Assessment Item 1: The Role of the Teacher Librarian in Practice with Regard to Principal Support

What a Teacher Librarian does and his/her impact within a school community is fundamentally linked to the level of support from the Principal. Potentially, with Principal support a Teacher Librarian can be a collaborative teaching partner, a technology driver, a school leader, an innovator and a strategist that is a valued team member of the whole school community (Harvey II, 2009). Without such support, the role of the practicing Teacher Librarian can be little more than a baby sitting service (Martin, 2010) or a role relegated to providing relief from face to face for other teachers (Scheffers, 2009), both duties that limit opportunities for collaborative teaching and for being professionally valued and respected.

Gaining Principal support when it does not currently exist is challenging but not unattainable. It is common knowledge that many school budgets are limited. Developing the respect of the Principal is essential if the Teacher Librarian is going to successfully "compete"for program and resource funding that allow the Teacher Librarian to be valued as an asset to the school community, rather than a cost (Spence, 2006).  Evidence based practice is one effective way to build such respect. Dr. Ross Todd, an advocate for Teacher Librarians actively proving their value to teaching and learning within a school, states that to do so involves being outcomes focussed. Focussing on providing evidence of what students achieve and will achieve through engagement with innovative, collaborative and critically reflective Teacher Librarians and their embedded programs will help establish why they matter (Todd, 2008).

Further, building connections with influential people within a school community can facilitate Principal support through positive feedback. In a response posted on the School Libraries 21C blog, Ian Maclean (an experienced and influential Teacher Librarian at Penrith Public School) explained, that for him,  it is the support from across the executive leadership of the school that is crucial to embedding the Teacher Librarian into the curriculum through collaborative teaching with time for collaborative planning and programming (Maclean, 2009). Principals are extremely busy, working long hours (Riley, 2011) and may be removed from the classroom environment. Collaboration in the classroom with influential teachers thus, can provide models for good teaching in practice and in doing so, highlight the value of an effective Teacher Librarian to the Principal. 

As professional credibility within the school environment develops, Principals are more likely to give support for programs that enable Teacher Librarians to work collaboratively across the curriculum and develop school wide shared visions of information literacy, management of digital footprints, cybersafety, resource selection, scholarly principles and practice, ethical use of information and much more (Oberg, 2006).

In conclusion, with support from the Principal and his/her executive leadership team, the role of the Teacher Librarian  is one where the Teacher Librarian is teacher, collaborator, resource locator and streamliner, innovator, professional development provider, technology leader and role model, team player, negotiator and strategist (Harvey II, 2009)... an amazingly diverse, exhilarating and respected role that is a positive and integral part of a whole school community.

References

Harvey II, C. (2009). What should an administrator expect a school library media specialist to be?  

    Retrieved from http://hoorayforbooks.pbworks.com/f/lms+evaluation+ideas.pdf

I Maclean (2009, Jul 30). School libraries 21C:  (3b) Identify strategies / initiatives / support at the
    school level[weblog comment]. Retrieved from  
    http://schoollibraries21c.edublogs.org/group-3-questions/question3b/

Martin, J. (2010). Inquiry into school libraries and teacher librarians in Australian schools. 
     [Submission]. Retrieved from
     http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House_of_Representatives_Committees?url=ee/schoollibraries/subs/sub38.pdf

Oberg, D. (2006). Developing the respect and support of school administrators. Teacher Librarian, 
    33(3), 13.

Riley, P. (2011). Principal health and well being survey: 2011 Interim report. Retrieved from
     http://www.principalhealth.org/2011_Principal_HWB_Interim%20Report.pdf

Scheffers, J. (2009). Collaborative leadership - a primary perspective, Scan, 28(4), 8-11.

Spence, S. (2006). Invest in school libraries to create 21st century learning communities. Access, 20(3), 17-20.

Todd, Dr. R. (2008). The Evidence-Based Manifesto for School Librarian.  Retrieved from
     http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6545434.html 

ETL401 Topic 1:UsIng Learning Tools

Introduction
As I work at another university, I decided to investigate search results across both universities so as to gain a better idea as the databases and print collections etc. that impact each Library's search results and how differing results are impacted by the parameters set behind the scenes.

I think it salient to remember/to understand that searching and the search results are limited by what a particular university library holds or subscribes to. While that sounds obvious, it highlights a limitation in many people's understanding of their search results. For example, when possibly trying to do a literature review, like one students may need to do for their IB or when myself, as a Librarian, may do one for work or study purposes.

