Wookies and Wikis

I've never paid much attention to wikis, I didn't like the idea of an article that had no authority, I've only ever used Wikipedia as a last resort.

If it wasn't for this training I certainly wouldn't have investigated their potential. I'm now quite excited about the idea of a locked down wiki for our staff intranet, imagine being able to up date your intranet as soon as you had the information!
I'm going to play around with one and see if it would be a better alternative than a blog for our reference, homework help site.
I can't help myself, every time I think of wikis, I think of Chewbacca the Star Wars wookie.

I joined Wikipedia and I contributed to an article about my local area. The article had listed the surrounding villages, but I noticed that they'd missed one, so I added it using the same double square bracket "[[" before the entry and "]]" after the entry. When I saved the changes I noticed that the village had become a hyper link, so naturally I clicked on it. It was an interesting article on the village, but it had a basic mistake, it was listed as being 25 kms north east of the main town. This was a little difficult as the main town is on the east coast, so naturally I changed it read 25kms north west of the town.

I still have my concerns about the authority of wikipedia but I'm impressed with how easily wikis work, they certainly have huge potential for library services.

Monty Python Lumberjack Sketch

I've really enjoyed the common craft videos used in the learning 2.0 program, I had a lot of trouble embedding the video link so I put a plea out for help and gratefully pls answered it. It seemed that where I was going wrong was adding the text before adding the link. Thanks for the help.

Coffs Harbour Jetty (b&w)

Coffs Harbour Jetty (b&w), originally uploaded by Snelvis.

I've joined flickr and this week I'll start taking photos to load onto flickr. I couldn't resist adding this beautiful photo of the Coffs Harbour Jetty to inspire me. I doubt that the photos that I add to flickr will be this impressive.

Working away

This is what I want Learning 2.0 to support by giving me the skills to build a reference blog.

I envisage that the blog would help staff and the public by providing library resources, internet sites and databases to answer particular school and general reference enquiries. I would also like to build into the blog a list of useful internet links categorized in a way that groups like things together, but without using Dewey. I've had a look at Del.icio.us and I was a little disappointed with the type and number of sites listed, perhaps it will improve with time, or perhaps I wasn't using it properly, which is quite possible.
Working away, originally uploaded by colgateuniversity.

Welcome

20 000 000 h/p Vostok-1 Gagarin VVС Rocket HDR Moscow Russia, originally uploaded by RSBeerman.

Welcome

Welcome

I have high expectations of libraries learning 2.0 I'm looking forward to mastering blogging etc so I can create a reference blog for our library down the track. I'd be interested to hear from fellow learning libraries colleagues about reference blogs. I don't anything about this side of the internet so I know I'm going to learn heaps and I'm pretty excited.

Happy blogging and happy learning 2.0!!