Blogging? IM’ing? Why bother?
Blogging seems uncharted territory for many librarians in Tennessee. The TLA conference in April will have 2-3 sessions on blogging, if all the approvals go through. If you have not been following some of the hype on teenagers use of the internet, blogging, and IM’ing to communicate, it’s time to read. Go check out the Pew Foundation’s latest report Teens and Technology: Youth are Leading the Transition to a Fully Wired and Mobile Nation “The number of teenagers using the internet has grown 24% in the past four years and 87% of those between the ages of 12 and 17 are online. ” From this report we learn that
75% of online teens — or about two-thirds of all teenagers — use instant messaging,
compared to 42% of online adults.
48% of teens who use instant messaging say they exchange IMs at least once every
day.
Teens are writing. Whether we understand all the folksonomies or not, they are spending a huge portion of their time communicating with circles of friends and everexpanding regions of interest.
It’s time for Tennessee school librarians to practice blogging, IM’ing and quick-texting so we can meet the needs of our students.
blogging is a good way also to express one’s though. it’s like a diary. we could ask or require our students to at least own one blog for them to express ideas and thoughts… texting? or chatting/IMing? it’s not good!
Comment by Cell Phone Covers — June 20, 2008 @ 2:57 am