Well, this has been different than the first week and I am not sure if I have accomplished everything as I have looked on the MLA Class pages of blogs and wikis and do not see myself added as I have seen others, so maybe I have not done everything, but I have tried. (Now is not this a long string of ideas put together in one sentence.) This week has been more of a trial as it has been Holy Week and my church commitments came first and so it slowed me down in getting this assignment done. I have enjoyed the mental exercises and can see a possibility in using wikis with my online catalog for the staff. I am thinking of adding it later, as I want to become more familiar with this resource, to the catalog page and then list directions for online searching, new arrivals of print and online books and serials, and leaving a place for others to add comments and ask questions.
I consider the blog my journal of activities and an information page. (Actually my hospital holds firewalls against my PubMed RSS feeds and so they cannot be searched unless I am at home, but you have heard of the firewall problems here on week 1.) The wiki is more like a bulletin board. It is in constant change and updating as information is added in. It is more for the quick look for the answer to a question than the blog where you read through a 'diary' of information that may not be pertinent to your needs. So on a blog I will be giving a more indepth explaination of a topic and the wiki will be the 'short and sweet' information to allow you to perform a function or get the information you need.
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