Participants will have a year to complete the different explorations. To receive CEUs for your work, you will need to e-mail your blog URL to the head of the Staff Development Committee.
Below you will find links to the different activities in this program. It is suggested you do the first three activities in order, but after that you can skip around and do whatever interests you.
We've tried to label each activity with a note about how much time it will take to complete and whether it will be possible to complete on the desk or if you should save it for your backroom time.
Note: Highlighted items must be completed to earn CEU's.
| Exploration 1 – Intro to Web 2.0 |
Will Require: Reading websites and viewing one video (sound not required).
Time: @ 30 minutes
| Exploration 2: Blogging |
Will Require: Reading websites and setting up a personal blog
Time: @ 30 of reading; @ 1 hour to create a personal blog
| Exploration 3: Flickr and Photo Sharing Communities |
Will Require: Reading and Searching the Flickr site. (Optional to set up your own Flickr page).
Time: @30 minutes
| Exploration 4: RSS Feeds, Readers, and Keeping Track of Web 2.0 |
Will Require: Reading about RSS and signing up for your own Feeder plus adding feeds of AACPL staff to the list.
Time@ 20 minutes of reading, @45 minutes to create Feeder and add Feeds
| Exploration 5: It's a LibraryThing |
Will Require: Reading an article, browsing of LibraryThing page, create personal LibraryThing
Time: @20 minutes of reading, @15 minutes of browsing, @30 minutes of LibraryThing
Exploration (Optional): YouTube and User Created Content
Will Require: Browsing sites, watching videos
Time: @45 minutes
Exploration (Optional): – Twitter and Widgets
Will Require: Browsing websites, optional creation of account and adding account to Blog
Time: @ 45 minutes
Exploration (Optional): Social Networking Sites
Will Require: Reading articles, exploring links, optional creation of account
Time: @1 hour
| Exploration 6: Online Office Tools |
Will Require: Reading and exploring the website. Optional account creation.
Time: @30 minutes
| Exploration 7: Wikis |
Will Require: Reading and exploring websites.
Time: @30 minutes
| Exploration 8: Social Bookmarking Sites & Folksonomies |
Will Require: Reading articles, exploring links
Time: @40 minutes
| Exploration 9 (This Part Last!): What's Next and Looking Back |
Will Require: Browsing sites that have information about libraries and Web 2.0 technology
Time: @30 minutes (though you could easily spend more if you're having fun!)
