Webbie2 at OCPL Staff Day: Everyone Serves Youth 3/20/2008
Questions
- How do youth use social networking?
- How can libraries help?
- How can libraries use social networking?
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Actions to explore possibilities
- Try out social networking, play!
- Educate with policies and programs.
- Incorporate into delivering services.
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Youth of today and tomorrow are born digital, the rest of us can be savvy immigrants if we learn the language and culture. |
- Born print - books, broadcast radio and TV, and movies; delivered by institutions with the production infrastructure.
- Born digital - media rich: music, pictures, movies, cable and online TV and radio, personal media devices, Internet, computers; delivered by individuals as well as institutions, often with minimal infrastructure.
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Activity: Paperspace [pdf]
Tour of Web 2.0 social networking services: Blogs, Flickr, Wikis and MySpace on the menu -->
Demostration of setting up a MySpace site
Activity: Set up your own site worksheet [pdf] Challenge: can you do it following library Internet and Code of Conduct policies?
About policies:
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It's about educating youth to use online resources ethically with integrity, i.e. follow the site rules. If a site offers services, respect the rules (sounds like a library!). For example, MySpace rules are age 14 and up only. Incorporate that into your policies / guidelines / rules.
You are doing it! OCPL libraries incorporating social networking
Youth and Social Networking: An Eclectic Webliography
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