SLJ Learning 2.0 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20 A Companion Blog to SLJ's All Together Now Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:45:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en 1.0 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20 hints-tips learning the-12-things uncategorized Thing #5 Flickr http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=107 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=107 107 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0000-00-00 00:00:00 open open draft 0 0 post _edit_lock 1217771865 _edit_last 2 The 12 Things http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=1 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:48:15 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=1
  • Blogs
  • Podcasts
  • RSS
  • Wikis
  • Flickr
  • Web Toys
  • Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
  • Social Networking Sites
  • Video Sites
  • Twitter
  • Tagging
  • Google Apps
    • ]]>     1 2008-07-16 13:48:15 2008-07-16 18:48:15 open open hello-world publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1216837073 _edit_last 2     About http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?page_id=2 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:48:15 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?page_id=2 Greetings All Together Now participants! This is Michael Stephens, and I’ll be posting to this blog for the next few weeks for this Learning 2.0 course. When Brian Kenney asked me to take this project on, I was tickled. I’ve watched successful Learning 2.0 programs play out all over the world since the summer of 2006 when Helene Blowers launched the original program she created at the Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County. I was lucky enough to be there for the opening day with my writing partner Michael Casey, to speak to the staff about the emerging tools and the excitement of exploring them for libraries. I love the open, playful, and fun attitude this program brings to libraries. All of the tools in the program are free or virtually free! About Your Guide First, a bit about me: I’ve been working with technology in libraries for many years. I started as a paraprofessional at the St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, Indiana back in 1991 working with technology in one way or another: AV, reference, public computing, IT, training, etc. In 2003, I discovered blogging and  was hooked! I started my Tame the Web blog then and have enjoyed writing and sharing with people in libraries since. I’ve also been speaking and working with library groups for the past few years, including a recent trip to Australia to do seven presentations in five cities. I spent almost 15 years in the public library while finding my way back to school for the doctorate in 2004 so I could teach in a library school. I’ll be starting my third year at Dominican University’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science this fall. I enjoy teaching - classes, workshops, webinars and programs such as this.  To learn more about me, please visit: http://tametheweb.com/about-michael-stephens/ What is Learning 2.0?  It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” Helene designed the program for self-directed learning and exploration that will only take a little bit of time for each module. By the end of our course, you’ll be able to say you’ve had experience with: Blogs Podcasts RSS Wikis Flickr Web Toys Web 2.0 & Library 2.0 Social Networking Sites Video Sites Twitter Tagging Google Apps That’s 12 things! So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others. Our work will begin the 21st of July! Starting Monday, I’ll put up a post here — the first of our “things” - with instructions to explore. The first thing is getting a blog and trying out blogging. I’ve worked with a lot of libraries doing these programs and folks sometimes confess they are scared to dive in. These tools seem too new or hard to use. This program is designed to alleviate those worries. Work at your own pace. Work with a colleague or friend. I kid you not, this is a perfect time and a perfect place to experience these things. These rules will help:  Explore. Try things out. Don’t worry about “breaking” anything! Ask questions. There are no dumb questions. AND It’s okay to make mistakes. So please dive in. Explore. Play. And share what you are learning and thinking about!  The Blog for All Together Now is at  http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/blog/290000629.html]]> 2 2008-07-16 13:48:15 2008-07-16 18:48:15 open open about publish 0 0 page _edit_lock 1216575239 _edit_last 2 _wp_page_template default Hello world! http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=3 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:48:15 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=3 3 2008-07-16 13:48:15 2008-07-16 18:48:15 open open 1-revision inherit 1 0 revision About http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=8 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:48:15 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/2-revision/ 8 2008-07-16 13:48:15 2008-07-16 18:48:15 open open 2-revision inherit 2 0 revision The 12 Things http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=4 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:08:08 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=4 4 2008-07-18 16:08:08 2008-07-18 21:08:08 open open 1-revision-2 inherit 1 0 revision The 12 Things http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=5 Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:08:19 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=5 5 2008-07-18 16:08:19 2008-07-18 21:08:19 open open 1-revision-3 inherit 1 0 revision The 12 Things http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=7 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:32:03 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/6-revision/ School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet. These sites include:Blogger, Flickr, Odeo, YouTube, PBWiki & Bloglines. Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:
    • #1  Blogs
    • #2  RSS
    • #3  Podcasts
    • #4  Wikis
    • #5  Flickr
    • #6  Web Toys (Image Generators, Flickr Toys)
    • #7  Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
    • #8  Social Networking Sites
    • #9  Video Sites
    • #10 Twitter
    • #11 Tagging
    • #12 Google Apps
    ]]>     7 2008-07-20 12:32:03 2008-07-20 17:32:03 open open 6-revision inherit 6 0 revision     All Together Now http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:32:54 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?page_id=6 All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things: So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]> 6 2008-07-20 12:32:54 2008-07-20 17:32:54 open open the-12-things publish 0 0 page _edit_last 2 _wp_page_template default _edit_lock 1220550274 The 12 Things http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=10 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:32:54 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/6-revision-2/ School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:
    • #1  Blogs
    • #2  RSS
    • #3  Podcasts
    • #4  Wikis
    • #5  Flickr
    • #6  Web Toys (Image Generators, Flickr Toys)
    • #7  Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
    • #8  Social Networking Sites
    • #9  Video Sites
    • #10 Twitter
    • #11 Tagging
    • #12 Google Apps
    So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]>     10 2008-07-20 12:32:54 2008-07-20 17:32:54 open open 6-revision-2 inherit 6 0 revision     slj http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?attachment_id=9 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:35:28 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/slj.png 9 2008-07-20 12:35:28 2008-07-20 17:35:28 open open slj inherit 6 0 attachment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/slj.png _wp_attached_file /home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/slj.png _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";i:265;s:6:"height";i:86;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='41' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:91:"/home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/slj.png";s:5:"sizes";a:1:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:14:"slj-150x86.png";s:5:"width";i:150;s:6:"height";i:86;}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";i:0;s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";i:0;s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";i:0;s:3:"iso";i:0;s:13:"shutter_speed";i:0;s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} The 12 Things http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=11 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:35:57 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/6-revision-3/ All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:
    • #1  Blogs
    • #2  RSS
    • #3  Podcasts
    • #4  Wikis
    • #5  Flickr
    • #6  Web Toys (Image Generators, Flickr Toys)
    • #7  Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
    • #8  Social Networking Sites
    • #9  Video Sites
    • #10 Twitter
    • #11 Tagging
    • #12 Google Apps
    So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]>     11 2008-07-20 12:35:57 2008-07-20 17:35:57 open open 6-revision-3 inherit 6 0 revision     The 12 Things http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=28 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:36:18 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=28 All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:
    • #1  Blogs
    • #2  RSS
    • #3  Podcasts
    • #4  Wikis
    • #5  Flickr
    • #6  Web Toys (Image Generators, Flickr Toys)
    • #7  Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
    • #8  Social Networking Sites
    • #9  Video Sites
    • #10 Twitter
    • #11 Tagging
    • #12 Google Apps
    So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]>     28 2008-07-20 12:36:18 2008-07-20 17:36:18 open open 6-revision-4 inherit 6 0 revision     Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=13 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:39:47 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision/ 13 2008-07-20 12:39:47 2008-07-20 17:39:47 open open 12-revision inherit 12 0 revision Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=14 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:42:58 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision-2/ 14 2008-07-20 12:42:58 2008-07-20 17:42:58 open open 12-revision-2 inherit 12 0 revision Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=15 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:43:02 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision-3/ 15 2008-07-20 12:43:02 2008-07-20 17:43:02 open open 12-revision-3 inherit 12 0 revision Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=16 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:43:02 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision-4/ 16 2008-07-20 12:43:02 2008-07-20 17:43:02 open open 12-revision-4 inherit 12 0 revision Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=17 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:44:18 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision-5/ Blogger*, a popular free online blog hosting service that is extremely easy to use. Creating a blog using Blogger takes just three steps:
    1. Create an account (view screenshot)
    2. Name your blog (view screenshot)
    3. Select your template. (view screenshot)
    Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:
    • To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online athttp://www.blogger.com Be sure to write down your login and password.
    • To view your blog: Your blog address ishttp://(xxxx).blogspot.com, (xxxx)=the unique identifier you entered in Step 2. Be sure to also write down your blog address.
    If you run into problems or would like more information about blogs and using Blogger here are some discovery resources you can use: OK -- Now, it’s your turn...  Discovery Exercise:
    1. Setup a blog for yourself through Blogger.
    2. Add a test post or two.  Note: Use one of your test posts to create an entry about the habits among the 7 and 1/2 lifelong learning habits that is easiest and hardest for you & why.
    3. Have fun!!!!
    IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself. However, in order to qualify for the staff incentives and staff day prize drawings, you will need to register on PLCMC Central using your employee number. * Use of Blogger is only a recommendation. If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it. ]]>     17 2008-07-20 12:44:18 2008-07-20 17:44:18 open open 12-revision-5 inherit 12 0 revision     Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=18 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:55:14 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision-6/ We'll be using blogs for all of you to record your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in the program. Some of you may like blogging so much, you might even write extra posts or continue after our course is over. For the course, we'll use free hosted blogging software. Choose from the following:*
    Choose one of the above, get an account and build your blog. If you need extra help, check out this video of setting up a Wordpress blog. Feel free to watch it while you set up your own.
    Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:
    • To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.wordpress.com Be sure to write down your login and password.
    • To view your blog: Your blog address ishttp://(xxxx).blogspot.com, (xxxx)=the unique identifier you entered in Step 2. Be sure to also write down your blog address.
    If you run into problems or would like more information about blogs and using Blogger here are some discovery resources you can use: OK -- Now, it’s your turn...  Discovery Exercise:
    1. Setup a blog for yourself through Blogger.
    2. Add a test post or two.  Note: Use one of your test posts to create an entry about the habits among the 7 and 1/2 lifelong learning habits that is easiest and hardest for you & why.
    3. Have fun!!!!
    IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself. However, in order to qualify for the staff incentives and staff day prize drawings, you will need to register on PLCMC Central using your employee number. *  If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it. ]]>     18 2008-07-20 12:55:14 2008-07-20 17:55:14 open open 12-revision-6 inherit 12 0 revision     edublogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?attachment_id=19 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:11:09 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/edublogs.png 19 2008-07-20 13:11:09 2008-07-20 18:11:09 open open edublogs inherit 12 0 attachment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/edublogs.png _wp_attached_file /home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/edublogs.png _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";i:256;s:6:"height";i:150;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='75' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:96:"/home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/edublogs.png";s:5:"sizes";a:1:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:20:"edublogs-150x150.png";s:5:"width";i:150;s:6:"height";i:150;}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";i:0;s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";i:0;s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";i:0;s:3:"iso";i:0;s:13:"shutter_speed";i:0;s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} wordpress http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?attachment_id=20 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:11:22 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/wordpress.png 20 2008-07-20 13:11:22 2008-07-20 18:11:22 open open wordpress inherit 12 0 attachment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/wordpress.png _wp_attached_file /home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/wordpress.png _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";i:328;s:6:"height";i:72;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='28' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:97:"/home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/wordpress.png";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:20:"wordpress-150x72.png";s:5:"width";i:150;s:6:"height";i:72;}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:20:"wordpress-300x65.png";s:5:"width";i:300;s:6:"height";i:65;}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";i:0;s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";i:0;s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";i:0;s:3:"iso";i:0;s:13:"shutter_speed";i:0;s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=21 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:30:46 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision-7/ We'll be using blogs for all of you to record your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in the program. Some of you may like blogging so much, you might even write extra posts or continue after our course is over. For the course, we'll use free hosted blogging software. Choose from the following:*
