Notes from Elluminate session 2/2 from 7-8pm
Moderator: Heather Johnson
Team: Young Adult at Heart for Goodreads.com
Members: Loryn Bold, Heather Johnson, Jessica Levy
emails: boldie03@aol.com; hmjirishwillow@att.net; jsouffle@yahoo.com
Discussion: how to work on our assignment--let's create a group on Goodreads.com that will be appealing to teens. Need to figure out how this would be used from a library's perspective.
We toured the goodreads.com website and talked about the assignment; many questions remain. **Can our assignment be that we create a young adult group on goodreads?
Action Items:
*Heather will attend 2/3 elluminate session with Professor Tash, and ask questions on behalf of our group.
*Each member will look up "young adult groups" on the group section of the goodreads site and research what existing groups have done to make their groups work and attract members. *Research the listings on the following pages:
Heather--pp1
Jessica--pp2
Loryn--pp3
*Jessica to ask YALSA listserv how/if they use goodreads in their libraries to attract interest of teens.
*Loryn to ask YA library staff how they use goodreads (i.e. how it's good for teen involvement in libraries and reading).
*Jessica to set up next group elluminate session on 2/18 at 7pm. We'll discuss the results of our research at that point and hopefully we'll have a better idea of the specifics of our assignment.
*Jessica to take group minutes/notes.
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This looks great Jessica!
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I agree...thanks for doing it.
ReplyDeleteHi Jessica and Loryn. I had some suggestions when researching our pages, regarding the book groups. I was going over the assignment directions again and noticed we're supposed to research, analyze, and evaluate the goodreads. I was think while we're researching the different young adult book groups- we should research different profiles:
ReplyDelete- look at their "friends" list: what are the ages/gender/interest of their friends
- look at the different books on their to-read/read list and maybe even their friends.
-look at different reviews and see what the teens are saying about different books.
Let me know what you think...
Heather
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Hey girls...I went to the online session. Okay, this is what he is looking for
ReplyDelete-background on goodreads:
-how it was developed
-purpose of goodreads
-how it has expanded
-Then, we are to teach the class how libraries would use goodreads: (he suggested researching 2 to 3 libraries that use goodreads)
- Also:
-how the libraries like it
-what they do with it
Another group asked (they're doing myspace) if they could create their own myspace page demonstrating how a library would use myspace, he said, that was great and he advised incorporating things from different libraries who used myspace.Once we get our research down, we can then discuss how we want to put this together.
I was also thinking we could each research a different library, that way we each participated and then we can split up the other topics to research. I was wondering if I could also research how goodreads has expanded...is that ok with your girls? That leaves how it was developed and it's purpose. Then, we each answer the other questions according to the library we each research.
He also suggested really practicing our presentation before, so we'll definitely have to set up a few elluminate session before hand.
Jessica- you already have your library to research, but I was wondering how did you find it?
Thank you girls. I'll post this on the blog as well.
Good-night...
Heather
Hey Loryn and Jessica. I was doing some research on goodreads and found a library that actually has a link to goodreads on their library web-page. I'm going to e-mail Professor Tash and make sure it would be okay to use a library outside of California, plus it doesn't specifically address teens. However, I looked through a lot of different library groups and didn't find any so far that had a direct link to their library. It's called Brentwood Library. I'm hoping to use that one as my library search.
ReplyDeletePlus, I've been doing a lot of thinking about our presentation. I know we have an Elluminate session tomorrow night, but I wanted to write my thoughts anyway. If you have time to read this, then you can add what you think tomorrow.
I seems like our presentation can be split into three section which is perfect for us. The first part, would be the background. I wouldn't mind doing the first part. I would include the background of goodreads, purpose, and expansion. I'll explain more tomorrow night, but I was going to sign up for facebook, because goodreads expanded to facebook and myspace. I was going to show how that worked during that part of the presentation.
The second part, would be to present the research from the libraries. And, one of you can do that part. We would provide all the information from our library page research. I was thinking with this part, the presenter would show the group section from goodreads, but start it from the libraries homepage.
Third section, would be the actual introduction of the goodreads site. The presenter of this part would demonstrate how the home page works other than the group site.
We'll definitely have more time to talk about this stuff tomorrow night and talk about who wants to do what and stuff like that. I just wanted to get some thoughts down and gets up moving towards putting the presentation together.
Talk to you both later...
Heather
I really should have proof read my entry before posting it sorry about that.
ReplyDeleteI just wanted to up date, that I sent an e-mail to one of the members of Brentwood Library group. I also got an e-mail address for the actual library. I'll contact them about the goodreads link. Hopefully I hear back by tomorrow.
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