Listed below are 23 Things that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0.
ACLibrary employees are encouraged to complete all 23 items on this list by March 1, 2008, in order to receive a special prize and be eligible for drawings with more prizes.*
The links below will take you to each week’s specific exercise. Each Monday (see dates below) a new exercise will be activitated.
Please begin by reading the About page. This page gives answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs).
Week 1: Introduction ( official start November 30, 2007)
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 (December 10)
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 (December 31)
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 (January 7)
8. Learn about RSS feeds and set up your own Bloglines newsreader account.
9. Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds.
Week 5: Play Week (January 14)
10. Play around with an online image generator.
11. Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books.
12. Roll your own search tool with Rollyo.
Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati (January 28)
13. Learn about tagging and discover Del.icio.us (a social bookmaking 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 (February 4)
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 (February 11)
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 (February 25)
20. Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.
21. Podcasts (You don’t need an iPod!).
22. eBooks and Audio eBooks
23. Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog and answer the survey.
*Non-regular staff members, (SAN) please note that you will need to do the lessons outside working hours, but you are eligible for the incentives. If you are not an ACL employee, you are welcome to follow along, however the library cannot award you any prizes for completion.
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I’m trying to add my blogline url for Thing 7, but it keeps giving me an error message. It says that I’m putting too much information for the alloted space. Help!
I just re-did mine and typed in http://www.bloglines.com/public/Susan_Fisher
I was fine with this url–is yours longer? If so by how much?
Maybe I was misunderstanding the URL I was supposed to put in there. I thought I was supposed to put in the URL for my post about technology, is this right?
Yes, the url for #7 is the blog link to your technology comments. Click on your post title and you will get the “permalink” to that post in the address box. In Week 4, you will be putting in your Bloglines url.
OK, so I’m attempting to add the URL http://daniebob.wordpress.com/2008/01/07/elluminate/ but I keep getting the following error message:
Microsoft JET Database Engine error ‘80040e21′
The field is too small to accept the amount of data you attempted to add. Try inserting or pasting less data.
/staff_day/23_Things_work_Sheet.asp, line 386
It’ll accept the URL without the http:// part so that’s what I put in there.
Augie has increased the number of spaces in this field. Please try again and see if it works now.
Yay! It worked! Thanks.
Please note, when originally setting up Learning 2.0, I switched two exercises– #11 with #19, but didn’t make the change on the Checklist. Thank you to Beth who caught it…We will put LibraryThing in Week 5 where it belongs as soon as possible.
I’m trying to add my blog to the “favorite blogs” section of Learning 2.0 Wiki Sandbox (http://plcmclearning.pbwiki.com/Favorite+Blogs). Whenever I click on “edit page” it asks for the invite code. I created an account but it still asks for the code.
Omar-The Password for this wiki is PLCMC
thanks!! I was trying the same code yesterday and it wouldn’t work…I just realized it has to be in lower case to work.