PBwiki

Sometimes I feel like I'm undergoing library 2.0 psychoanalysis, since I have to explain how I feel about things so much! Now I am going to emote about the Learning 2.0 PBwiki.

I am glad that someone posted the invite, because I had no idea what it was. The way this wiki was set up made me think that wikis, like many of the sites/programs with which we have experimented, might be a good place for certain groups from libraries to keep in touch and to also share information with the general public (stating the obvious, I know). I guess what I had in mind was all of the children's librarians sharing resources amongst themselves for the benefit not only of one another but also of other children's librarians somewhere out there. I also noticed that the promote the use of the program for education on their homepage. If I were teaching, I might turn something like this into a group project, especially if students wanted others to be able to benefit from their work (i.e. if they posted the results of research or an experiment and also discussed the process, what did and didn't work, etc.). Maybe I could use it as another forum of exchange for my teen writing group at the branch.

I don't really have any thoughts on this topic that are new or interesting, so I'll stop now; I do see how programs like this can be useful to libraries and librarians though.