Wonderful Woes of Going Beyond 2.0-Part2: Trial and Errors

At the suggestion of our supervisor, we kept a informal record of our decision making process along the travels through our Beyond 2.0 project.

Beginning with topic selection. After tossing ideas at each other while passing in the workroom at shift changes, we finally settled on our final choice during a humorous and light-hearted dispute while shelving in the video section. The questions brought to light in the video short were those we ourselves had differences of opinion on. Therefore, we began to formulate our innovative way of improving communications via a training video for circulation personnel.

When we narrowed our field to the goal of opening a discussion rather than actual training, it was merely a product of a official written policy roadblock, or rather, dead end. In the circulation procedures manual we found no concrete answers to most of our questions. Thus rendering our ability to properly educate on the "how to" impossible. Obviously, improving communications was needed. Hopefully a future update to the procedure manual will one day be the final result.

The orginal concept for the video was to illustrate how the tasks of the clerks directly effect those of the other positions within our library system, a food chain if you will. Also to share actual scenerios we encounter, as well as, perhaps clearify any misconceptions about the importance of our role. This along with the overall topic transitioned into illustrating misconconceptions when shelving videos and using actual questions we ourselves have to foster discussion and healthy debate.

In chosing the format in which to present our project, we immediately leaned toward a video posted to youtube. The other web 2.0 tools used were simply communication tools or means to an end. And as for this blog, I merely like to blog. In leiu of text or commentary in the short we originally had planned to pen a actual accompanying training manual. A manual without concrete answers to the questions at hand though was useless, so we opted for an accompanying discussion worksheet complete with printed photo examples of the questions raised in the video short. In turn these photos found their way onto our presentation storyboard for the project.

When compiling our photos, as mentioned in the previous blog, we encountered storage space issues so we moved into the online photosharing realm. During the uploading and editing process we found that Photobucket was actually more liberal with storage space and more user friendly than Flicker. All the other web 2.0 tools used were as a direct result from their introduction through Learning 2.0 Remix program.

These are only but a few points to illustrate our decision making process along the way, but I feel I have typed quite enough for the moment. Until next blog....