Wikis

I've had some experience with Wikis before. Of course, we use Wikipedia for reference questions sometimes. It doesn't replace the Britannica for a lot of questions, but it is good for current "hot" topics and for pop culture kinds of topics. Where else can you get so much information about the television show Law and Order?

I've even made my own Wikipedia article about a great-grandfather of mine. It is weird that other people keep editing it, and I don't know who they are! I started by making a rather long article based on his autobiography. Someone edited it to be a much shorter article. Then someone else labelled it as a "stub" because it was so short! Then someone else added a picture. I had put in links to maps showing the place where he was born and the place to which his family emigrated. I was proud of those links - someone else took them out!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kraabel

We also use a Wiki in the Reference Department to share all kinds of information. We've found this a *very* useful tool.

For the Learning 2.0 exercise, I added an entry about the Galapagos Islands under Favorite Vacations and a link to my blog under Favorite Blogs.