Practical suggestions for TL+Social Media

Loved the practicality of this article.  The orginal link was broken but searched and searched until I found it somewhere else. It had been buried in all my Module 4 notes but it deserves to see the light of day.

14 Ways K–12 Librarians Can Teach Social Media, in Tech & Learning by Joyce Valenza (27 
September, 2009). Retreived December 2nd from http://www.techlearning.com/copyright/0031/14-ways-k–12-librarians-can-teach-social-media-by-joyce-valenza/46329 

GREAT article. Here is a summary of the main point.

1.      How to have fun with intellectual property.  How to mash up, remix – use creative commons.  And a rethinking of copyright – ‘fair use’ is now OK.

2.      Resources will still need to be attributed to who created them.  But there are tools, online tools that make this less onerous.

3.      Move beyond one-trick single-search mode.  Google is not the only band in town. Maybe custom searches?

4.      Have the info come to them.  Like Google alerts, or widgets, RSS feeds

5.      Search for you – students need to know what he general world will see when they type their name into a search engine.  Maybe clean a bit up before prospective employers have a go?

6.      Be online yourself.  If you’re out there in the social media world, you’ll be in touch and on the lookout for the next cool or useful thing.

7.      Transparency in the research process.

8.      Use organising tools.  Like Inspiration.  But there are others out there.

9.      Connect with authors and experts.

10.   Communicating research and telling stories.  Students can now publish beyond classroom and family boundaries.

11.  Rethink the collection.  Physical, virtual pathfinders, student-created work and projects.