Friday, February 1, 2008

23 Library Learning Things

Week 1: Introduction

1. Read this blog and find out about the programme.

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 and add your first post.

4. Register your blog with Cornelle and begin your Library Learning journey.

Week 3: Photos and Images

5. Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.

6. Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups and 3rd party sites.

7. Create a blog post about anything technology related that interests you this week.

Week 4: RSS and Newsreaders

8. Learn about RSS feeds and set up your own Bloglines newsreader account.

9. Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or newsfeeds.

Week 5: Play Week

10. Play around with an online image generator.

11. Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favourite books.

12. Roll your own search tool with Rollyo.

Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies and 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 wiki and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.

17. Add an entry to the Library Learning 2.0 SandBox wiki.

Week 8: Online Applications and Tools

18. Take a look at some online productivity tools (word processing, spreadsheets).

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 and 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 downloadable books.

23. Summarise your thoughts about this program on your blog.