and edit for posting resources, their original work, and a place for discussion as we study social networking and issues related to Africa.

**__Examples of Wikis in Libraries__**

 * Monarch Academy Library Wiki
 * [|Apalachee High School Media Center]
 * [|The Unquiet Library]
 * Teasley Middle School Library Wiki
 * Decatur High School Library
 * [|Benson School Library]
 * Springfield High Global Issues Pathfinder on a Wiki

__**Twitter**__
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**__How I Use This Tool in My Own Practice__**
I use Twitter to broadcast announcements, to automatically share blog posts from The Unquiet Library blog, and to share links/resources of interests with our followers.

**__Examples of Libraries/Library Organizations Using Twitter__**

 * [|Mother of All Lists: Libraries on Twitter]
 * [|Eastern Regional High School]
 * [|The Unquiet Library (Creekview High)]
 * [|Teasley Middle School]
 * [|East Middle School]
 * [|AASL on Twitter]
 * [|School Library Journal on Twitter]

**__Library Blogs__**
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**__How I Use This Tool in My Own Practice__**
Library blogs can be used in many ways: for sharing resources, for sharing student work, for encouraging discussion, for embedding content and providing entry points to library resources, and for providing your readers an easy way to keep up with the latest library news via email or RSS feed.

**__Examples of Libraries/Library Organizations Using Blogs__**

 * [|Eastern Regional High]
 * [|Collins Hill High]
 * [|Barrow Elementary]
 * [|Searingtown Elementary School Library]
 * [|The Unquiet Library]
 * [|South Hall Middle School MC]
 * [|Teasley Middle School MC]
 * [|Library Lines]
 * [|BWS Library Blog]
 * [|Apalachee High School Media Center Blog]

**__Slideshows and Photo Hosting__**
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 * [|Slideshare: The Unquiet Library]
 * [|PictureTrail]
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 * [|Slide]
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 * [|Flickr]
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**__Google Tools__**
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 * ====**[|Google Calendar]**;====
 * [|An example of a library Google calendar]
 * ====**[|Google Library]**====
 * [|Getting Started with Google Books and Google Library (embedded view)]
 * [|Google Library FAQ]
 * ====**[|Google Reader Shared Items]**====
 * [|Cathy Nelson's Shared Item]s
 * [|Buffy Hamilton's Shared Items]
 * [|Mary Schwander's Shared Items]
 * [|Kim Cofino's Shared Items]
 * [|Polly Farrington's Shared Items]
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 * ====**[|Google Profiles]**====
 * [|E.H. Butler Library Google Profile]
 * [|The Unquiet Library Profile]
 * [|Lawrence Tech Library]
 * [|Google Profile Search for Libraries] (thank you, Aaron Tay)
 * [|Aaron Tay's blog post on libraries and Google Profiles]
 * [|More About Google Profiles]


 * ====**[|iGoogle: Getting Started and "How To"]**====
 * **[|Google Tools for Schools by Polly Farrington]**

__Widgets__
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 * **[|An Ode to Widgets] (Joyce Valenza)**
 * **Widgets in Action: On a Wiki, [|On a SharePoint Page], [|On a Blog], On a [|SLM website]**
 * **[|Elementary School Library Website Featuring Widgets Galore]**
 * **Book Widgets in Action ; [|get free widgets from Harper Collins' Children]**
 * **[|Gale Widget Generator]**
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__**Netvibes Examples and Articles**__

 * **[|The Unquiet Library]**
 * **[|The Dixie Grammar School Library]**
 * **[|Dublin City Public Library]**
 * **[|A Librarian's Netvibes Page]**
 * **[|Campus des Nations Primary Library]**
 * **[|Netvibes as Course Portal: Dr. Michael Wesch]**
 * **[|Blog post by Joyce Valenza] about the new Netvibes enhancements**
 * **[|Mashable's Overview of New Netvibes Enhancements]**
 * **Michael Stephens: [|Creating a Librarian's/Library's Info Portal with Netvibes]**
 * **[|The Librarian Edge: Netvibes, Pageflakes, iGoogle, LibGuides?]**
 * **[|Phil Bradley's "Introduction to Netvibes" screencast]**

**__Pageflakes__**

 * **[|Pageflakes BookClicks]**
 * **[|Joyce Valenza, Springfield High School Pageflakes]**
 * **[|The Unquiet Library Pageflakes]**
 * **[|"Planning and Pitfalls: Creating a Library Portal with Pageflakes"]**
 * **[|Joyce Valenza's Musings on Pageflakes]**

**__Polling and Survey Tools__**
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 * ====**[|PollDaddy]**====
 * ====[|**Poll Everywhere**: >]====
 * [|Click here to vote in my poll]
 * ====**[|Survey Monkey]**====

