Competency 7: Social Netwoking

My assignment is to search for an appropriate social network site and either create a profile for myself or find an example of one in my topic area. Social networking is something new to me so I started by searching for the top 5 social networking sites. My Space is number 1 overall and MSN Groups came in 5th in the top five list and 2nd place for retention rate. I chose to search through MSN Groups for an example of my topic area, Accelerated Reader, and was pleasantly surprised to find one. The Gilman-Danforth Library staff in Gilman Illinois, are marking all of the books in the children's department with book level and points for Renaissance Learning. As a future elementary librarian, I was pleased to hear that a public library was working together with the local school, Gilman-Danforth Elementary, to provide children with opportunities to check out books at the public setting that will be marked for this program. The site provides information about this new adventure, homework help tips, and a list of the new elementary books and easy books available. This is a wonderful collaboration between the local library and elementary to work together to help foster a love for reading books.

This is the link to MSN Groups: http://groups.msn.com/

Here is the screen print of the Gilman-Danforth Library Site:

To visit this site you can click on the following link:
http://groups.msn.com/Gilman-DanforthDistrictLibrary/stuffforkids.msnw