Social Networks

I use several social networks. Facebook, Goodreads, classroom 2.0., plurk. I am sure there are even more I joined, if only I could remember them. I took a class last year that required all these networks. I love having FB and have reconnected with lots of friends and family from by gone days. I am able to keep up with friends who live by and send messages about things I am interested in. I want to know who is looking at my information so sometimes I wonder about privacy etc, however I could not keep up multiple sites. I used FB to communicate with my son while he was in Iraq.

On Goodreads.com I am the moderator and creator of several groups, both for professional and personal reasons. I have a group for the Bill Martin Award committee. I have a group for school librarians who want to talk about titles and what activities they do with them- School Reads. A personal and small book group of my friends- Book Club Buzz. I have a group MPHM Library Links specifically for parents and students of my school. Some of the groups are private and it is by invitation and others are public. I must admit I am having trouble getting students and parent actively using the site. However I enjoy using Goodreads to keep in touch with friends and share some of the books we read. This site gives you an opportunity to write reviews and share with friends.

Hoping this class helps me learn more skills about using the networks and making them useful.

Post to igoogle home page

Did you know you can have an igoogle homepage where your blogs come up and you can post instantly on it? It is very helpful to just write a quick sentence or two as you want.

Bill Martin Jr Award Promotion

I am on the nomination committee for the Bill Martin Jr Award. I created a wiki to promote use of the titles chosen. Please find activities, blurbs, author info and more for the current list. I want to encourage you to use these books in your library programs.

I would also like to request titles to be considered for this next year if you have read and liked a particular book. I will look for it and add it to my list of reading and it could be next year's winner.

I would love feedback about the site and whether it was useful.


Bill Martin Jr Picture Book Award

And so it begins......

Took me a bit to see that I needed to create a blog specifically for this class / learning experience. I have a blog created for my library but since I want to experiment and have random thoughts and sharing I think this may be best.

Please check out my library blog----------> MPHM Library Links at mphmlibrary@blogspot.com Also see my library wiki, MPHM Library Wiki.
Both are linked to the right of the posts.

Thanks.

I want to hear your thoughts, advise, and get cool ideas as well.