Primo Search

I never start out with a simple search so I went straight to the advanced search option and typed in teacher librarian and collaboration (as I believe it the most important roles for TLs within their whole school community)...

Results - CSU: 4249 and UNSW:3579 

However, when I delved further into the results, I noticed that while I had used advanced search and had teacher librarian in one of the search boxes, I found that my results were based not on AND (as I had presumed) but were using the boolean operator OR (infuriating!). So I "" teacher librarian and...

Refined results - CSU:1074 and UNSW:976 - what a difference.

What is also of interest (to me anyway), is that the Refine by Resource Type option on the left navigation bar is different - CSU sorts alphabetically, UNSW sorts by number of results. Does it matter? I think so and knowing how many users won't go past a page or two in Google, same concept applies here...if you can't see it listed, you could miss some relevant results. I prefer the alphabetical list as it applies some common sense to searching. 

UNSW Refine My Results by Resource Type 

CSU Refine My Results by Resource Type

The ability to limit my search results further by options down the left navigation bar make it easy to refine the search to a more usable result set. What is also of note, is that with Primo Search being an overarching search tool across many ubiquitous database sets, some of the search results are duplicates. And even if you turn deduping off, book chapters will pop up in the results possibly as well as the whole book. Fine for me who understands but I am know it is confusing to students trying to search usually with limited time frames.

Managing my Information Sources
I prefer to set up and link to my sources from Primo Search (one stop shop approach) . I also like to simplicity of exporting into my EndNote Web Account that I have set up. While I know it has limited functionality as compared to the full version of EndNote 6 for Windows or EndNote 4 for Mac, I need to be able to seemlessly link to my source list without needing to go to DropBox. 

Blogging my forum posts for ETL401

After typing away madly in my ETL401 Topic 1 Forum, I've decided that I am going to also add my posts to this blog for ease of access (after I finish the subject) and so that I can use for other professional development purposes. Thinking I might use some of my discussions from my posts as the impetus to run classes, share knowledge and stimulate further discussion with colleagues. I also think having all my posts in one spot will be a great way for me to remember all that I have learnt in this course and to reflect on my thoughts and perspectives at the time.

I am also going to bookmark any sites, other social media streams and freely accesible journal articles over at my Diigo Library at http://www.diigo.com/user/skiinglibrarian, just like I said I would a few blog posts back.

These are all my attempts at managing my digital footprint and streamlining my scholarly (and not so scholarly) communications.

ETL401:Thinking About the Broader LIS Profession

Viewing the slideshow by Pew titled Libraries 2020 got me to comparing some of the statistics that they highlighted about Internet Usage in 2000 in the USA and what I was doing then. 0% used social media but I can remember at the time I was working in a public library as the Online Services Librarian and we were already chatting with our clients and I was using RSS feeds to collate all the information I was already pulling from icons in the industry. We were trying to make conversations with our clients...they just weren't listening or most probably didn't really want to chat/interact with the Library. Anyway, just got on the internet wayback machine here to reminisce a bit about what I used to do then (or in 2002 when the snapshot was taken!)...too funny, I remember getting written up in a SLNSW report for creating illogical navigation names like iBranch....hmmmm, thinking we were a bit before our time really! You can find the wayback machine here if you want to have some fun.

There are so many interesting stats on this slideshow but I found it particularly interesting to see the increase usage of search engine from 35% to 54% daily usage. The slides went on to note that most people believe the info they find through search engines is accurate and reliable.. I think the issue for the LIS profession is that we know this belief could be challenged but do users care? Many times it is the not that the information is not accurate rather, it is incomplete...the search engine gives the user an incomplete picture of what they may be searching for. Unfortunately, for the LIS profession if people don't know what they don't know/don't find does it matter? Yes, if they are academics or researchers but the rest of us...

Anyway, while looking at the Libraries 2020 Slideshare, I discovered a related Slideshare presentation from Petaluma Secondary Librarians about "What we do and why it matters"...great overview of a school library and its benefits to the whole school community.

Search by Image...Am I the Only One Who Doesn't Know About This Tool?

I am in the middle of completing a Power Searching with Google online course and Class 4 has just shocked me....I did not know you could do this with Google Images. Apparently this tool has been around since June 2011...ouch.  Thinking that this image recognition tool might be USA specific, I dragged in a photo I took when I was in Tahoe (skiing of course). Look at the results below

Tahoe Image Results Using Google Images

I was pretty impressed by the results I got. Some fantastic shots around Lake Tahoe, California and Nevada...makes me wish I was skiing!

