#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!