Week 1 - Blogging
1. Read this page and find out more about the program
2. Create a gmail account - free web-based email
3. Set up your own blog, Add your first post about the process
4. Leave a comment
Week 2. Wikis
5. Learn about wikis
6. Add your blog to MRRL's wiki
Be sure to post to your blog what you learned this week
Week 3 - Myspace
7. read about Libraries and Myspace - Post your thoughts to your blog
8. Set up your own Myspace account
9. Comment on MRRL's myspace account
Week 4 - Tagging, Folksonomies &Technorati
10. Learn about tagging and discover Del.icio.us (MRRL has account)
11. Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blogs
12. Look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books
Be sure to post to your blog what you learned this week
Week 5 - Photos and Images
13. Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site
14. Have fun with Flickr, explore mashups and 3rd party sites, create some Mashups
Be sure to post to your blog what you learned this week
Week 6 - RSS & Newreaders
15. Learn about RSS feeds and set up your own Bloglines account
16. Locate a few useful library related blogs and add to your Bloglines account.
Post to your blog what you learned and what library blogs you added to your Bloglines.
Week 7 - Play Week
17. Play with an online image generator
18. Make a map of all the states and/or countries you've been to on Visited Counties or Visited States -
19. Put the map on your blog
Week 8. - Search Engines, Web 2.0, Library 2.0
20. Read perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 & the future
Be sure to post to your blog what you learned this week
21. Explore different search engines and compare results for the same search.
Week 9. Online Applications and Tools
22. Look at some online productivity tools (word processing, spreadsheets, calenders)
23. Explore Google labs, blog about one of the developing tools you discover
24. Explore any site from the Web 2.0 Awards list, play with it, and blog about it.
Week 10 - Podcasts, Videos & Downloadable Audio
25. Explore Youtube and other sites that allow users to share videos
26. Discover some useful tools for locating podcasts
27. Check out an ebook from MRRLS collection.
Be sure to post to your blog what you learned this week
Week 11
28. Summarize your thoughts abut this program on your blog.
29. Suggest one thing you'd like to learn more about that we didn't cover.
Monday, October 23, 2006
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