Listed below are 23 Things (or small exercises) that you can do on the Web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0. Staff are encouraged to complete all 23 items on this list by December 2, 2008, in order to receive a free flash drive, and be entered in the drawing for the prizes.
Note: Starting with Week 7, Wikis, there are two weeks to complete each grouped set of “things,” instead of one. I have not renumbered the weeks, just for the sake of simplicity. Please don’t ask me to do this. π
23 Learn & Play @CML Things
(Note: Details about each task will be activated every week with posts related to each item)
- Week 1: Introduction–official start on August 12, 2008
- Read this blog & find out about the program.
- Discover a few pointers from lifelong learners and learn how to nurture your own learning process.
Week 2: Blogging
- Set up your own blog and add your first post.
- Register your blog on CMLsi, and begin your Learn & Play journey.
Week 3: Photos & Images - Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.
- Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr mashups and third-party sites.
- Create a blog post about anything technology-related that interests you this week.
Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders - Learn about RSS feeds and setup your own Bloglines newsreader account.
- Locate a few useful library related blogs and/or news feeds.
Week 5: Play Week! - Play around with an online image generator.
- Take a look at LibraryThing and catalog some of your favorite books.
- Explore Twitter and post some tweets.
Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies, & del.icio.us - Learn about tagging and discover del.icio.us (a social bookmaking site).
- Read a few perspectives on Web 2.0, Library 2.0 and the future of libraries, and blog your thoughts.
Week 7: Wikis - Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that libraries are using them.
- Add an entry to the Learn & Play @CML wiki sandbox.
Week 8: Online Applications & Tools
- Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.
- Explore any site from the Web 2.0 awards list, play with it, and write a blog post about your findings.
- Explore CML’s own Tool Box of great Web 2.0 tools.
- Discover YouTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.
- Discover some useful search tools for locating podcasts.
- Take a look at the titles available on MOLDI and learn how to download audiobooks.
- Summarize your thoughts about this program on your blog.
Week 9: Podcasts and Video
Week 10: Downloadable audio
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Hi….I actually switched from blogger to wordpress. I found their display pages prettier plus it’s a little bit more user friendly? Does that make me a cheater?
Question. If your blog is already registered, what link do you copy and paste in order to track your progress on CMLSi?
Hi, Damien,
As you go through each of the 23 Things, you will blog about the experience. The perma link, or the permanent URL for each individual post about each of the individual “things,” is what you will be posting into the Tracking Log. You won’t be posting the main URL each week; you will post the unique URL for an individual blog post.
If this doesn’t make sense, and I may not be explaining it perfectly and for that I apologize, check out the page here on the Learn & Play Blog called “Track Your Progress.” It explains (and visualizes!) exactly how to do it.
And, if you still have questions, please let me know! π
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Oh dear, oh dear…I jumped ahead to #8 and now my blog doesn’t allow me to put links in the content. I even tried saying, “Helen Blowers, Helen Blowers, Helen Blowers”, but to no avail. Are there any tech gurus around to help???
Hi, R C,
Hmm… so you created a Bloglines account, added some RSS feeds, and then tried to blog about it? We haven’t revealed the Discovery Exercise for Thing #8, so I’m not sure what it is you did and how your blog was affected. If you can give more details, I can try to have The Wizard (AKA Sam Davis) look into it! π
Hey Joy
Oh this is interesting….the leave a reply is filled in with somebody else’s info even though i signed on to cmlsi as me. Anyway, this is R C again. I did get a feedburner account and something with Google…like a share service sort of thing. Does that give us any idea?? Thanks for such a quick response, by the way. I am leaving the info that isn’t mine in the boxes with the reply in case it is a bug that needs attention.
uh yeah, hi. i’m molly higgins and that is kind of not cool that other people can post a comment using my info. i work at northside, so i’m curious to know if the person who posted a comment using my info works at northside. i noticed this bug once when Mark Issel’s name/email/website was auto filled in the “leave a reply” boxes. please just erase my info if it pops up again, rather than posting a comment using my info.
Pleased to make your aquaintance Molly. I am not at Northside and will erase anybody’s information that pops up in the box in the future. Sorry bout that.
Sorry RC if my message sounded gruff. tone is so hard to convey in type! thanks!
Molly and R C,
I was really stumped when I read your comments, but, you know what? This same thing happened a couple of weeks ago to two other staff members. Since it happened again, I went to The Wizard (AKA Sam Davis), and he was equally puzzled. However, being the Almighty Wizard that he is, he thinks what is causing this is SmartFilter that is on CML’s computers. It has to do with IP addresses and how SmartFilter sort of makes all of us have the same IP address. Obviously, I’m not explaining this in the complete, technical version that Sam gave me, but I thought i’d at least try to translate it into English, haha.
So, this actually might happen again. I apologize for any weirdness and confusion this might and has caused. It was one of those things (like disappearing blogs) that we just didn’t know about until we started using it.
I guess just make sure when you post a comment, you have your name in there and not someone else’s. I am sorry for the frustration! And, Molly, don’t worry. I would have been a little freaked out if someone else left a comment wirh my name on it, too. At least now we know that we can blame WordPress. Well, that’s what I do these days… π
And R C, to answer your last question… Okay, so Feedburner allows you to establish an email update feature to your blog. That is what you intended to do, yes? And I think you are using Blogger, right? Is it not allowing you to enter links in your posts? Tell you what, if this is still giving you trouble, I can easily meet with you to take a look at things. Let me know if you need me to do this, okay? π
Thanks Molly and Joy. I knew you would come through with some knowledge of what was happening. I haven’t yet read through feedburner info, but with everything I have been playing with, you have given me a good starting point.
Oh…I skipped to #9 successfully. I really like putting videos into the blog (pixelwiki) to share. Feast your eyes guys.
Joy, BTW, since we are using those url’s to track our progress, what happens if we delete the post? Do we have to keep those posts until we are all through the weeks we are doing this?
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I just emailed the link to “learn and play” to my sister, who teaches 5th grade in Vermont. She is excited about learning new technology and sharing it with her students.
I haven’t done anything for a bit and am totally confused on wiki’s…am I on the Learn&Play@CML wiki?
Ladub,
I’m glad you shared the link with your sister! It’s amazing how a little bit of time playing around with web2.0 technologies showed me a world of possibilities.
It would be great to hear if your sister uses this in her classroom.
I love learn and Play. Has anyone figured out if you have to download a pod catcher-or if windows media player is enough
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Whats this extra credit I keep hearing about and do we get anything for doing it? π
I wrote my entry today:
http://imatworkandsoareyou.blogspot.com/2008/12/23-so-what-does-it-all-mean-alfie-or.html
Hi, Gordon!
The “extra credit” is really just a bonus, fun thing that Helene proposed for everyone after finishing your 23rd Thing. Post 10 random things about yourself and then tweet your result link to @learnandplay and @hblowers so we all can read them. It’s been a lot of fun to learn interesting things about people! You don’t get anything for doing it other than the satisfaction of knowing that your blog will be read by tens of people as a result. π Okay, seriously, it’s just a fun thing to do, not mandatory! π
Joy
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