Let's Play Tag!

Today is May 2nd, and its time to move on!  My next venture into Web 2.0 will be to experiment with tagging.  As a librarian, I see this as another branch of the cataloging-tree that we librarians are already so familiar with.  Is this merely another form of subject headings?  Another form of bibliography creation for our patrons?  And, most importantly, can tagging in any way enhance faculty collaboration and student learning?  To begin my journey, I armed myself with a professional reading article by Mary Ann Bell, in Multimedia & Internet Schools, Sept/Oct 2009; "Playing Tag Is Good For You!"
Lets play tag!!

Wiki-Wonderful!!

Discouraged by my recent post, I decided to search again for a library wiki worth contributing to.  I discovered Library Success:  A Best Practices Wiki, and jumped in!
I joined (whew!), studied up on wiki markup (the old follow-the-instructions-manual mentality), and contributed my first article today entitled Moving from Fixed to Flex Scheduling. 
Here is a to my article:  Moving from Fixed to Flex Scheduling

Week 4 and Wiki-confusion

My first attempt at exploring wikis beyond Wikipedia led me to a google search "libraries and wikis."  The results were so-so.  Although I found a few library wikis, and some that focused on school library issues, most had limited discussion.   I expanded my search to "schools and wikis" which located wikis that centered on the discussion of using social media to change online help desks for students.  I found a few school libraries that utilized the wiki format for book trailers and reference help desks.  I am determined to contribute to at least one education-based wiki during my journey, so I will have to use week 5 to stay wiki-focused.  I can see that if I am to eventually use wikis for my library, it will most likely need to be a collaborative page with teachers. Possibly setting up pages based on research assignments, where students can join, ask questions, and contribute their knowledge of the research process to their peers?   And, is that really as inventive as I can get?   Perhaps my problem is that I am so eager to contribute to a wiki as part of my 2.0 quest that I haven't taken the time to focus on what I can contribute.  In other words, is my quest wagging the dog's tail?  Now is the time to remind myself why I whittled the list of 23 to 10...