Week 11 Post

Week 11 Post by hsivakum

April 13, 2011, 8:09 am
Filed under: Reflections

This week I finally got the website up and running. When I last showed you the website, I only had a couple unconnected pages. I’ve now successfully created and stored all the documents onto the website and have created separate pages so visitors can sift through the sources by teacher or type. Basically the heart of the website is done. The website is up and running and you can see all the documents underneath the Archival Resources option at the homepage. All that’s left is the extra bits. I’ll likely have the Historical Overview, Getting Started, and Teacher Biography sections completed by next Monday or possibly by this Friday.
The url is: http://socallib.org/blacklistedTeachers/

Timeline:

When researching the mobile voices papers, I was pretty sure what I was looking for. It seemed logical to me that the only real way to incorporate the platform into my project would be to use cell phones to access the website. However, I soon began to question that after reading “Mobile Phones in the Classroom: A directed study project by Toni Twiss.” In the “Context based content delivery”  section, Twiss writes that the “key findings of the mLibraries report was that while the technology was capable, students were not ready to make use of a service which placed a large component of a libraryʼs resources on a mobile phone.” Clearly, trying to access a website via a phone is not the most prudent way to be making use of the resource. It appears that a mobile phone is best used trying to supplement a major resource instead of providing a direct link or platform for that resource. Twiss goes on to say, “what was useful was the potential to teach students to learn their way around the library through providing audio guides accessible via the studentsʼ mobile phones. Thus, providing a learning opportunity, facilitated by the mobile phone in order for students to engage with their physical context.” Such a plan certainly seems ideal. Hopefully, the website will create enough interest in nearby students and/or teachers to make them actually pay a visit to the Southern California Library. Having audio tours that they can listen to through their phones would prove to be an accessible and cost-effective way to sustain and develop whatever interest the website may have stimulated.

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