Reflection on Assignment #1

This assignment really opened my eyes to the advantages of Web 2.0 and its increasingly important role in the communications for libraries and their online users.  It is changing the nature and relationships between the librarian and users that creates a space for more collaborative work where the roles of instructor and user are becoming more blurred.  I found the RSS part of this assignment the most enlightening since in all honesty I didn’t know anything about them before (despite seeing the icon multiple times on websites).  Wikis are also a fascinating part of this assignment and I like the potential of using it for collaborate efforts to maintain things like databases or web site content, but at the same time I still don’t feel like I’ve got the first hand experience of using one.  The First hand experience of using and creating networks of followers in Twitter and the Blog were excellent.