Ok i dont know what the problem was this week but i spent more time trying to find the first article than it took me to read the other three articles. So if anybody reading this wants to give me a link so that i can read the blog article i would love that. I read through most of the reading notes of all the folks i follow and it looked like a pretty good article based on what everyone said about it. But i couldnt find it no matter how i googled it. If i get to read it before 3 on Friday i will amend this blog entry to reflect it.
The second article was about wikis and how they can be useful to libraries. It talked about how libraries can use wikis to create informational handouts and guides. It gave some brief info ion how to start your own wikia and also discussed the library program at ETSU. I found this cool since i used to live in Johnson City. The article expounded on how libraries can integrate infomation using wikis and futher improve the users experience.
The third article was about social tagging. I dont know that tagging is mandatory, but it seem to be generally helpful. We tagged our articles on citeulike and using that as a point of reference I can see how tagging can be used to help promote eduacation. By making tags for the articles, we can assist other people in finding our articles for educational needs.
Last we had to watch a video about wikipedia. Interesting that their goal is to get a copy of the online encyclopedia to everyone in the world...they may want to first consider how to get computers and Internet service to everyone if they want ot achieve that goal. I think it's very good for the main founding principal to be neutrality. Afterall an encyclopedia should be a source of unbiased information..if one wants to see opinionated articles they should subscribe to blogs and skip wikipedia. Wales does have some pretty cool software in place to keep an eye on things though.
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