    Choose one of the above, get an account and build your blog.We'll be highlightingWordpress for our examples, but the blogs at Edublogs are also a version of Wordpress, so everything will look familiar.
     If you need extra help, check out this video of setting up a Wordpress blog. Feel free to watch it while you set up your own.
    Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:
    • To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.wordpress.com. Be sure to write down your login and password.
    •  Be sure to also write down your blog address as well, probably something like http://sampleblog.wordpress.com
    OK -- Now, it’s your turn...  Discovery Exercise for Thing #1:
    1. Setup a blog for yourself through Wordpress or Edublogs
    2. Give your blog a name. Remember that the whole web world can see your blog title and blog address. You probably don’t want to use your full name. Consider creating a blog name that’s anonymous, yet uniquely you. Sam's
    3. Select a theme from the choices available.
    4. Add a test post or two. Consider writing a brief bio, sharing only what you want to - remember, our blogs are out for the world to see! Or share what you'd like to get out of this program. 
    5. Have fun!!!!
    6. Enter your blog address at our community clearinghouse site: http://tametheweb.com/alltogethernowblogs/. Find your state or country and add a comment, introducing yourself and sharing your blog URL. This site will help us see who is participating and where they are on the globe. Please share only as much as you'd like.
    7. Spend some time playing with your blog: explore the options/features, try adding an image, or 
    IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself. However, in order to qualify for the staff incentives and staff day prize drawings, you will need to register on PLCMC Central using your employee number. *  If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it.  Resources: Wordpress How To: http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4]]>     21 2008-07-20 13:30:46 2008-07-20 18:30:46 open open 12-revision-7 inherit 12 0 revision     Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=22 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:32:46 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision-8/ We'll be using blogs for all of you to record your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in the program. Some of you may like blogging so much, you might even write extra posts or continue after our course is over. For the course, we'll use free hosted blogging software. Choose from the following:*
    Choose one of the above, get an account and build your blog.We'll be highlightingWordpress for our examples, but the blogs at Edublogs are also a version of Wordpress, so everything will look familiar.
     If you need extra help, check out this video of setting up a Wordpress blog. Feel free to watch it while you set up your own.
    Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:
    • To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.wordpress.com. Be sure to write down your login and password.
    •  Be sure to also write down your blog address as well, probably something like http://sampleblog.wordpress.com
    OK -- Now, it’s your turn...  Discovery Exercise for Thing #1:
    1. Setup a blog for yourself through Wordpress or Edublogs
    2. Give your blog a name. Remember that the whole web world can see your blog title and blog address. You probably don’t want to use your full name. Consider creating a blog name that’s anonymous, yet uniquely you. Sams12Things.wordpress.com or KiraLearns20.wordpress.com are what you might see for this program.
    3. Select a theme from the choices available.
    4. Add a test post or two. Consider writing a brief bio, sharing only what you want to - remember, our blogs are out for the world to see! Or share what you'd like to get out of this program. 
    5. Enter your blog address at our community clearinghouse site: http://tametheweb.com/alltogethernowblogs/. Find your state or country and add a comment, introducing yourself and sharing your blog URL. This site will help us see who is participating and where they are on the globe. Please share only as much as you'd like.
    6. Spend some time playing with your blog: explore the options/features, try adding an image, or whatever strikes you.
    7. Have fun!!!
    We'll be back on Thursday for our next thing: RSS. St
    IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself. However, in order to qualify for the staff incentives and staff day prize drawings, you will need to register on PLCMC Central using your employee number. *  If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it.  Resources: Wordpress How To: http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4]]>     22 2008-07-20 13:32:46 2008-07-20 18:32:46 open open 12-revision-8 inherit 12 0 revision     Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=23 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:32:50 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision-9/ We'll be using blogs for all of you to record your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in the program. Some of you may like blogging so much, you might even write extra posts or continue after our course is over. For the course, we'll use free hosted blogging software. Choose from the following:*
    Choose one of the above, get an account and build your blog.We'll be highlightingWordpress for our examples, but the blogs at Edublogs are also a version of Wordpress, so everything will look familiar.
     If you need extra help, check out this video of setting up a Wordpress blog. Feel free to watch it while you set up your own.
    Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:
    • To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.wordpress.com. Be sure to write down your login and password.
    •  Be sure to also write down your blog address as well, probably something like http://sampleblog.wordpress.com
    OK -- Now, it’s your turn...  Discovery Exercise for Thing #1:
    1. Setup a blog for yourself through Wordpress or Edublogs
    2. Give your blog a name. Remember that the whole web world can see your blog title and blog address. You probably don’t want to use your full name. Consider creating a blog name that’s anonymous, yet uniquely you. Sams12Things.wordpress.com or KiraLearns20.wordpress.com are what you might see for this program.
    3. Select a theme from the choices available.
    4. Add a test post or two. Consider writing a brief bio, sharing only what you want to - remember, our blogs are out for the world to see! Or share what you'd like to get out of this program. 
    5. Enter your blog address at our community clearinghouse site: http://tametheweb.com/alltogethernowblogs/. Find your state or country and add a comment, introducing yourself and sharing your blog URL. This site will help us see who is participating and where they are on the globe. Please share only as much as you'd like.
    6. Spend some time playing with your blog: explore the options/features, try adding an image, or whatever strikes you.
    7. Have fun!!!
    We'll be back on Thursday for our next thing: RSS. Stay tuned.
    IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself. However, in order to qualify for the staff incentives and staff day prize drawings, you will need to register on PLCMC Central using your employee number. *  If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it.  Resources: Wordpress How To: http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4]]>     23 2008-07-20 13:32:50 2008-07-20 18:32:50 open open 12-revision-9 inherit 12 0 revision     Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=12 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:32:56 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=12 We'll be using blogs for all of you to record your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in the program. Some of you may like blogging so much, you might even write extra posts or continue after our course is over. For the course, we'll use free hosted blogging software. Choose from the following:*
    Choose one of the above, get an account and build your blog.We'll be highlightingWordpress for our examples, but the blogs at Edublogs are also a version of Wordpress, so everything will look familiar.
    If you need extra help, check out this video of setting up a Wordpress blog. Feel free to watch it while you set up your own.
    Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:
    • To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.wordpress.com. Be sure to write down your login and password.
    •  Be sure to also write down your blog address as well, probably something like http://sampleblog.wordpress.com. 
    OK -- Now, it’s your turn...  Discovery Exercise for Thing #1:
    1. Setup a blog for yourself through Wordpress or Edublogs
    2. Give your blog a name. Remember that the whole web world can see your blog title and blog address. You probably don’t want to use your full name. Consider creating a blog name that’s anonymous, yet uniquely you. Sams12Things.wordpress.com or KiraLearns20.wordpress.com are what you might see for this program.
    3. Select a theme from the choices available.
    4. Add a test post or two. Consider writing a brief bio, sharing only what you want to - remember, our blogs are out for the world to see! Or share what you'd like to get out of this program. 
    5. Enter your blog address at our community clearinghouse site: http://tametheweb.com/alltogethernowblogs/. Find your state or country and add a comment by clicking on the Comments link. Please introduce yourself and share your blog URL. This site will help us see who is participating and where they are on the globe. Please share only as much as you'd like.
    6. Spend some time playing with your blog: explore the options/features, try adding an image, or whatever strikes you.
    7. Have fun!!!
    We'll be back on Thursday for our next thing: RSS. Stay tuned.
    IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself.  *  If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it.  Resources: Wordpress How To: http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4 by Kyle Jones, Dominican GSLIS]]>     12 2008-07-20 13:32:56 2008-07-20 18:32:56 open open thing-1-blogs publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1216837231 _edit_last 2 enclosure http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4 70172170 video/mp4     Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=24 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:32:56 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision-10/ We'll be using blogs for all of you to record your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in the program. Some of you may like blogging so much, you might even write extra posts or continue after our course is over. For the course, we'll use free hosted blogging software. Choose from the following:*
    Choose one of the above, get an account and build your blog.We'll be highlightingWordpress for our examples, but the blogs at Edublogs are also a version of Wordpress, so everything will look familiar.
     If you need extra help, check out this video of setting up a Wordpress blog. Feel free to watch it while you set up your own.
    Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:
    • To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.wordpress.com. Be sure to write down your login and password.
    •  Be sure to also write down your blog address as well, probably something like http://sampleblog.wordpress.com
    OK -- Now, it’s your turn...  Discovery Exercise for Thing #1:
    1. Setup a blog for yourself through Wordpress or Edublogs
    2. Give your blog a name. Remember that the whole web world can see your blog title and blog address. You probably don’t want to use your full name. Consider creating a blog name that’s anonymous, yet uniquely you. Sams12Things.wordpress.com or KiraLearns20.wordpress.com are what you might see for this program.
    3. Select a theme from the choices available.
    4. Add a test post or two. Consider writing a brief bio, sharing only what you want to - remember, our blogs are out for the world to see! Or share what you'd like to get out of this program. 
    5. Enter your blog address at our community clearinghouse site: http://tametheweb.com/alltogethernowblogs/. Find your state or country and add a comment, introducing yourself and sharing your blog URL. This site will help us see who is participating and where they are on the globe. Please share only as much as you'd like.
    6. Spend some time playing with your blog: explore the options/features, try adding an image, or whatever strikes you.
    7. Have fun!!!
    We'll be back on Thursday for our next thing: RSS. Stay tuned.
    IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself. However, in order to qualify for the staff incentives and staff day prize drawings, you will need to register on PLCMC Central using your employee number. *  If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it.  Resources: Wordpress How To: http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4]]>     24 2008-07-20 13:32:56 2008-07-20 18:32:56 open open 12-revision-10 inherit 12 0 revision     Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=26 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:33:51 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-revision-11/ We'll be using blogs for all of you to record your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in the program. Some of you may like blogging so much, you might even write extra posts or continue after our course is over. For the course, we'll use free hosted blogging software. Choose from the following:*
    Choose one of the above, get an account and build your blog.We'll be highlightingWordpress for our examples, but the blogs at Edublogs are also a version of Wordpress, so everything will look familiar.
     If you need extra help, check out this video of setting up a Wordpress blog. Feel free to watch it while you set up your own.
    Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:
    • To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.wordpress.com. Be sure to write down your login and password.
    •  Be sure to also write down your blog address as well, probably something like http://sampleblog.wordpress.com
    OK -- Now, it’s your turn...  Discovery Exercise for Thing #1:
    1. Setup a blog for yourself through Wordpress or Edublogs
