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How Web 2.0 Transforms Librarians

School Library SeminarJune 03, 2009

Fatima Mncube-Barnes

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IM ProgramsMost IM programs provide the following features:• Instant messages - Send notes back and forth with a

friend who is online • Chat - Create a chat room with friends or co-workers • Web links - Share links to your favorite Web sites • Video - Send and view videos, and chat face to face with

friends • Images - Look at an image stored on your friend's

computer• Talk - Use the Internet instead of a phone to actually talk

with friends (e.g., Skype)• Streaming content - Real-time or near-real-time stock

quotes and news • Mobile capabilities - Send instant messages from your

cell phone• Files - Share files by sending them directly to your

friends

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Web 2.0 Technologies used by Students

• Facebook & MySpace

• Itunes/Imovie

• Photosharing

• Texting

• IM

• YouTube

• The list goes on … and on …

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Social Networking Tools

• Instant messaging (IM) is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text.

• Telephone (3-way calls)

• SMS Meebo, Yahoo Messenger, Google Talk, AIM, etc.

File Sharing Applications

• Google docs/Collaborative writing

• Sky Drive/ document sharing

• Send-you-it

• Drop-Box

• Scribd/ literature sharing

• Slideshare

• WiZiQ - Find, share, download or upload PowerPoints on educational subjects and topics.

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Email Collaboration Tools

Tools for Collaboration• Google/Gmail Account is a free web mail

service from Google. • The most popular and useful Google tools are

the Google Toolbar – easy search box• Google Docs (document editing and sharing)• Google Bookmarks/Foxmarks – a must for

every scholar! • Picasa (photo sharing); Flickr; photobucket• Google Scholar – research tool (shows a

Meharry logo if the MMC digital library has the article(s)

Tools for Collaboration cont.

• Google Health – helps one organize their medical records online

• Notebook –save notes as you surf the web

• Google Earth – zoom from global to a specific address.

• Files, images (photos and scans), EHR, and EMR can be shared within institutions, through mailing lists, discussion groups, or stored online.

Spaces

Mobile

SkyDrive

Office Live Workspace

SharedView

Messenger

Alerts

Plus even more services under development (beta)…

Outlook Live

Photo Gallery

Communication Collaboration

Windows Live Messenger

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OutLook as a Collaborative Tool

• Microsoft Office Outlook shines as an email client with great talent for organizing (virtual folders, fast search), solid spam and phishing filters, seamless integration with to-do lists and scheduling, and also as a personal information management tool

• Outlook is Microsoft's catch-all calendar, contact manager, and collaboration tool

• Sync Google Calendar with the Outlook Calendar to share events with colleagues

Getting started with Google Docs or Live

Messenger

1. Sign up for a Google Account

2. Create a new document

3. Share your documents

4. Revise, edit and collaborate

5. Chat about your document in real time

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File Sharing - Google docs

• Create and share your work online

• Upload from and save to your desktop

• Edit anytime, from anywhere

• Pick who can access your documents

• Share changes in real time

• Files are stored securely online

• It's FREE!

Free Collaborative Note Taking Tools

• JotSpot Live This very cool web application lets you take notes online with a group of people. You see their notes as they type them, and they see yours. It is an interesting concept and feels like the combination of a chat client and a word processor.

http://www.jotlive.com

Free Collaborative Document Editing Tools

Writeboard and Writely• Both these web applications allow you to

create and edit text-based documents online.

• Setting up collaboration groups with others is as simple as entering their email addresses. An email is automatically sent to them with a link to the document and a password.

http://writeboard.com/http://www.writely.com/

Open source: FireFox Extensions

• Zotero (collect and manage research resources)

• Addins – Digital Pack-Rat- Del.icio.us (share links)

• Executive Assistant- Foxmarks (Bookmarks synchronizer)

Firefox extensions for librarians and library patrons

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Library 2.0 Zotero - an easy-to-use yet powerful

research tool that helps you gather, organize, and analyze sources (citations, full texts, web pages, images, and other objects), and lets you share the results of your research in a variety of ways.

To get started with Zotero: http://www.zotero.org/support/ Demonstration

http://www.zotero.org/support/screencast_tutorials

RSS Feeds

• RSS feeds are one of the most popular and easy to use Web 2.0 tools. Two websites, MedWorm and LibWorm, have taken RSS feeds a step further by collecting thousands of RSS feeds, indexing them, and making them searchable.

MedWorm

• MedWorm collects data from over 6,000 authoritative medical RSS feeds. Users can search MedWorm by keyword or exact phrase, or browse by categories such as medical conditions, consumer health news, drugs, and more. Results can be sorted by date, relevancy, or filters (similar to categories).

LibWorm

• There are currently 1,500 library-related RSS feeds available in LibWorm. These feeds come from library and information science blogs, wikis, journals, and submissions from users.

• Like MedWorm, you can search by keyword or exact phrase, but in LibWorm, you have the option to browse not only by category, but also by subject or tags.

LibWorm registration

• Completing a free and quick LibWorm registration is available for users who want to submit their own RSS feeds, discuss or comment on feeds, or email/save their feeds, searches, or retrieved items.

