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By: Silence and Voice Â» Blog Archive » Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2011-04-23

Sat, 23 Apr 2011 07:27:38 +0000

[...] @SarahStewart: Creepy treehouse: http://acrlog.org/2008/05/17/creepy-treehouse/ // Clever [...]

By: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same?

The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same? — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 20:48:29 +0000

[...] role of social spaces online in education. For now I’ll pick the Creepy Treehouse posts at ACRLog, See Also, and Reflections from a Small College Library. For budding humanists, will integrating [...]

By: Social Networking News Roundup

Social Networking News Roundup — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:25:25 +0000

[...] the other hand, if college students are fleeing Facebook (a creepy treehouse effect?), perhaps it’s not the best place for us to be focusing our energies. And if students [...]

By: Joan Petit

Joan Petit — Sat, 31 May 2008 19:00:57 +0000

Facebook is more than entertainment for so many undergrads these days. It’s become their life management software – their calendar, their communication, their address book. Especially with more and more corporations, bands, non-profits, and politicians on Facebook, some students expect to be able to find everything there. It’s their mini-web.

I have a new blog focused on public services in academic libraries, and just wrote an entry on my evolving views of Facebook. It’s here: http://chattylibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/on-facebook/

By: Jared Stein

Jared Stein — Mon, 26 May 2008 15:41:38 +0000

Except in instances where the technology is created specifically to mimic a pre-existing, authentic tool already in use by students, I don’t think “creepy treehouse” or any of it’s negative implications apply to any technology de facto.

Instead, the creepiness comes in through usage. Re. learning vs play vs horrible ineffectiveness, Facebook may be the platform for any of these. But if used properly–as a tool used to achieve valid learning objectives in ways that are either more efficient or innately valuable–Facebook can be a lever by which students engage with their peers, instructors, and information for optimal results in this information age.

By: 31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 19-25 | Information Wants To Be Free

31 Day Comment Challenge: Days 19-25 | Information Wants To Be Free — Sun, 25 May 2008 12:21:48 +0000

[...] started at the blog post from ACRLog about the creepy treehouse concept, since I was curious about where the concept originally came [...]

By: Phil Bradley

Phil Bradley — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:55:37 +0000

Let’s be clear here, to label Facebook as an “attractive playspace” is really rather inaccurate. Sure, there is a high ‘leisure content’ there, but equally there’s a lot of serious professional stuff going on as well. Universities are putting up information, it’s used for politics, there are several library related groups on Facebook and it’s a useful networking tool. I use Facebook a lot, and the amount that I use it for ‘play’ is minimal. I’m not sure that I’m with you regarding your use of the term ‘ulterior motive’ either. It’s an application that is perfectly clear in what it’s there for – it’s not hiding anything at all from what I can see, so far from ulterior it’s completely transparent.

I’m wondering when we’re going to be able to get away from the idea that Facebook is a place that students don’t want libraries or education facilities either. It’s not as though they’re being forced to use them, it’s not as though library/university groups are in their face either. I really think that this is a smokescreen that some librarians/educators are desperately grabbing at as an excuse for inactivity.

Sure, students come into a library to learn. That doesn’t mean that they don’t learn in other places either. I’m pretty sure that librarians wouldn’t turn up in student places and demand to be heard – that’s what is being suggested, but that’s not what happens. Having a presence on Facebook is more akin to a pointer towards the library – you have signing on campus; this is just the same thing on Facebook.

Libraries need to go to where the conversations are taking place. They need to make sure that people know they are there and what they can do. If you’re not doing that, then IMO you’re not doing your job very well.

By: Creepy Treehouse » BiblioTech Web

Creepy Treehouse » BiblioTech Web — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:14:43 +0000

[...] Fister recently posted an article on the ACRLog that was called Creepy Treehouse. It discusses an interesting concept that’s being used in the technological realms to [...]

By: Another thing to worry about: Creepy treehouses « Please Be Quiet

Another thing to worry about: Creepy treehouses « Please Be Quiet — Tue, 20 May 2008 21:01:30 +0000

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By: See Also… » Creepy is as creepy does

See Also… » Creepy is as creepy does — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:13:30 +0000

[...] Fister has an interesting post with a great title over at ACRLog: Creepy Treehouse. She writes about Blackboard setting up an application for Facebook with the idea that students [...]