What are the aims of this program?
Expose librarians and library staff to Web 2.0 technologies, which are increasingly being used around the world in all business, education and recreational facets of life!
Encourage exploration of Web 2.0 and new technologies by everyone.
Share our discoveries and findings using Web 2.0 technologies in an open and collaborative way. That way everybody benefits.
Basic Concepts
You will do it, not just read about it! The topics listed here are all interactive and require your participation.
There are ‘23 Things’ (or small activities) that you can do on the Web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0. As Stephen Abrams says, “the basic concept … is that people have known for years that making a list of goals is the best way to achieve them. Why is that? First, getting your goals in writing can help you clarify what you really want to do… Learning is incremental and you can grow a little bit at a time and suddenly realize that you’re competent in something new.” (Abrams, 2006) 1.1
The ‘Learning 2.0? program is an opportunity to work together as a community of learners, over a set period of time. Help each other, encourage each other, learn and accomplish together. We will start with an introductory workshop, and then take a few weeks to work through these 23 topics to become familiar and comfortable with 2.0 technologies and opportunities.
These topics are always available to you online, so use them and explore at times that suit you. During the next few weeks you will be able to read, watch or listen, add your opinions, try out new software, and participate in our ‘community of learners’. Participate, enjoy, have FUN!
What do I have to do today?
- Log in.
- Take the Survey.
- Read this “thing”.
Take this anonymous (one page) Learning 2.0 survey. All collated responses will be available to everyone.
So what are you waiting for, click the button….
That was easy!!!
Rate this ‘thing’
(4 votes, average: 3.75 out of 5)
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December 1st, 2008 at 9:55 am
A recent question via email: “Hope this doesn’t sound too silly a question, but I can’t see where you need to log on and use the user name and password for the 23things?”
Answer: Not silly at all, in fact you are the second person I have replied to, so I might copy this to the “comments” section at the bottom of the first page, to share this info with everyone. That’s far better than individual answers, and will benefit the whole “community”, as is the goal of the program.
When you go to the Home page http://23things.info look at the bottom of the page in the footnote area for “Site Admin”. When you click onto this you’ll be asked for you WordPress signon, and can then add comments as you wish.
We will learn more together than each of us would learn individually!
December 1st, 2008 at 5:36 pm
thanks very much for this.
i have just started exploring this (a bit late)….will come up with you all very soon!
December 14th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Hi I,m swapneela (a late comer). I have a question! I took the survey but can’t seem to find my way to “thing”. how do I access it?
December 17th, 2008 at 10:32 am
Have just been ‘empowered ‘ by receiving a username & password - which works- many thanks! Q ” I completed the survey last week although I did not login. Will the information have been stored or will I have to do in again - loggin in first??
December 30th, 2008 at 6:15 am
I’m glad to see that I’m not the only late comer, that I’m not the only one who had difficulty finding access to the “log in”, and not the only one who was a big confused about the instruction to Read this “thing”. I now understand that this simply refers to the text above.
January 5th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Thanks Karen for your Happy 2009! email. It was a good reminder for me.