I have used wikipedia before and was aware that it can be edited by anyone and so have warned kids doing assignments not to take it as fact and to verify the information with something reliable like an encyclopedia or government website so I was suprised by the fact that a survey found it more accurate than the encyclopedia. After finding out more about how wikipedia works I see that for the amount of people who would post false information there would be so many more people to correct it!
I did not know that there were sites that can host a wiki for you or that they are so easy to set up. This would be great to use in a library or school environment, especially when you are able to have secure access as to who is allowed into the site and editors of the site are accountable for there posts.

This week took me a long time as I had no idea what an RSS feed was!, I have heard the term but I didnt know that it could be applied to the library environment in so many ways. Once I started going through this weeks activities I realised that things like dictionary.com's word of the day which I have subscibed to by email could be sent as an RSS to a feed reader. Learning about the existance of feed readers will come in handy to manage this and any other interesting feeds i find. I also checked some other libraries websites which have RSS feeds which patrons can subscibe to and found many different feeds like book lists, library news, and events.

Mosaico de ventanas en Muestra tu México

Mosaico de ventanas en Muestra tu México
Originally uploaded by Lucy Nieto

Took awhile but I finally signed up for Flickr and worked out how to add a photo to a blog. Flickr seems like a very useful website and I am glad I took the time to learn how to use it. I chose this collage of photo's from mexico to remind me of my last holiday!, looking forward to going back!, love the colours and the mosaic effect ,will have to look at how to do this!, I will now move on to trying to upload my own photos, wish me luck!

I have never used a blog before and was quite suprised to see all the potential applications. I have heard of blogs and know that friends use them to post what they are doing, for example when they go on holidays, etc so everyone can check out their photos and what they are doing straight away without having to wait for them to get back and get the photos printed out as was the case only a few years ago. I was suprised at how professional a blog can look and how I would be able to use it, I can already imagine adding pictures of all the smiling faces at our school holiday craft activites. I am really looking forward to learning to use the other technology mentioned in Week 1, alot of things I have heard about but have never really had the time to look at or use myself.