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I like to think I have my finger on the pulse of the "bleeding edge" when it comes to knowing about emerging technologies and what they can do. Even better, I'd like to be able to adopt some of those technologies and really see if they are as useful as some proclaim.

Take the blog, for instance. This community here I think realizes the potential and need for information sharing. I use LISNEWS for some current awareness in the profession, and I get to blab here on my journal, but I'd like to experiment on a more educational bent with either a blog or wiki. Unfortunately, the prevailing thought I am encountering is that these two tools are "a solution in search of a problem" in terms of presenting library-related information to students.

Please, I'd really appreciate some feedback of both successful and unsuccessful attempts at using either blogs or wikis in an educational setting - it makes no difference at this point what the subject matter is.