Facebook and Twitter
Facebook
Pages:
Kirby Middle School Library in Judson ISD. The
librarian uses this page to post activities that the students are participating
in the library, and display boards. There were no comments on any of the post.
Crockett Highschool Library located in Austin, Texas.
The librarian uses this page to post promoting author visits to the library
like “Award winning YA author David and his new book, The Strange Fascinations
of Noah Hypnotik.” The page also includes photos of the library, promoton of
events such as national poetry month. This page did not have many comments, but
did have likes.
Rayburn Middle School in San Antonio, Texas. This page
post videos promoting books turned into movies with catchy hashtags like
#thebookwasbetter and #butthemoviewasadorbs. The page also includes links to
video on books trailers and movie trailers such as the new book turned movie The hate you give. Photos of the
recently demolition of the library are included on the page. Various photos
showed the librarians and faculty posing at different events and with visiting
authors. The page included some comments and likes.
Advantages
and Advantages of Facebook
The advantages of using Facebook include the librarians
being able to promote their school’s library events. This platform also allows librarians
to reach students, staff, parents and community members. The information broadcast
is current and provides an opportunity for librarians to provide information instantly.
Facebook allows libraries to reach out to patrons, as well as allowing patrons
to reach out to libraries.
The disadvantages include the time spent to keep up
with the page may be daunting with all the other daily task of a librarian, using
a public network may come with restrictions due to the district policy. Older
students may be reluctant to follow a school library pages because of the
content displayed on their page. Younger student may not have access to a
Facebook account due to age.
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/texaslibrariandsa/
Ed
Tech Leaders
Kathy Schrock is very active on twitter and promotes
technology in the classroom. She has been a prominent leader for every very
long time with one twitter user posting “Even back in 1998, @kathyschrock was
working to bring #edtech to teacher so that we could impact student learning”.
Linda W. Braun (@lbraun2000) is a learning consultant, educator, teen advocate,
library and YALSA Past President. Her post includes a variety of information from
YALSA news to teen programs. David Warlick joined Twitter in 2007 and has been
very active since. He post anything from #dronephotography to links on, “Eight
tips for encouraging student to deveop critical reading habits” (@dwarlick). Gwyneth
Jones is the author of The Daring Librarian Blog, google certified and describes
herself as an innovator and geek. Her post includes photos of her students,
technology tips, librarian tips and so much more! I truly enjoyed her blog! Jim
Lerman(@jimlerman) is an educator, Designer, author, speaker and project director.
He posts on many relevant and useful technology. One of his post provides information
on how to use google docs, slides and forms for student projects. His twitter
post would be great to follow as a librarian for Technology information.
Facebook
or Twitter?
Twitter all the way! Twitter is much more user
friendly and after analyzing librarians using twitter vs Facebook there is no
comparison that using twitter is much more successful. Many of the librarians
that used Facebook did not receive many comments and it seems like there were
few interactions with students.
That you for taking us step by step in explaining the advantages and disadvantage of using Facebook or Twitter. This was so much needed information. One day I will be tech savage...
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