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  • Week 0 (Spring Break)
    Introduction to the tools and technology
    • Tuesday of Spring Break we'll meet
    • Laptops will be provided so we can all click along to get started
    • Feel free to read ahead
  •   Overview of syndicated content by formats
    • RSS {Really Simple Syndication} (Bloglines, Google Reader, etc.)
      What it is. What it does. How to leverage it

    • Weblogs (text/image blogs)
    • Podcasts (audio blogs)
    • “Vlogs” (video blogs)
  • Suggestions for using RSS readers as part of job
    • Set up personal account in Bloglines or 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)
  • Week 1
    Blogs and Blogging
    (use Blogspot – same service as Ship Library Blog)
    • Create your own blog to track your impressions while doing this activity
    • Be aware that once it’s out there, there is little chance of taking it back
    • Have fun, find things which will help you with your job as well as away from work
  • Week 2
    Instant Messaging
    (Using AIM – same as ShipLibrary reference chat, meebo, and more)
    • Create an AIM handle (aim.com or aol.com?)
    • Try out AIM Chat (and/or other options like Meebo, Pudgin, gTalk, etc.)
    • Some libraries use Chat to replace quick emails back and forth
    • Chat with the person monitoring the ShipLibrary AIM Chat?
  • Week 3 
    Microblogging
    (Using Twitter, Friendfeed etc. - services used at Ship Library)
    • More students are using “Social Networking” for everything
    • Create a Twitter account for yourself, find interesting people to follow (@awd for example)
    • Check out Friendfeed
    • Check out Facebook
      If you’re not on Facebook, and don’t want to be either, you can get with someone who is on Facebook (or who doesn’t mind creating a Facebook account) and friend folks you feel like catching or keeping up with
  • Week 4
    Wiki
    (Wikipedia, pbwiki/pbworks, library success wiki, etc.)
    • Basically Wikis are group collaboration on speed
    • Check out some things which are interesting to you on Wikipedia
      • Look at the “Discussion” tab on an article which interests you to see what things have been removed/added/disputed
      • Find web articles comparing the reliability/accuracy of Encyclopedia Brittanica to Wikipedia for comparison information.
  • Week 5
    Photo-sharing and image-creation (Flickr, Picasa, etc.)
      • Archives is using Picasa which does similar things
    • Week 6
      Wrapup / Reflection

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