Week 2 - Blogs

So far my experience with blogs has been that of an observer. As a media specialist in a high school, I have watched teachers set up blogs or assisted a teacher in getting started with class blogs.

I did establish a blog for the Media Center, but I need to promote it more. Class blogs by their nature mandate student participation. I need to work on getting voluntary participation for the Media Center blog

Recently I helped the Japanese Culture Club set-up a blog and offered to work with members to maintain their blog. We shall see how this goes.

Using the guidelines found in this wiki http://www.budtheteacher/.com/wiki/index I prepared a draft policy for using blogs.

In the meantime I was glad to explore the list of library blogs posted in the CT 23 Things site.

I particularly found the Loose Cannon Librarian to be a very rich site, with thoughtful postings and lots of links to other places via Delicious and Twitter. Definately will have to spend more time here.

The Connecticut Historical Society blog has a format that would work for a library or media center. Information on new acquisitions or background on specific collections alerts the reader and serves to publicize items in the collection. I like the functional format. As a first time blogger, this basic style would be one that I would feel comfortable using and maintaining.

The blogsphere is so vast and my ship is so small that it feels overwhelming at times. Knowing about the blog indexes helps.