Loryn, Heather and I met on April 6th from 7-9pm and again tonight, April 8th from 7-8:15pm to practice our presentation. We changed up the order of the slides, so our presentation order will go like this:
1. Heather--background on goodreads
2. Loryn--web tour of goodreads
3. Jessica--practical applications of goodreads for the teen librarian
Note:
Heather created the original slides.
Jessica edited the slides for final presentation.
See you Friday!
Jessica
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Recent Meeting(s) Recap
Heather and I met on 3/25 and again on 3/31 at 7pm via elluminate to discuss our powerpoint presentation for goodreads.
Agenda items:
*Heather created the initial powerpoint slide presentation.
*Jessica will edit the slides for final presentation.
*Heather to set up elluminate practice session for all 3 of us on Monday, 4/6 from 7-9pm.
Important: All of us must prepare our portion of the presentation (know what we will say) in advance of the meeting on 4/6. That will be our first opportunity to run through the powerpoint in elluminate together, and we plan on doing this several times to get it down.
An additional elluminate practice tbd prior to the presentation on 4/10.
--Jessica
Agenda items:
*Heather created the initial powerpoint slide presentation.
*Jessica will edit the slides for final presentation.
*Heather to set up elluminate practice session for all 3 of us on Monday, 4/6 from 7-9pm.
Important: All of us must prepare our portion of the presentation (know what we will say) in advance of the meeting on 4/6. That will be our first opportunity to run through the powerpoint in elluminate together, and we plan on doing this several times to get it down.
An additional elluminate practice tbd prior to the presentation on 4/10.
--Jessica
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Power-Point
Hi Jessica and Loryn.
I know we are having an Elluminate session tonight, but I wanted to post some of my thoughts. I've started the power-point and I'll show you both tonight what I have done so far. But, I need both your comments to improve or make changes to it.
Jessica, I'll explain more tonight, but from you I need the names of the libraries you are looking at, so I can cut and paste pictures. Plus, I need an address of one of the libraries you plan to do a tour with, so I can upload the web address onto a power-point slide. So far, with an address I've been practicing with works directly from the power-point. However, when I put the goodreads' address, it doesn't work. It may not, so we'll have to work around that. The Facebook site works as well, and this is good, because it will cut down the time...
I finished all my back-ground research. I only put bullet points, but no real detail on the power-point, that way we wont be reading directly from the slides.
Talk to you both tonight.
I know we are having an Elluminate session tonight, but I wanted to post some of my thoughts. I've started the power-point and I'll show you both tonight what I have done so far. But, I need both your comments to improve or make changes to it.
Jessica, I'll explain more tonight, but from you I need the names of the libraries you are looking at, so I can cut and paste pictures. Plus, I need an address of one of the libraries you plan to do a tour with, so I can upload the web address onto a power-point slide. So far, with an address I've been practicing with works directly from the power-point. However, when I put the goodreads' address, it doesn't work. It may not, so we'll have to work around that. The Facebook site works as well, and this is good, because it will cut down the time...
I finished all my back-ground research. I only put bullet points, but no real detail on the power-point, that way we wont be reading directly from the slides.
Talk to you both tonight.
Thursday, February 19, 2009
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.
*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.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Examples of goodreads YA groups
hi again,
I just wanted to post a few of the better discussion groups I found (related to teens) on goodreads. These had a solid number of members.
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7019.Brookline_Library_Teen_Book_Club
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/3966.The_Teen_Club
(same one as Loryn's?)
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1951.Team_Edward
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/9542.300_books_1_year
this one looks like it actually has teen members: the point is for teens/tweens to see if they can read 300 books in 1 year.
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/13652.Teens_Read_Book_Club
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7961.Guys_in_books_are_just_well_better_
-Jessica
I just wanted to post a few of the better discussion groups I found (related to teens) on goodreads. These had a solid number of members.
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7019.Brookline_Library_Teen_Book_Club
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/3966.The_Teen_Club
(same one as Loryn's?)
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1951.Team_Edward
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/9542.300_books_1_year
this one looks like it actually has teen members: the point is for teens/tweens to see if they can read 300 books in 1 year.
