Friday, December 21, 2007

Thing # 16 - Wikis

Hi all,

Moving right along, I worked on Thing #16, which is on Wikis. This is the exploration Thing; Thing #17 has some hands on practice. I completed both #16 and #17, and here I'm writing about #16. I think that wikis have a good potential in libraries for providing content that can be updated quickly by knowledgeable individuals. This is an important point, since some information is only useful if it is current and accurate. The wiki makes this easy to do because the work is not dependent on any one individual. The sample wikis we visited in this exercise showed just how versatile a tool this can be.

There's more to discuss, but I'll continue the discussion with the next blog entry, as I will talk about my addition to the Broward County Library's bcltlc wiki, a wiki set up especially for this educational project.

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