Also found out that you can search images you may find on the web by right clicking on the image, copying the image url then pasting the url into the search bar. Your results should find you information about original image as well as related images.

From a teaching perspective it gives teachers a greater ability to ensure students find their images from copyright ok'd sources such as Flick CC. The tool will also help find images similar to what a student may have already found. This could be very useful in a subjet such as Visual Arts when looking for inspiration. Or what about wanting to find out about an artist's work? Drag in an image and you should get results that lead you to relevant information about an artist.

I wonder if it might also be useful if you are looking for someone (famous, infamous or not so famous). Drag in their image and see what you find...I'm off to try it with a picture of me...after I pass my Class 4 test.

What one bit of technology could you not do without?

In the course of a day, the most useful piece of technology, from my perspective, is the Smartphone. Not a mobile phone, a Smartphone. The Smartphone lets one connect with the world through 3G (or 4G if one is lucky enough to live in the USA), enables one access to his/her photo collection, list of contacts, twitter stream, Facebook updates and posts, photo and video opportunities, the chance to learn through TED.com or ed.TED.com or even Youtube, listen to one's playlist, the chance to keep down one's email inbox, txt the family and even, make a phone call to anyone in the world (free through Skype..thank you very much).

Without the Smartphone (pre 2010), one relied on a camera for photos, a chunkier digital video camcorder for videos, an iPad for apps and a netbooks/laptop for access to the internet, a newspaper to read the daily news and a landline to take phone calls. Now, all is possible with a Smartphone which, as it names implies, is smart and getting smarter. Geotagging, image stabilsation, better graphics... the list could go on.

Think what you will but without a Smartphone could you rely on yourself to function in daily life...just think how you feel when you leave your Smartphone at home....oh, that's right...peace!

What piece of technology could you not live a day without? Hmmmm.....

Left the best to last - Research

I remember training staff in the use of Google (what's a google I would get asked a google times...it's a million zeros after one although can't find that in many online dictionaries these days!). In those days in the last century the search engine of choice was Dogpile (for meta searches) or Ask Jeeves. They were both great, in particular Ask Jeeves.  Very good results even early on in the life of the Internet. I still will check both out if I have time as sometimes they can pick up some great hits.  I used to keep up with search engine news via Searchenginewatch (gee how that has changed to encompass everything about technology!).Anyway, enough reminiscing....

Checked out Kngine and it looks interesting but pretty basic and more of a local search type app. Also checked out Twurdy as I like it when you can refine your search to level of difficulty. I did think twice though when I saw that it is powered by Bing (don't love Bing) but I did a few searches and its simple interface  meant I will keep it in my list of potentials.

These days I am pretty hooked on Wolfram Alpha and Trove (isn't what the NLA do amazing?) I think Wolfram Alpha has a big future, in particular with mathematics (with Mathematica) and the education side of things. I think this mix of algorithm with human input is the future.

Most of the other searching I do is specific to a subject or academic and so, I use online databases for such searching, usually via NLA or SLNSW. Indeed, if I reflect on my searching practices I will go to Google for a quick search but if I know what area I am looking in I will use a tried and trusted specific website and use its internal search engine. For example, when looking for travel info I will go to Flyertalk or Milepoint and when I am looking for authors and books I will use Fantastic Fiction and Goodreads or for age recommendations I will use the WA DET catalogue.

Anyway, this is my last blog for the course. I am off to do a Power Searching course with Google at http://www.google.com/insidesearch/landing/powersearching.html - it starts July 10th and looks pretty interesting.

Week 10 - eContent and The End

I love eBooks and eContent. I love that I can carry all that stuff around in my handbag. But I hate all the platforms. I hate that I can't use them seamlessly. I live in a mixed up world of Macs, Android including the Kindle Fire (don't ask) and Windows...one word...frustration.

eContent -  I recently discovered Librivox and listened to Pride and Prejudice. Some chapters were better than others as there were different narrators for different sets of chapters (hey it's free). And we all know that with audio books, the narrator is the most important part. Even a wonderful book can sound clumsy if the intonations, pauses and speed of the speech are incorrect. In this vein I also tried free audiobooks on YouTube by Librivox. Some of the books have powerpoint style videos to go with the audio -somewhat irritating for me but I showed the YouTube channel to some students and they really loved it....sort of let them do 2 things at once.

