Wikis

 **Website:** [|**http://pbworks.com/academic-library.wiki**]


 * Description: PBWorks is a great site for creating your own wikispace with students in a classroom or a library. Users can join and create a space to collaborate with others for just about anything. The site is easy to navigate and creating your own personal space is simple for all people. Sixty seconds is all you need! Having your own works space allows you to share information with others online. You can upload all types of documents and send invites out to friends or colleagues. The site allows you to create online schedules for you and your friends or colleagues to follow. It can even help you organize special events. Who needs to hire an event coordinator when you have PBWorks?**


 * Application:** PBwikis can be used in classrooms or libraries. Librarians can share information on books or upcoming events for others to enjoy. Ideas on book lessons can be posted and users can stay up to date with information on award winning literature. Also, librarians can use the works space to create an events calendar made for the library. Users can use the calendar to find information on upcoming events at their local library. In a class PBwikis can be used to share research by students with other students on the internet. Each student can have his/her own webpage with their research and they can upload powerpoints with pictures as well. Students can participate in collaborative learning outside of the classroom.

Submitted by Tammy Chatys


 * Website:** [|**http://destiny.carthageisd.org/**]


 * __Description:__** This Website allows students to go in and look up library books available in carthageisd schools. It is a wonderful tool because it provides a picture of the cover of the book in addition to a blurb. It also has a place for students to recommend and IM each other about the books. Destiny provides a TOP 10 list of requested books. Students can place holds on books and also recommend to the librarians, books they would like to have purchased for the library. I think that this site allows librarians to try out Destiny and see if it is applicable to thier districts and universities. I can't imagine any library not wanting Destiny Quest as part of their library. The students LOVE it!


 * __Application:__** Librarians can take students in to browse for books and choose books for their library. I think that Librarians can have a peek into what other schools have available. It is an important resource for students to use to communicate about books they have read. **In addition, teachers can go in and set up lists of books prior to research projects for students to browse before browsing selecting books and topics physically in the library. It is wonderful!**

Veronica Wilkerson

**Technology – Wiki’s**

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 * Descritption:** This article by Meredith Farkas not only describes what a wiki is but it illustrates using wiki’s for Subject guides, annotating the catalog, Community wiki, and Wikis for Librarians in public libraries. She has also created a wiki called Library Success at [] . It is a great resource for librarian. A Wiki is a technology that sometimes can be hard to figure out how to use effectively. This articled gives you some ideas and gives you links to some successful wiki’s from other libraries. Although the uses for wiki’s are great what they are best used as a way to collaborate with others.


 * Application:** My school district recently implemented curriculum bundles. They have cause quite a bit of resistance because they are new and different from how the curriculum was previously written. There is concern and confusion with the new bundles but this would be a great opportunity for a wiki as way for the entire district to use as a resource for these bundles. The wiki could include books, web sites, lesson plans and ideas for projects for each grade levels bundles. Using a wiki in this way would be an effective way for teachers and librarians from all campuses to contribute ideas for each bundle.

Nancy Willard

 
 * Specific Technology: Wikis **
 * Name of site - ****LM_NET Wiki Annex **
 * Website address - http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ **
 * Description: ** This site allows librarians to SHARE-- files, images, lessons, handouts, rubrics, presentations, etc. Let us demonstrate how teacher-librarians can use new landscapes to create serious professional tools.


 * Application: ** I would use this site to collaborate with fellow librarians on the list of topics above. I feel that the presentations page would be the most helpful to me. 

