June 2009 Librarians Summer Institute June 2009 Jefferson County Public Schools

June 2009 Session Business Welcome !  Please be sure to sign in.  During the presentation, please keep laptops at “half- mast” unless of course you are taking notes.  Links will be posted to the Institute wiki, so don’t worry about trying to copy those down.  To preserve the life of your battery, turn off your wireless function until you need to go online. (Small button on the side of your tablet.)

June 2009 An Intellectual Property Reminder…  Become familiar with “Terms of Agreements” and “Privacy” links.  Watch for the suggested age use of the site in question.  Can the work being done be borrowed or shared?  Are there restrictions to how you link to the site (wording)?  Become familiar with “opt out” features.

June 2009 Social Bookmarking Presented by: Emily Grady and Angela Judd

June 2009 Librarians 2009 Summer Institute No Librarian left behind! Really… we mean it. Social bookmarking is so easy even the technological challenged can do it!!!

June 2009 Diigo & Delicious… “The tastiest bookmarks on the web!!!”  What is this and why use it???  Diigo and Delicious are social bookmarking sites.  They provide an easy and free option for organizing your favorite websites. You can even import your existing favorites.  Bookmarking sites allow you to access your bookmarks from any computer!

June 2009 Still not convinced???  Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet.  In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share.  Most social bookmarking services encourage users to organize their bookmarks with informal tags. (Wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking)

June 2009 How does it work?  View the great video for an explanation:  plain-english plain-english  View the underwhelming video for a less stimulating explanation:  aJ8 aJ8

June 2009 Let’s take a closer look….  Delicious  Save your own or see what’s fresh now! 

June 2009 Let’s take a closer look….  Diigo  Diigo is a “powerful research tool and a knowledge- sharing community.” It is a “next generation social bookmarking and annotation service where you can highlight, tag, add sticky notes and comment on any WebPages.”  Diigo greatly improves how people discover, remember, collaborate, and share on the Internet. 

June 2009 Are there other social bookmarking options???  Take a look at all of these choices!!!  kmarking_websites#Social_bookmarking kmarking_websites#Social_bookmarking

June 2009 Ready… Set… Go!!!  That’s it! Now you are ready to set up your own account and explore!  Let’s get started by doing a quick search “scavenger – style” to get familiar with the sites.

June 2009 Thanks for attending!  PD Central evaluations will be available within 24 hours.  Don’t forget to visit the Institute Wiki or Blog.  Was there anything from this session you would like to add to your session Reflection Form? Your Personal Growth Plan? Your LMC Technology Plan?

June 2009 Thank You!!!