    2. Give your blog a name. Remember that the whole web world can see your blog title and blog address. You probably don’t want to use your full name. Consider creating a blog name that’s anonymous, yet uniquely you. Sams12Things.wordpress.com or KiraLearns20.wordpress.com are what you might see for this program.
    3. Select a theme from the choices available.
    4. Add a test post or two. Consider writing a brief bio, sharing only what you want to - remember, our blogs are out for the world to see! Or share what you'd like to get out of this program. 
    5. Enter your blog address at our community clearinghouse site: http://tametheweb.com/alltogethernowblogs/. Find your state or country and add a comment, introducing yourself and sharing your blog URL. This site will help us see who is participating and where they are on the globe. Please share only as much as you'd like.
    6. Spend some time playing with your blog: explore the options/features, try adding an image, or whatever strikes you.
    7. Have fun!!!
    We'll be back on Thursday for our next thing: RSS. Stay tuned.
    IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself. However, in order to qualify for the staff incentives and staff day prize drawings, you will need to register on PLCMC Central using your employee number. *  If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it.  Resources: Wordpress How To: http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4 by Kyle Jones, Dominican GSLIS]]>     26 2008-07-20 13:33:51 2008-07-20 18:33:51 open open 12-revision-11 inherit 12 0 revision     Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=27 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:35:03 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=27 We'll be using blogs for all of you to record your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in the program. Some of you may like blogging so much, you might even write extra posts or continue after our course is over. For the course, we'll use free hosted blogging software. Choose from the following:*
    Choose one of the above, get an account and build your blog.We'll be highlightingWordpress for our examples, but the blogs at Edublogs are also a version of Wordpress, so everything will look familiar.
     If you need extra help, check out this video of setting up a Wordpress blog. Feel free to watch it while you set up your own.
    Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:
    • To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.wordpress.com. Be sure to write down your login and password.
    •  Be sure to also write down your blog address as well, probably something like http://sampleblog.wordpress.com
    OK -- Now, it’s your turn...  Discovery Exercise for Thing #1:
    1. Setup a blog for yourself through Wordpress or Edublogs
    2. Give your blog a name. Remember that the whole web world can see your blog title and blog address. You probably don’t want to use your full name. Consider creating a blog name that’s anonymous, yet uniquely you. Sams12Things.wordpress.com or KiraLearns20.wordpress.com are what you might see for this program.
    3. Select a theme from the choices available.
    4. Add a test post or two. Consider writing a brief bio, sharing only what you want to - remember, our blogs are out for the world to see! Or share what you'd like to get out of this program. 
    5. Enter your blog address at our community clearinghouse site: http://tametheweb.com/alltogethernowblogs/. Find your state or country and add a comment, introducing yourself and sharing your blog URL. This site will help us see who is participating and where they are on the globe. Please share only as much as you'd like.
    6. Spend some time playing with your blog: explore the options/features, try adding an image, or whatever strikes you.
    7. Have fun!!!
    We'll be back on Thursday for our next thing: RSS. Stay tuned.
    IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself.  *  If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it.  Resources: Wordpress How To: http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4 by Kyle Jones, Dominican GSLIS]]>     27 2008-07-20 13:35:03 2008-07-20 18:35:03 open open 12-revision-12 inherit 12 0 revision     Thing #1: Blogs http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=25 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:41:28 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/2008/07/12-autosave/ We'll be using blogs for all of you to record your thoughts, discoveries and exercises in the program. Some of you may like blogging so much, you might even write extra posts or continue after our course is over. For the course, we'll use free hosted blogging software. Choose from the following:*
    Choose one of the above, get an account and build your blog.We'll be highlightingWordpress for our examples, but the blogs at Edublogs are also a version of Wordpress, so everything will look familiar.
    If you need extra help, check out this video of setting up a Wordpress blog. Feel free to watch it while you set up your own.
    Once you’ve created your blog here are two important things to know:
    • To add posts: The maintenance interface that you will use to add posts, edit or change the step-up your blog is accessed online at http://www.wordpress.com. Be sure to write down your login and password.
    •  Be sure to also write down your blog address as well, probably something like http://sampleblog.wordpress.com. 
    OK -- Now, it’s your turn...  Discovery Exercise for Thing #1:
    1. Setup a blog for yourself through Wordpress or Edublogs
    2. Give your blog a name. Remember that the whole web world can see your blog title and blog address. You probably don’t want to use your full name. Consider creating a blog name that’s anonymous, yet uniquely you. Sams12Things.wordpress.com or KiraLearns20.wordpress.com are what you might see for this program.
    3. Select a theme from the choices available.
    4. Add a test post or two. Consider writing a brief bio, sharing only what you want to - remember, our blogs are out for the world to see! Or share what you'd like to get out of this program. 
    5. Enter your blog address at our community clearinghouse site: http://tametheweb.com/alltogethernowblogs/. Find your state or country and add a comment by clicking on the Comments link. Please introduce yourself and share your blog URL. This site will help us see who is participating and where they are on the globe. Please share only as much as you'd like.
    6. Spend some time playing with your blog: explore the options/features, try adding an image, or whatever strikes you.
    7. Have fun!!!
    We'll be back on Thursday for our next thing: RSS. Stay tuned.
    IMPORTANT NOTE: How you choose to identify yourself on your blog is your choice. You can blog under a screen name, anonymously, or as yourself.  *  If there is another blog hosting site that you are more comfortable with, please feel free to use it.  Resources: Wordpress How To: http://screencasts.thecorkboard.org/wordpress.mp4 by Kyle Jones, Dominican GSLIS]]>     25 2008-07-20 13:41:28 2008-07-20 18:41:28 open open 12-autosave inherit 12 0 revision     The 12 Things http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=37 Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:45:53 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=37 All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:
    • #1  Blogs
    • #2  RSS
    • #3  Podcasts
    • #4  Wikis
    • #5  Flickr
    • #6  Web Toys (Image Generators, Flickr Toys)
    • #7  Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
    • #8  Social Networking Sites
    • #9  Video Sites
    • #10 Twitter
    • #11 Tagging
    • #12 Google Apps
    So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]>     37 2008-07-20 13:45:53 2008-07-20 18:45:53 open open 6-revision-5 inherit 6 0 revision     makecomment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?attachment_id=34 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:22:41 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/makecomment.png 34 2008-07-21 07:22:41 2008-07-21 12:22:41 open open makecomment inherit 33 0 attachment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/makecomment.png _wp_attached_file /home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/makecomment.png _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";i:461;s:6:"height";i:185;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='51' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:99:"/home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/makecomment.png";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:23:"makecomment-150x150.png";s:5:"width";i:150;s:6:"height";i:150;}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:23:"makecomment-300x120.png";s:5:"width";i:300;s:6:"height";i:120;}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";i:0;s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";i:0;s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";i:0;s:3:"iso";i:0;s:13:"shutter_speed";i:0;s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} entercomment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?attachment_id=35 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:23:05 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/entercomment.png 35 2008-07-21 07:23:05 2008-07-21 12:23:05 open open entercomment inherit 33 0 attachment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/entercomment.png _wp_attached_file /home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/entercomment.png _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";i:598;s:6:"height";i:440;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='94' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:100:"/home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/entercomment.png";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:24:"entercomment-150x150.png";s:5:"width";i:150;s:6:"height";i:150;}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:24:"entercomment-300x220.png";s:5:"width";i:300;s:6:"height";i:220;}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";i:0;s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";i:0;s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";i:0;s:3:"iso";i:0;s:13:"shutter_speed";i:0;s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Adding Your Blog to the Community http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=36 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:24:12 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=36 http://tametheweb.com/alltogethernowblogs/ Find your country or state. Then: Then: Tell us as much as you'd like: your name (first name only is cool)]]> 36 2008-07-21 07:24:12 2008-07-21 12:24:12 open open 33-revision inherit 33 0 revision Adding Your Blog to the Community http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=33 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:25:04 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=33 http://tametheweb.com/alltogethernowblogs/ Find your country or state. Then: Then: Tell us as much as you'd like: your name (first name only is cool), what type of library or related work you do, and where you are in our great big world. Check back to see who might be near you or who might be participating from far away!]]> 33 2008-07-21 07:25:04 2008-07-21 12:25:04 open open adding-your-blog-to-the-community publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1216650568 _edit_last 2 ALL TOGETHER NOW http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=49 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 12:36:03 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=49 All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:
    • #1  Blogs
    • #2  RSS
    • #3  Podcasts
    • #4  Wikis
    • #5  Flickr
    • #6  Web Toys (Image Generators, Flickr Toys)
    • #7  Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
    • #8  Social Networking Sites
    • #9  Video Sites
    • #10 Twitter
    • #11 Tagging
    • #12 Google Apps
    So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]>     49 2008-07-21 07:36:03 2008-07-21 12:36:03 open open 6-revision-6 inherit 6 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=39 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:51:15 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=39 39 2008-07-23 08:51:15 2008-07-23 13:51:15 open open 38-revision inherit 38 0 revision rssicon http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?attachment_id=40 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:10:50 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rssicon.jpg 40 2008-07-23 12:10:50 2008-07-23 17:10:50 open open rssicon inherit 38 0 attachment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rssicon.jpg _wp_attached_file /home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rssicon.jpg _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";i:200;s:6:"height";i:200;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:22:"height='96' width='96'";s:4:"file";s:95:"/home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rssicon.jpg";s:5:"sizes";a:1:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:19:"rssicon-150x150.jpg";s:5:"width";i:150;s:6:"height";i:150;}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";i:0;s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";i:0;s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";i:0;s:3:"iso";i:0;s:13:"shutter_speed";i:0;s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} rssicon http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?attachment_id=41 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:13:48 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rssicon.png 41 2008-07-23 12:13:48 2008-07-23 17:13:48 open open rssicon-2 inherit 38 0 attachment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rssicon.png _wp_attached_file /home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rssicon.png _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";i:248;s:6:"height";i:334;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:22:"height='96' width='71'";s:4:"file";s:95:"/home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/rssicon.png";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:19:"rssicon-150x150.png";s:5:"width";i:150;s:6:"height";i:150;}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:19:"rssicon-222x300.png";s:5:"width";i:222;s:6:"height";i:300;}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";i:0;s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";i:0;s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";i:0;s:3:"iso";i:0;s:13:"shutter_speed";i:0;s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=42 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:15:17 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=42 You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent surveyyou’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it!]]> 42 2008-07-23 12:15:17 2008-07-23 17:15:17 open open 38-revision-2 inherit 38 0 revision Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=43 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:30:30 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=43 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. All three of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to ju
    3. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program.
    ]]>     43 2008-07-23 12:30:30 2008-07-23 17:30:30 open open 38-revision-3 inherit 38 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=47 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:41:05 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=47 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. All three of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. 
    4. Subscribe to a few librarian's blogs.
    5. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds
    6. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources:
    Finding Feeds: 

