Technology Trends Essay
INTRODUCTION It seems that every year people turn increasingly toward living their lives
through technology. It has inundated society, families, jobs, and lives. Three developing trends that
in some ways overlap each other are specifically related to living in a technology world. These
trends are particularly important to the school librarian because many students are living their lives
through the web. In order to reach those students, the librarian must be knowledgeable about the
trends and applications and be able to use and apply them in a library setting. By using them, the
librarian makes the library relevant to students, and brings the library to students where the students
are.
The first trend is social communication...show more content...
TREND ONE – SOCIAL COMMUNICATION Social communication is found on the web through
blogs, online journaling, emailing, instant messaging, and micro–blogging. People use these
applications to track their lives, inform others what they have been doing, make recommendations,
rant about an interest, and a variety of other reasons. There is some sort of social communication
about virtually every topic under the sun. Blogs, which is short for web–blogs, are essentially a
place online where people go to write about their thoughts, ideas, feelings, etc. in their own voice in
order to share it with the masses ("Exploring web 2.0 and libraries," 2006). In a blog, someone can
respond to the writer with a comment, and then the blogger can post the comment for others to
view, or they can delete it. In education or in a library, a blog could be used to share ideas about a
topic, recommend books, share thoughts on a book, share news about upcoming events, share
information about a past event, etc. (Naslund & Guistini, 2008). Blogs are very applicable to the
library setting. It is a place to have conversations about anything. It could become a sort of on–line
book club. The blog should invite participation. The more engaged students are, the more likely
they are to care about the library ("Technology trends for a 2.0 world," 2007). Some of the more
popular blog sites are blogger.com, edublogger.com, and blogsopt.com (Naslund & Guistini, 2008).
Micro–blogging is
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