After visiting the library wikis listed, I have seen ways that wikis can be really useful in my kind of library situation. The immediacy of them is the most appealing factor, in my opinion, as well as the fact that they can be edited by multiple users. I thought of a couple of ways that I might be able to utilize them here. I could model a research guide on the library research guide wiki, and keep it up to date with information for whatever research projects and assignments my kids are working on at any given time. I also thought it would be fun to collaborate with a teacher on an assignment, like a research project, and have kids create and edit a wiki based on what they found. That would help them learn ways to share their information, and also take away the illusions that they have about the internet (and Wikipedia) being infallible.

I left this until the last minute because I had no idea this date would sneak up so fast! I am the librarian at a small Catholic high school in Vermont, and I got excited about this course because I think it will give me a more professional platform to promote social networking here at school. Everything is banned here, myspace, email, etc. although we don't have filters, and I feel like it is done this way because people don't understand it. Although I personally use certain popular technologies, I don't think the higher powers here will find the fact that the librarian uses myspace a plausible reason for permitting it.