© Imperial College London

The Learning 2.0 team: Jenny EvansLawrence JonesKatharine Thompson

http://learning20atimperial.wordpress.comlearning2.0@imperial.ac.uk

What we will cover today

• Learning 2.0Overview, how it will work and demo of the programme blog including hands-on

• Web 2.0 overview

• Instant messagingOverview and demo including hands-on

• BlogsOverview and demoSet up of participant blogs including hands-on

• Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County

• Originally known as ’23 Things’http://plcmcl2-things.blogspot.com/

• About learning through play and self-discovery

• Adapted by many different libraries across the world

• Use the technologies you learn about to complete the programme

• Mix of workshops and online learning

• No right or wrong answers

• More directed than the original

How it works

• Each Friday we will post the activities for the following week (this week has been different as we are running this workshop)

• Participants will receive an email to let them know that this has happened

• Set up an RSS feed to the blog (week 3)

• You post your blog entry for the week (preferably by Friday afternoon)

• Catch up weeks built in to the programme

What you need to do

• Aim for an hour a weekKathryn Greenhill @ Murdoch University Library

• http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2007/09/03/10-ways-to-find-time-for-23-things/

• Write a blog post reflecting on each week’s activitiesapproximately 100-150 wordsyour opinion countswhat you could use as a staff memberwhat we could offer as a Library service

• Communicate/interact withthe Learning 2.0 teamyour fellow participants

Workshops...and self paced learning

• WorkshopsIntroductory workshopMultimedia in HEVirtual worlds/gamingPlease let us know that you can make it

• Self paced learning sessionsJust turn upNo set programmeLearning 2.0 team available to help with that week’s activities or any general problems you have encounteredSpace available for those who want time to get away from their desks

Web 2.0…a definitionterm describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 [Accessed 24th July 2008]

Term coined by Dale Dougherty (O’Reilly Media)http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web20.html

Why Web 2.0?

• Before we expected our users to come to us Now we need to go to where our users are

• Many of our users are millennials, digital nativesThey use their phones more than their PCs (teenagers more concerned

if they lose their phone than if they lost their passport)

From: http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2008/07/the-future-is-mobile.html[Accessed 24th July 2008]

• Don’t need to be a techie – you can do it yourself

• Flexible & quick

Why not?

• Possibly short lived and difficult to predict what will or won’t be popular

• Relying on third party providers

• Not controlled/branded

• Like anything – evaluate – some technologies are useful others are not

Instant messaging (IM)

• “a text-based computer conference over the Internet between two or more people who must be online at the same time. When you send an IM the receiver is instantly notified that she/he has a message.”

From: http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/netterms.htm[Accessed 21 July 2008]

• Examples of how libraries are using IMMcMaster University http://library.mcmaster.ca/justask/Princeton University http://library.princeton.edu/help/chat.php

How to use Instant Messaging

• Software you can downloadMSN, Yahoo, Skype

• Chat plugin inserted into a webpage/blogMeebo, Plugoo

• Web messaging serviceMSN Messenger (this is what we will be using)

Useful websites / further reading

23 Things blog http://plcmclearning.blogspot.com/

43 Things I might want to do this yearhttp://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FWE/is_2_10/ai_n16133338

Spanbauer, S. (2004) Internet tips: A grown-up’s guide to instant messaging. [Online] Available from http://www.pcworld.com/article/114161/internet_tips_a_grownup s_guide_to_instant_messaging.html [Accessed 24th July 2008]