If you are following along in the SCASL 2.0: 23 Things blog, they are up to week seven, while I have only completed week FOUR.  *Sigh*  It seems I’ll always be behind.  Oh, well.  I’m going to skip week five which is all about play…maybe I’ll come back to it.  Or not.  Which brings me to week six and Delicious.

Delicious is one service that I didn’t see the big deal with…in theory, yes, but in practice, not.  As a way of organizing bookmarks with tags for my own reference, it’s great.  However, I’m not one to ’share’ well when it comes to my bookmarks.  The things I bookmark are usually just things I want to go back and explore when I have “free time” (ha, ha) and not so much things that are important or even useful to others.

That’s not to say that I don’t see the value of sharing with others when there is a REASON to share – such as if I’m collaborating on a unit with a teacher or preparing for a group workshop/training session or gathering sites for a pathfinder. Delicious could also be used by a teacher to bookmark resources, along with notes, for his/her students to access and/or have students add additional links.  The only problem with this – Delicious is BLOCKED by my district.  So, even if I wanted to use it to collaborate with teachers, I couldn’t.  Just another great Web 2.0 tool denied to my school community.

Next up: Technorati – not one of my favorites as far as searching for useful blogs.  Looking at the most popular blog list, they are all useless time wasters.  Looking at the top authority blogs, I subscribed to three of the top 5 already.  I already have way to many blogs I subscribe to and prefer to add new ones based on recommendations of folks I know or follow.  If I do have an information need, I may revisit Technorati, but as for now, I’ll pass.

Lastly: Library 2.0.  I’ve heard the term, but hadn’t really thought about what it meant.  Taking a parallel with Web 2.0, I’m going to say Library 2.0 is providing services to patrons via the web when and where the patron needs the services.  So, things like homework help via chat/IM/Twitter, ebook/audiobook downloads, electronic pathfinders, wikis, etc. would all be Library 2.0 services that could be provided.  While I wholely agree and embrace these tools, realistically, in my high school setting, they are not “practical.”  Most of these tools are blocked.  Add our rural setting where only about 60% of our students have computers and only about 40% have Internet access (which is 70% dial-up), online services aren’t a priority for after school hours.  However, I would love to be able to provide these types of services and am slowly developing what I can – see our schools library webpage and podcast page.  I have also signed up for wikis on both wikispaces and pbwiki that I’m still exploring what services to offer.