Week 4 Continued
June 15, 2008 — drokobiWe will be looking at Instant Messaging tools. You can get more general information on IMs from reading this article:
http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7008.pdf
Readings:
Readings:
MC Chapter 6
NC Chapter 3
MC Chapter 6
NC Chapter 3
Blogs Versus Wikis. The following sites provide discussions on these two Web 2.0 Tools.
Blogs Vs Wikis
http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2005/10/25/blogs_vs_wikis_presentation.html
http://www.technosight.com/blogs-versus-wikis/
We will be looking at Collaboration using some of the tools we reviewd in earlier units. The following sites pull together some of the concepts we talked about earlier.
Virtual reference has seen the most common use of IMs. Check out Chat Reference here:
http://www.teachinglibrarian.org/chat.htm
Wikis are also very popular in Libraries. Examples of the use of wikis in Libraries can be found here,the examples should give you some ideas for your final project.
Example of Collaboration in a course using wiki:
http://ils504summer07.pbwiki.com/
