New ideas and staff day presentation

The picture at left is intended to put you in the mood to think about a holiday season programming idea....Ana (Stacy) suggested we try a readers theatre type presentation, and in the process of thinking about that I had an inspiration! (sort of). To keep our program somehow unique and identifiable as a Kansas/Olathe endeavor, how about if we do readings but use some of the real life text left as diaries and memoirs of early Kansas settlers? You can find a ton of this type of material at http://www.kancoll.org/index.php, the Kansas collection of Carrie:an electronic library, which is the digital library created by the University of Kansas. We might want to collaborate with the state library and Topeka on this. We could decorate to our hearts desire in the library, or take it to the colleseum to accomodate more people (although I thi nk we could get a pretty good crowd seated at our own library.) Give it some thought. I talked to Ralph about it and he might even come in world to help out as a reader! I will be emailing you all a sample collection of potential readings.

We are set I think for staff day. We only have a half hour, so there isn't a whole lot we can do with it. I will take about 10 minutes to go through the power point Tina did, then we will introduce ourselves and tour the library, leave a few minutes for Q and A. I would like all of us to be in world if possible, and I think we can do that. You will just have to find a terminal with Sl on it in the library. I will ask that you all wait outside the library and then when I say your name come inside, OK? at the end we can all dance to show them how much fun it can be. If that is ok with everyone. Does this sound ok?

Tonight I started my in-world class, offered through the Univeristy of Illinois library school. Class is every Wednesday night for five weeks, and it is called "Setting Up Your Library in Second Life: an Appliled Approach." This is going to be a truely excellent class. I will have some notes and other stuff and can send you copies via email if you want. Let me know if you would like a copy.

Tallyho!

Idea for Staff Day Presentation

It might be fun to make a game out the presentation. If Lori introduces us and we introduce ourselves from in-world, we could not give our real name, just our avie name. Then we can each talk about what we have been doing in SL. At the end of the presentation, staff can try to figure out who is who, since we haven't told them our real names and we are not in the room. We might want to give out small prizes to whoever can figure it out. Don't have the logistics figured out yet, but thought it sounded like a fun idea.

Leeorie asked me to post some pictures and the only one I have is this old one of me (now i'm a little less....um.....tan). I'll try to come up with something better in the future.

-Ana, aka Stacey

Book discussion; meeting; workshop

Mark your calendars! The inaugural Skytales Book Discussion will be at 4 p.m. SLT (6 p.m. CST) on Oct. 18 at Rachelville. This is a collaborative project with Rocky and Cindy. We will be discussing two picture books that deal with gender issues, and both are controversial - And Tango Makes Three and Uncle Bobby's Wedding. We are hoping for a good crowd and a lively discussion. Stacy (Anastazia in SL) has been helping out with this. The photo shows the sign Rocky came up with....hoping to see it posted around. I put a copy in the OPL library at Talis, and it is also on the events slide show at the reference desk on Info Island.

Don't forget the meeting 10 to 12 on Wednesday, Oct. 15. Stacy and I will be participating from in-world since we will both be at home at the time. Major agenda item will be the staff day presentation....Emily has asked us to show SL. We may not have more than 1/2 hour. What do we want to do? Looking for ideas.

BIG NEWS!!! KCMLIN has asked me to do a workshop on Second Life, tentative date April 28! All who want to help out let me know. We may be doing a full day to let participants set up accounts it they want. KCMLIN is the metro area library association, including both Kansas City library systems, Mid Continent and Johnson County, so this is quite a feather in our caps! I've asked Rocky to help out and he will, circumstances permitting. I'll also be asking Cindy to help, and I'd like to get as many of you involved as possible. I will probably also be seeking input from Abbey Zenith and Lori Junot from the Alliance System in SL. Don't know where the workshop location will be yet. Would be great to have it in Olathe but we probably don't have space.

A REMINDER: you are all invited to comment AND POST to the blog! If you need help let me know. You can experiment with taking and posting pictures. I would LOVE to see some images of someone besides myself! I think you all have permissions to post and publish, but if not I will try and figure it out and fix it.

Later my sweet little avatars!