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CCLA Library Blog Training

On September 15, 2009 I held a blog training at the Clark County Librarians Association meeting. The objective of the training was to define what a blog is and how it can be utilized in the library setting. We explored the Edublogs site so that each librarian would be equipt with the tools to start their own free blog at a later date. It was my hope that we can build a community of CCSD librarians that will use blogs to communicate with their students, staff, community and other librarians. Below you will find some tools that were utilized during that meeting.

Video- Blogs in Plain English by Common Craft http://www.commoncraft.com/blogs

Getting Started with Edublogs Tutorial http://help.edublogs.org/getting-started-with-edublogs/

Handout- CCLA- Creating a Library Blog

The best blogging site to use for your CCSD library is an

_Edublog_ because the school filters allow access.

To create your FREE Edublog goto __edublogs.org__.

Cindy Baca’s Blog address _http://bacace.edublogs.org_.

 6 Ideas for a Blog Post (3 Mine/ 3 Neighbor)

1. Quizzes

2. Book Recommendations

3. Links

4. Highlight New Books

5. Publicity for Bookfairs, Special Events (i.e. Teen Read Week)

6. Rules/ Procedures

 Fun Blog Widgets

FREE Online Polls/Quizzes-         http://www.proprofs.com/polls/

Pollydaddy-                                       http://www.polldaddy.com

Online Forms-                                   http:/wufoo.com

Voki-                                                     http://voki.com/

Twitter Literature-                         http://www.kidderlit.com/

Library Thing-                                   http://www.librarything.com/

Visit Tracker-                                     http://www.clustrmaps.com/

Music Playlist-                                  http://playlist.com

List of Library Blogs-                     http://www.onlinecollege.org/2009/07/07/100-best-blogs-for-school-librarians/

If you attended the meeting what do you think about blogs? Edublogs? Are you going to create a blog for your library? If you have one, would you like to share it with us? What training would be beneficial in the future? Thanks for your time!

Library Blog Training

I have been fortunate to have been asked to provide a training about blogs during Staff Development Day to the CCSD Middle and High School Librarians. This post is for those librarians that attended the training.

The goal for the training is to allow Librarians the time to understand the basics of blogging, explore blogs created by educators, and determine how they see blogs fitting into their Library.

1. Visit the blogs of Librarians online. Determining how you see blogging fitting into your Library.

Blogs through Edublogs:

Go to http://www.edublogs.org . Towards the bottom of the page, you will see blog links. Click around.

Go to http://theedublogger.edublogs.org and click on the link across the top of the page called Check Out These Class Blogs

Other great blogs:

http://integratingtechnology.edublogs.org/

http://lgeslibrary.edublogs.org

http://libraryzen.com/wiki/index.php?title=LISZEN

Blog Help:

http://a3wp.edublogs.org/files/2008/01/edublogs_01-29r-2008.pdf

Advanced users:

Enter your blog and create a post for your kids to visit with a picture or video. Include a higher level thinking question that the students will respond to.

Create a post with some information pertaining to content currently being studied. Create a poll at http://polldaddy.com that relates to the information provided.

Create a library quiz based on information on a previous lesson or skill taught in your library at http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/create-a-quiz.php.