Educational Journey

Before this course I had never heard of wikis, only just heard of blogs through another LIS course, never looked at Del.icio.us, nor tagged anything in cyberspace or heard of folksonomies, never heard of Second Life and the virtual world of gaming. (I had a Facebook account but only on a recommendation of my children) It has been an enlightening journey through the world of social software and libraries and and something that I would never or probably never explored had it not been for this course. It has been great to have a 'hands on' practice into the world of blogs, wikis etc and the knowledge I have learnt will be invaluable for future career prospects. I would recommend this course to anyone in the MLIS program as being vital knowledge in the world of libraries be they academic, public, special or anything else. Now that we have learnt this much it is important to keep up with the ever changing virtual world and take advantage of the social software in our future library careers. I will most certainly check back on all of our blogs and especially those of the more prominent writers that we have read over the weeks. I am not sure if I will maintain my blog. I will need to have a theme/goal/subject to pontificate about and will not keep it just for the sake of it. However I will expound the advantages of wikis to anyone that I will be involved with in writing a report, putting together a presentation or just accumulating information on a topic. I have not checked my RSS feeds in a while basically because of time constraints and as this is not especially important to me, I will probably not maintain the Google aggregator. I enjoy visiting a small number of websites and will continue to do so as time permits. There is only so much time that I wish to devote to Internet, virtual and technological interests and that is already taken up with work related tasks, e-mail, MSN and Facebook. However I will pass on the knowledge that I have gained to anyone who is interested in my work or private life. Thanks Amanda for enlightening me to this world of social networking.