knowing me, knowing you: social media for professional learning

Knowing Me, Knowing YouSocial Media: Web 2.0 tools or Apps and You!

Kate Reid!K-8 Teacher Librarian, The Hutchins School

Who’s coming?

Range of school library workplaces represented

What you know already

Lots of expertise with Facebook and YouTube

How do you collect information?

There are lots of ways to collect information - more on that shortly

Your interests…

1. Find ideas for display!

2. Follow the latest Library research!

3. Find resources to support collection materials!

4. Keep up with Library events!

5. Access book reviews/Find tutorials on the latest apps and online tools

Finding ideas for displays

Instagram!

#schoollibrary!

#libraryshelfie

Pinterest!

#schoollibrary!

My new Display Inspiration board!

Lots of Pinterest Links!!

h"p://www.pinterest.com/mbadigian/ideas-­‐for-­‐my-­‐elementary-­‐school-­‐library/  

h"p://www.pinterest.com/mlwalker1/elementary-­‐school-­‐library-­‐ideas/  

h"p://www.pinterest.com/janetpbj/school-­‐library-­‐ideas/  

h"p://www.edudemic.com/20-­‐ways-­‐libraries-­‐are-­‐using-­‐pinterest-­‐right-­‐now/  

h"p://www.pinterest.com/lauramgentry/library-­‐pinterest-­‐examples/  

h"p://www.pinterest.com/ofallonlibrary/the-­‐librarians-­‐list/  

h"p://www.pinterest.com/LibraryBoards/

Current Library Research and Library Events

Follow leaders in the field, via blogs and Twitter!

https://www.facebook.com/ASLAOnline!

https://twitter.com/aslanational!

https://www.alia.org.au/rss!

https://www.facebook.com/ALIANational!

https://twitter.com/alianational!

http://www.slj.com/

Twitter for Professional Learning

Follow interesting people to see what they have to say!

Publishers and professional organisations tweet a lot of information!!

Hashtags let you follow topics e.g. conferences !

Use something like HootSuite to manage your Twitter feeds

Supporting Curriculum

Education Services Australia!

ABC Splash!

Good Reads!

Inside A Dog!

You tell me!!

Gathering Information

Feed readers - collect updates from blogs and other feeds for you!

Feedly: very easy tool to use to collect blog feeds!

Use Pocket to clip articles to read later

Curate your own digital collection!

Scoop.It: pull in Twitter feeds via hashtags, follow other people’s magazines, add content from the web

Overwhelmed?!Try this instead:!

Digital Personality Test

References

Graphs taken from my Social media survey results https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jsY6X_1olnRwPzbgcEmW-lNCevpwaPEu-eYtLIE8VFE/viewanalytics

Instagram icon http://socialmediafollower.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1402176226_Instagram.png Accessed 19/09/2014

Pinterest icon http://topdogsocialmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/32f4e2dce13c0b983003eaa10efea6a5.png Accessed 19/09/2014

Feedly Icon http://www.wednesdayintheword.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Feedly-48.png Accessed 19/09/2014

Pocket icon https://cdn1.iconfinder.com/data/icons/free-colorful-icons/360/pocket.png Accessed 19/09/2014

Scoop.It icon http://www.esrc.ac.uk/_images/Scoop-it-logo_tcm8-31739.jpg Accessed 19/09/2014

Twitter icon http://cdn.teachhub.com/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Twitter%20image.png Accessed 19/09/2014

HootSuite icon http://thestilwatergroup.com/an-organized-life/ Accessed 19/09/2014