I just created my first wiki and it was really easy. I loved the way it was so easy to set-up. I just started off with the very basics, but I want to go back and play with it. Of course there is very little content right now, but I am hoping that there will be more soon. I have invited the librarians that I work with plus some IT people to join in and help me create the content.
I think that this will work great in my case because I am a librarian that is at a satellite campus that is 80 miles away from the main campus. I do meet with the other librarians once a month and we do email, but this wiki will give us a chance to collaborate on a daily basis without having to email documents, phone long distance, meet via ITV, etc. I am hoping that I will actually feel more connected to everyone.
Now the biggest problem will be to get my co-workers to actually use this site. It is not necessarily that they are against new technology, it is just that everyone is spread a little thin these days. This is one of the technologies that I never thought I would actually use, that I am now excited to begin using.
Showing posts with label wikis. Show all posts
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Wikis
I think that wikis are a great idea for collaboration when it comes to learning and sharing new ideas. I have used wikipedia before to gain information. However I do this knowing that not all the information that I get is guaranteed to be 100% accurate. This is the downfall of wikis. You have to trust that the person who is contributing the information knows what they are talking about. Some do not check their facts.
I was really impressed with the Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. What a great place for librarians to share ideas, knowledge, etc. This is one that I will be using in the future. I have been thinking of a way to incorporate a wiki at work. One way we could do this is for our reference librarians to contribute to a reference wiki. Any questions that students continually ask along with where to find the answers can be shared among the librarians. Since each librarian may get different questions, the wiki would allow individual librarians to post their own experiences at while working at the reference desk. This would in turn help the next librarian.
In the near future I would like to create a wiki with my fellow workers. I would also like to try and get the students involved some way. How I am going to do that, I haven't worked that out yet. I am still thinking on a couple of ideas. However I don't intend to create a wiki just to be creating a wiki.
I was really impressed with the Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. What a great place for librarians to share ideas, knowledge, etc. This is one that I will be using in the future. I have been thinking of a way to incorporate a wiki at work. One way we could do this is for our reference librarians to contribute to a reference wiki. Any questions that students continually ask along with where to find the answers can be shared among the librarians. Since each librarian may get different questions, the wiki would allow individual librarians to post their own experiences at while working at the reference desk. This would in turn help the next librarian.
In the near future I would like to create a wiki with my fellow workers. I would also like to try and get the students involved some way. How I am going to do that, I haven't worked that out yet. I am still thinking on a couple of ideas. However I don't intend to create a wiki just to be creating a wiki.
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