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Week 7

Reflections on Wikis: Applying what I learned in my practice

Submitted by jasminabad on Sat, 10/11/2008 - 11:53pm

Our school decided to use the services of Educational Networks for our new school website. One of our teachers previously designed our school website and has been personally hosting on his site. We formed a committe to discuss the design of the website, and I have been chosen as the contact person between our website committe and the company. Since this duty was passed on to me, I had to cull through many emails to piece together the conversation regarding the website. I finally did get all the information together.

"[T]hey are living entities"

Submitted by jasminabad on Sat, 10/11/2008 - 10:31pm

Parry, D. (2008).  Wikipedia and the new curriculum.  Science Progress.

Citizendium

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Submitted by Shawn Iles on Sat, 10/11/2008 - 9:07pm

Effective Library Wiki

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Submitted by Shawn Iles on Sat, 10/11/2008 - 8:44pm

Interesting Resource Outside of the Classwork

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Submitted by mciocia on Sat, 10/11/2008 - 5:07pm

In the column Pencils Never Crash, Stephen Bell outlines that the most challenging tasks for reference librarians is not related to answering questions of all sorts, but effectively capturing the multitude of information that flows through the department. He states: “sticky notes, unlike pens crash quite often” and suggests, “it is time to loose the sticky and try a wiki”. What follows is a description of the benefits and pitfalls of a wiki as a dissemination tool, while also comparing it to a blog.

As a soon-to-be-degreed librarian...

Submitted by grace.v on Sat, 10/11/2008 - 5:46am

From your perspective as a soon-to-be-degreed librarian, what do you think of tools like Ask Metafilter and Yahoo! Answers?

Brogan's People in the Real World

Submitted by grace.v on Thu, 10/09/2008 - 12:22am

I just read Chris Brogan’s recent blog post, People in the Real World.  I thought it was a great article and related to this week’s topic and maybe even the entire course.

Sexy Routers

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Submitted by harayda on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 6:06am

How Cisco Tried to Make Routers Sexy Using Social Media
(there title not mine)

I find this interesting for two reasons. This server was designed specifically for social software functions. That means that social software has such a foothold that it has made the number one company for internet technology design a hardware product specifically for it.

Librarians are territorial!

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Submitted by harayda on Wed, 10/08/2008 - 4:15am

Why do you think so few libraries are allowing patrons to add to library wikis?

Librarians are territorial!

I think it is time we faced facts: Librarians are extremely territorial. I have never seen a group as a whole who marks their area of domain as aggressively as librarians do. This includes both academics and lawyers. The fact that researchers and catalogers typically snipe each other is just an easy example.

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