Scribd - I do use Scribd to access document and presentations for the web when I find them online but for work I use Slideshare to upload. It is great for sharing resources online with students (yeh! no more paper print outs). It also allows students and other interested people to have access to these resources - I am all for sharing these resources and making them social (isn't that phrase great... not sure where I heard that one first).

Clipped from Slideshare.com

Anyway, not sure why I chose Slideshare over Scridb but in reflecting on my choice now and comparing the two, it seems you can download documents etc off Scribd and convert from text to speech. That sounds like a great feature and one I shall look into soon...maybe, it is best to use both?

Digital Storytelling - the iLearn link to the 31 of the best digital storytelling sites caught my attention (who said there isn't enough time to explore them all!!!!!). At school, students have used ToonDoos and also a great resource from ACMI (Australian Centre for Moving Images) - storyboard generator. Both great fun.......

As was this whole program. There is still much more I want to explore (hopefully we still will have access to the modules?) and refresh some of the tools I am already using.

Week 9 - You Call It Condensing...I Call It Content Curation or Just Plain Organising Stuff

If you want to manage your time then ignore Web 2.0...it is all engrossing, all amazing and seemingly never ending. Once again, my colleague and I today discussed why some web apps, web tools (call them what you will) rise to the top of the pile. Why Pinterest and not some other similar tool? Why Instagram and not Picnik? Anyway, we were just musing and that sort of fits in with this weeks blog about saving time and managing yourself on the web....:)

I like the idea of catching and condensing and I think that is what I already try and do every day so as not to miss out on interesting new tools, bits of information that may come in useful when talking to the boss or a teacher or deciding on a computer platform for the whole school! I lamented a few weeks back that Google notebook had disappeared and I had used this as a catching and condensing/read later tool and as a collaboration tool. I discovered just last week that all those notebooks are now Google docs

Clipped from Google Docs

Yeh! So much fab information and insights into still relevant ideas that I can now use again.

So, I've seemingly signed up for Strawberryj.am but am still waiting for contact so have moved on to paper.li. A few of my favourite tweeters use it. So I set up my account and then updated my lists (an attempt to streamline my reading of tweets!) in Twitter so that my streams into paper.li were more condensed and made sense. Shall see how it goes at The Skiing Librarian Weekly.

Still waiting for strawberryj.am email!!!! Not in the junk mail but am I suppose to do something else but try and sign up?

Checked out Topicmarks as this looks like a very handy tool as I read a lot of online articles as well as online journals (but these usually have an abtract to read). Added the url of an article about teenage brains that I want to read but I think I could have read it faster than topicmarks can summarise it (still waiting!)..hmmm...tried again....now giving up and tried Freesummarizer which worked in an instant (an no email signup..good). Article was great though and of much interest as I am quite intrigued by this area of research after reading an article in NG last year.

Well another module down (and no email from strawberryj.am nor has topicmarks summarised my article)...still great fun and I organised my twitter followers into lists so a productive module as well.

Week 7 - The Image Culture

Images are where my organised life falls into an abyss of embarrassment. I have photos and videos everywhere and when I do try and start to organise, like I tried with Picasa, Google goes and changes it with Google+. This was the page that greeted me when I wanted to learn more about Picasa and Google+ integration (saving this for later reading):

Clipped from support.google.com/picasa

Saying that, when I finally worked out how to use my screen capture app, I saved the captured webpage into Picasa and added it to this blog from there! Seamless integration, once I worked it out.

I read other blogger comments about Picasa Web Albums and Google+ and learnt how to turn off the Picasa Photo automatic notification check box from Bearman Cartoons. That was a great tip as it is so annoying to be notifying people you had shared an album with and then added more photos to.

Photo Banks - I usually recommend students use Flickr CC for finding and using online images in their assessment/homework tasks. I really like Flick CC as it searches creative commons images and the photo bank is impressive. Now I also like morgueFile after investigating it this week. I really like that is creative commons and I also really like the morgueFile classroom for learning how to take and edit images.

After discussions with my colleague, who is also completing this fab course, I am off to integrate my new photo editing knowledge and image bank knowledge with our school's Diigo presence. And I also need to check out Zoom.it..it is very useful (especially for the image above).

