Well as dawn breaks on the "half time" ceremony more than three quarters of our staff have made it to the half way mark.
KD has done a wonderful job in re-branding the 23 things project and staff have worked well to motivate and encourage each other this far.
Tomorrow's party is an opportunity for the group to celebrate their success in the first three months and to commit towards making it through the project, with an improved awareness of social networking technologies. Plus like any good party there will be food & prizes!
Below is a link to the webolution blog as well as a link to my personal blog.
Staff can take any angle they want on working through the stages.
http://hblwebolution.wordpress.com/
Mine is totally random, for me playing around on the blog is a break from "work" although it is still technically work, it is also fun!
http://www.library-jo.blogspot.com/
I read the activity and then add something using the new trick or technology but my posts are about whatever I want, some staff comment on the activity and how they worked through it, some do a mix of both.
We are free to work through the stages at our own speed and with our own flavour.
Maybe that is why it has been so successful.
I have two followers, yippee. Better crack down on loading info then!
Also better put on smarter PJs if blogging for strangers!!
Author opens children's space at library
10:00pm Sunday 7th December 2008
BESTselling children’s author Melvin Burgess met teenagers at the Central Library to open a special reading area for young bookworms.
HeadSpace is an initiative developed and run in partnership with young people and The Reading Agency, an independent charity which encourages people to read more.
Melvin, whose most famous books include Billy Elliot, Junk and Doing It, launched HeadSpace at noon on Saturday, before giving a talk about his inspiration and life as a best selling author.
Greeting his audience he said: “It’s nice to be in Swindon as I have never been here before, living in Reading I used to think all these places were the same but it’s good to be here and at the new library.”
About 30 youngsters attended the event adding to the 60,000 people who have already visited the £10m building since it opened in October. The award-winning building now proudly features a HeadSpace hub, where youngsters aged 11 to 19 can read, relax, surf the internet and use the eight computers to do their homework.
They can now also order drinks from the library’s volunteer book waiters – an idea generated by young library users.
ttp://www.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/search/3957324.Author_opens_children_s_space_at_library/
