Facebook Pages and Twitter

 

 

Utilizing Facebook to peruse different school library pages (Davis Middle School, Ockerman Middle School, and many others), I noticed that most posts on individual school library Facebook pages are made by the resident librarian and often include new library information, pictures of activities the students participate in while in the library, and upcoming events. Most of these school library Facebook pages do not have many followers, and the posts often lack many comments. One factor to attribute to this lack of participation is that the students of these libraries are either too young for Facebook, or are older and prefer to utilize a different form of social media and do not have Facebook accounts. Most of the followers of these pages are other teachers in the school or district, and some of the parents of the students. Parents are often too busy to check Facebook, and when they do, their first priority is not checking out the latest developments in the library at their child's school. I think Facebook library pages were a good idea at attempting to reach out to the community and encourage discourse about the school library, but because of different factors, I do not feel that this option panned out as well as everyone had hoped. Perhaps one day entire schools will have Facebook pages (or the like) that can incorporate the library page posts so that more members of the community have access to them? In the future this may take place on a totally different social media platform. At that point perhaps, maybe then parents and students can finally come together and collaborate about the happenings in the school library the way we had hoped school Facebook library pages were going to.

While exploring ed tech leaders on Twitter, I was wishing I had more time in the day to devote strictly to following all of their links and playing around with the new apps, computer software, and gadgets they post about. Following these ed tech gurus is also a good way to find out about up and coming tech related webinars, conventions, and to find helpful tech infographics to use in the classroom.


Here is a Twitter post by Kathry Schrock. I'm feeling the need to buy this ASUS Chrombook Flip!:

Kathy Schrock ‏@kathyschrock Jun 2

Loving the Asus Chromebook Flip! Good build, Nice screen. Touchscreen. Good touch pad. Convertible.

 

Gwyneth Jones posts helpful infographics:

Gwyneth Jones ‏@GwynethJones May 30

Makerspace #INFOGraphic Share w/ your teachers! @isteconnects http://sco.lt/4qv43V 

She also discusses important tech ed topics:

Gwyneth Jones ‏@GwynethJones May 27

Digital Citizenship: 2 Perspectives on Using Social Media in Education http://sco.lt/9Kdxjd 

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