School Library Web Presence Webinar by Buffy Hamilton, et al.

School Library Web Presence Webinar by Buffy Hamilton, et al.

            I thoroughly enjoyed this webinar. I thought each of the participants had some great ideas and it was interesting to see what they were using as their library Web pages. I agreed with one of the participants who said that we have to be a Public Relations person and promote our own Web sites. I loved the idea of using social media sites like Facebook to promote your library’s presence. I never thought of using Facebook or Twitter that way. I also love the idea of creating a wiki or blog for parents or other colleagues.

All the different tools and sites that were mentioned were interesting. I knew most of them but there were a few I didn’t know and I’m eager to find out more about them. I’ve used Google Docs with one of my classes, but I had a little trouble with it and found it a little frustrating at times. I think it was just me!

At first I found the online chat on the left distracting, but there was some good information there. I loved the discussion about what all was blocked and one of the webinar presenters mentioned that they should do a webinar on how to not take “no” for an answer. I really wish they would. Another presenter stated that they should not worry about what was blocked but focus on what wasn’t.

I loved the lib guides but I would have loved to have heard more about how to create and edit them. I didn’t really understand where Buffy found the one she clicked on when she created a new one. Suddenly there were a bunch of tabs. Where did they come from? I didn’t really understand it, but I’m going to see if I can find a tutorial on how to use the site. I wonder if the teachers would get more excited about the lib guide site as opposed to the wiki.

I want to go back and watch it again a few times and I want to try and just read all the online chatting to get Web site URLs and other information. I think this would be a good one to view several times at least.

           

Hamilton, Buffy, et al. "School Library Web Presence Webinar." TL Virtual Cafe.1 Mar. 2010. Web. 31 Mar. 2010. http://tlvirtualcafe.wikispaces.com/Web_Presence