Noelle Miller

This particular blog also provide ways to support classroom curriculum through wikis. Wikis can have an engaging impact on cooperative learning group instruction. My favorite idea is Idea #3. I think that creating a "Top 10 List" would be a great way to introduce the students to wikis. I could see the students really getting into this type of research assignment. //Stacie Farr//
 * Website:** [|**http://schoollibrarylearning2.blogspot.com/2007/02/16-week-7-learn-about-wikis-and.html**]This blog provides benefits of interacting with wikis in the library setting. There are also multiple active links to other library wikis to interact with and to get ideas. This blog also lists other resources to learn more about wikis.
 * Application:**
 * **Idea #1: Collaborative note-taking.** Everyone pitches in and adds a fact or two about a topic. Teachers can encourage students to include opinions, challenges, and appropriate criticism. Students would then write essays using only these notes. Make sure that each addition includes a citation to website, book, or database, including page numbers so that it can be checked.
 * **Idea #2: History.** Students can compile a wiki of famous artists, architects, writers, and other key historical figures from a city, state, or country.
 * **Idea #3: Create a "top 10" lists and supporting material.** This could include scientists and their discoveries, top writers and their books, ... you get the idea.


 * Video: Wikis in Plain English**

This video provides an overview of how wikis are beneficial to group projects. The video is not school specific, but can be used in a school setting. It gives an example of four friends going on a camping trip and how they use a wiki to make their plans. It gives step by step instructions on how to set up and use a wiki.
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 * Application:** This video can be used as training tool for students on how get started on a wiki. Students then can use what they learned from the video to create a wiki for a group project. This video can also be used to train librarians and teachers on how wikis can also be created. A wiki can be created for the library to promote an author or a genre. Links to author websites, videos, and lesson plans can all be created as a wiki page to promote books in the library for both teacher and student use.

Contributed by Julie Ford

//**SPECIFIC TECHNOLOGY: Wikis and other Collaborative Tools in Libraries

Website:** [|**http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php**] Book: Social Software in Libraries by Meredith Farkas - Her personal Blog on Wikis, Social Networking, WEB 2.0 and how we can benefit from these tools in the library setting. "Her blog is titled: Information Wants to Be Free". In her blog, she discusses current trends in the library setting that patrons might benefit from. Her blog is intended to read her thoughts and efforts at improving collaborative efforts in the library realm. This is an excllent resource for information professionals who wish to implement innovative WEB 2.0 tools in their library.// //**Website:** [|**http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page**] Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. This wiki is intended for librarians from all branches of the information organization profession. It was created by Meredith Farkas who is an active member of National Library organizations, Distance Education Librarian, and avid computer whiz. Her Wiki encourages information professional to add and edit successful technology programs and tools that have worked wonders with their user groups and library settings. The Wiki provides useful websites on successful programming, educational and professional opportunities, readers' advisory, reference service, collaborative tools (Wikis, Blogs), social networking software, information literacy, etc.


 * APPLICATION:** Meredith Farkas's work would benefit any librarian and library institution by informing the public and information professionals of all the innovative ways one can promote technology in the library. She shares ideas on how Wikis and Blogs can supplement and enrich the library setting. For instance, she covers information on how collaborative tools can enhance a library's services by allowing patrons to utilize the library's blog and/or wiki by informing patrons of library events/services, suggestion boxes, outreach services, continuing education, assessment tools, etc. Overall, they are great tools to reach out to the public since interaction between both entities is encouraged.


 * Contributed by Lisa M.Lopez**

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** The website is http://pbwiki.com/academic-library.wiki **
PBwiki allows you to create a simple, collaborative website in about 60 seconds. Use PBwiki for your library to create an intranet, a public website, and to create special events. Invite others to contribute using access controls. Control specific pages and make your wiki public or private. In fact, PBwiki employs a full-time librarian to help answer your library-related questions.

**Why PBwiki?**
I think PBwiki is an easy way to organize special events. Use your PBwiki as a central place to coordinate special events in your library. Plan who’s bringing what by using PBwiki’s collaborative functionality. Then announce the event by sharing the URL with your patrons.

Contributed by Kim Griffith.

