I felt I got a lot out of the course and it has open my eyes to how social media can be used as a tool to engage and communicate with our students and staff. The course was well run and Sangeet was a good teacher, who clearly explained digital literacy and used interesting and relevant examples to illustrate this.
I did feel that for academic librarians, the final day of the course was quite wordy and spent too long focussing on issues that are more important for children rather than students. I would have like more practical experience exploring how to use other social media - like prezi, wiki and wordpress, maybe some examples illustrating how how teachers use it to engage with their students. However, I do understand that the issue is of huge importance for other types of libraries and it was right that so much time was devoted to it that day.
As a suggestion, future courses could be run for different types of library, i.e. academic, public and commercial? And then the content could be tailored to meet needs and interests of those particular institutions.
All in all, it was a great course and I hope that WISE KIDS and Cymal continue to provide more of them in the future.
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