Week 6 - Video Discoveries

As I mentioned in my last post about online video, I am amazed at the exponential growth of video content that we will probably consume in the future. I still can't believe that Cisco predicts  Australians will use 31 GB each per capita in 2016 (hmmm...will have to remember this stat when I update my smartphone plan!) I suppose though, when I look at my own habits of learning, I do a lot of my learning via online videos. It was quite recently that I had a discussion with a work colleague about YouTube and how we both now see it as essentially a tool for learning but that hadn't been the case when it first started out. It is a game changing realisation. Understanding its importance and its significance has many consequences for my current workplace  and I have started asking myself questions such as Is the best platform for the students the one that will enable their ability to create? (YES) and so become part of crowd accelerated innovation? (YES) How do we go about getting the IT environment right to enable students to seamlessly partake in these online learning opportunities? How do we get teachers to think of themselves as expert learners and so facilitate our students learning?  A simple first step is to make sure that all teachers here take the ed.TED.com tour and then facilitate a session where we explore it further.... ASAP.

 

 As they say in this video "the more you know the more amazing the world seems"... that passion is something I hope to instill in the students that I cross paths with along our learning journeys.

And by the way video didn't kill the radio star....great piece by Clive James re his radio interview being taking out of context by the print media...maybe you should call this module Video killed Print!

Week 5 - The Dreaded Prezentation!

Okay, so I am not a fan of Prezi as I am such a linear person (although I have no issues chasing links all over the web!!!) Prezi gives me vertigo and I know lots of people out there like it, including teachers and students at my school where I introduced some staff to it in 2010. You can't convert me though as I now feel a Prezi is as passe as a Powerpoint presentation (big statement there!). I found a great blog from someone  - MartinLIS6303 who is also doing a similar course to this and he discussed MS Powerpoints versus Prezi. I think, as other comments also do, the convenience of Prezi is and had mad it popular. The fact that you don't have to have MS Office is handy but we are going about to roll out Google Docs for all students so the cloud issue will be overcome. Anyway, here is a Prezi  in draft format..it has a long way to go but I think I will finish it and have it running in the Library and on the library wikispace.... more holiday work!

Getting the Most out of Your School Library on Prezi

Sliderocket - looks similar and good for business with it analytics and something I will explore...after I stop watching all the presentations. Just watched a great one about Flash and all its irritations...I have had my browser crash 3 times today because of Prezi (yep it's using flash).

Online Video - Online videos are the way of the future. I am not sure this is the blog for it but I am constantly amazed at where video has and is taking us, in particular learning and innovation. As TED's Chris Anderson says, in the video embedded below, online video is bringing about the biggest learning cycle in human history. His TED talk is worth the 18 minute viewing time. As a person with a librarian background (and one who constantly questions how libraries are inventing themselves) I thought it very insightful when he also said that video is "more important" than print.  And he has a point - face to face communications are what our brains are wired for (probably explains why I hate telephone calls!). Anyway...as Chris explains (with a prezi)
        CROWD ACCELERATED INNOVATION = crowd + light + desire
       ...just watch the video...it tells the story much better....




Another interesting bit of information from this video - Chris Anderson comments that Cisco believes  by 2014 90% of traffic on the internet will be video. I wanted to verify this comment and followed links to the Cisco Visual Networking Index which has this flash tool that allows you to create a graph for you blog to show the growth of such data. And I would like to have shared that graph but I can't get the embedded code to work... so using another tool they had I found out some telling statistics for Australia -  "In Australia, 14 billion minutes of video content will cross the Internet each month in 2016, up from 4 billion in 2011. Further, just in Australia, 14 billion minutes (27,261 years) of video content will cross the Internet each month in 2016. That's 5,452 minutes of video streamed or downloaded every second....It really is changing the way I think about technology and schools...enabling students to be part of the innovation and creation is going to have to be a top priority.

On to Week 6...

Week 4 - I Chose Diigo

For this module I chose to investigate Diigo. With Diigo I had already set up an account when there was all that fuss with Delicious a while back and there were fears it would be shut down. I converted all my bookmarks to Diigo but never went back to check the other features out. So I did today and signed up for educator access (not sure what I get there but will see when approved). And as I look at what's new on the Diigo site I read that there is lots there for educators and students, particularly the highlighting tool. I am just going through people to follow and I like how this is similar to what I do in Twitter. Just applied to join a group...Diigo in Education and with 10000 members should be lots to learn from this Diigo PLN. What I already hate is the Diigo frame on the top of any link (even when I try to open in a new tab)....ugghhhh..but it only seems to happen when I follow  link from people I am following....hmmm. Oh and I just linked my Delicious account with my Diigo account so I can update both at the same time while I work out which one to keep.
Update re automatic linking - it doesn't seem to work in Delicious! Anway, am exploring Diigo and just got my Diigo Educator badge...