    Other Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google reader:
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You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. All three of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    4. Subscribe to a few librarian's blogs. See below.
    5. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    6. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding Other Librarian's Blogs:
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    The Shifted Librarian
    Infomancy
    librarian.net
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart: Subscribe to the complete roster of blogs by importing this OPML file: (TO BE ADDED)
    Find out more about NetVibes OPML here and Google Reader OPML here.
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    ]]>     48 2008-07-23 13:16:39 2008-07-23 18:16:39 open open 38-revision-5 inherit 38 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=38 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:17:29 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=38 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. Both of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to this blog. Here's the feed URL: Oops! We are still waiting for our feed! I'll post it ASAP.
    4. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    5. Subscribe to a few SLJ and librarian's blogs. See below.
    6. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    7. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding the SLJ blogs or other librarian's Blogs:
    Add some of the illustrious SLJ Blogs: (Copy and paste these URLS)
    • Bowllan's Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSljBlog
    • Brian Unbound: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrianUnbound
    • Fuse 8 Production: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJAFuse8Production
    • Neverending Search: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch
    • Nonfiction Matters: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NonfictionMatters
    • Practically Paradise: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PracticallyParadise
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]>     38 2008-07-23 13:17:29 2008-07-23 18:17:29 open open thing-2-rss publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1217182847 _edit_last 2     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=50 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:17:29 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=50 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. All three of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    4. Subscribe to a few librarian's blogs. See below.
    5. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    6. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding Other Librarian's Blogs:
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    The Shifted Librarian
    Infomancy
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart: Subscribe to the complete roster of blogs by importing this OPML file: (TO BE ADDED)
    Find out more about NetVibes OPML here and Google Reader OPML here.
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    ]]>     50 2008-07-23 13:17:29 2008-07-23 18:17:29 open open 38-revision-6 inherit 38 0 revision     ALL TOGETHER NOW http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=54 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:18:15 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=54 All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:
    • #1  Blogs
    • #2  RSS
    • #3  Podcasts
    • #4  Wikis
    • #5  Flickr
    • #6  Web Toys (Image Generators, Flickr Toys)
    • #7  Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
    • #8  Social Networking Sites
    • #9  Video Sites
    • #10 Twitter
    • #11 Tagging
    • #12 Google Apps
    So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]>     54 2008-07-23 13:18:15 2008-07-23 18:18:15 open open 6-revision-7 inherit 6 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=51 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:20:25 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=51 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. All three of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    4. Subscribe to a few librarian's blogs. See below.
    5. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    6. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding Other Librarian's Blogs:
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    The Shifted Librarian
    Infomancy
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart: Subscribe to the complete roster of blogs by importing this OPML file: (TO BE ADDED)
    Find out more about NetVibes OPML here and Google Reader OPML here.
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    ]]>     51 2008-07-23 13:20:25 2008-07-23 18:20:25 open open 38-revision-7 inherit 38 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=53 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:21:37 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=53 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. All three of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    4. Subscribe to a few librarian's blogs. See below.
    5. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    6. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding Other Librarian's Blogs:
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    The Shifted Librarian
    Infomancy
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart: Subscribe to the complete roster of blogs by importing this OPML file: (TO BE ADDED)
    Find out more about NetVibes OPML here and Google Reader OPML here.
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    Creative Commons License
    This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License. ]]>     53 2008-07-23 13:21:37 2008-07-23 18:21:37 open open 38-revision-8 inherit 38 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=55 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:26:04 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=55 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. All three of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    4. Subscribe to a few librarian's blogs. See below.
    5. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    6. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding Other Librarian's Blogs:
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart:
    Subscribe to the complete roster of blogs by importing this OPML file: (TO BE ADDED)
    Find out more about NetVibes OPML here and Google Reader OPML here.
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]>     55 2008-07-23 14:26:04 2008-07-23 19:26:04 open open 38-revision-9 inherit 38 0 revision     All Together Now http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=76 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:30:33 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=76 All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:
    • #1  Blogs
    • #2  RSS
    • #3  Podcasts
    • #4  Wikis
    • #5  Flickr
    • #6  Web Toys (Image Generators, Flickr Toys)
    • #7  Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
    • #8  Social Networking Sites
    • #9  Video Sites
    • #10 Twitter
    • #11 Tagging
    • #12 Google Apps
    So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]>     76 2008-07-23 14:30:33 2008-07-23 19:30:33 open open 6-revision-8 inherit 6 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=58 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:32:11 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=58 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. All three of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to this blog. Here's the feed URL: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    4. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    5. Subscribe to a few librarian's blogs. See below.
    6. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    7. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding Other Librarian's Blogs:
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart:
    Subscribe to the complete roster of blogs by importing this OPML file: (TO BE ADDED)
    Find out more about NetVibes OPML here and Google Reader OPML here.
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]>     58 2008-07-23 14:32:11 2008-07-23 19:32:11 open open 38-revision-10 inherit 38 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=64 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:49:06 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=64 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. All three of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to this blog. Here's the feed URL: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    4. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    5. Subscribe to a few librarian's blogs. See below.
    6. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    7. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding Other Librarian's Blogs:
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart:
    Subscribe to the complete roster of blogs by importing this OPML file: (TO BE ADDED)
    Find out more about NetVibes OPML here and Google Reader OPML here.
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
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    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. Both of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to this blog. Here's the feed URL: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    4. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    5. Subscribe to a few SLJ and librarian's blogs. See below.
    6. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    7. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding the SLJ blogs or other librarian's Blogs:
    SLJ Blogs:(Copy and paste these URLS)
    Bowllan's Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSljBlog
    Brian Unbound: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrianUnbound
    Fuse 8 Production: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJAFuse8Production
    Neverending Search: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch
    Nonfiction Matters: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NonfictionMatters
    Practically Paradise:
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart:
    Subscribe to the complete roster of blogs by importing this OPML file: (TO BE ADDED)
    Find out more about NetVibes OPML here and Google Reader OPML here.
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]>     65 2008-07-24 09:00:52 2008-07-24 14:00:52 open open 38-revision-12 inherit 38 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=66 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:05:43 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=66 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. Both of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to this blog. Here's the feed URL: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    4. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    5. Subscribe to a few SLJ and librarian's blogs. See below.
    6. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    7. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding the SLJ blogs or other librarian's Blogs:
    Add some of the illustrious SLJ Blogs: (Copy and paste these URLS)
    • Bowllan's Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSljBlog
    • Brian Unbound: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrianUnbound
    • Fuse 8 Production: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJAFuse8Production
    • Neverending Search: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch
    • Nonfiction Matters: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NonfictionMatters
    • Practically Paradise: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PracticallyParadise
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart:
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]>     66 2008-07-24 09:05:43 2008-07-24 14:05:43 open open 38-revision-13 inherit 38 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=67 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:45:04 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=67 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. Both of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to this blog. Here's the feed URL: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
    4. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    5. Subscribe to a few SLJ and librarian's blogs. See below.
    6. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    7. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding the SLJ blogs or other librarian's Blogs:
    Add some of the illustrious SLJ Blogs: (Copy and paste these URLS)
    • Bowllan's Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSljBlog
    • Brian Unbound: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrianUnbound
    • Fuse 8 Production: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJAFuse8Production
    • Neverending Search: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch
    • Nonfiction Matters: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NonfictionMatters
    • Practically Paradise: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PracticallyParadise
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart:
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]>     67 2008-07-24 09:45:04 2008-07-24 14:45:04 open open 38-revision-14 inherit 38 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=68 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:46:20 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=68 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. Both of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to this blog. Here's the feed URL: Oops! We are still waiting for our feed! I'll post it ASAP.
    4. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    5. Subscribe to a few SLJ and librarian's blogs. See below.
    6. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    7. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding the SLJ blogs or other librarian's Blogs:
    Add some of the illustrious SLJ Blogs: (Copy and paste these URLS)
    • Bowllan's Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSljBlog
    • Brian Unbound: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrianUnbound
    • Fuse 8 Production: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJAFuse8Production
    • Neverending Search: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch
    • Nonfiction Matters: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NonfictionMatters
    • Practically Paradise: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PracticallyParadise
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
    ADVANCED and not for the faint of heart:
    Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
    Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]>     68 2008-07-24 09:46:20 2008-07-24 14:46:20 open open 38-revision-15 inherit 38 0 revision     Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=70 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:47:10 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=70 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
    1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
    2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. Both of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
    3. Subscribe to this blog. Here's the feed URL: Oops! We are still waiting for our feed! I'll post it ASAP.
    4. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
    5. Subscribe to a few SLJ and librarian's blogs. See below.
    6. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
    7. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
      What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
    Resources for Finding Feeds: 

