#48 Web Content (2)

There are obvious areas to concentrate on in a school library website. So what else could you publish? Here’s a few suggestions:

Opening hours, holiday times
List of library services
Curricular Links
Library staff qualifications and biography
Events information: World BookDay, Poetry Week etc
CPD record
Library photographs
Virtual tour
Podcast
Information Literacy guides
Search engine guides
Worksheets and/or workshops
Library handbook
Links to other school library sites
RSS feeds

As [...]

#47 23 Things

This site is brought to you by the California School Library Association, and is magnificent.
Basically, this is self discovery programme that looks at 23 things related to web 2.0 technologies. Feedback from participants seems to be very positive, and if you follow it through your knowledge of web 2.0 technologies should be increased greatly. [...]

#46 Web Content: Reading

Whatever tool you’re using to get your message across on the web, your actual content is, or should be, king. So what to link to? Author and book sites are the most obvious place to start, some starting points listed below.
Authors
Achuka
Bloomsbury
Booktrusted
Fairrosa
Google Directory
Jubilee Books
Random House
Scholastic
Strongest Links
Teen Reads
The Wee Web
The Word [...]

#45 Abuse Of The Web

This is always going to be an issue wherever you find one or more computers with web access. Schools, colleges, universities and businesses all have to deal with these issues. Whatever the answer is, I don’t think it should be the responsibility of a school librarian or teacher.
The librarian should always be aware of the [...]

#44 Sound Out Your Authors

Podcasts, strictly speaking, are a type of audio blog, where the information is updated regularly. Your subscribers will await updates via RSS or visit the web area where the podcast lives, such as i-tunes or your own blog.
However, I don’t see any reason why you can’t use the same technology to make static recordings which [...]

#43 Web 1.0 v Web 2.0

It is always tempting to post information on school Intranets and websites, to keep your pupils informed, and also to highlight the library’s role in the life of the school, and to raise its profile.
However, it is worth asking whether this is the most appropriate way to do things. Is it easier to create a [...]

#42 Linking The Web (Internet)

The type of links you might put up on the Internet should be somewhat different from the links to be found on the Intranet. Intranet content might be short term, ephemeral links which will be deleted and replaced as appropriate. A structure should build with time on an Intranet, but this structure will not be [...]

#41 Linking The Web (Intranets)

This is an excellent way of getting involved in curricular support, and creating an end product which is useful for teachers and pupils. Librarians are the natural people to research this kind of information, though many teachers might not agree. I spent some considerable time researching weblinks for quality links relating to topics and sub-topics [...]

#40 Web Pages

Creating web pages is a very easy process, particularly if someone else has worked on the site and created a school website, of which the library space could be a part. Free tools are available for creation of web pages such as Dynamic HTML Editor.
Microsoft Frontpage is incorporated in the Office Suite from Office XP [...]

#39 Pupil Helpers

Librarians tend to have mixed views on pupil helpers: some are enthusiastic, others regard them as a nuisance who create more work than they save. I’m firmly in the first camp, as long as some common sense is applied.
Firstly, I would have some form of application process, even if this only consists of brief details [...]