Hope to learn a lot from this Learning 2.0 program!
I already blog elsewhere, and sub to a number of professional and leisure time RSS feeds, so feel pretty confident with that.
I'm a Web 2.0 convert; and hope to see social media best practice implemented in cultural institutions soon.
Some ideas I am currently toying with though:
1. Access. ABS stats indicate 46% of Australian have compouters/web access, and that this is spread very unevenly throughout different social groups and communities. I see this daily in the public library I work in - one of our core services at present appears to be providing access for those who don't have it otherwise for whatever reason. So, my caution is if we aim to deliver services online, we have to remember the have nots!!!!
2. Quality. A lot of what I see on the web is professional and well informed. A lot is narcissistic to the max- particulalrly in the social mediums!!! How can/ should we be navigating for quality?Esp as lilbraires this is our major aim - to deliver and to direct our patrons to quality resources.
3. Overload. There is so much out there - so many blogs, so many avatars. In our library rows of people sit and interact with pcs, and not with each other - some are even members of the same family! The online world is somewhat disconnectected from reality by its very nature. It can become obsessive - truly becoming your 'second life'. I would hate for 'second life' to become first - at the cost of reality!!!!
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3 comments:
I've been thinking about the same issues you mention.
I've seen patrons interacting with the PC while simultaneously texting on their phone & listening to music on their iPod!
And I already feel like I'm spending too much time away from reality doing this course.
But at least with this course behind us we can do our bit to lessen the divide between the "haves" and the "have nots' in the computer world. And we can certainly teach them a thing or two about sorting the quality from the rubbish!
Thank you for asking some big questions. The risk of overload is high - but perhaps you will get some ideas about how to manage this during this course - please post about this when you do.
Ellen
Thanks for your responses.
It's good to know that many of us are thinking along the same lines...
I guess one of the best things about Web 2.0 media like blogs is finding out just that - and sharing our responses and ideas!
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