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Webinar: Should we be social media specialists?

June 16, 2009 It was sparked by a Twitter conversation I blogged about back in April, also recorded by Darren Draper as The Ideal School Library.  It's not to late to join the conversation.


Please join me, Steve Hargadon, and three very special library friends: Carolyn Foote, Buffy Hamilton, and Cathy Jo Nelson, Thursday night. for what we hope will be a very lively Future of Education session on the school library of the future, especially as it relates to social networking tools. 

Here is the official description:

Date: Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Time: 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am GMT (next day) (international times here)
Duration: 1 hour
Location: In Elluminate. Log in at http://tinyurl.com/futureofed.

Joyce Valenza leads a discussion on the future of librarians and their role in education with Buffy Hamilton, Cathy Nelson, and Carolyn Foote. The actual session title is: "Is There a Place for Media Specialists Who Don't Know Social Media?"

Steve's blog post lists all the rest of the details, including our profiles.

Carolyn, Buffy, Cathy Jo and I have set up a wiki with session resources and the questions we hope to discuss.  Please add your own questions to this page.

So far, we are planning to address the following:

• How does a librarian use social media in practice? for professional development? with learners? faculty?
• What specific social networking tools do you use and how do you use them?
• How does social networking reflect/support our standards?
• Can you be relevant without understanding the new tools?
• What do these new tools mean to library big concepts? (information ethics, intellectual freedom, access to information, evaluation, collection, interacting with information sources, communicating with users/learners, contributing as digital citizens, etc.)
• How does social media change the way we present our services and instruction online?
• Do we need to retool our profession?

Posted by Joyce Valenza Ph.D on June 16, 2009 | Comments (2)