[LM_NET] GEN: AASL MySpace?

[Bryn Samuels <brynmarie@YAHOO.COM>]

Brilliant Ones,

So, speaking of MySpace and authors and ALA and AASL ... ALA has a MySpace page 
(www.myspace.com/atyourlibrary).  I didn't know that.  It's pretty cool and 
encouraged me to search for an AASL profile, which I didn't find.  Is there not 
one?  With all the wikis and Nings that I see us involved in, would there be a 
benefit to a MySpace profile for AASL?  If I'm really going to think as a teacher 
librarian (and curriculum major), the first question should probably be: "What 
would AASL want students/viewers to get out of an AASL MySpace profile?"  One that 
comes to mind is to connect to students, to connect authors and teachers and 
students to students.  And right now, more students use MySpace (in light of our 
recent discussions I'm not suggesting this be a promotional tool to reach the 
younger kiddos).  Meg Cabot is one of ALA's "Top Friends" ... that would be very 
enticing to some high school gals I know and it's within an interface they already 
use.

As I'm writing this and sorting out my thoughts, it seems to me that, yes, the big 
difference would be the audience.  LM_NET is for us, as is Ning, to discuss and 
share teacher librarian stuff.  An AASL MySpace profile would, I'm guessing, be 
more to reach students and be involved in their discussions, informally, socially.  
It's the very essence of how we are our own special corner of ALA - we are for the 
students, not ourselves.  We have these discussions but is it merely to hash out, 
behind-the-scenes, how to most effectively teach information literacy, and then 
come out from behind the curtain and perform?  What would it look like to have 
these discussions with students?  Or to anyone who has experience with this, what 
_does_ it look like?  Anyone want to do an AASL MySpace profile?

Oh, I'm going to have nothing left for library school after a summer on LM_NET.  ;)

Bryn Samuels
Nashville, TN
off to library school at UT Knoxville
still crossing my fingers for that library assistant dream job

~bryn 
scholarlybrio.blogspot.com

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