    These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

    • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
    • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
    • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
    • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
    Subscribing to Feeds:
    In NetVibes:
    In Google Reader:
    Adding All Together Now Blogs:
    Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
    Adding the SLJ blogs or other librarian's Blogs:
    Add some of the illustrious SLJ Blogs: (Copy and paste these URLS)
    • Bowllan's Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSljBlog
    • Brian Unbound: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrianUnbound
    • Fuse 8 Production: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJAFuse8Production
    • Neverending Search: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch
    • Nonfiction Matters: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NonfictionMatters
    • Practically Paradise: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PracticallyParadise
    Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
    For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
      Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
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      1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
      2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. Both of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
      3. Subscribe to this blog. Here's the feed URL: Oops! We are still waiting for our feed! I'll post it ASAP.
      4. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
      5. Subscribe to a few SLJ and librarian's blogs. See below.
      6. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
      7. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
        What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
      Resources for Finding Feeds: 

      These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

      • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
      • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
      • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
      • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
      Subscribing to Feeds:
      In NetVibes:
      In Google Reader:
      Adding All Together Now Blogs:
      Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
      Adding the SLJ blogs or other librarian's Blogs:
      Add some of the illustrious SLJ Blogs: (Copy and paste these URLS)
      • Bowllan's Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSljBlog
      • Brian Unbound: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrianUnbound
      • Fuse 8 Production: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJAFuse8Production
      • Neverending Search: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch
      • Nonfiction Matters: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NonfictionMatters
      • Practically Paradise: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PracticallyParadise
      Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
      For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
      Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]>       82 2008-07-27 12:26:28 2008-07-27 17:26:28 open open 38-revision-17 inherit 38 0 revision       #3 Podcasts http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=74 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:41:28 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=74 watch this video: The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 36 months, it's easy to see why.  Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.  iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options. For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your aggregator or into iTunes as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.  Discovery Resources: Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed (or iTunes if you have that program on your PC) and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news. 
      2. Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your RSS aggregator or iTunes.
      3. Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here?
      ]]>       74 2008-07-27 12:41:28 2008-07-27 17:41:28 open open 73-revision inherit 73 0 revision       #3 Podcasts http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=75 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:47:44 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=75 watch this video: The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 36 months, it's easy to see why.  Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.  iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options. For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your aggregator or into iTunes as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.  I use podcasts to stay up on technology and to pass the time when I drive back and forth between Illinois (where Dominican University is) and my home in Indiana. Some of my favorites? GrammarGirl (Great for remembering grammar rules and tips) MacBreak Weekly (I'm a Mac geek through and through, but check out all the tech offerings at TWIT)   Discovery Resources: Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed (or iTunes if you have that program on your PC) and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news. 
      2. Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your RSS aggregator or iTunes.
      3. Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here?
      ]]>       75 2008-07-27 12:47:44 2008-07-27 17:47:44 open open 73-revision-2 inherit 73 0 revision       Thing #3 Podcasts http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=73 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:50:01 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=73 watch this video: Then, listen to this podcast: SLJ Thing #3 Podcasts The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 36 months, it's easy to see why.  Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.  iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options. For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your aggregator or into iTunes as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.  I use podcasts to stay up on technology and to pass the time when I drive back and forth between Illinois (where Dominican University is) and my home in Indiana. Some of my favorites? GrammarGirl (Great for remembering grammar rules and tips) MacBreak Weekly (I'm a Mac geek through and through, but check out all the tech offerings at TWIT)   Discovery Resources: Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed (or iTunes if you have that program on your PC) and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news. 
      2. Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your RSS aggregator or iTunes.
      3. Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here? How might your library use podcasts?
      4. Create another blog post titled "My Favorite Podcasts" and list your favorite(s). I'll add some to our NetVibes portal.
      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
      ]]>       73 2008-07-27 12:50:01 2008-07-27 17:50:01 open open 3-podcasts publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2 _edit_lock 1217505038 enclosure http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/sljthing3podcast.mp3 2981220 audio/mpeg       #3 Podcasts http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=78 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:50:01 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=78 watch this video: The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 36 months, it's easy to see why.  Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.  iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options. For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your aggregator or into iTunes as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.  I use podcasts to stay up on technology and to pass the time when I drive back and forth between Illinois (where Dominican University is) and my home in Indiana. Some of my favorites? GrammarGirl (Great for remembering grammar rules and tips) MacBreak Weekly (I'm a Mac geek through and through, but check out all the tech offerings at TWIT)   Discovery Resources: Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed (or iTunes if you have that program on your PC) and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news. 
      2. Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your RSS aggregator or iTunes.
      3. Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here?
      ]]>       78 2008-07-27 12:50:01 2008-07-27 17:50:01 open open 73-revision-3 inherit 73 0 revision       All Together Now http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=90 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:50:40 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=90 All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:
      • #1  Blogs
      • #2  RSS
      • #3  Podcasts
      • #4  Wikis
      • #5  Flickr
      • #6  Web Toys (Image Generators, Flickr Toys)
      • #7  Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
      • #8  Social Networking Sites
      • #9  Video Sites
      • #10 Twitter
      • #11 Tagging
      • #12 Google Apps
      So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]>       90 2008-07-27 12:50:40 2008-07-27 17:50:40 open open 6-revision-9 inherit 6 0 revision       #3 Podcasts http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=79 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:54:05 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=79 watch this video: The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 36 months, it's easy to see why.  Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.  iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options. For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your aggregator or into iTunes as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.  I use podcasts to stay up on technology and to pass the time when I drive back and forth between Illinois (where Dominican University is) and my home in Indiana. Some of my favorites? GrammarGirl (Great for remembering grammar rules and tips) MacBreak Weekly (I'm a Mac geek through and through, but check out all the tech offerings at TWIT)   Discovery Resources: Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed (or iTunes if you have that program on your PC) and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news. 
      2. Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your RSS aggregator or iTunes.
      3. Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here?
      ]]>       79 2008-07-27 12:54:05 2008-07-27 17:54:05 open open 73-revision-4 inherit 73 0 revision       #3 Podcasts http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=80 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 17:57:18 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=80 watch this video: The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 36 months, it's easy to see why.  Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.  iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options. For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your aggregator or into iTunes as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.  I use podcasts to stay up on technology and to pass the time when I drive back and forth between Illinois (where Dominican University is) and my home in Indiana. Some of my favorites? GrammarGirl (Great for remembering grammar rules and tips) MacBreak Weekly (I'm a Mac geek through and through, but check out all the tech offerings at TWIT)   Discovery Resources: Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed (or iTunes if you have that program on your PC) and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news. 
      2. Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your RSS aggregator or iTunes.
      3. Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here?
      ]]>       80 2008-07-27 12:57:18 2008-07-27 17:57:18 open open 73-revision-5 inherit 73 0 revision       #3 Podcasts http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=81 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:09:56 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=81 watch this video: The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 36 months, it's easy to see why.  Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.  iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options. For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your aggregator or into iTunes as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.  I use podcasts to stay up on technology and to pass the time when I drive back and forth between Illinois (where Dominican University is) and my home in Indiana. Some of my favorites? GrammarGirl (Great for remembering grammar rules and tips) MacBreak Weekly (I'm a Mac geek through and through, but check out all the tech offerings at TWIT)   Discovery Resources: Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed (or iTunes if you have that program on your PC) and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news. 
      2. Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your RSS aggregator or iTunes.
      3. Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here? How might your library use podcasts?
      4. Create another blog post titled "My Favorite Podcasts" and list your favorite(s). I'll add some to our NetVibes portal.
      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
      ]]>       81 2008-07-27 13:09:56 2008-07-27 18:09:56 open open 73-revision-6 inherit 73 0 revision       Thing #3 Podcasts http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=84 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:11:50 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=84 watch this video: The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 36 months, it's easy to see why.  Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.  iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options. For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your aggregator or into iTunes as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.  I use podcasts to stay up on technology and to pass the time when I drive back and forth between Illinois (where Dominican University is) and my home in Indiana. Some of my favorites? GrammarGirl (Great for remembering grammar rules and tips) MacBreak Weekly (I'm a Mac geek through and through, but check out all the tech offerings at TWIT)   Discovery Resources: Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed (or iTunes if you have that program on your PC) and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news. 
      2. Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your RSS aggregator or iTunes.
      3. Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here? How might your library use podcasts?
      4. Create another blog post titled "My Favorite Podcasts" and list your favorite(s). I'll add some to our NetVibes portal.
      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
      ]]>       84 2008-07-27 13:11:50 2008-07-27 18:11:50 open open 73-revision-7 inherit 73 0 revision       Thing #2: RSS http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=52 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:13:47 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=52 NetVibes or Google Reader account (a free online newsreader) for yourself to bring your feeds together. First up, watch this video: You’ve heard of RSS? You’ve seen those small funny tags on websites? You’ve heard co-workers and acquaintances swear by it, but still have no idea what RSS is? Well don’t worry, according to a recent survey you’re still in the majority, but this is changing rapidly. In the information world, RSS is not only revolutionalizing the way news, media and content creators share information, but it also is swiftly changing the way everyday users are consuming information. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication” and is a file format for delivering regularly updated information over the web. Just think about the websites and news information sources you visit every day. It takes time to visit those sites and scour the ad-filled and image-heavy pages for just the text you want to read, doesn’t it? Now imagine if you could visit all those information sources and web pages in just one place and all at the same time … without being bombarded with advertising… without having to search for new information on the page you’d already seen or read before… and without having to consume a lot of time visiting each site individually. Would that be valuable to you? Well, it’s available now through a newsreader and RSS. RSS allows us to monitor web content easily through an aggregator or RSS portal site. For this thing, we will create our own aggregator and populate it with some feeds from other bloggers in the program as well as other library-related blogs. This may be the trickiest of the things - but do not fret, once you see how easy it is, you'll wonder how you ever got along without it! Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at Feed Me: A gentle introduction to Internet feeds - a good tutorial from Palinet, a library cooperative. 
      2. Set up an account with Netvibes or Google Reader. Both of these sites do a similar thing (aggregate RSS) but the look of each is different. I use NetVibes. I like it because it allows tabbed pages so I can group different sets of feeds together: a tab for librarian's blogs, one for news, etc. The others have useful features as well -- explore each and choose the one you like the best. Try the NetVibes Getting Started page or Google Reader Getting Started page to jumpstart this activity.
      3. Subscribe to this blog. Here's the feed URL: Oops! We are still waiting for our feed! I'll post it ASAP.
      4. Subscribe to several of the blogs in this program. See below.
      5. Subscribe to a few SLJ and librarian's blogs. See below.
      6. Explore some of the search tools noted below that can help you locate some news feeds. Add one or two news feeds to your aggregator.
      7. Create a blog post about your experience. Don’t know what to blog about? Think about these questions:
        What do you like about RSS and newsreaders? How do you think you might be able to use this technology in your work or personal life? How can libraries use RSS or take advantage of this new technology?
      Resources for Finding Feeds: 

