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  1. Web 2.0 for libraries
    • Wikis , Blogs , RSS Photo sharing , Podcasts , Tagging, Social bookmarking Video sharing virtual worlds
  2. What is Web 2.0?
    • The Social web
    • Social networking
    • Social software
    • Shared resources
    • User communities
    • From desktop to web-based tools
    • Personalised space
    • A natural progression of the web?
    • Applications for library?
  3. Easy to use…
    • Easy to upload content
    • Easy to create (no HTML knowledge)
    • Easy to share
    • Easy to find – it finds you (RSS)
    • Easy metadata (tagging)
    • Easy to communicate
    • … .easy!... for your learners at least!
  4. You might know…
    • Wikipedia
    • Blogger
    • Google Reader
    • Flickr
    • iTunes
    • Librarything
    • De.licio.us
    • YouTube
    • Teachertube
    • Second Life
  5. Wikis
    • A website allowing
    • Collaboration
    • Editing
    • Sharing
    • Planning
  6. Wikipedia
  7. Wikipedia vs Britannica
    • Typifies old vs new
    • Rapid updates vs scheduled editions
    • Many to many vs One to many
    • Currency vs authority?
    • Popular vs academic?
    • Room for both sources, apply info skills
      • Evaluate, question, compare
  8. Information Science Wiki
  9. Book reviews wiki
  10. Blogs
    • Easy web-site creation – no HTML needed
    • Online journal
    • Reflective comments
    • Reader comments
    • Closed or open to all
    • Individual, organisational or themed?
  11. Information services blog
  12. Information literacy blog
  13. RSS
    • Really simple syndication
    • View new content from favourite websites
    • Share new content from your website
    • One click to headlines from all sites
    • The info comes to you – via a reader
    • Automatically updated
  14. Photo sharing
    • Flickr, Photobucket, Yotophoto, Picassa
    • Create, upload, share
    • Epitomises social web
    • Flickr as image engine
  15. Photosharing
    • Web-based
    • User comments
    • Visual blog
    • Uses include
      • Library newbuild project
      • Display
      • Exhibition
      • Library tour
      • Subject collections
  16. Build up your online album
  17. Organising - Tagging
    • Common to all applications
    • Allows for searching
    • A basic metadata - folksonomy
    • A basic repository of info / images etc
    • Has limitations
      • Sometimes only single words
      • Inconsistencies, lacking standards
  18. Podcasting
    • Audio file + RSS = Podcast
    • Video file + RSS + Vodcast
    • Upload to iTunes
    • Use for
      • library tours
      • Study Skills / Revision notes
      • Presentations
      • Self-paced
  19. Social bookmarking
    • Bring favourites list to the web
    • Arrange by topic
    • Share with users
    • Easy reference and retrieval
    • Embed into subject pages on VLE or blog
    • Remember the tagging!
  20. RSC SE’s bookmarks rscselinks Regularly Updated , Curriculum topics 50+ Subscribers RSS feed Fortnightly Email to 300+
  21. Video Sharing
    • YouTube, Teachertube
    • Host video clips online
    • Reduce the strain on college network
    • Create, upload, share
      • Library inductions
      • Presentations
      • Tutorials
      • Lectures
      • Students’ work (eportfolio?)
  22. Social networks – more than my space
    • The quest for the perfect e-Portfolio?
    • Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Ning
    • Social networks tick many of the boxes
    • Wraps up
      • Blogs
      • Portfolio work
      • Wikis for collaboration
      • Communication – with peers & tutors
  23. It’s a Ning thing
    • To contextualise the social web
    • To wrap up the various tools
    • To appreciate the environment students communicate through
    • Please take a look at social networking
    • Here’s one I prepared earlier
    • http://library20.ning.com/group/rscselibrary
    • (Free Membership required – see you there
  24. Virtual worlds
    • Second Life
    • Multiplayer online ‘game’
    • Potential for
      • Reference services
      • Information skills
      • Networking
      • Student enrichment
    • Established library presence
      • See infoisland.org
    • Teachers using Moodle & SL
      • See Sloodle.com
    • Library of Congress
    • A Dalek in a library?!
  25. Drawbacks
    • College firewalls
    • Bandwidth issues for streaming media
    • PC specifications
    • Duty of care for young learners
    • More educational focus
    • Culture change
    • Social network fatigue?
    • Time!
  26. But…
    • Can share information very easily
    • Engages with library users
    • Attract stay away students
    • Forward looking
    • Can reinvigorate existing services
    • Its fun
    • Forget the terminology – look at developing your services making use of appropriate tools
    • Oh, and watch out for Web 3.0!
  27. Socially speaking
    • Look out for the RSC South East on your web travels in
    • If you like what you find, share it. Better still try your own

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