And so it begins...

Well, it's that time again. Classes began this week at SU and I waded back into the fray, this time as an all-online student. Luckily, both my classes are easing us in slowly, and the the craziness will begin in earnest next week when assigned reading and projects begin. This week is all about getting to know our classmates and getting to know the format each class will use. Of course neither of my classes is using the same format- but that's alright, I think I'll get the hang of it!

As for this little blog- it was technically an assignment for a summer class, and there's no reason I need to keep it going, but I'm going to anyways. In my opinion, blogging is a great way to talk about the classes and share interesting information, so I say "onward"! I won't be posting everyday (I reserve that for my other blog- no way I can keep up with daily posts for two), but I will be posting at least once a week, a recap if you will of my week at Grad school. I think that will be a good format, but may tweak it as needed!

So- as I write this I have one follower (Hi Angelic!)- hopefully more people will find me in this new little corner of the blogosphere, but for now this is a way for me to organize and share my thoughts, even it's only with myself :)

IST600 Assignments.

I really enjoyed this class, and I got to do some really fun projects as part of it, which I'd like to share with all of you.

First up- my "Week in Review" presentation. We were given a lot of leeway on the project to express ourselves. I chose to use the one social networking tool we learned about that I had the least experience with, You Tube. I decided to make a slide show movie of some of the things I did during the week and upload it to my channel. Here is the finished product. Not too shabby for a first attempt (if I do say so myself...and I do).

Next up is our awesome group video which we filmed as a psa about the complicated world of social networking. I worked with Kai, Veronica, Carolyn, Donna and Rebecca on this movie and it was a lot of fun to take it from an idea, to a script and all the way to a finished psa. Hope you enjoy it!

Our last assignment for Social Networking in Libraries was to create a Library Marketing Plan. I'll admit, I was quite nervous about this assignment. I have no experience working in a library and despite all the various jobs I've had, none required marketing. So both ends of this assignment were pretty foreign to me. In the end I reviewed alot of marketing plans online and pulled the formating elements that I thought worked best for this assignment to use as the basework for my marketing plan. One thing I was kind of excited about was that I created a QR code to be used to link back to my Marketing Plan website. I don't have a smartphone, so I have to admit I have no clue if the code I created worked, but I did it! Hopefully it works for those of you with QR code readers, if not and for the rest of us, click HERE.