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Setting up a school library blog or wiki
Examples of school library blogs
Instructions for setting up your own blog or wiki
Before embarking on creating a library blog or wiki, do some research about how these tools can most effectively support your users, including exploring these and other questions:
Talk to your IT people, collaborate with key teachers, and (if in a secondary school) discuss with your students. By using a team approach you will be able to produce a plan, linked to learning outcomes, showing ways the library can best provide support through the wiki or blog.
Your wiki can be designed to be an excellent tool to support Inquiry learning.
If you are thinking of setting up a wiki or a blog, here are some links to further information, and step-by-step instructions:
7 things you should know about blogs (2005) – what they are, how they work, what the downsides can be, and implications for teaching and learning. In this two-page PDF you can find out more.
7 things you should know about wikis This PDF covers what a wiki is, how it works, why wikis are significant, implications for teaching and learning - an easy-to-follow overview.
Attached are two PDFs, providing step-by-step instructions for creating:
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