OK First... You guys ROCK out. You put the WoWWiki and MuppetWiki on the fun list. Whoo hoo! :)
Thing #18: PBWorks. I went to the Restaurant part and added my fav restaurants in the 'Ville. Then I headed over to the Fav Television Shows tab and had to tease whomever put Glee on their list... then I added my own list of fav. Television shows. I went back later and discovered that there is another Fringe fan in the system!! And they embedded a Fringe trailer from YouTube for season 3!! AWESOME show! It takes a bit to be able to navigate the pages since I'm fairly unfamiliar with wiki stuff other than the "BIG" wiki, but I finally got the hang of it. I had some very minimal use of PBWorks a few months ago when MIS was creating a document for Fairdale's new library opening, and I saw it in action, but still never really got the hang of what it was about and such. I think I have a better idea what it is about now.
Thing #19
I totally get using Wiki's for sharing information in Libraries to our patrons. Are there moderators in situations such as this so that a person has to prove they are a Librarian in order to change content on these sites? I can see lots of badness ensuing if a random person with an agenda edited pages a Librarian laboriously slaved over. AND.. can you see WHO changes these pages so that if there is a person who is a 'trickster' and enjoys playing practical jokes on people, you could see who was changing the content?
Now for the fun... I am totally enjoying all these geek-fest Wiki fun pages. Wookiepedia!! WoWWiki!!! MuppetWiki!! Wonder if there is a Dog Wiki?? I'll have to check on that one.
Can we see a potential use for wiki's in the library system to advance our mission? Sure thing. What that could be? It's astronomical. In house, it has tons of possibilities for groups that currently meet a ton and are working on a certain project/s together. They probably wouldn't have to meet quite so much and could add content, edit content etc. from their office computers. For use of our patrons, some things could be constructed like some of the pages we looked at today about local information/authors/local records/vital statistics information, etc. It would have to be set so that the random person couldn't change content on the pages though. It's hard to come up with an idea of how it could be used in a hypothetical situation when such a situation isn't in front of you at the moment. I'm trying to brainstorm here and think of ways that we could practically use it both in the system and with our patrons. I'm blanking. We will blame it on little sleep due to an aging dog with arthritis who paces at night. ;)
Glee rules. Fringe, on the other hand, is terrible. Sorry.
ReplyDeleteI can truthfully say I have not watched an episode of Glee. So, I logically can't say that the show is terrible, but can say that I have no interest in it AT ALL. Fringe however, RULES. So, we shall have to agree to disagree.
ReplyDeleteI watched the first two episodes of Fringe. I laughed too many times when I don't think I was supposed to be laughing.
ReplyDeleteIf it had anything to do with the insane scientist (Walter--Played by John Noble) then you were more than likely supposed to be laughing. He totally makes the show.
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