Saturday, May 10, 2008
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Congratulations to all of you who have chosen to participate in this program and who are on your way to developing an understanding of the Web 2.0 tools readily available in today’s society. Each week we will place a new post here which will give a little run down of the week's activity. We will also send out an email, with explanations, encouragement and sites of interest. To begin, click on the heading of each week, or the underlined link, to take you to the activities page. There, you will need to follow the steps to complete the week's 'thing'.
On the side of the pages you will find some other links, a 'Site of the week' link that will have a new interesting website to explore each week, the tracking log, where you can monitor your progress during the program, and the Participants' Blogs page, where you can find a list of the blogs being created by staff at your library. There you can click on each one, to see what your colleagues have been up to. Keep tuned to this area, as it is a good place to be inspired and entertained!
THE PROGRAM
Learning 2.0 is an online, self paced learning program designed to help you discover web 2.0 technologies freely available on the internet.
The program was developed by Helene Blowers from the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. She has licensed the program under Creative Commons and it is now used by libraries around the world.
Most topics consist of:
A podcast outline
Discovery resources and instructions
A choice of activities to complete.
EQUIPMENT NEEDED
Computer with Internet access
Sound card to listen to podcasts
Headphones if you plan to complete the program in a public area
Quicktime (normal on most computers)
Week 1: About Learning 2.0 and Starting a blog
- 1. Read about the original 23 Things program
- 2. Create your own blog and write something
- 3. Send us the link to your blog
- 4. Comment on each others' blogs
Week 2: Flickr and photo sharing
- 5. Create a flickr account and post a photo
Week 3: Play week
- 6. Play with an Image generator
- 7. Play with LibraryThing
Week 4:
- 8. Choose a feed reader
- 9. Subscribe to some library related blogs
Week 5:Get social
- 10. My Space
- 11. Explore Facebook
Week 6:Google tools
- 12. Play with Google Docs & Spreadsheets
- 13. Play with Google Maps
- 14. Play with Google Book Search
Week 7:Google home page
- 15. Create your own iGoogle home page
Week 8:Social bookmarking
- 16. Play with del.icio.us
Week 9:Wikis
- 17. Read about and explore the world of wikis
Week 10:Rollyo
- 18. Rollyo
Week 11:Podcasts
- 19. Find and listen to a Podcast or two.
Week 12:YouTube
- 20. Watch YouTube videos people have made about libraries.
Week 13:Ebooks
- 21. Ebooks and Audio books.
Week 14:Newsletters
- 22. Letterpop
Week 15:Flowcharts
- 23. Go with the Flow
Conclusion
**Give feedback about the programme**
Please feel free to write a final post to summarise your thoughts about the program, what you liked, disliked, things you may use again, areas for improvement.
Thank you
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