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It's a 2.0 world—we just have to keep up with it. Whether you're a seasoned Web head who's blogging, managing a wiki, and networking online with your peers (all simultaneously, of course) or you're new to the game, we hope our coverage of Web 2.0 tools and technologies helps get you up to speed. There's also "Librarians on Facebook," what media specialists should make of Twitter, and our budding catalog of podcasts.
What's next? Who knows? It's never been a more exciting time to be an information specialist—or a technology editor.
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| A Little Help from My Friends |
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| Blogs, wikis, podcasting, social networks… it seems the entire world has gone 2.0 crazy. Among the followers are educators, who, in ever increasing numbers, are integrating these online, interactive tools into their classrooms and yes, even libraries. read more... |
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| Can We Make Peace with Wikipedia? |
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Every day, librarians around the world turn to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) as the definitive resource. This trusted authority, however, has a shocking secret—the venerable OED began life as a wiki. Well, sort of. Thousands of volunteer readers back in the day composed more than 400,000 definitions by submitting slips of paper with quotations that detailed word usage. Lacking wiki software meant organizing over five million slips to form this collective intelligence project, a process that lasted from 1857 until 1928. Today, Wikipedia's volunteers have published about five million articles worldwide in just six years. So these two projects appear to be distant cousins of sorts. read more... |
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| Which Wiki Is Right for You? |
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| If you've never created a library Web page (and don't intend to start learning HTML code anytime soon), but want your library to have a Web-presence, maybe it's time to consider a library wiki. As more educators and librarians collaborate in an online environment, wikis (which in Hawaiian means "quick" or "very fast") provide users with a tool that can be easily accessed, edited, and updated. As we create a more collaborative 2.0 school library environment, wikis provide an opportunity for students, teachers, parents, administrators, and community members to actively create new information for others. read more... |
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| Taming the Beast |
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| Blogs, wikis, and other nifty Web-based tools, ones that enable us to create and distribute content like never before, get all the glory, it seems. Then there are the applications that help us organize all that material that we consume online. Though not as sexy, perhaps, as blogging or podcasting, social bookmarking is equally empowering to users, helping us make sense of what we find and use on the Web and, even better, enabling us to share our treasures with others. read more... |
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| School Library 2.0
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| A group of students from Lakeview High School in Battle Creek, MI, is sitting down to a discussion of Elie Wiesel's Night (Hill & Wang, 1960). It's a fairly typical exercise—the Nobel Laureate's haunting memoir of the Holocaust has been widely read in high schools (long before being tapped for Oprah's book club earlier this year). read more... |
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