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!

How to.....

Hey guys, I think getting rid of the how-to is a good idea, but shouldn't we replace it with something? I like Hathaway's article on the pros and cons of a blog , and I am wondering if we can introduce that somewhere in the presentation? Just a thought. But anyway my annotation will be about 2 or 3 sentences long. See you tomorrow.

We can get rid of the how-to

But there are ways to do it besides signing up with blogger. The article I gave you guys in my last post talks about the pros and cons of 1. setting it up yourself, 2. having someone set it up for you, 3. signing up with something like blogger, and 4. the different software that's out there. It's interesting, but we probably have more stuff than we can fit into our presentation anyway.

For the annotated bibliography, how long are your annotations going to be? Maybe a sentence or two?

I'm sure we'll talk soon!

Hey Guys

I know everything is a little hectic because its coming to a close, but I know we'll do great. I agree that talking about how to setup a blog will be redundant and we should leave that out. I think it would be great to do the handout where we could list reasons for incorporating a blog into 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. That idea sounds great. I'll be working on my end with public libraries.

Everyone take care.

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.

Rrrrrrr...

This project is due soon! And so is our website! I'm freaking out!

Yes, the how-to section is a nice idea. I found an excellent article about just that. It really breaks it down to help you decide what blog setup is best for your library. Here's the citation:

"Building a home for library news with a blog"
Computers in Libraries 23, no. 10
Nov./Dec. 2003

It's available through WilsonWeb.

Maybe that's how we wrap up the presentation, with the how-to part at the end instead of us each talking about it - after all, the how-to is pretty much the same for everyone.

4 examples!?! What was I thinking? With four of us that would take all day - 2 or 3 is a much more realistic number.

To Veronica: I think you should pick the library-issue-specific librarian blogs. That will make it super-relevant for everyone. But either way, I'm sure it will be awesome.

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!

Presentation

Hi everyone,Sorry I didn't post on Saturday things have been a little crazy. I think Beth's idea is great. An introductory slide will be great because we have a lot of windows open if we do it any other way, and we couls paste our blog links. Since this seems like a good idea to everyone, is this how we shoule proceed and on Saturday morning have all the information on the particular library and its blog and we can put it together in powerpoint?As for the handout I think we should make it different from our powerpoint. Maybe we can introduce blogs and how to setup a blog and then give a list of a great blog for each type of library. Since time is limited maybe we should limit the numbe of blogs to 2 or 3 per library. Just let me know what everyone decides.

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...

Power Point, etc.

Hey Ladies!

I like Beth's idea of putting together a Power Point presentation. Maybe we could each come up with a little introductory info for our respective topics - such as what features one commonly finds in academic liblogs, for example - and put that on the first slide of our section, then go on to the examples.

In other classes I've had, the handout is often a print-out of the Power Point. What do you think about this option? Or should we make something extra? Also, how many examples should we have each? I'm not definite on which examples I'll be showing, but it will probably be around 4.

Have a great Saturday night! Talk to you all soon!

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.