Blog URLs are posted!

This week everyone should already have their blog set up and should be starting to post their reflections and project 1's to it. I'm looking forward to reading your work and reading your comments from other students.

For those of you who are not as familiar with the concept of blogging, let's discuss a few things that might be helpful.

1) Write with the reader in mind - you are writing for others to read, share your opinion, share your thoughts, etc. Stay on topic - don't write about something that has nothing to do with the assigned task or subject matter. The blogs should be specifically about your class experience, your library experience, how you felt doing assignments, or blogging, or posting to discussion forums.. things like that. Feel free to incorporate your own life into the post, we definitely want that, but tie it in somehow to the purpose of the assignment.

2) You don't have to write a novel but a few sentences is NOT ENOUGH. A good blog post is about 250 words -- or a few well developed paragraphs. Try to stick to that. When you are asked to reflect on the course, please don't just write a post something like "I like the class but it is harder than I thought." Really talk about your experience, you won't be graded on your opinions -- you will however be graded on providing a thoughtful response!

3) Use links where possible -- posting to blogs is a great way to share things you've seen on the Internet that you'd like to talk about. If you come across a cool blog that you would like to share with the class, by all means do so!

4) Update your profile -- post a picture of yourself or something that interests you. Tell everyone a little about yourself. It's a great way for your blog readers (aka classmates) to get to know you.

5) Comment, comment, comment! Let people know you've read their blog. Say hi. Leave a small comment. Blogging is a form of communication.

For more helpful tips, see Tips to Writing Blog Entries.

Okay, those are my thoughts for today! Happy Blogging everyone!

Summer 2009 starts now!

Well, here we are with another summer LIB 3 class... I'm very excited because LIB 3 is my favorite class to teach and I only teach it once a year. We do lots of fun activities and it seems that we really get to know one another.

My summer schedule is pretty limited at the LAC library - I will be working on campus only the first few weeks of June, and mostly in the evenings. If you need to contact me, the best way will be through email or instant messaging.

Looking forward to the class!