Twitter

I first heard about Twitter from the Ellen show. She was really into it for awhile and kept encouraging viewers to read her tweets. I'm glad I was able to learn about it for this class, but it's just not something I will use a lot. I chose to follow NPR news, School Library Journal, and Borders. I've already received many tweets from Borders. As I read about school libraries it was kind of disheartening to read some tweets by teens who were dissatisfied with their libraries. They seemed to think they were lame. I guess we school librarians have to be vigilant about promoting our libraries and making them teen friendly. With that in mind I can see how using Twitter would be a fun way to let kids know about new books in the library, give a review of a book I've recently read, or reminding kids about book club. Maybe if I did that I wouldn't have any of my students tweeting about my library being lame.