This is a list of the “Things” we will be doing during the 13 weeks of the programme. More info on each of the activities will be posted on the blog on the Monday of each week (and linked here). Participants will also receive an email with the same information. Questions? Let Kathryn know.
September 10 - 16, week 1: Intro
- Thing 1. Find out about about the program, find your one hour or so per week.
- Thing 2. Find out about the 7 1/2 habits of highly successful lifelong learners
September 17 - 23, week 2: Online email and Blogs
- Thing 3. Set up a gmail acct.
- Thing 4. Set up a blogger blog. Email blog address to Kathryn from your gmail account.
- Thing 5. Learn to track your progress on the passworded Murdoch Library 23 Things wiki.
- Post: List goals, obstacles and things you'll need for your Learning toolkit, as shown in the 7 1/2 habits of highly successful lifelong learners.
September 24 - 30, week 3: RSS
- Thing 6. Learn about RSS and google reader.
- Thing 7. Look at some web pages to identify some RSS feeds. Subscribe to two feeds from the list on the wiki. Read them weekly until December.
- Post: Reflect on anything to do with the programme.
October 1 - 7, week 4: Play week
- Post: Reflect on anything to do with the programme.
October 8 - 14, week 5: Play week
- Post: Write about a post you've read via RSS in google reader.
October 15 - 21, week 6: Online tools and applications and Wikis
- Thing 8. Create a google document and share it with another participant.
- Thing 9. Create your own wiki on pbWiki and email the address to Kathryn.
- Post: Reflect on anything to do with the programme.
- Thing 10. Compare a search on del.icio.us tags to a search on zuula, dogpile, kartoo or google.
- Thing 11. Create a del.icio.us account and save and tag some web sites.
- Post: You're half way. How is it going?
October 29 - November 4, week 8: Images
- Thing 12. Take a photo using the library's digital camera or your own digital camera. Save the image on your H: drive and upload this to your blog.
- Thing 13. Get a flickr account and upload the image and add a few tags.
Thing 14. Use an image generator to describe your progress so far. - Post: Reflect on anything to do with the programme
November 5 - 11, week 9: Play week
- Post: How are these new tools likely to change our users' attitudes to the service offered by their library?
November 12 - 18, week 10 : Online Social Networks
- Thing 15. Join Facebook and create a Facebook profile.
- Thing 16. Add some Facebook friends and join a Facebook group.
- Thing 17. Create a Twitter account and add some friends.
- Thing 18. Tweet at least once a day for five of the next seven days.
- Post: Reflect on anything to do with the programme
November 19 - 25, week 11: Gaming & Virtual Worlds
- Thing 19. Create an avatar in Second Life (there will be a workshop for this).
- Thing 20. Play the yellow part of the Info Game.
- Post: Which of the tools covered so far seems the most useful to libraries?
November 26 - December 2, week 12: Online content sharing
- Thing 21. Search YouTube to find any video that interests you and embed this in your blog.
- Thing 22. Find a set of slides you like on slideshare.net and embed this into your blog.
- Post: Revisit the goals you set in Week 2. Did you reach them?
December 3 - 9, week 13: ..and beyond...
- Thing 23. Explore the Learning 2.1 blog and do the exercises in a post that interests you.
- Post: What have been the highs and lows of the 23 Things for you? Where to next with emerging technologies? For you? For libraries?
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