Alison Raab Labonte's List: Web 2.0 for Libraries

Ellyssa Kroski's talk at CiL 2008 on Drupal and Libraries

Drupal.org is the official website of Drupal, an open source content management platform.

Equipped with a powerful blend of features, Drupal supports a variety of websites ranging from personal weblogs to large community-driven websites.

Even if they won’t admit it, students are using Wikipedia to kick off their research and fill the gaps in their class notes ... right now. It might not show up in the bibliography, but the free, open source online resource has long since become the starting point for settling factual disputes, brainstorming paper ideas and even offering suggestions for further reading.
f that’s an open secret, then so is this: For all the hand-wringing over whether Wikipedia is a legitimate source for completing college assignments, some professors are quietly incorporating it into their classrooms and even their research. Others, noting features of the Web site that contribute to inaccuracies and shortchange the value of expertise, are building variations on the model that are more amenable to academics and to peer review.

A good number of college professors “work on Wikipedia pretty regularly, and of course their work is one of the main reasons why Wikipedia is as good as it is,” said Larry Sanger, one of the founders of the site who has since become a critic of what he refers to as its “worst elements.”

The Spring 2008 edition of the Top 100 Tools for Learning has been published by Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT). Earlier this year, they gathered the top 10 tools used by 155 learning professionals to compile this massive list. Their analysis and individual lists are also linked within the document."
The top 10:
1. del.icio.us
2. Firefox
3. Google Reader
4. Skype
5. Google Search
6. Wordpress
7. PowerPoint
8. GMail
9. Audacity
10. Blogger

A text similarity-based engine for searching literature collections.

Focuses on biomedical, physics, and U.S. patent office.

Searches: MedLine, NASA, IOP, CRISP.

Created by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center