Meeting Notes (2.17.09)

Heather, Loryn, and I held an elluminate meeting session on Wednesday, February 17th from 7 - 8:30pm to further our discussion about our social network bookmarking project.

*We shared our research and went through examples of different library sites (all linked to on earlier posts) to see how goodreads is applied to the library setting.
*Based on our research from the past couple of weeks and upon Heather's suggestion, we talked about dividing our presentation into the following three sections:

Goodreads and its application as a social network tool to the YA library
1. Background on goodreads.com. To include how it was developed, expanded, and further uses today (including YA). Brief tour of how it reads as an application/widget on Facebook. (Heather)
2. Present research on how goodreads is used at other libraries, with a focus on the YA library. Discuss 2-3 libraries and how they use it. Link to one and tour it during the presentation. Log in to goodreads to show how teen book groups can form, show what is popular/what works. Mention school library idea (student advisory council). (Jessica)
3. Web tour of goodreads. Show the class how the website works, and all of its applications/uses. (Loryn)

-We agreed to split up the sections above so that each name highlighted works on that section.

Next steps:
*Start to create presentation, build the copy and form thoughts as to how we will present our individual sections during the presentation.
*Loryn and Jessica will send Heather their copy for their sections by/on March 9th. Heather has offered to build one powerpoint document where all of our slides will be kept.
*Group decided to meet again on elluminate on Wednesday, March 11th from 7 - 8:30pm. Loryn to set up and moderate meeting. At this meeting, we will run through the powerpoint document, share with each other and get feedback. We can also try a run-through, if applicable!

Reminder!
April 10th is our presentation date. We will have 9 minutes total (3 minutes each).

Also, please make sure that any research done up to this point is posted on this blog. We can all read through and gather information for our sections that others may have already looked up and posted earlier on the blog.