I really like Hathaway's article!

I think it would be the greatest way to wrap it up...heck, we could even print out 20 and use that as our handout solo, though it wouldn't be as fun...
Ohhh, I think that the intor for each of our pieces would be really nicely outlined by what Beth said..(the XYZ thing)
Im thinking a line or two about the link/blog would be best...Can I just say "all of my blogs are bi*ching about the librarian profession" for all of mine? Dont worry, I'll think of something witty. (ish)
Anyhoo-I really think it will be a quick and easy presentation...so enjoy your Friday sunshine everyone!

some more thoughts

Hi everyone,

I think we have some great ideas and I'm sure our presentation will knock their socks off (okay...maybe that's a bit exagerated but you understand what I mean).

I think if, as we've kind of mentioned, we all come to class Saturday with our 2-3 blogs and their links, brief annotations and the reasons we chose to show these particular ones to the class, we can incorporate them into a powerpoint no problem.

For the handout, I'm wondering if going over how to set-up a blog might be a bit redundant, since we all know how to do that already. Maybe I am misunderstanding what you guys mean by that...

Perhaps we could list reasons for incorporating a blog into their libraries, sort of a "look what library xy did with their blog" and then at the bottom or on the back of the handout, list all of the URLs we used in our powerpoint. Maybe this is what you guys were thinking in the first place.

I'll be working on finalizing this all day today, so we can keep bouncing ideas off of each other.

I agree!

I totally think our powerpoint should point to 2/3 links each and have our handout be an intro to blogs. But a question, should we be adding in a little "how to" stuff as well? Or should that be part of each individual little presentation. Should we talk about startup (which is minimal) or just success stories to give others the tools to convince their library? I have a list the size of a small Santa's List of librarian blogsites...I was wondering if I should just pick out a few that really talk about just issues of librarianship? There are a few famous ones out there....Any help/advice/guidance would be totally appreciated! Thanks!

more on the project

Hathaway, I like your idea of the intro slide describing the qualities of academic blogs, then giving an example, and so on. That's exactly what I was thinking. Then we can just move on down the line, covering each blog as we go.

For the handout, I was thinking of basically a bibliography of all of the blogs we mentioned, their URLs, maybe a short annotation. I was hoping we could make it visually appealing in some way, using graphics or whatever. Just a thought though... If we print them at Dom. which we should 'cause it's free, they'll have to be in black and white.

I think we have 15-20 minutes, and that has to include a q&a session, so I'm wondering how many we should include. We have five areas total. Hathaway, I was also thinking of four each, but is this too much? Maybe not...

game plan

Hi everyone,

I realized that we're coming down to the wire per se, and I'm wondering if we need to coordinate some sort of game plan for our presentation.

If I'm remembering our last meeting together oh so long ago, I think we decided that we would basically show the class some examples of what we think are good blogs in each of our categories. In trying to coordinate this, I'm wondering if maybe a powerpoint might work best. This way we could present a few introductory slides introducing our topic and approach, then launch into the discussion of good examples of academic, school, special, public and librarian blogs. Within those slides we could paste our links to the blogs, this way we don't have to have a million open windows, we could just click on the link and explain the features of the blog, why we found it to be a good example, what they were doing with the blog, etc.

This is just an idea I wanted to throw out to everyone. We can certainly move in an entirely different direction. Also, I think we decided to give everyone a snazzy handout with the URL's for the blogs? Did we decide who's going to design it?

Let me know your thoughts so we can start to get some stuff in place. I think we might have time Saturday morning to work together, so pulling together a powerpoint could probably be done then as long as we have all of our info together.

Hope you guys are well. Don't know about you but I'm counting the weeks till the end of the semester.

ignore me please

Could I be any more confused? Sorry if I messed you guys up at all, but after actually reading my notes from our last class together (always helpful) I realized that I am researching special and school blog, not academic as I mentioned in my previous post. Sorry! I'm a bit spacey lately.

Also, we are presenting our blog project on Saturday afternoon, not Sunday (we do our web sites that day). Just ignore me....I promise I'll get my act together soon :)

Thanks for the helpful links in the other posts.

touching base

Hi Guys,

Sorry I've been a bit out of the loop. I've done a bit of research and found a few good academic library blogs. I'll start researching the school blogs soon. A good place to go for some info in http://www.blogwithoutalibrary.net/. This blogger seems to find all sorts of library related blogs in different types of settings.

I guess I'm feeling the need to really plan out what we're doing and how I should be approaching this, although if I looked at my notes from the last class, I'll probably find the answers! I'm such a procrastinator, which is bad news for a class like 753.

Anyway, I'm pretty much done with my web site stuff so I can concentrate on this project during the Saturday class we have. We're presenting Sunday, right?

Thanks veronica for keeping us moving along here.

I'll touch base again in the next few days.

--Beth

A little ditty...

Here we go...I have found a MASSIVE amount of blogs and am kinda trying to pair them down a bit. I really want to able to discuss the community they build and the process of getting information out quicker...what do you all think, is there a big gap that I am missing? Hope all is well with you!

Here is a really nice list to peruse....it might be useful to you guys a bit too hopefully.