Wiki Sandbox

After reading everyone else's blogs and the trouble they had trying to access the Learning 2.0 wiki sandbox I was a bit worried. When I saw that Eleanor Thomas was the last person to edit the 'favourite blogs' page I thought woo hoo I might be able to add mine under the lovely UniSA banner. However here is a picture of me struggling against the quicksand in the sandbox!

It is a pity that this wiki hasn't been kept up to date I noticed that other people have been posting comments asking for help and looking for the elusive 'edit' button.

Anyway I will write my wiki post about favourite things here instead. Hmm I find it hard to pick favourties... favourite colour, favourite song etc I think it depends on what mood I am in. Recently I voted for my top 10 favourite songs for the Triple J hottest 100 of all time. I found it extremely hard to pick just 10. I think my list included some Radiohead, The Cure, Pearl Jam, The Violent Femmes and even a Johnny Cash cover of a Nine Inch Nails song. When asked what my favourite song is and why? I wrote David Bowie's Space Oddity because "My Mother said to get things done you better not mess with Major Tom".

I better mention favourite book seeing this is a Library related blog. Again I find this very hard I do have my favourite authors who I tend to stick to although I am trying to branch out a bit. I love and re-read the Lord of the Rings Trilogy so I suppose that would be one of my favourites (or 3 to be exact) I also still love The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which brings back fond memories of my year 2 teacher reading it to the class.

Closest Book Meme

Harry looked quickly over his shoulder and saw the archway shrink instantly back into solid wall.

Here are the instructions please join in:

* Grab the nearest book.
* Open the book to page 56.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post the text of the next seven sentences in your journal along with these instructions.
* Don't dig for your favorite book, the cool book, or the intellectual one: pick the CLOSEST.

The nearest book on my desk was Harry Potter and Philospher's Stone by J.K. Rowling. I received the final book The Deathly Hallows for my birthday last year or was it the year before anyway I have put off reading it till I reread 'The Half-Blood Prince' so I could remember what happened. After going to see the new Harry Potter movie I thought I might just reread the rest of the series as well, so I pulled it off the bookcase. I think it is funny that reading just that one sentence can enable you to visualise that whole scene where Harry has his first glimpse of the 'magic world' as he steps into Diagon Alley.

Wiki Wiki Woo

Just a quick post I just started checking out some wikis online. The only wiki I have had any experience with is Wikipedia. I must admit I really like Wikipedia but I know I should probably question the reliability of the information on there a bit more. I guess that is a downside with wikis because anyone can edit or write things on there how do we know that the information is accurate. Anyway I just looked at one of the wikis mentioned on 23 things and I really like the 'Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki' it has some really great information on there. I just started having a look at the tips for new Librarians they have lots of helpful hints that people have added. They also have a great section about looking for a job with hints about applying for jobs and going to interviews. I think it is great that people can share information and ideas openly like this. Here it is if anyone is interested in going and having a look for themselves or possibly joining up and sharing their own ideas on the wiki:
http://libsuccess.org/index.php?title=Main_Page