Week 12 blog

Hello everybody this is my week 12 blog for LIS568 This weeks main topic is social networking sites. It is clear that there are many social networking sites out there that may be useful. The biggest and probably the most important is Facebook. I've read that in July 09 Facebook was adding 70,000 accounts per day which is very impressive. As a result more and more kids are subscribing to these sorts of sites. The big question is should networking sites have a place in todays schools. There are pro's and con's either way. Some people think that using Facebook is a great way to get students into and using the library. While others say not all parents will let them join or that it is beyond the purview of schools. Either way Facebook is a real source that continues to grow and will probably be a part of your or your kids lives.

Hello everybody this is my week 11 blog for LIS568. This week is all about Google. I have to say I love using Google for maps, news, images, and videos. For me its an indispensable source for quick searches, that has a surprisingly rich amount of information. It is usually one of the first places I suggest when a client has a simple straight forward question. It is true for some searches you would be better to go to a more concentrated source (for things like medicine, law, government, or census information), but for basic searches it is the Real Mccoy. In many ways search engines like Google have transformed the way we as a culture search.

Hello everybody this is Brian's blog for week 10. This week we talked about professional development and blogs. The parts about blogging were not new to me. I also felt like the website links were useful but kind of short, I would have liked to have known exactly what parts were most important to know.
As always the Richardson and Simpson chapters were interesting. I had actually used flickr before in another class, however I am a little reticent about sending pictures out (because as one of the ISafe modules says) "once you post something on the Internet it is there forever".
I will keep on working on my presentation and I'll see you next week.