Organizing books and materials have always been the responsibility of a librarian. However, with the advancements in technology the way librarians organize books and materials have dramatically changed. Information technology advancement has allowed media specialist to utilize organizational and classification online applications tools to organize and classify books. Also media specialists can now create, store, and share book lists online with others. The implications of this new information technology, such as Web 2.0, include modeling for others how to organize books. Websites such as delicious shows others how websites are tagged and bookmarked. This process in turn is similar to reading strategy entitled a think aloud. Where the user discusses the process by which they complete a task verbally as opposed in their minds. By reading the tags that are associated with the bookmarks other users get ideas on how to tag their own website bookmarks. Consequently, this adds to the concept the Internet is a learning experience where everyone learns from each other. With this being said, the websites that I have bookmarked on my delicious account include folksonomies, mashups, and web2go. I believe these tags are more helpful than traditional headings because it leads my to understand how each website is used in education.
Joseph Rodriguez
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