Day 3 Feedback from Anna

I really enjoyed the 3 day programme. I feel I have picked up quite a lot of new and useful knowledge and hope to put this to good use. I am excited about using these skills to interact with our users and as a new form of communication with other staff.
Finding out what other libraries/librarians are doing has also been really interesting.

Whilst I don't think any further support is completely necessary it would be nice to have a follow up day in the future as technologies change and it's hard to keep up during the working week!
I think this blog is a great resource that I can share with my collegues to help them get a wider idea of what libraries get up to online.

It has been a great experience, thanks to everyone.

Anna's digital awareness mind map

Here is my second go at a mindmap (I've got more colours this time!).
These are some ideas as to how Cardiff Libraries could promote digital safety/skills/awareness.



Digital Safety/Skills/Awareness Mindmap



Cardiff Children's library update

Hi everyone.

Since the last training days I've used my new skills to produce a presentation for my colleagues showing how to add a blog post - we are in the process of setting up a blog for our children's and teen reading groups.
I was planning to create a screencast but our staff PCs lack sound so decided to create a powerpoint presentation as I was sure this could be viewed by everyone!

I've uploaded it to google documents so that I could embed it here (it is very simple but I hope it does the job).


I've also begun setting up a google site for some of our recommendations for books/websites. I found this really quick to use, it's getting the content up to date that is taking the longest time but I think it will make our recommendations more relevant than the paper forms they are currently in.

The skills and information from this Wise Kids training will continue to be put to use at work, improving the service for our users (hopefully!). Also personally I have really enjoyed learning about how to use these great web 2.0 technologies.

Looking forward to tomorrow.

Anna's Project Plans

This is me!

Hello, my name is Anna Davies and I work within Cardiff library service. I am a library assistant and I'm currently based in the Children's Library.

Using the knowledge and skills I've picked up during the 2 days at the WISE KIDS training, I plan to create a tutorial about creating a blog for my collegues. I'm (hopefully) going to use camstudio to create a screencast.

I'm also hoping to set up a google site for the children's department so we can put our book and homework resources/links online. On this site I would also like to include a screencast tutorial on how to use the library e-reference.

In the future (hopefully soon) we will also set up a children's library blog to complement the current Cardiff Libraries social media presence (blog, twitter, facebook).

Looking forward to day +1.

Mind Map by Anna

Hello, I'm Anna from Cardiff Library Service.

This is my mind map created on bubbl.us - about my reflections on this training so far.

I work in the children's library so most of my thoughts were about ways we could use this technology with children but I hope to work with other members of staff who currently run the Cardiff libraries blog and other social media sites so that Cardiff libraries have a consistent voice online.