The Job of Organizing

     I think it is great that the job of organizing Web 2.0 is in the hands of the “everyday” folk. Yes, this is going to make it more challenging for the librarian who is going to need to keep up with all the new trends and then facilitate this learning to the students of the 21st century. Both students and staff should be able to use this this new information effectively in their studies, work, or when they socialize. So they will need advice, guidance, and teachers will need in-service training too. This information literacy skills and abilities should be a key focus in the curriculum and librarians need to help make this known in their school. Teachers and librarians will need to work together even more. Teachers should have the subject knowledge while the librarians bring the knowledge of information literacy. Together they can collaborate motivational and challenging lessons with Web 2.0 helping them extend the subject matter and having great resources to use effectively with students. Tools such as Wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, podcasting will enhance these opportunities for learning. Web 2.0 will also change how librarians handle and manage books. They may be seeing and handling less hardback books, and then adding into their library more e-books, e-learning, and mobile learning resources.

     After examining my tags from my Diigo account, I feel that if you do the tagging correctly that these would be more helpful than the traditional subject headings. I find that Diigo is very useful organizing tool because it is on the web. It seemed I would always want a particular site from home when I was at school or vice versa. It is nice that both school and home can be combined into one location. It eliminates the long list of favorites and never being able to locate the one you wanted.