Creating a virtual Library

1. Audience

1.1. Students

1.2. Parents

1.3. Teachers

1.4. Support Staff

1.5. Volunteers

2. Goal

2.1. Engaging (colourful, use of icon)

2.2. Usability (use Page Flakes and avoid hyperlinks)

2.3. Build site collaboratively and ask what the "audience" will find useful

2.4. Visual organization

3. Collaboration

3.1. Online Book Talks/Blogs

3.2. Reading Clubs (Forest of Reading, etc)

3.3. Public Library Connection

4. Book Catalogs

4.1. School LIbrary Search Engine

4.2. E-book Connections

5. Research

5.1. Educational Web Based Search Engines- Noodle Tools, etc

5.2. Properly citing resources

5.3. Connections to Grade specific curric ulum

6. Branding

6.1. School Effectiveness Framework

6.2. Board Connected

6.3. Ministry of Education

7. Tools!

7.1. Copyright friendly images,music, files, avatar makers

7.2. Web 2.0 applications (Prezi, Glogster, etc.)

7.3. Uniqueness

7.4. So What?