      These Search tools that can help you find feeds:

      • Feedster - One of the largest collections of RSS feeds, Feedster lets you search for feeds in three categories: news, blogs & podcasts
      • Topix.net - This search tool allows you to locate recent newsfeed items based upon keyword or phrase searching. The tool focuses specifically on news and media outlet RSS feeds for information, not weblogs.
      • Syndic8.com - Syndic8 is an open directory of RSS feeds that contains thousands of RSS feeds that users have submitted.
      • Technorati - Technorati is a popular blog finding tool that lets you search for blogs. Since RSS feeds are inherent to all blogging tools, Technorati Blog Search can help you find RSS feeds for topic specific blogs you may be interested in.
      Subscribing to Feeds:
      In NetVibes:
      In Google Reader:
      Adding All Together Now Blogs:
      Visit the NetVibes public pages for our community or the community site organized by location and choose a few of the blogs for your own aggregator. Follow the directions above and on the help pages to add them. 
      Adding the SLJ blogs or other librarian's Blogs:
      Add some of the illustrious SLJ Blogs: (Copy and paste these URLS)
      • Bowllan's Blog: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheSljBlog
      • Brian Unbound: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BrianUnbound
      • Fuse 8 Production: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJAFuse8Production
      • Neverending Search: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SLJNeverEndingSearch
      • Nonfiction Matters: http://feeds.feedburner.com/NonfictionMatters
      • Practically Paradise: http://feeds.feedburner.com/PracticallyParadise
      Search any of the tools above for librarians or libraries, or try these favorites of mine:
      For educators, don't miss these influential blogs:
      Congratulations! This is most probably the most difficult, most involved of the 12 Things! 
      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]>       52 2008-07-27 13:13:47 2008-07-27 18:13:47 open open 38-autosave inherit 38 0 revision       sljthing3podcast http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?attachment_id=83 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:02:23 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/sljthing3podcast.mp3 83 2008-07-27 14:02:23 2008-07-27 19:02:23 open open sljthing3podcast inherit 73 0 attachment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/sljthing3podcast.mp3 _wp_attached_file /home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/sljthing3podcast.mp3 _wp_attachment_metadata a:0:{} Thing #3 Podcasts http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=85 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 19:02:59 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=85 watch this video: Then, listen to this podcast: SLJ Thing #3 Podcasts The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 36 months, it's easy to see why.  Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.  iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options. For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your aggregator or into iTunes as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.  I use podcasts to stay up on technology and to pass the time when I drive back and forth between Illinois (where Dominican University is) and my home in Indiana. Some of my favorites? GrammarGirl (Great for remembering grammar rules and tips) MacBreak Weekly (I'm a Mac geek through and through, but check out all the tech offerings at TWIT)   Discovery Resources: Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed (or iTunes if you have that program on your PC) and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news. 
      2. Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your RSS aggregator or iTunes.
      3. Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here? How might your library use podcasts?
      4. Create another blog post titled "My Favorite Podcasts" and list your favorite(s). I'll add some to our NetVibes portal.
      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
      ]]>       85 2008-07-27 14:02:59 2008-07-27 19:02:59 open open 73-revision-8 inherit 73 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=88 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:06:02 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=88 Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      Exercises:

      1. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a look at some wikis and blog about your finding. Here’s a few examples to get you started:
      1. Create a blog post about your findings.

      A. What did you find interesting?

      B. How could you implement a wiki into your teaching?

      C. Could this be a valuable tool to aid student learning?

      ]]>       88 2008-07-30 08:06:02 2008-07-30 13:06:02 open open 87-revision inherit 87 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=89 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:14:38 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=89   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      Exercises:

      1. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a look at some wikis and blog about your finding. Here’s a few examples to get you started:
      Create a blog post about your findings.

      A. What did you find interesting?

      B. How could you implement a wiki into your teaching?

      C. Could this be a valuable tool to aid student learning?

      ]]>       89 2008-07-30 08:14:38 2008-07-30 13:14:38 open open 87-revision-2 inherit 87 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=87 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:14:59 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=87 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Discovery Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      • Learn More: Wikis
      • Derek’s Blog– Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.
      • This 2007 presentation by Joyce Yukawa, MLISProgram, College of St. Catherine at Minnesota Library Association is a great resource on how libraries can use wikis as their Web presence.

      Discovery Exercises:

      1. Take a look at some library wikis and blog about your findings. Here are a few examples to get you started. Pick two or three that might interest you:
      2. Edit a wiki entry.  Add or edit an entry in the SLJ All Together Now wiki or any other wiki you choose or have access to.
      For our sandbox, the login and password are below:
      Simply add anything you'd like to the sandbox wiki!
      3. Create a blog post about your findings.
      • What did you find interesting about the wiki concept?
      • What types of applications within libraries and schools might work well with a wiki?
      • Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format?
      • Which wiki did you edit?

      Congrats! You've finished another of the 12 Things!

       

      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]> 87 2008-07-30 08:14:59 2008-07-30 13:14:59 open open thing-4-wikis publish 0 0 post _edit_last 2 _edit_lock 1217856385 Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=92 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:14:59 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=92 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      Exercises:

      1. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a look at some wikis and blog about your finding. Here’s a few examples to get you started:
      Create a blog post about your findings.

      A. What did you find interesting?

      B. How could you implement a wiki into your teaching?

      C. Could this be a valuable tool to aid student learning?

      ]]>       92 2008-07-30 08:14:59 2008-07-30 13:14:59 open open 87-revision-3 inherit 87 0 revision       All Together Now http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=120 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:15:49 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=120 All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:
      • #1  Blogs
      • #2  RSS
      • #3  Podcasts
      • #4  Wikis
      • #5  Flickr
      • #6  Web Toys (Image Generators, Flickr Toys)
      • #7  Web 2.0 & Library 2.0
      • #8  Social Networking Sites
      • #9  Video Sites
      • #10 Twitter
      • #11 Tagging
      • #12 Google Apps
      So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]>       120 2008-07-30 08:15:49 2008-07-30 13:15:49 open open 6-revision-10 inherit 6 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=93 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:18:53 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=93 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      Exercises:

      1. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a look at some wikis and blog about your finding. Here’s a few examples to get you started:
      Create a blog post about your findings.

      A. What did you find interesting?

      B. How could you implement a wiki into your teaching?

      C. Could this be a valuable tool to aid student learning?

      ]]>       93 2008-07-30 08:18:53 2008-07-30 13:18:53 open open 87-revision-4 inherit 87 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=94 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:20:11 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=94 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      • Learn More: Wikis: Steve Campion's self-paced instructional guide
      • Derek’s Blog– Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.

      Exercises:

      1. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a look at some wikis and blog about your finding. Here’s a few examples to get you started:
      Create a blog post about your findings.

      A. What did you find interesting?

      B. How could you implement a wiki into your teaching?

      C. Could this be a valuable tool to aid student learning?

      ]]>       94 2008-07-30 08:20:11 2008-07-30 13:20:11 open open 87-revision-5 inherit 87 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=95 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:26:58 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=95 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      • Learn More: Wikis: Steve Campion's self-paced instructional guide
      • Derek’s Blog– Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.
      • This 2007 presentation by Joyce Yukawa, MLISProgram, College of St. Catherine at Minnesota Library Association is a great resource on how libraries can use wikis as their Web presence.

      Exercises:

      1. Take a look at some library wikis and blog about your findings. Here are a few examples to get you started: Create a blog post about your findings.

      • What did you find interesting about the wiki concept?
      • What types of applications within libraries and schools might work well with a wiki?
      • Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format?
      • Which wiki did you edit?

