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UNIT 3. OPTIONS, CHOICES, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS LESSON 3. ASSESSING TOOLS AND APPLICATIONSNOTE

The case of “The Network for Country School Librarians” The Network for Country School Librarians was set up to promote the exchange of information between librarians supporting schools in rural areas. | Information Management Resource Kit Module on Building Electronic Communities and Networks UNIT 3. OPTIONS CHOICES TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS LESSON 3. ASSESSING TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS NOTE Please note that this PDF version does not have the interactive features offered through the IMARK courseware such as exercises with feedback pop-ups animations etc. We recommend that you take the lesson using the interactive courseware environment and use the PDF version for printing the lesson and to use as a reference after you have completed the course. FAO 2006 3. Options Choices Tools and Applications - 3. Assessing tools and applications - page 1 Objectives At the end of this lesson you will be able to describe total cost of use TCU for the various tools to the organization and to community members understand how tools affect online community building distinguish the specific areas of impact of tools on the community be aware of the likely impact that different tools could have on your community. Introduction The tools utilized in your community will affect the total cost of use TCU to you and community members and the nature of the community itself. In this lesson we will provide a basic description of TCU of an online community both to the organization and the users. Furthermore we will present the specific areas of impact of tools on the community. 3. Options Choices Tools and Applications - 3. Assessing tools and applications - page 2 Community tools TCU In general web based tools are more expensive to implement and have a higher ongoing cost to community members than e-mail based tools. This is because of the higher connectivity requirements. For example if members are already equipped and connected to the Internet initial set-up costs will be minimal if not they may be very high. If members are already familiar with a particular tool training costs will be little or nothing while the cost of learning a sophisticated tool from scratch may be high. The relative cost to .