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/13652.Teens_Read_Book_Club
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/7961.Guys_in_books_are_just_well_better_
-Jessica
Loryn's notes 2.18.09
(copied/pasted in by Jessica)
From Loryn:
Hi Ladies-
I'm not sure how to post a new blog on the Blogger Website. I was going to go in and post the links that I had found.These are the links to the ones that I thought would be helpful to look at:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2070.genre_X
This one is a book club for 20-30 year olds which is run by the Oak Park Public Library. It seems that Goodreads is used in order to facilitate extra information to the members as well as another place to chat about the books.
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2096.San_Antonio_Public_Library
This next one is from the San Antonio Public Library. Their approach isn't specifically for a book club, but also to let members know what their librarians are reading. I think is a really interesting point. A lot patrons ask the question, "Have you read anything good lately?". Goodreads helps to answer that question.
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/10224.Teen_Library_Club_TCPL_This last one is from the Tippecanoe County Public Library's teen book club. They use Goodreads to go over the book club books as well as help one another stay connected by what they are reading. One thing that I found about most of the Goodreads sites I looked at was that they aren't directly connected to the libraries website. Moreover, they are run only through Goodreads. This must mean that librarians know about goodreads and are spreading the word to patrons and bookclub members. I think that Goodreads is really great for libraries, but a lot of libraries don't know how to easily integrate it for the public to easily use. I had the YA librarian ask me today how our research was going. She wants to start using Goodreads for our Teen book club, but isn't sure if it will translate what she needs. The San Leandro Public Library is part of a Galley book program, we get new unreleased books from the publishers and the teens get to read them and then review them. Kelly was hoping that if she started a group on Goodreads, and was able to add the galley books, her members would be able to review the books right on there and rate them. This way, memebers could also see the books that are getting good ratings. I think this is a GREAT idea! I'm hoping it will work out for her, and maybe we can see about getting a link set up on our website or even a Wiki tool that shows what the popular books are. Her only worry is that teens aren't ready for this kind of social networking site, places like myspace and facebook revolve around the social aspects and Goodreads is a little more on the practical side.
From Loryn:
Hi Ladies-
I'm not sure how to post a new blog on the Blogger Website. I was going to go in and post the links that I had found.These are the links to the ones that I thought would be helpful to look at:
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2070.genre_X
This one is a book club for 20-30 year olds which is run by the Oak Park Public Library. It seems that Goodreads is used in order to facilitate extra information to the members as well as another place to chat about the books.
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/2096.San_Antonio_Public_Library
This next one is from the San Antonio Public Library. Their approach isn't specifically for a book club, but also to let members know what their librarians are reading. I think is a really interesting point. A lot patrons ask the question, "Have you read anything good lately?". Goodreads helps to answer that question.
http://www.goodreads.com/group/show/10224.Teen_Library_Club_TCPL_This last one is from the Tippecanoe County Public Library's teen book club. They use Goodreads to go over the book club books as well as help one another stay connected by what they are reading. One thing that I found about most of the Goodreads sites I looked at was that they aren't directly connected to the libraries website. Moreover, they are run only through Goodreads. This must mean that librarians know about goodreads and are spreading the word to patrons and bookclub members. I think that Goodreads is really great for libraries, but a lot of libraries don't know how to easily integrate it for the public to easily use. I had the YA librarian ask me today how our research was going. She wants to start using Goodreads for our Teen book club, but isn't sure if it will translate what she needs. The San Leandro Public Library is part of a Galley book program, we get new unreleased books from the publishers and the teens get to read them and then review them. Kelly was hoping that if she started a group on Goodreads, and was able to add the galley books, her members would be able to review the books right on there and rate them. This way, memebers could also see the books that are getting good ratings. I think this is a GREAT idea! I'm hoping it will work out for her, and maybe we can see about getting a link set up on our website or even a Wiki tool that shows what the popular books are. Her only worry is that teens aren't ready for this kind of social networking site, places like myspace and facebook revolve around the social aspects and Goodreads is a little more on the practical side.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Heather's update 2.17.09
Update from Heather (copied into blog by 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.
Plus, 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. It seems like our presentation can be split into three sections 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 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.
Plus, 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. It seems like our presentation can be split into three sections 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
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