So a couple days ago I thought I would not learn anything from the chapter on social networking, but I was excited to learn more about wikis. Well this was the chapter I didn't get a lot out of. I have been using wikis for about 6-7 years now and I think I have participate in simillar examples to many given in the book.
I had them in almost every class in grad school as we developed various library policies and presentations. We currently use them in Hay Library for database statistics, collection development and policy and procedure development.I use them, I love them, I will continue to use them in the future.
Heck I am even a librarian who reccommends using Wikipedia in your intial researach , especially when you have little knowledge on the basics of any given subject. Even better use the provided links to lead you to the various "acceptable" resources and go on from there. I even attended a session at ACRL last April that was encouraing librarians to add links to their collections (especially unique and special collections). This not only increases trafffic to your library websites but allows an international audience to view and utilize your the publicly accessible parts of your collection from anywhere.
I think a maybe 1 or 2 writing faculty have used wikis for various writing assignments although I think each student must ultimately submit their own work as well as copies where other have made changes. I also liked that it cautioned users/teachers on the bottom of page 137 about just creating individual works and then piecing them together like a quilt. This occurred initially in a couple of groups while I was in grad school, I definitely felt the difference in the final products. YEAH WIKIS!!!!!
I had them in almost every class in grad school as we developed various library policies and presentations. We currently use them in Hay Library for database statistics, collection development and policy and procedure development.I use them, I love them, I will continue to use them in the future.
Heck I am even a librarian who reccommends using Wikipedia in your intial researach , especially when you have little knowledge on the basics of any given subject. Even better use the provided links to lead you to the various "acceptable" resources and go on from there. I even attended a session at ACRL last April that was encouraing librarians to add links to their collections (especially unique and special collections). This not only increases trafffic to your library websites but allows an international audience to view and utilize your the publicly accessible parts of your collection from anywhere.
I think a maybe 1 or 2 writing faculty have used wikis for various writing assignments although I think each student must ultimately submit their own work as well as copies where other have made changes. I also liked that it cautioned users/teachers on the bottom of page 137 about just creating individual works and then piecing them together like a quilt. This occurred initially in a couple of groups while I was in grad school, I definitely felt the difference in the final products. YEAH WIKIS!!!!!
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ReplyDeleteSorry this chapter was not more useful, but then again that is technology. We know about some and others we do not or have not used.