**Specific Technology: Wikis**

[] **Description:** This site gave a list of 15 ways one could use wiki. It list things as simple as using it for a to-do list, to planning an event, to a facts and questions page, or reference page. Karen Plants
 * Application:** Naturally this page is designed to help give one ideas on how to incorporate a wiki into their everyday use.
 * Specific Technology: Wikis**

[] **Description:** From the Tennessee Library Association comes a web newsletter explaining why it is so important for libraries to expand with today’s technology. This page gives the reader information about wikis, the pros of incorporating them into the library as well as data to support the argument of adding this technology to your library page.
 * Application:** A great site for positive feed on this topic.

Karen Plants


 * Specific Technology: Wikis**

[] **Description:** An actual working wiki site by SJSU’s School of Library and Information Science. This site is a distant learning aid set up to discuss Second Life
 * Application:** This is the real thing. What better way to experience new technology than getting to view it as a completed example.

Karen Plants


 * Specific Technology: Wikis**

[] **Description:** A school website that has incorporated many technologies of today to their site. This site, although one had to dig to find the wiki part under Internet Public Library: Teen-space, there was a wiki for teen poetry but one really had to look to find it. Plus this site had made available websites for great learning games and other thing to interest children of today’s world.
 * Application:** This site is a great example of how one could arrange their own library website.

Karen Plants

Specific Technology: Wikis

Web Address: http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6438167.html

Description: This article addresses the issue of developing a library wiki. It is important that before developing the library wiki to decide ahead of time if one wants to participate in a free wiki hosting site, pay a subscription cost to a provider to host the wiki, or set up the wiki oneself using one's own server. For many librarians, the ease of using a free hosting site has more advantages.

Application: Wikis can be used as a collaborative tool between the librarian and the trachers in an online environment "( which in Hawaiian means 'quick and very fast')" provides users with a tool that can be easily accessed, edited and updated. As librarians, we can create collaborative 2.0 school library environments. Wikis provide an opportunity for students, teachers, parents, administrators and community members to actively create new information for others.

Wikis can be used by school librarians to (1) provide students with reference material: (2) teach about "authority" in web and reference materials; (3) compare and contrast Wikipedia with other information, sources and (4) help students understand how reference materials are created.

Brenda Lacharite 
 * Technology: Wikis

Website: [|WikiMapia]

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 * Description:**

This website is a mashup that combines Wikipedia and Google Maps. It allows its users to access information by looking at a geographical representation of that information- by clicking on a map. Users can join the wiki and edit this information in a variety of ways. After users register, they can add and edit places, add photos and perform other functions. The website limits users functionality initially to protect against vandalism.


 * Application:**

This wiki is incredibly versatile, and can be used in a school library setting in a variety of ways. It can serve as a jumping off point for further research, giving students access to a different organization of information. It is an excellent tool for visual learners looking for information about a particular geographical area. Beyond its usefulness as a source for excellent maps with information attached, there are also a variety of photos (loaded by users) available through the site. A particular application that could be used for bibliographic instruction in a school library setting would be to have students fact check and edit information for their local area.

//-contributed by Amanda Ziegler//

 Technology <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(0,0,255); font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif;">: Wiki

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<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">How has this technology been used?

Wiki means “quick” in the Hawaiian language. A wiki is a great way for individuals to quickly add information to the wiki for others to view. The Princeton Public Library set up a wiki for book reviews. The wiki didn’t work out well in this case due to their catalog system being updated to include book reviews. I saw this as a great way to advertise books that have been read in the school. The library also set up a raffle for the members who participated in the “Booklovers Summer Reading Club”.

<span style="color: rgb(0,0,0);">How could you incorporate the technology in an educational setting?

I like the idea of sharing book reviews within a wiki. I believe this would be a great idea for a technology or ELA project. This would allow the teacher to bring in technology, reading, and writing into the classroom. I think a raffle would be a great idea for all of those who participated in contributing to the wiki or read a book that had been already reviewed and added comments to the wiki. This is a great way to advertise books, both fiction and nonfiction, the school library has to offer the students.

<span style="font-size: 110%; color: rgb(0,128,0);">Jennifer Succi