Week 2 Exercise

Week 2 for MLA Web 2.0 CE class:

What is the difference between a blog and a wiki? What sort of things might be better suited for a blog and better suited for a wiki? Write a brief response on your blog.

Wikis are intended to be more collaborative, with more participants. Blogs are generally written by one person, or a few people, although others can comment. Blogs are good for chronological postings of news, information, and comments. Although wikis can be used for the same purpose, their layout and design is much more flexible, allowing more organization, allowing easier collaboration and sharing of ideas. I can also see how a wiki would be excellent for version control of a document. When I was adding links to my blog and wiki to the class wiki, I got a message that someone else had edited the wiki, so I had to manually add in my links so that all changes were then included. Very cool!

Week 1 Exercise

Week 1 homework for MLA Web 2.0 class:

How do you think you could use RSS feeds at your library? How do you think patrons could use RSS feeds? Write a brief response on your blog.

I will use RSS feeds to keep up on MLA and SLA news as well as journals and blogs relevant to my job. Since my consumer health library is also a public library, many of the patrons are not savvy computer users. However, teaching a class on RSS may help some of them track news on their health issues or other interests.

First Post

I created this blog for a CE course from the Medical Library Association (MLA) on Web 2.0 technologies.