Learning 2.0 Program

Congratulations to all of you who have chosen to participate in this program and who are on your way to developing an understanding of the Web 2.0 tools readily available in today’s society.
Each week we will be sending out an email, with explanations, encouragement and sites of interest.
To begin, click on the heading of each week, or the underlined link, to take you to the activities page. There, you will need to follow the steps to complete the week's 'thing'.


THE PROGRAM

(Note: the program has now concluded, but the content will continue to be available for an indetermined amount of time)

Learning 2.0 is an online, self paced learning program designed to help you discover web 2.0 technologies freely available on the internet.

The program was developed by Helene Blowers from the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. She has licensed the program under Creative Commons and it is now used by libraries around the world.

Most topics consist of:

• A podcast outline
• Discovery resources and instructions
• A choice of activities to complete.
  
  EQUIPMENT NEEDED
  
  Computer with Internet access, Sound card to listen to podcasts, Headphones if you plan to complete the program in a public area, Quicktime (normal on most computers). You will also be creating a few accounts during this program and it is suggested you keep a record of all your username/logins and passwords, it can get a little overwhelming.
  
  
  Week 1: About Learning 2.0 and Starting a blog
  
  1. Read about the original 23 Things program
  
  2. Create your own blog and write something
  
  3. Send us the link to your blog (this link has been disabled as submissions are no longer accepted)
  
  4. Comment on each others' blogs
  
  
  Week 2: Flickr and photo sharing
  
  5. Create a flickr account and post a photo
  
  
  Week 3: Play week
  
  6. Play with an Image generator
  
  7. Play with LibraryThing
  
  
  Week 4: RSS and Feedreaders
  
  8. Choose a feed reader
  
  9. Subscribe to some library related blogs
  
  
  Week 5:Get social
  
  10. My Space
  
  11. Explore Facebook
  
  
  Week 6:Google tools
  
  12. Play with Google Docs & Spreadsheets
  
  13. Play with Google Maps
  
  14. Play with Google Book Search
  
  
  Week 7:Google home page
  
  15. Create your own iGoogle home page
  
  
  Week 8:Social bookmarking
  
  16. Play with del.icio.us
  
  
  Week 9:Wikis and Rollyo
  
  17. Read about and explore the world of wikis
  
  18. Rollyo
  
  
  Week 10:Podcasts and Videos
  
  19. Find and listen to a Podcast or two.
  
  20. Watch YouTube videos people have made about libraries.
  
  
  Week 11:Ebooks
  
  21. Ebooks and Audio books.
  
  
  Week 12: Web Awards and conclusion
  
  Conclusion
  
  **Give feedback about the programme**
  Please feel free to write a final post to summarise your thoughts about the program, what you liked, disliked, things you may use again, areas for improvement.
  
  Thank you