Week 1: Introduction
1. Please begin by reading this blog & find out about the program.
2. Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners and learn how to nurture your own learning process.
Week 2: Blogging
3. Set up your own blog & add your first post.
4. Register your blog.
Week 3: Photos & Images
5. Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.
6. Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups & 3rd party sites.
7. Create a blog post about anything technology related that interests you this week.
Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders
8. Learn about RSS feeds and set up your own feed reader.
9. Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds.
Week 5: Social Networks
10. Explore Social Networks
11. Set up a Facebook or MySpace page
Week 6: Catch-up Week
Just like it says. This week is all about catching up, checking out tools you haven’t had time to explore, or returning to something you tried earlier but haven’t been back to.
Week 7: Play Week
12. Play around with an online image generator.
13. Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books.
Week 8: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati
14. Learn about tagging and discover Del.icio.us (a social bookmarking site).
15. Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
16. Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.
Week 9: Wikis
17. Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.
18. Create a wiki or add an entry to a Vermont’s 23 Things sandbox wiki.
Week 10: Online Applications & Tools
19. Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.
20. Explore any site from the Web 2.0 awards list, play with it and write a blog post about your findings.
Week 11: Video & Podcasts
21. Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.
22. Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts.
23. Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog.
4 responses so far ↓
Marianne // January 24, 2008 at 7:54 am |
This is cool! Looking forward to learning at my own pace.
Betsy // January 30, 2008 at 11:45 pm |
I will give it a try!
mamunia // February 21, 2008 at 3:17 pm |
I’ll try to set up a MySpace or Facebook account. This will be tough–schools are on vacation next week, and I’ll be in Florida. I assume my husband will bring his laptop. I’ll just have to wrest it away from him at some point! My daughter–so savvy–would recommend Facebook. Does Library Thing count? Or do we get into that later?
Cyndi // March 1, 2008 at 9:17 am |
This has been wonderful…..I have set up Facebook and joined a few groups. I can now exchange ideas about scrapbooking …. yes!