I am going to also check out Springpad when I get time but that's enough blogging for now...I have 6 modules to catch up with this week while it's quiet!

Week 3 when we are up to Week 7

I think the most important thing I am taking out of this training is the same way I feel about Web 2.0 in general..there is so much great stuff out there to learn about and use.....just not enough time.

Anyway, I already tweet at 2 places - one is my pln and one is for where I work.  I quite like tweeting cause you don't need a lot of time to use and can dive in or out when you have a few minutes to spare. I also use my pln to remember great online articles, websites and tools that I have found online. I do sync all my bookmarks through Google so I am repeating myself but it works.

Pinterest...I am not a collector and I worry about the copyright issues with pinning other people's images. I did read an article that made me think twice and while I know the article considers copyright in the USA, that just muddies the water as I am sure many people don't know from what country their pinned images are from. So, while I see great uses for Pinterest  such as for Visual Arts students deciding on a major work theme, it's not for me right now.

Week 2 ...Very Late Week 2...Google Stuff

Other Google Stuff - Google Docs

I have been using Google Docs for a while now for both work and personal use. For work, it has been great to allow other staff to collaborate on documents we were working on together. The only problem I found (and it was a big problem) was that the formatting was lost when you pulled a document from MS Word into Google Docs...very irritating when I had formatted a table of contents and headers correctly...so once this happened went back working on the version on our network, which restricted us to only working on the plan at work.

Recently, I needed to compose a staff survey for work.Found that Google Docs had expanded to incorporate forms....it was fantastic and easy to use. Here is a link to our first draft. There was no restriction on maximum number of questions and all questions could have been compiled into the associated spreadsheet..great find.

Other Google Stuff - Google Reader

Where do I start..well I started using Google Reader years ago (November 2006 I just found out when I checked my Reader). This was right around the time that Google decommissioned Google Notes (think that's what is was called) which I absolutely loved. At the beginning of using Reader I added heaps of amazing RSS feeds  (Steve Abrahm was my favourite blogger) and used it all the time but started to move away from it, due to time constraints, and because Twitter came along and change things...much easier to get through 100 tweets than 100 blogs then decide what posts to continue to read in more depth.

#1 In The Beginning (again)

Am using the blog I originally set up the last time I did similar training. As you can see, I don't love blogs and won't fill up the blogosphere by creating a totally new blog. Rather, I love reading other peoples blogs and commenting on them and other review sites. I like Twitter a whole lot better as you only have 140 characters to get your point across.

Week 1
Spent some time today (finally) resetting up the advanced settings on my blog and just remembering all the W3C stuff I used to have to worry about back in the days when I was a website creator for local government....in those days there was no such thing as web 2.0 and we tried to create content through user interaction via adding it ourselves when users would email us their stuff!!!

So that is my take on blogs....only blog if you have something useful to say and if you can get your point in less words, use Twitter. I am sure my fellow workmates will think this quite funny cause I never shut up.

What do I think of wikis? They are ok too and great if you don't have any coding skill or access to CMS software to create a website that allows collaborative user input (that can be moderated for accuracy). While I use wikipedia myself on occasion, it is only ever as a starting point and I always cross check the info. The reference list of a wikipedia article is usually a good place to find other information. For students, I always tell them never to trust and while it may be 90% accurate (reference?) I've seen the wrong 10% quoted in assessment tasks and that isn't helpful.

Read an article from the SMH about a new wiki called wikifashion and I suppose it highlights what you can do with a wiki. It also highlights the issue of relying on collaborators for input....some of the info hasn't been updated since 2009.

See how much I don't like blogs!

The How to of Web 2.0 Training

Well, I've signed up for this training through work with the rest of my team....sort of should of checked the details of the training a bit more as it looks like "23 Things" first run by Charlotte Mecklenberg Library Service in the USA (back in the days when it was the top LS in the States!). I actually ran the training program for my previous employer when SLNSW involved NSW public libraries. Anyway, there looks to be a few new tools along the way so am looking forward to checking them out.

Off I go again....