Facebook and Twitter

Librarians are using Facebook as means of communication for the students, parents, and community members. They post pictures of award winning students, award winning books, and ways parents can get involved in attending library functions with their children. I am impressed with how the librarian at Henry Ford Elementary promotes her library on Facebook. Mrs. Narda Lugo has an amazing page demonstrating all the wonderful things that she is doing at her library. Way to go Mrs. Lugo. The comments I saw on the Facebook pages was mostly parents thanking the librarian for posting all the important information. There were also comments by the students stating they were proud to see themselves on the page. The amount of comments though was not very many, but I see it as quality not quantity. The advantages I think is that technology today is readily available so parents can stay connected, which is a plus. The librarian can do so much more with an electronic newsletter as opposed to a paper newsletter, plus we are saving the environment by using less resources. It’s great to promote services, advertise programs, and create a dialogue between the library and the patrons. A disadvantage I see would be privacy. In this day and age we value our privacy and if someone can just come to your page and take your pictures and information, I would feel violated. As a parent this would be even more of a concern as their children are being posted on the page.

After reading the tweets of Ed tech leaders I was blown away by the use of communication tools. Although you only begin with comments, you can tag on videos, links, and ask questions. The way you can connect to other professionals in your field is fantastic. Being able to have someone answer questions you may have retweeting your post and it reaching someone who can assist you is amazing. I really had fun, I can see myself using this great resource for communication with people. If you like to share and collaborate this is the tool for you.

 I am not too familiar with Twitter but it is very user friendly. I really enjoyed the functionality of it all, but I have some background experience with computers. I think parents or grandparents who want to use this technology tool and are not familiar with computers, it might seem confusing and they may get turned off. My advice would be continue working with it, in no time at all they will get the hang of it and really enjoy the networking.