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:
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.
- 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.
7 comments:
Don't be an over-acheiver and do Lesson 2 and following until you hear from me because I'll have to modify the assigments first.
OK I will just stick with the first lesson. Blogging is good if you can keep up with the blog itself. No need to say you have a blog, if nothing new is on it for weeks. People loose interest pretty fast these days. I guess it would also be o.k. to have comments once in a while from viewers so that they can feel that their contribution matters - And it does :)
Consider yourselves "BLOGGed" by Joe
I wonder if the system censors words which are inappropriate...maybe I should give it a try.
I feel so uncool because I have nothing clever to say. Oh well...(sigh)
Terri was here.
Web 2.0 tools are awesome to use for communication in this information technology era. Blogging is great. But i have also heard that it can be addictive and very time consuming updating and posting on friends blogs. That is why i have not made my blog public. I keep it private-- i use it as a personal diary. May be next year when i have some free time i will be more aggressive in using this tool.
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