Greetings from Big Sky Country! I’m feeling pretty relaxed after spending the evening listening to bluegrass at Norris Hot Springs with my CE colleague from South Carolina. (That and I’ve been up since 4 a.m.) But enough about me.
Welcome to Lesson 10!
So, to take your mind off the beginning of another school year, let’s look at free web-based online productivity applications (word processing, spreadsheets, calendars, presentations, project management, and web conferencing) and the most recent Web 2.0 Awards list.
By now you all know how much I love the Common Craft videos. What you might not know is that I love ice cream even more. Here’s a video that combines both!
Welcome to the wonderful world of wikis! This week we’ll be turning our attention to a great web-based tool for multiple-participant projects. Plus we get to see another Common Craft video!
For this lesson we’ll be looking more closely at del.icio.usand Technorati, two Web 2.0 applications that take serious advantage of tagging (we’ve already looked at a few -Flickr, LibraryThing, and blogs all use tags). Tagging allows you to associate keywords with online content – webpages, pictures, posts, etc. It is considered a folksonomy – an unstructured categorization scheme. We’ll also be reading and blogging about a few perspectives on Library 2.0.
I hope you are feeling refreshed after the Catch-up Week.
Did you enjoy playing with photos and images in Week 3? Then you’ll enjoy this week’s exploration of more image-related tools with Thing 12: Play around with an online image generator.
For those you who are in the slower lane, your lesson is all about RSS.
For those of you who have just stumbled on this blog: it’s still not too late to participate. Spend some time with the first few things, create a blog to record your Vermont’s 23 Things thoughts and adventures, and send me (mara.siegel@mail.dol.state.vt.us) the link to have it added to the still growing list on the Participant Blogs page.
Style and content for Vermont's 23 Things has been borrowed and duplicated from Learning 2.0, a program created by Helene Blowers, then of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. Learning 2.0 is licensed under Creative Commons.
