Web 2

Web 2.0: Redefining Your Library Beaver Regional Group April 19, 2007 Presented by Beth Shenefiel

Why Web 2.0

“…libraries evolve as our users' information culture evolves…” *

We’re the information experts!

Collaboration

Advocacy/Marketing (Branding)

* April 12, 2007 blog posting by Laura Cohen, from her blog, Library 2.0, an Academic’s perspective. [http://liblogs.albany.edu/library20/]

Where We’ve Been

OPACs and Databases

Library Webpages

Library Automation

E-mail/Chat

Search Engines

What is Web 2.0

Phrase coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004

“ refers to a perceived second generation of web-based services—such as social networking sites, wikis, communication tools, and folksonomies—that emphasize online collaboration and sharing among users” *

AKA the “read/write web”

* "Web 2.0." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia . 18 Mar 2007, 09:03 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 18 Mar 2007 < http:// en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title =Web_2.0&oldid=115980154 >.

What is Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is Us/ ing Us

Web 2.0 technologies are transforming the way people use the Internet.

Our patrons are no longer just reading the Web, they are creating, contributing, and collaborating.

Web 2.0: Talk the Talk

RSS Feeds

Blogs

Podcasts

Wikis

Flickr

YouTube

Gaming

del.icio.us

Folksonomy

Tags

Creative Commons

Social Networking

Getting Started

Most Web 2.0 technologies are free, but require registration

E-mail

Username/ Password

Blogs

Short for weblog

An online journal with entries posted in reverse chronological order (newer entries first)

Readers can post comments to respond to the blogger’s entry

A new blog is created every second!*

* “Tech Tools for learning,” Access Learning. Jan. 2006. www.ciconline.org/accesslearning (April 8, 2007.)

Blogs: Talk the Talk

Vlog

a video blog

Blurker

a person who reads a blog regularly, but does not post comments.

Blogosphere

a term that encompasses all blogs as a community or social network. 1

1. "Blogosphere." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia . 14 Apr 2007, 21:06 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Apr 2007 < http:// en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title = Blogosphere&oldid =122834054 >.

Library Blogs

AASL Weblog

ALA Tech Source

Hey Jude

The Shifted Librarian

Library Grants

Library Weblogs - Includes links to library blogs around the world

Podcasting

A podcast is a similar to a radio or television broadcast.

Available through the internet

Sound or video

Portable

Subscribe or Stream

Podcasting involves creating content, producing the podcast, and then making the podcast available to an audience.

Podcasting in the Library

Dowling College Library Podcasts

Fairfield University

Sunnyvale Public Library

Isenglass Award- Hopkinton HS

VBB Booktalks -to-Go

Wikis

From the Hawaiian word “wiki” which means “quick.”

Build/edit a website with no programming or HTML.

Anyone can edit the content and edits are instantly visible. Many authors determine the structure and content.

Can include internal and external hyperlinks, sound, movies and graphics.

Asynchronous communication and community collaboration.

Must be monitored

Wikis: Article

Wikis: Discussion

Wikis: Edit (really…you’re allowed…)

Editing Wikis

Review policy and conventions

Start editing

Type your changes

Summarize your changes

Preview before saving

Save changes

From “Help:Editing,” Wikimedia Meta Wiki. 2007. [http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Help:Editing&action=history]

Wikis: History

Library Wikis

Wikipedia

AASL Learning Standards wiki

Library Success Wiki

Beaver Regional Group Wiki

Aggregators

“ An aggregator or news aggregator or feed reader is a client software that uses web feed to retrieve syndicated web content such as blogs, podcasts, vlogs, and mainstream mass media websites...” 1

1 "Aggregator." Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia . 14 Apr 2007, 18:45 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 15 Apr 2007 < http:// en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title = Aggregator&oldid =122803179 >.

Aggregators

Bloglines - “Online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content.”

Google Reader- Free to use with a Gmail account.

RSS Feeds

RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Real Simple Syndication

Readers "subscribe" to the content using so they don’t have to visit the site itself to get the information they want.

To view the information you use an “aggregator.” The aggregator checks the sites you subscribe to, and it sends the new content to a folder so that you can read it when you want.

Subscribing to an RSS Feed: 1. Choose the feed Click on the RSS button

Subscribing to an RSS Feed: 2. Copy the URL Copy this URL Ignore all this!

Subscribing to a Feed: 3. Open your Aggregator Click “Add”

Subscribing to an RSS Feed 4. Paste URL Paste the URL and Click “Subscribe”

Subscribing to an RSS Feed: 5. Choose options and subscribe Click “Subscribe”

Folksonomy and Tags

Folksonomy-

a user generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags.

Tags-

a (relevant) keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information (like picture, article, or video clip), thus describing the item and enabling keyword-based classification of information it is applied to.

Tagging