       

      ]]>       95 2008-07-30 08:26:58 2008-07-30 13:26:58 open open 87-revision-6 inherit 87 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=96 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:50:53 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=96 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Discovery Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      • Learn More: Wikis: Steve Campion's self-paced instructional guide
      • Derek’s Blog– Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.
      • This 2007 presentation by Joyce Yukawa, MLISProgram, College of St. Catherine at Minnesota Library Association is a great resource on how libraries can use wikis as their Web presence.

      Discovery Exercises:

      1. Take a look at some library wikis and blog about your findings. Here are a few examples to get you started:
      2. 
      Create a blog post about your findings.

       

      • What did you find interesting about the wiki concept?
      • What types of applications within libraries and schools might work well with a wiki?
      • Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format?
      • Which wiki did you edit?

       

      ]]>       96 2008-07-30 08:50:53 2008-07-30 13:50:53 open open 87-revision-7 inherit 87 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=97 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:57:11 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=97 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Discovery Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      • Learn More: Wikis: Steve Campion's self-paced instructional guide
      • Derek’s Blog– Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.
      • This 2007 presentation by Joyce Yukawa, MLISProgram, College of St. Catherine at Minnesota Library Association is a great resource on how libraries can use wikis as their Web presence.

      Discovery Exercises:

      1. Take a look at some library wikis and blog about your findings. Here are a few examples to get you started:
      2. Edit a wiki entry. 
      Create a blog post about your findings.
      • What did you find interesting about the wiki concept?
      • What types of applications within libraries and schools might work well with a wiki?
      • Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format?
      • Which wiki did you edit?

       

      ]]>       97 2008-07-30 10:57:11 2008-07-30 15:57:11 open open 87-revision-8 inherit 87 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=98 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:48:36 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=98 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Discovery Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      • Learn More: Wikis: Steve Campion's self-paced instructional guide
      • Derek’s Blog– Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.
      • This 2007 presentation by Joyce Yukawa, MLISProgram, College of St. Catherine at Minnesota Library Association is a great resource on how libraries can use wikis as their Web presence.

      Discovery Exercises:

      1. Take a look at some library wikis and blog about your findings. Here are a few examples to get you started:
      2. Edit a wiki entry. 
      Create a blog post about your findings.
      • What did you find interesting about the wiki concept?
      • What types of applications within libraries and schools might work well with a wiki?
      • Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format?
      • Which wiki did you edit?

       

      ]]>       98 2008-07-30 11:48:36 2008-07-30 16:48:36 open open 87-revision-9 inherit 87 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=101 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:08:03 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=101 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Discovery Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      • Learn More: Wikis: Steve Campion's self-paced instructional guide
      • Derek’s Blog– Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.
      • This 2007 presentation by Joyce Yukawa, MLISProgram, College of St. Catherine at Minnesota Library Association is a great resource on how libraries can use wikis as their Web presence.

      Discovery Exercises:

      1. Take a look at some library wikis and blog about your findings. Here are a few examples to get you started:
      2. Edit a wiki entry. 
      Add or edit an entry in the  wiki or any other wiki you choose. (Note: When you create your account and sign in to the 23 Things wiki, be sure you uncheck the box asking to receive an update every time this wiki is updated. If you don't, you will receive an email everytime anyone edits the wiki.) Or, if you don't want to "mess up" a wiki (not really possible...), practice in the Wiki Sandbox. Let us know in your blog which wiki and entry you edited.
      Create a blog post about your findings.
      • What did you find interesting about the wiki concept?
      • What types of applications within libraries and schools might work well with a wiki?
      • Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format?
      • Which wiki did you edit?

       

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      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Discovery Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      • Learn More: Wikis: Steve Campion's self-paced instructional guide
      • Derek’s Blog– Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.
      • This 2007 presentation by Joyce Yukawa, MLISProgram, College of St. Catherine at Minnesota Library Association is a great resource on how libraries can use wikis as their Web presence.

      Discovery Exercises:

      1. Take a look at some library wikis and blog about your findings. Here are a few examples to get you started:
      2. Edit a wiki entry.  Add or edit an entry in the SLJ All Together Now wiki or any other wiki you choose. The login and password are below:
      Create a blog post about your findings.
      • What did you find interesting about the wiki concept?
      • What types of applications within libraries and schools might work well with a wiki?
      • Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format?
      • Which wiki did you edit?

       

      ]]>       102 2008-07-30 15:02:45 2008-07-30 20:02:45 open open 87-revision-11 inherit 87 0 revision       Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=103 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:04:39 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=103 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Discovery Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      • Learn More: Wikis: Steve Campion's self-paced instructional guide
      • Derek’s Blog– Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.
      • This 2007 presentation by Joyce Yukawa, MLISProgram, College of St. Catherine at Minnesota Library Association is a great resource on how libraries can use wikis as their Web presence.

      Discovery Exercises:

      1. Take a look at some library wikis and blog about your findings. Here are a few examples to get you started:
      2. Edit a wiki entry.  Add or edit an entry in the SLJ All Together Now wiki or any other wiki you choose. The login and password are below:
      3. Create a blog post about your findings.
      • What did you find interesting about the wiki concept?
      • What types of applications within libraries and schools might work well with a wiki?
      • Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format?
      • Which wiki did you edit?

       

      ]]>       103 2008-07-30 15:04:39 2008-07-30 20:04:39 open open 87-revision-12 inherit 87 0 revision       Thing #3 Podcasts http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=77 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:47:38 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=77 watch this video: Then, listen to this podcast: SLJ Thing #3 Podcasts The word podcast is used to refer to a non-musical audio or video broadcast that is distributed over the Internet. What differentiates a podcast from regular streaming audio or video is that the delivery method for podcasts is often done automatically through RSS. In 2005, "podcast" was named the "word of the year" by New Oxford American Dictionary and with the growth of podcasting over the last 36 months, it's easy to see why.  Podcasts take many forms, from short 1-10 minutes commentaries to much longer in person interviews or panel group discussions. There’s a podcast out there for just about every interest area and the best part about this technology is that you don’t have to have an iPod or a MP3 player to access them. Since podcasts use the MP3 file format, a popular compressed format for audio files, you really just need a PC (or portal device) with headphones or a speaker.  iTunes, the free downloadable application created by Apple is the directory finding service most associated with podcasts, but if you don’t have iTunes installed there are still plenty of options. For this discovery exercise participants are asked to take a look at some popular podcast directory tools. Do some exploring on your own and locate a podcast that is of interest to you. Once found, you can easily pull the RSS feed into your aggregator or into iTunes as well, so that when new casts become available you’ll be automatically notified of their existence.  I use podcasts to stay up on technology and to pass the time when I drive back and forth between Illinois (where Dominican University is) and my home in Indiana. Some of my favorites? GrammarGirl (Great for remembering grammar rules and tips) MacBreak Weekly (I'm a Mac geek through and through, but check out all the tech offerings at TWIT)   Discovery Resources: Discovery Exercise:
      1. Take a look at one or two of the podcast directories listed (or iTunes if you have that program on your PC) and see if you can find a podcast that interests you. See if you can find some interesting library related podcasts here like book review podcasts or library news. 
      2. Add the RSS feed for a podcast to your RSS aggregator or iTunes.
      3. Create a blog post about your discovery process. Did you find anything useful here? How might your library use podcasts?
      4. Create another blog post titled "My Favorite Podcasts" and list your favorite(s). I'll add some to our NetVibes portal.
      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
      ]]>       77 2008-07-31 06:47:38 2008-07-31 11:47:38 open open 73-autosave inherit 73 0 revision       Thing #5 Flickr http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=109 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 13:59:34 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=109 watch this video: ]]> 109 2008-08-03 08:59:34 2008-08-03 13:59:34 open open 108-revision inherit 108 0 revision Thing #5 Flickr http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=108 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:00:05 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=108 watch this video:   Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries are using Flickr for. Discovery Resources:  

      Click on this diagram to see the full size image or click here to go to the image at Flickr.

      Discovery Exercise: In this discovery exercise, you have two options… a. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or, if you create a Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use by using the Wordpress photo upload tool built into your blogs. Take a look at this post at Tame the Web where I used Flickr's "Blog This" button to add an image to my site. Read the post as well if you'd like to know more about Flickr and photo releases. -- OR -- b. If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use a digital camera (or a camera phone) to capture a few pictures of something in your library or in your life. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images "SLJ20" and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or by using the Wordpress photo upload tool built into your blogs. So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun. PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.  

