Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Bókaspjall - Bokprat
New approach needed
Even though the participants liked the idea no one used the site so the project as it was intended. As we have been trying to figure out why the main conclusion is that the participants newer owned the concept. A better approach would have been to let the participants create their own site or space online where they would interact and learn from each other. In the year to come we will try with another group of participants and combine the social media aspect of this project with the implementation of a new teaching method called "flipped classrom".
Hopefully the combination of these two methods will make the project a success.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Mathantverkssafari
Lokala mathantverkare kring Vara öppnar upp sina gårdsbutiker och har ett gemensamt tema. Det är allt från kalkonkött, ost, bröd, marmelader, lammkött, kalvdans, juicer, olja och mycket mer.
http://www.vastsverige.com/sv/vastgotalandet/products/97153/Mathantverkssafari-i-VastgotaLandet/#SiteContent
Emma
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
First meeting with Johan
Friday, November 25, 2011
Talk about books.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Purpose with Social media trainings
Friday, September 23, 2011
Unfortunately, it's hard to get people to the post comments.
Monday, July 04, 2011
Basic Idea Vara Ung Entreprenör
Tools Vara Ung Entreprenör
Background Vara Ung Entreprenoeur
Social media is frequently used by the youth group and seemed like a natural arena for learning. We have tested various methods to develop learning in social media In the Rucola project. We have used Blogger in Vara Lyftet. Blogger is a blog feature that is easy to use and where you can make simple websites. Vara Lyftet has its own website on Blogger, as well as two sub-websites for each part of the project. The Entrepreneurship education is totally based on Blogger www.varaungentreprenor.eu and the page has 13 different underpages. Each of the 13 pages is designed to develop a specific entrepreneurial skills such as creativity or I-can-attitude. The participants have also made their own pages where they document their learning, even those pages are built in Blogger.
Working in social media is a constant learning and our entire web system is constantly evolving. The participants have developed several pages on their own and the number of pages seems to be growing all the time.
The challanges with Social media in education
- Focus at one tool if the aim is to build something. Use several tools if the purpose is to do marketing. LindkedIn and Facebook is good for marketing, but not if you're going to build an education or collect a lot of information.
- If the social media doesn’t work as planned, drop it and try a new one. We tried to build an education in LinkedIn, but our participants found it to difficult to manage. It is important to have an easily administered tool. It was important for us because we wanted a lot of people to use the tool and we also wanted the participants to learn each other how to use it.
- The things you write or put into social media don’t need to be perfect, it’s simply a part of the training and it also opens the opportunity for other people to reflect, comment, and the participants uses each others skills to make things better and better.
- It is important to have a clear goal - where are we going? To have control over process is impossible when you introduce many participants into the development process. We have seen clearly how the process has taken a different path than we had expected, but we re still moving towards the target.
- This process came to an end (if processes can) in the end of may and we decided to complete
the education, with 100 steps, all published in social media.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Purpose with Boklådan
The purpose with this project is to show our users how to use social media to get information and interact with other people. They can read about other people´s favorite books and write some suggestions and comments of their own. We also want people to learn how to use the library website so they can make book reservations, extend their loan period, use our databases and so on.
Later this year we are going to arrange an evening where some of the staff and some of our users talk about their favorite books. At the same time you have the opportunity to eat a nice and warm cup of soup. We think that it is important for us to help our users to discover the joy of reading.
Monday, June 13, 2011
Our work with Boklådan
We decided to use Facebook because it´s so well known and our library already use it. We have a number of followers who are interested in our activities and our work. We made a new Facebook account for Boklådan and invited all the followers of the Library Facebook. Then we found out about Tumblr.com and now we use that because when we write something on Tumblr it also shows on Facebook and Twitter at the same time. We also have a link from the website of the Library so you can easily find Boklådan from there. We made a marketing plan to follow so that people in our community should know about Boklådan. The local newspapers came and wrote about the project, we made posters, we talked with our users and we wrote about it on our website. When we begin to do small films about books we use Photo Story 3. It´s easy to use when you want to work with pictures and sound. We look forward to work with Boklådan and it will be interesting to see how our users are going to use it.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Status Boklådan
We published Boklådan on Facebook in May 2011 and after 3 months we have 43 followers.
We try to publish something on Tumblr every day. For now we are 3 administrators who have responsibility for the site. Our followers are beginning to make comments and suggestions of their own now.
Monday, November 01, 2010
The basic idea of a Manual
Anyway, the Manual is meant to be practical and straight-forward. This is what we did; this worked; this didn't work as well as we had hoped...
Ok?
The backbone of the Manual as agreed in Akureyri is in place in Google Docs; for us to suggest changes in. Maybe a little early right now, but not for long as Rucola is now on the prowl! :-)
Good luck to us!

