Tuesday, October 2, 2007

23 Learning 2.0 Things

Week 1: Introduction
1) Read 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 and begin your Learning 2.0 journey.

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 setup your own Bloglines newsreader account.
9) Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds.

Week 5: Play Week
10) Play around with an online image generator.
11) Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books.
12) Get to know your fellow libraries, librarians and customers with MySpace and Facebook.

Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati
13) Learn about tagging and discover Del.icio.us (a social bookmarking site)
14) Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts.
15) Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries and blog your thoughts.

Week 7: Wikis
16) Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.
17) Add an entry to the Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki.

Week 8: Online Applications & Tools
18) Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.
19) Explore any site from the Web 2.0 awards list, play with it and write a blog post about your findings.

Week 9: Podcasts, Video & Downloadable audio
20) Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.
21) Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts.
22) Take a look at the titles available through Greater Phoenix Digital Library and learn how to download audiobooks.
23) Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog.

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