      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]> 108 2008-08-03 09:00:05 2008-08-03 14:00:05 open open thing-5-flickr publish 0 0 post _edit_lock 1218112369 _edit_last 2 Thing #5 Flickr http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=111 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:00:05 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=111 watch this video: Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries are using Flickr for. Discovery Resources: · Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps) · Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials · Flickr: Popular tags Interesting- Last 7 days · Flickr Services (3rd party applications & mashups) and let’s not forget to look at some other libraries on Flickr Discovery Exercise: In this discovery exercise, you have two options… a. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or, if you create a Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use Blogger's photo upload tool. -- OR -- b. If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use a digital camera (or a camera phone) to capture a few pictures of something in your community library. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images “QueensLibrary” and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: throughFlickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature. So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun. PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.]]> 111 2008-08-03 09:00:05 2008-08-03 14:00:05 open open 108-revision-2 inherit 108 0 revision Thing #5 Flickr http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=112 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:01:39 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=112 watch this video: Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries are using Flickr for. Discovery Resources: · Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps) · Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials · Flickr: Popular tags Interesting- Last 7 days · Flickr Services (3rd party applications & mashups) and let’s not forget to look at some other libraries on Flickr Discovery Exercise: In this discovery exercise, you have two options… a. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or, if you create a Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use Blogger's photo upload tool. -- OR -- b. If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use a digital camera (or a camera phone) to capture a few pictures of something in your community library. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images “QueensLibrary” and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: throughFlickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature. So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun. PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.]]> 112 2008-08-03 09:01:39 2008-08-03 14:01:39 open open 108-revision-3 inherit 108 0 revision Thing #5 Flickr http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=115 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:03:11 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=115 watch this video: Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries are using Flickr for. Discovery Resources: · Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps) · Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials · Flickr: Popular tags Interesting- Last 7 days Discovery Exercise: In this discovery exercise, you have two options… a. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or, if you create a Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use Blogger's photo upload tool. -- OR -- b. If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use a digital camera (or a camera phone) to capture a few pictures of something in your community library. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images “QueensLibrary” and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: throughFlickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature. So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun. PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.]]> 115 2008-08-03 09:03:11 2008-08-03 14:03:11 open open 108-revision-4 inherit 108 0 revision Thing #5 Flickr http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=117 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:04:15 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=117 watch this video:   Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries are using Flickr for. Discovery Resources: · Flickr Learn More tour (6 steps) · Mediamazine Flickr Tutorials · Flickr: Popular tags Interesting- Last 7 days Discovery Exercise: In this discovery exercise, you have two options… a. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or, if you create a Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use Blogger's photo upload tool. -- OR -- b. If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use a digital camera (or a camera phone) to capture a few pictures of something in your community library. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images “QueensLibrary” and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: throughFlickr's blogging tool or using Blogger's photo upload feature. So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun. PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.]]> 117 2008-08-03 09:04:15 2008-08-03 14:04:15 open open 108-revision-5 inherit 108 0 revision flickrdiagram http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?attachment_id=116 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:22:32 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/flickrdiagram.png 116 2008-08-03 09:22:32 2008-08-03 14:22:32 open open flickrdiagram inherit 108 0 attachment http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/flickrdiagram.png _wp_attachment_metadata a:6:{s:5:"width";i:963;s:6:"height";i:642;s:14:"hwstring_small";s:23:"height='85' width='128'";s:4:"file";s:101:"/home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/flickrdiagram.png";s:5:"sizes";a:2:{s:9:"thumbnail";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:25:"flickrdiagram-150x150.png";s:5:"width";i:150;s:6:"height";i:150;}s:6:"medium";a:3:{s:4:"file";s:25:"flickrdiagram-300x200.png";s:5:"width";i:300;s:6:"height";i:200;}}s:10:"image_meta";a:10:{s:8:"aperture";i:0;s:6:"credit";s:0:"";s:6:"camera";s:0:"";s:7:"caption";s:0:"";s:17:"created_timestamp";i:0;s:9:"copyright";s:0:"";s:12:"focal_length";i:0;s:3:"iso";i:0;s:13:"shutter_speed";i:0;s:5:"title";s:0:"";}} _wp_attached_file /home/mstephens7/sites/tametheweb.com/html/sljlearning20/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/flickrdiagram.png Thing #5 Flickr http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=118 Sun, 03 Aug 2008 14:26:37 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=118 watch this video:   Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries are using Flickr for. Discovery Resources:

       

      Click on this diagram to see the full size image or click here to go to the image at Flickr.

      Discovery Exercise: In this discovery exercise, you have two options… a. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or, if you create a Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use by using the Wordpress photo upload tool built into your blogs. Take a look at this post at Tame the Web where I used Flickr's "Blog This" button to add an image to my site. Read the post as well if you'd like to know more about Flickr and photo releases. -- OR -- b. If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use a digital camera (or a camera phone) to capture a few pictures of something in your library or in your life. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images "SLJ20" and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or by using the Wordpress photo upload tool built into your blogs. So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun. PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.]]>       118 2008-08-03 09:26:37 2008-08-03 14:26:37 open open 108-revision-6 inherit 108 0 revision       Thing #5 Flickr http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=119 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:17:41 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=119 watch this video:   Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries are using Flickr for. Discovery Resources:  

      Click on this diagram to see the full size image or click here to go to the image at Flickr.

      Discovery Exercise: In this discovery exercise, you have two options… a. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or, if you create a Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use by using the Wordpress photo upload tool built into your blogs. Take a look at this post at Tame the Web where I used Flickr's "Blog This" button to add an image to my site. Read the post as well if you'd like to know more about Flickr and photo releases. -- OR -- b. If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use a digital camera (or a camera phone) to capture a few pictures of something in your library or in your life. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images "SLJ20" and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or by using the Wordpress photo upload tool built into your blogs. So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun. PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.  

      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]> 119 2008-08-04 08:17:41 2008-08-04 13:17:41 open open 108-revision-7 inherit 108 0 revision Thing #4 Wikis http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=91 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:18:25 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=91 watch this video:   A wiki is a collaborative website and authoring tool that allows users to easily add, remove and edit content. Wikipedia, the online open-community encyclopedia, is the largest and perhaps the most well known of these knowledge sharing tools. With the benefits that wikis provide the use and popularity of these tools is exploding.

      Some of the benefits that make wikis so attractive are:

      • Anyone (registered or unregistered, if unrestricted) can add, edit or delete content.
      • Tracking tools within wikis allow you to easily keep up on what been changed and by whom.
      • Earlier versions of a page can be viewed and reinstated when needed.
      • And users do not need to know HTML in order to apply styles to text or add and edit content. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

      As the use of wikis has grown over the last few years, libraries all over the country have begun to use them to collaborate and share knowledge. Among their applications are pathfinder or subject guide wikis, book review wikis, ALA conference wikis and even library best practices wikis.

      Discovery Resources:

      Use these resources to learn more about wikis:

      • Learn More: Wikis
      • Derek’s Blog– Musings on the use and impact of technology in education, and of the future of education in general.
      • This 2007 presentation by Joyce Yukawa, MLISProgram, College of St. Catherine at Minnesota Library Association is a great resource on how libraries can use wikis as their Web presence.

      Discovery Exercises:

      1. Take a look at some library wikis and blog about your findings. Here are a few examples to get you started. Pick two or three that might interest you:
      2. Edit a wiki entry.  Add or edit an entry in the SLJ All Together Now wiki or any other wiki you choose or have access to.
      For our sandbox, the login and password are below:
      Simply add anything you'd like to the sandbox wiki!
      3. Create a blog post about your findings.
      • What did you find interesting about the wiki concept?
      • What types of applications within libraries and schools might work well with a wiki?
      • Many teachers/faculty "ban" Wikipedia as a source for student research. What do you think of the practice of limiting information by format?
      • Which wiki did you edit?

      Congrats! You've finished another of the 12 Things!

       

      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]> 91 2008-08-04 08:18:25 2008-08-04 13:18:25 open open 87-autosave inherit 87 0 revision Thing #5 Flickr http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=110 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:25:09 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=110 watch this video:   Photo sharing websites have been around since the 90s, but it took a small startup site called Flickr to catapult the idea of “sharing” into a full blown online community. Flickr has become the fastest growing photo sharing site on the web and is known as one of the first websites to use keyword “tags” to create associations and connections between photos and users of the site. For this discovery exercise, you are asked to take a good look at Flickr and discover what this site has to offer. Find out how tags work, what groups are, and all the neat things that people and other libraries are using Flickr for. Discovery Resources:

       

      Click on this diagram to see the full size image or click here to go to the image at Flickr.

      Discovery Exercise: In this discovery exercise, you have two options… a. Take a good look around Flickr and discover an interesting image that you want to blog about. Be sure to include either a link to the image or, if you create a Flickr account, you can use Flickr's blogging tool to add the image in your post. Another option you have for including images in your post is to use by using the Wordpress photo upload tool built into your blogs. Take a look at this post at Tame the Web where I used Flickr's "Blog This" button to add an image to my site. Read the post as well if you'd like to know more about Flickr and photo releases. -- OR -- b. If you're up to an easy challenge ... create a Free account in Flickr and use a digital camera (or a camera phone) to capture a few pictures of something in your library or in your life. Upload these to your Flickr account and tag at least one of the images "SLJ20" and mark it public. Then create a post in your blog about your photo and experience. Be sure to include the image in your post. Once you have a Flickr account, you have two options for doing this: through Flickr's blogging tool or by using the Wordpress photo upload tool built into your blogs. So go ahead, explore the site and have some Flickr photo fun. PS: A quick word about photo posting etiquette - When posting identifiable photos of other people (especially minors) is it advisable to get the person's permission before posting their photo in a publicly accessible place like Flickr. Never upload pictures that weren't taken by you (unless you have the photographer's consent) and always give credit when you include photos taken by someone else in your blog.  

      Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.]]> 110 2008-08-04 08:25:09 2008-08-04 13:25:09 open open 108-autosave inherit 108 0 revision All Together Now http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=122 Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:28:47 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=122 All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things:

      So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use it in your schools, libraries, organizations…really, everywhere! Hopefully, some of you will roll the program out for your users/students/faculty/staff as well. As we go along, please ponder how you might use these tools to make your life easier, how it might further  your work, and how you might share with others.]]>       122 2008-08-04 08:28:47 2008-08-04 13:28:47 open open 6-revision-11 inherit 6 0 revision       All Together Now http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=125 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:10:19 +0000 http://tametheweb.com/sljlearning20/?p=125 All Together Now from School Library Journal is an online, self-paced Learning 2.0 program based on the original created by Helene Blowers for the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County. It’s a program that will “encourage staff to experiment and learn about the new and emerging technologies that are reshaping the context of information on the Internet today.” It’s based on exploring a series of “things” - emerging tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr etc.  Helene Blowers went on to release the program intiated at PLCMC to the world - so other libraries and organizations could participate as well.  Wired magazine reported on the success of the program, noting that “Libraries all over the world are doing just that — moving the entire Learning 2.0 program to their own websites. The program has been duplicated by university and community library systems in Sweden, Australia, Canada and Denmark. In the United States, programs are underway in South Carolina, Florida, Maryland and California.” The Learning 2.0 program is loosely based upon Stephen Abram's article, 43 Things I (or You) might want to do this year (Information Outlook - Feb 2006) and the website43Things. The design of this online program was completely built on Web 2.0 technologies that are freely available on the Internet.  Participants will spend the next 6 weeks exploring 12 Things: So, we have a great adventure ahead of us. We’ll do our own version of Learning 2.0 - for anyone and everyone that wants to participate, far and wide. Then, you’ll be able to take the content and use i