• Recommendation: subscribe to the medical librarianship or medical libraries category feeds, if interested.

RSS Feeds

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RSS Feeds available on PubMedhttp://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/mj05/mj05_rss.html

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RSS Feeds on Firefox Browser

Tools and Gadgets

• Graphics Tools & Resources

• Flickr Tag Browser• Flickr Grabber• Clicky – Web Analytics• Eyejot - a client-free, video-

messaging platform which enables people to easily send and receive video messages without the need to download or install any additional software.

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File Sharing - Scribd Scribd - document sharing website• Houses 'more than 2 million documents‘• Drew more than 21 million unique visitors in May

2008, little more than a year after launching, and claims 1.5 million registered users.

• Comments: "one of the best tools for English Language Learners to use for language development. They can write a few sentences, a story, or an essay; easily upload it to Scribd, and, then, within seconds, have its text-to-speech capability read it back to them. Plus, it's hosted there for free"  Larry Ferlazzo

• "Alllows me to upload documents and then share them in a unique electronic format that presents like a book, where you can click to "turn" the pages. I love it!"  Shari Ward

• Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/misteroo/facebook-analysis-and-study

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Web 2.0 Technologies Blogging (Web – log)

• A blog is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Wikipedia

• "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog

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Blogging for BeginnersCommonalities in Blogs

• A main content area with articles listed chronologically, newest on top. Often, the articles are organized into categories.

• An archive of older articles.

• A way for people to leave comments about the articles.

• A list of links to other related sites, sometimes called a "blogroll".

• One or more "feeds" like RSS, Atom or RDF files.

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Blogging in the Library

• Want an interactive website? Wouldn't it be nice if the readers of a website could leave comments, tips or impressions about the site or a specific article? With blogs, they can!

• Blogging in the Library (Jana Libermann)

http://piclibrary.blogspot.com/

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Blogging Tools

• Wordpress provides the features required to create and maintain a blog, and can make publishing on the internet as simple as writing an article, giving it a title, and organizing it under (one or more) categories.

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Blogging Software - Wordpress• Through its Administration Panels, you

can set options for the behavior and presentation of your weblog. Via these Administration Panels, you can easily compose a blog post, push a button, and be published on the internet, instantly!

• WordPress goes to great pains to see that your blog posts look good, the text looks beautiful, and the html code it generates conforms to web standards.

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Blogging Terminology• Archives – archive articles based on

dates or specific categories, authors or alphabetically

• Feeds – RSS A Feed is a function of special software that allows "Feedreaders" to access a site automatically looking for new content and then post updates about that new content to another site.

• Blogrolls – categorized list of links to webpages the author of a blog finds worthwhile or interesting

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Blogging Tips• Post regularly, but don't post if you have nothing

worth posting about. • Stick with only a few specific genres to talk about. • Don't put 'subscribe' and 'vote me' links all over

the front page until you have people that like your blog enough to ignore them (they're usually just in the way).

• Use a clean and simple theme if at all possible. • Enjoy, blog for fun, comment on other peoples'

blogs (as they normally visit back).

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Get your own WordPress.com Account in Seconds

• Task: copy the following URL to a browser

http://wordpress.com/signup/

• To create a blog, follow instructions from the following URL

http://codex.wordpress.org/First_Steps_With_WordPress

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What is a Wiki?

• Wikis are used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites

• Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and cross-links between internal pages on the fly

• PBWiki vendor based software for creating wikis in seconds

• Example: Wikipedia

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Social Networking Tools

• LinkedIn – stay informed about your contacts and industry; find people and knowledge you need to achieve your goals; and, control your professional identity online

• To sign up – copy and paste the following URL to a browser:

www.linkedIn.com

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Social Networking Tools cont.

• Facebook is the 2nd largest social networking site globally after MySpace

• Keep in touch with old friends and meet new ones

• Keep them informed about what you do

• Access a wealth of applications made for all purposes (publish photos, videos, notes

• Applications linked to other platforms (Flickr, Pownce, Twitter ….)

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Social Networking Tools - Facebook cont.

• A favorite among students (85% market share of 4-year US universities)

• Half of Facebook users are now outside of college

• Fastest growing demographic 25-35 years old (+181% between May 2006 and May 2007)

• Since the launch of the Facebook platform, almost 4,000 applications have been created by third-party developers

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Facebook Applications• Facebook is the # 1 photo sharing

application on the web (Photobucket, Yahoo! Photos, Webshots Community ..)

• There are three times more people invited through the Events application than through a leading focused website such as Evite.com

• The video application allows users to upload and record their own videos, display them on their profile and send video images

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Sign-up for Facebook

• Create a login at www.facebook.com

• View your email and confirm registration

• Get started – update profile, find friends or invite them to join, view other people’s profiles

• How can we use Facebook on our library page?

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Tools for Collaboration - MySpace• An international site that offers email, a

forum, communities, videos and weblog space

• Embraced mostly by teenagers and young adults

• Users set up personal profile pages, where they can post photos, keep a blog journal, link to friends’ profiles and see messages left by others

• Teens seem to use their profile pages mostly to post notes to their friends and classmates, commenting on parties they went to or things that happened at school

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MySpace cont.

