Facebook

Facebook - I dreaded this "thing" to learn. I have put off learning this, ignored friends requests to join, even resisted the temptation to sign up to spy on my kids. This is just too much information for me, and I feel uncomfortable using it. But, when I viewed the commoncraft video on Facebook at the SLJ Learning 2.0 website, the video made it look pretty easy, so hating and dreading it, I signed up on Facebook to see how it worked. Actually, it was pretty easy. You just go to facebook and then answer the questions to create your profile. And Facebook will add the images to the answers you pick, like a picture of your old high school - that was pretty neat - you don't have to add the images yourself. I have seen all the little Facebook logos on blogs and websites, so I am sure you can somehow follow the business on its Facebook page.

Thinking about how you could use Facebook in a high school library; the first thing that comes to mind is that libraries need to go where students are - and they are all on Facebook. Libraries could have a presence on Facebook and use it to update all the news in the Library - new books, new exhibits.Now that I have my Facebook page,  I am now going to investigate how libraries are using Facebook and I will report back to update.

Here is the link to the commoncraft videos that explain Facebook; it is real simple and less than 5 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc&feature=player_embedded