Welcome to SAPL's Learning 2.0 program & blog. Chances are if you've found your way here you're either:
- a member of SAPL's staff who's participating in the Learning 2.0 Challenge.
- interested in learning about and playing around (yes, playing is allowed in libraries) with some new Web 2.0 tools that will help you expand your information literacy toolbox.
- or, you're just interested in earning a cool incentive prize!
Learning 2.0 is online learning program that encourages staff to learn about emerging technologies on the web that are changing the way people, society and libraries access information and communicate with each other.
Over the course of the next eight and a half weeks, this website will highlight “23 Things” and present discovery exercises to help you become familiar with blogging, rss newsfeeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, online applications, and video and image hosting sites.
To familiarize yourself with this project, be sure to read the About page. The FAQs should answer most of your questions about this program. If not, then please add your question to the this page as a comment.So fasten your seat belts, grab your mouse and get ready for a discovery adventure… and remember, it's OK to play in the library and have fun!
This was the first of the 23 things. Easy, right? See you in a few days with Thing 2: Lifelong Learning.Bonus:
Need some selling on the idea? Check out Clay Shirky talking at the Web 2.0 expo on society and change. It's long (about 15 minutes), but worth your time.It will make you laugh and learn at the same time:
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11 comments:
How do we listen if we don't have speakers or headphones?
Also, I don't really understand the sign up section below.
Do we have to sign up with google to blog?
Hi Carol! Yes, you do need a speaker or headphones to hear the sound. You're more than welcome to do these lessons without sound, but sometimes there are things to hear that you may miss.
To create a blog (which you'll do in lessons 2 and 3), you will need to sign up for blog account. Blogger (the service we recommend) is owned by Google, so therefore you will need a Google account.
It didn't make me have a google account to sign up. I just signed up with blogger.
blogger is a Google service. signing up for any Google service creates a Google account. so now you have gmail and a bazillion other fun free things at your fingertips (assuming you're typing with your fingertips) :)
ask Didi about iGoogle. she's nuts about it.
No, she's just nuts. :-)
I love the part of Shirky's speech about "failing informatively." I've actually taken that to heart and am hoping to convince myself to try more things.
I do love iGoogle! I have a WorldCat search bar (for ILLs), a Wikipedia search bar (for the general ref questions), bookmarks for the heavier reference tools, my RSS Feeds, my email, and more all on one page. I've heard this kind of dynamic grouping of services called Web 3.0... but that's a whole other class ;).
No speakers or headphones? Borrow a laptop computer during non-public hours. If you are really pressed, I probably have a pair that you could lysol down :)
RE: the video clip.
I like Clay's idea that we are part of a triathalon: produce/consume/share. As librarians -- who have spent a great deal to time and effort in "share" mode -- I am thinking web 2.0 -- which gives us a whole new way of sharing -- is right up our alley.
Re: Clay's video clip
I watched the video clip with Clay. He mentioned the idea of "cognitive surpluses." In the end of video clip, he was optimistic that these "cognitive surpluses" could be used for a good cause.
Lets get this party Started!
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