Web 2.0 Training - Lesson 3: LibraryThing

Go to the LibraryThing Lesson in Bakers Dozen. There is no modification of the assignemnt.

FYI - Terri has a LibraryThing account she has expanded beyond the 200 free entries. You might ask her about it. She even posted about LibraryThing on our Darling Library News & Events blog in May this year. If you had been subscribing to it back then, you'd know that! :-)

Web 2.0 Training - Lesson 2: RSS and Feedreaders

Go to the Bakers Dozen Lesson 2: RSS and Feedreaders

When you get to the video, come back here and click on the link below. (Their video was no longer there when I tried it.)

See the Video: RSS in Plain English (3:44 min.)

Your assignment:

1. Register for a free Bloglines account.

2. Find and subscribe to a minimum of 5 feeds. (You can always unsubscribe afterwards.)

Hint: Use Bloglines’ search box to find feeds. You’ll need to change the default "Search for Posts" to "Search for Feeds." Then try to find feeds for your favorite news outlets such as CNN, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, etc. Once, you find a feed that you like, click on "Subscribe to feed."

And guess what? You can even find and subscribe to the Baker’s Dozen blog and the Darling Library News & Events in your Bloglines account. If you watched the video on RSS Feeds in Plain English, you will know the first step is to sign up for an RSS Reader (i.e., Bloglines) and then go to your favorite sites (i.e., Darling Library News & Events). Look for the orange icon in the right column. Then you will be given a choice to subscribe with Bloglines. Click on the Bloglines icon or choose it from the dropdown menu... scroll to the bottom and click the Subscribe button. Done!

Also I recommend the Blogs in Plain English (2:58 min.) as an excellent explanation of blogs from the same guys that brought you RSS in Plain English.

Web 2.0 Training - Lesson 1: Blogs

From Baker’s Dozen: 13 Web 2.0 Technologies (http://community.ahml.info/bakersdozen/)

Guess what! We're starting an in-house training program on Web 2.0. If you're like me you've heard of it, but don't know what all it entails. I'm preparing to do a presentation on it to the PCC faculty in October so I was looking at it more in depth. I think we all should at least be familiar with it and since another library has done a training program on it for their staff, I'm going to ask that you all complete the training too. It's called Baker’s Dozen: 13 Web 2.0 Technologies and is written for the Alington Heights Memorial Library staff. It looks like they put lessons up once a month and each lesson has an assignment. The first 5 lessons are available now:

1. Blogs
2. RSS and Feedreaders
3. LibraryThing
4. del.icio.us and Social Bookmarking
5. YouTube

This means we should finish up the 13th lesson in May 2009 but we're 5 lessons behind so we need to catch up! (It's not urgent to get "caught up," but I will ask you about it during the performance reviews in January or February.)

The first lesson on Blogs is pretty elementary but I think we'll go ahead and follow their lesson plan anyway except... This is your first assignment:

Read the lesson but where it says to make a comment on that blog don’t do it! Instead add a comment to our blog here:

• Scroll down to the bottom of this entry and click on the "comments" link. You’ll then see text that says "Leave your comment" as well as a large box that you can type text in.


• Enter your comment and push the orange "Publish Your Comment" button.

If you have a Blogger account (I think most of you do) then you will be asked if you want to use that identity or not. I'm not sure, but I don't think you will be able to publish a comment on our blog unless you do have an account because we don't allow anonymous comments to our staff blog.