Week 14

Well, the 14 weeks have flown by in a hurry. I've taken a lot of distance courses during my time at FIMS, and this has been the best in terms of feeling very interactive. I think Amanda deserves credit for choosing to go with Drupal, rather than WebCT or one of those other clunky online course providers. The library I'm working at now will probably be moving our site to Drupal in the near future, so it's been beneficial to make extensive use of a Drupa site, and get a feel for what it can do. I also love that I've been able to keep track of new posts through RSS.

I decided to keep the the Week 13 element of evaluation for this week, since my thoughts on the evaluation of this course, Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and my own use of social software all connected together rather conveniently.

This course has provided a great overview of social software in all its forms and especially on how it can benefit libraries and help them to build their online presence in the community.  Social software is free and easy to use and there's a lot of potential out there for libraries as they gradually develop more advanced social software based services. While I had used social software such as blogs, RSS, and YouTube before starting the course, now I have a much better idea of the potential uses and pitfalls.