Returned from the Computers in Libraries Conference last week filled with ideas, questions, certainties and doubts. Our presentation “Gaming and Learning” was well received and caught a mention on the Information Today blog. http://www.infotodayblog.com/2008/04/09/gaming-to-teach-information-literacy/ One of the highlights of the conference, the Pecha Kucha ( the Japanese word for the sound of conversation), allowed five panelists six minutes and forty seconds to sing the praises of a particular Web 2.0 application. The sixth panelist offered the skeptic’s view of all of them. This session left many wondering which are worth the time and effort, which may be today’s pet rock and which have no application for libraries at all. I signed up for Twitter but still do not see how it might be used in libraries. Any thoughts?
Oh. I just saw Twitter being used on a children’s library blog…think think…ah, found it http://www.acplkids.blogspot.com/
Twitter is used as a short update to what the librarian’s are doing. I don’t use it yet but it seems to be the same ideas as Facebook’s Status updates.
Thanks- that is kind of cool for a children’s librarian. I wonder if my academic colleagues would want to use it that way