Week 0 - Welcome and Introduction

Welcome to Week 0 of Ezra Edition.

The format for future weeks of Ezra Edition will be a blog post similar to this one.
The Topics page gives an overview of what tools and/or technologies be covered for that week - the topic details will be shared in a blog post.
When you have an idea for how to apply one of the tools or technologies we explore to processes in the library, feel free to add it to the Tips page.

• Introduction to the tools and technology (f2f meeting)
• Original "Learning 2.0" introduction:
  
  7.5 habits of highly successful lifelong learners – from the original PLCMC slideshow
• RSS {Really Simple Syndication}
  
  • What it is. What it does. How to leverage it.
    
    
• Suggestions for using RSS readers as part of job
  • Set up personal account in Google Reader
    
    
  • Find and follow interesting blogs (work or personal)
  • 1.Catalogablog and many others in the biblioblogosphere
  • 2.LOLcats/ LOLdogs (Laugh Out Loud Funny -- or maybe not, sometimes)

Once you have your Google account and Google Reader setup, it's time to find blogs and other websites which provide feeds to make keeping up easier.

Discovery Exercises:

• Create a Google Reader account (which we did together)
• Add the Ship Library Blog to Google Reader
• Find blogs which cover what you do in the library
• Add some to Google Reader
• Find blogs which interest you
• Add some to Google Reader
• Organize your Google Reader into logical groups