Blog thoughts

From peering into the murky depths of some of the many different blogs out there I get the impression that they can be used for varying purposes. From providing details of services available to students/staff in a format that some people will find more accessible than traditional notice boards, through to being nothing more that gossip shops. As we're frequently told that today's students would rather learn online rather than by coming in to use the traditional infrastructure of libraries and colleges I guess that an up to date blog is a convenient way of providing info about what is available to them, and who to contact over particular issues.

Take 2

Last week, with a little help from my friends, and more from the staff development team, I managed to create and customise an I google page , by changing the themes and adding various gadgets as the first stage of the 23 things.

In the begining was the word...

And the word was, well, not web 2.0, but you have to start somewhere I suppose.
So, why am I taking part in the 23 things? Mostly because my initial reaction was to sneer at all this new-fangled technology and then to realise that although I've heard about flickr, blogging etc I don't actually know much about it. Time to learn then. Rather than just talking my way around these cunning online devices, I'd like to get to a vaguely competent standard of using them, and understanding how they can be used both professionally and socially.