But let's not get ahead of ourselves. I know that many of you are busy reading, and settling into the course. With the diversity of experiences that you bring, I have a feeling that the content of this course will provide interest and challenges for your professional futures.
But I don't want to sound too serious. Not yet!
As some of you know, I am new at CSU, so along with our learning together, I am also experimenting with various tools in Interact to see what we might to to enhance our learning experience together. I use a lot of online tools in my professional work, and I thought that some of these could come in handy for our course. I regularly write about library and technology issues at my own blog at http://heyjude.wordpress.com/ - so I wanted to be able to just as easily 'talk' to you all.
So I've created this blog to do just that - share support information, ideas, and content that could be helpful for your learning. Follow along, and take what suites your leanring needs.
I hope that this blog will provide you with easy information updates, to support your course. This blog interface will allow me to add whatever we need in terms of ideas, input, support, etc to 'add value' to the core course in our Modules.
The Modules are the core content, and the Forum is our core area for discussions related to each Module section of the course.
This blog interface will simply allow me to add ideas and information to 'add value' to the core course in our Modules. Being a blog, you can subscribe to it in your RSS reader too (if you are familiar with RSS). But, it's easy to locate in Interact, as I have embedded it right into Interact, with a navigation point in the left menus bar - so if you forget the link - it's there for you! Being a blog, you can subscribe to it in your RSS reader too (if you are familiar with RSS). Here's the direct URL if you prefer http://youthservices.blogspot.com/
I've added a few extras for you on the blog, that will provide you with further current information that relates to libraries, and childrens and youth libraries.
There is a direct twitter feed from ALIASYS which is ALIA's Childrens and Youth Services in public libraries section. There is also a direct feed from the YALSA, which is ALA's Young Adult Library Services updates.
Finally, there is a feed from the Paper.li of SimplyBooks. What is this? It's actually a twitter account that I manage related to books, libraries, and library services, and which has a strong focus on children's and youth services. But as I don't 'tweet' there as often as I do on my own professional account at 'heyjudeonline', I have included the Paper.li link.
Paper.li is brilliant for time-poor librarians, as it organizes links shared on Twitter into an easy to read newspaper-style format. It's a great way to discover content that matters to you - even if you are not connected 24/7!
I think I can hear some of you groaning already :-) Is any of this new to you? Don't worry - really! It's just part of the overal spectrum of what's possible, and I'm just showing you some of the tools that we can use in our libraries, either for promotion, or for your own information gathering.
There will be more!
But enough from me for now. Let me just say hello - and welcome!
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