Week 7 Thing 16A (Wiki)

I am really trying to get my students to understand why searching Google and Wikipidea may not always be a good way to get their information. I have learned through others that changing post on Wikipidia can be dangerous due to the fact that one does not know what will be on the page when it comes up.

Creating a Wiki for my class would be a great way to show the students how easy it is for anyone to add information to the web. In front of the class I could create my own Wiki and use it as the start of a project.

Week 7 Thing 16 (Wiki)

I have heard of many librarians using wikis for student projects. They are a great change up from the Powerpoint presentation and allows the students to show what they have done to anyone with an internet connection. Wikis also give the teacher greater control over what is in the project. At any time a teacher can get up on the wikis and check the progress or content of a wiki.

Week 6 Thing 15 (Web 2.0, library 2.0)

"We need to focus our efforts not on teaching research skills but on eliminating the barriers that exist between patrons and the information they need, so they can spend as little time as possible wrestling with lousy search interfaces and as much time as possible actually reading and learning."(Anderson)
I completely agree with this comment. Students need to learn how to find information now matter what the topic. The quicker a student can find information the more time they have to use it and work with it.
Wikipidia offers a good overview of Library 2.0. I do agree with the section that the information found in library 2.0 may not be new. The way Library 2.0 is presented allows more people to access this information and takes them through the different online resource in a way that does not overwhelm.
It seems Librarian 2.0 is not loved by many librarians. I think used as a tool it can be a great help. I have learned a great deal about different web tools available to my teachers and students.


Anderson, Rick.Away from the “icebergs”.

Week 6 Thing 14 (Technorati)

Technorati seems like it could be very helpful. I have found people blog about a lot of things including how to fix computer problems. A site like Technorati could be very helpful when looking for blogs about a specific topic. There is so much information on it, Technorati could easily become overwhelming if one is not use to filtering through information. Overall I like the way it is organized. I found Technorati to be fairly easy to use.
Tagging really is helpful in finding information. If the pictures on Flicker were not tagged how would one ever be able to find a picture of what they want. It would be nearly impossible. Same with on Technorati. If at least some blogs were not tagged then how could one find information. I'm sure there is some type of coding that can be done to send the "spiders" out to look all over for the search terms but that would take so much more time. Tagging defiantly makes searching quicker and easier.

Week 6 Thing 13

Delicious is a great site. I like that I can upload the bookmarks I already have on my computer to it. The YouTube tutorial does need to be redone a bit since delicious has been updated since. This will be a great site to set up for the teachers to access different lesson plan sites or other activities they could use in the classroom.