__Social Networks for Libraries: Facebook__

 * **Facebook**
 * [|Brentwood School Library]
 * [|Creekview High School Media Center]
 * [|Belmont High School Library]
 * [|Wintergirls]
 * [|ALA]
 * [|SLJ Article: Facebook Book Clubs]


 * Buffy's notes:**

Web 2.0 Tools Smackdown: Virtual Libraries - Presentation Transcript

 * 1) web 2.0 tools for virtual libraries designed by Buffy Hamilton professional wiki: http://theunquietlibrarian.wikispaces.com presentation resources:
 * 2) web 2.0 tools for virtual libraries social media as friendfeed slideshare authoritative information
 * 3) lifestreaming with friendfeed
 * 4) pool together your library 2.0 information streams with friendfeed
 * 5) what is friendfeed? • a free service that allows you to create a customized feed of your social media streams • suggestions for libraries: your library blog, library Twitter account, Google Reader shared items, SlideShare account, delicious bookmarks, RSS feed for your Google Library account, library Flickr account, LibraryThing account • real time updates for your social media accounts
 * 6) ways to subscribe to a friendfeed stream • create your own personal friendfeed account and subscribe to friendfeed accounts (libraries and fellow educators) as part of your personal learning network • subscribe to a friendfeed stream via RSS • view a friendfreed stream via facebook
 * 7) embed a friendfeed widget: in your wiki
 * 8) embed a friendfeed widget: in netvibes and your library’s google profile
 * 9) embed a friendfeed widget: in your blog and libguides or web page
 * 10) aasl standards supported by friendfeed • 2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful. • 3.1.2 Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learners. • 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess. • 4.1.7 Use social networks and information tools to gather and share information.
 * 11) slideshare
 * 12) slideshare: what you can do • Embed slideshows into your own blog or website. • Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately. • Synch audio to your slides. • Add YouTube videos to a slideshow presentation. from http://www.slideshare.net/about
 * 13) slideshare: what you can do • Market your own event on Slideshare. • Join groups to connect with SlideShare. • Users do not need PowerPoint or Word to view the slideshow. from http://www.slideshare.net/about
 * 14) aasl standards supported by slideshare • 2.1.2 Organize knowledge so that it is useful. • 3.1.2 Participate and collaborate as members of a social and intellectual network of learners. • 3.1.4 Use technology and other information tools to organize and display knowledge and understanding in ways that others can view, use, and assess.
 * 15) social media in research pathfinders
 * 16) social media in research pathfinders • While we often think of ways to use social media to create virtual libraries, we need to consider how to integrate different social media as authoritative information sources into our research pathfinders. • As we forge this brave new world of social scholarship, students and teachers will look to us for guidance in selecting and evaluating social media as valid sources of information.
 * 17) podcasts
 * 18) podcasts • Rick Stevens’ Audio France podcasts for a research pathfinder on places to see in Paris. • Nature Podcasts: a treasure trove for all things science • Science Friday, NPR: they also offer a Twitter account and Facebook page; a Second Life presence is also available. • Scientific American offers podcasts on a wide range of topics related to psychology and the sciences. I have used these in Pageflakes pathfinders! • PBS and American Experience offer podcasts on a diverse range of topics including history, biography, and literature; I have used podcasts on the Berlin Airflift and the Space Race with U.S. History classes.
 * 19) podcasts • Podcasts from CNN • NPR offers a variety of podcasts; this podcast on issues female veterans face upon their return hom was a valuable resource for students researching veterans’ issues. • Podcasts from CNN and iTunes U were also utilized in our study of veterans’ issues. • Podcasts from the U.S. Government
 * 20) blogs Image used under a Creative Commons license from http://www.flickr.com/photos/kunel/167783571/sizes/l/
 * 21) twitter Image used under a Creative Commons license fromhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/361615571//
 * 22) //youtube/video//
 * 23) //google maps/mashups Image used under a Creative Commons license fromhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/stevegarfield/361615571
 * 24) aasl standards supported by social media in research pathfinders • 1.1.5 Evaluate information found in selected sources on the basis of accuracy, validity, appropriateness for needs, importance, and social and cultural context. • 1.1.7 Make sense of information gathered from diverse sources by identifying misconceptions, main and supporting ideas, conflicting information, and point of view or bias. • 1.2.4 Maintain a critical stance by questioning the validity and accuracy of all information. • 4.1.7 Use social networks and information tools to gather and share information.
 * 25) resources http://web20meetsstandards.wikispaces.com/VirtualLibraries http://theunquietlibrarian.wordpress.com/2009/07/02/integrating-soc