Week 3 Webcast

I really liked the idea Chad Boeninger gave for using wikis in a first-year experience setting. I think it would be neat to read the thoughts and ideas of the students. It would give staff and faculty an insight into the mind of freshmen or students in general. The wiki could be maintained by the library and the library staff member or faculty would pose a different question every week or so. The questions might relate to the library, campus technology, work study experiences, or athletics, for example. Other students might start to think that maybe the library isn't such a bad place after all, especially if they are hosting a project such as this. If the wiki focused only on freshmen, older students might not be as interested in reading the wiki entries. But perhaps the library could select a few students that they track throughout their college career. This may be an even better idea for a blog. But I think students could still add new things they had learned about the campus to the wiki, for others to benefit. Also, we recently started a pilot program for instant message reference and although it seems obvious, I didn't think about using common IMed or email reference questions as the basis for a wiki page.