• Sign up on MySpace.com

• Upload your photo, write/view or update your profile; add friends to your network and discover much more …

• How can we use MySpace in the library?

• Would this invite spammers and phishers to our Web site?

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• del.icio.us-space is the most popular with more than 50k usersWatch Udell’s screencast on del.icio.ushttp://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2005/03/14.html

• Connotea is equipped to function as a citation manager and currently supports retrieval of metadata elements from a number of sites including PubMed, HubMed, Amazon.com, Nature.com, and D-Lib Magazine.

Bookmarking Tools

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Podcasts• The Krafty Librarian - Integrating and

Promoting Medical Podcasts into the Library Collectionhttp://www.kraftylibrarian.com/podcasts2.doc

• John Hopkins Medicine Podcastshttp://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/mediaii/podcasts.html

• Drexel Medical Podcast- monthly interviews with specialist regarding topic of interest to the public

• How to make a Podcast?http://reviews.digitaltrends.com/guide/31/how-to-make-a-podcast

Smart Libraries GalterLists - an innovative feature of the new

website: - Users' can personalize and customize their preferred web-based resources  - Based on their registration profile, users have a pre-selected list of critical information resources supplied by the library staff  - Users can customize their pre-selected list or they can create a new one- User can also share their lists with others and add other electronic resources not supplied by the library 

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Faculty 2.0

• Faculty roles and the processes of teaching and learning are undergoing rapid change. Most faculty members did not seek careers in the academy because of a strong love of technology or a propensity for adapting to rapid change; yet they now find themselves facing not only the inexorable advance of technology into their personal and professional lives but also the presence in their classrooms of technology-savvy Net Generation students (Hartman et. al., 2007).

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Learning 2.0How do Web Technologies currently shape

education?

• Educators are starting to explore the potential of blogs, media-sharing services and other social software - which, although not designed specifically for e-learning, can be used to empower students and create exciting new learning opportunities

• Copy and paste link to browser for examples:

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20.php

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Technology Integration

Assist faculty with class related

• Blogs

• Articles

• Flickr

• YouTube

• Podcasts

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Technology Expectations of the Net Generation

• In general, 61% of students agree that IT in courses improves learning

• The Net Generation's views on technology in the classroom include the expectation that professors will use technology to better communicate expert knowledge (Gregory R. RobertsUniversity of Pittsburgh–Johnstown)

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Learning Management Systems

• Commercial ProductsWebCT/Blackboard, Intralearn, Desire2Learn)

• Open-source Products (Moodle and Sakai)• Customized software systems that serve the

instructional purposes of particular academic institutions.

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Learning Management SystemsName Company URL

WebCT WebCT, Inc http://www.webct.com

CoSE StaffordshireUniversity

http://www.staffs.ac.uk/COSE

LearningSpace Lotus http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/learnspace/

BlackBoard Blackboard http://www.blackboard.com

TopClass WBT Systems http://www.wbtsystems.com

VirtualU Virtual Learning Environments

http://www.vlei.com

FirstClass Centrinity http://www.firstclass.com

Zebu Centrinity http://www.mc2learning.com

Learnlinc Mentergy http://learnlinc.com

Intralearn Intralearn http://www.intralearn.com

Saba Saba Software http://www.saba.com

FLE UIAH Media Lab http://fle3.uiah.fi

Convene Convene http://www.convene.com

Gentle WBT Hyperwave AG http://wbt-2.iicm.edu

Supporting Faculty through LMS

Group Collaboration

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Library 2.0

• For the first time in their careers, faculty members are expected to teach in ways that differ from how they were taught when they were students

• As librarians, what do we know about our clients, that is, faculty and the Net Generation?

• How can we assist both?

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Embedded Librarian

• Get out there - support faculty and students in the classroom

• Share your enthusiasm about Web 2.0 technologies, especially Library 2.0

• Continuing education is a must

• Be familiar with the learning management system at your institution

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Embedded Librarian cont.

• Compare and contrast and suggest the best technologies for class topics

• Know the curriculum of the class(es) that you support

• Attend training relevant training offered by Academic Computing or IT

• Stay abreast with Bookmarking Tools

• Lunch and Learn Workshops

• Always improve and market your skills and services

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References1. What is anything about a computer?

http://www.wisegeek.com/internet.htm

2. Howstuffworks.com

3. Howtogeek.com

4. http://compnetworking.about.com/od/p2ppeertopeer/tp/p2pfilesharing.htm

5. http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging

6. http://www.slideshare.net/misteroo/facebook-analysis-and-study

7. http://www.macworld.com/article/51004/2006/05/myspace.html

8. Smart Library

http://www.galter.northwestern.edu/

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References cont.

9.http://www.dlib.org/dlib/april05/hammond/04hammond.html

10. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ e-learning_20.php

11.http://www.insidehighered.com/layout/set/print/ news/2007/11/13/blended

12.http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/Faculty20/44995?time=1232417855

13.http://www.educause.edu/Resources/EducatingtheNetGeneration/TechnologyandLearningExpectati/6056

14.http://www.freedomscientific.com/Training/accessible-forms-in-word.asp