The Job of Organizing

According to Pam Berger and Sally Trexler (authors of “Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World”), “School librarians need to become leaders, advocates, and change agents willing to embrace the digital environment to ensure that students and staff are effective users of ideas and information.” Technology is continuously changing at a constant speed.  Librarians need to ensure that their skills are up to par in order to help others organize, access, and utilize Web 2.0 tools.  There are so many different uses for Web 2.0 tools (blogs, collaboration through wiki’s, bookmarking sites, presentation tools, etc.).  The implications of the librarian if everyone is able to organize information is understanding how to collaborate with teachers, students, and patrons in order to share the knowledge and see to it that Web 2.0 tools are being implemented and that the user’s understand what they are doing.  In order for a librarian to teach someone else, she must understand what she is teaching and should be able to explain why a program is being used or what uses the program has available.  Diigo (http://www.diigo.com) is a bookmarking site that allows users to organize websites.  I believe that my Diigo tags would be helpful to others.  As a librarian, we must be able to organize and share information.  My tags would be helpful toward collaboration with others on campus, but they could also be helpful for others outside of the school library setting.  I believe staying organized is a key point to being successful in helping and sharing with others.