Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Begin Learning

The 23 Things
Following are the 23 Things to complete in the order listed. Click the blue links to go to each Thing. You may complete the Things at your own pace, but we suggest trying to finish one topic area per week. Have fun!

Web 101
Before we get started on Web 2.0, a little Web 101.

What is Web 2.0?

1. Learn about Web 2.0 and why it's important to 21st Century teaching and learning.

Blogging

2. Learn about blogs and create your own

3. Explore how educators are using blogs to support teaching and learning RSS

4. Learn about RSS and create your own Google Reader account

5. Subscribe to blogs in order to keep up with new posts


Photos and Images

6. Learn about online photo sharing and explore Flickr

7. Share photos of your own on Flickr

8. Have some fun with mash-ups and online image generators


Online Video

9. Explore online video sharing sites

10. Embed and download video from video sharing sites


Building Community

11. Create a community

Social Networking

12. Learn about educators using Facebook and Twitter


Social Bookmarking

13. Learn about tagging and social bookmarking


14. Set up your account and experience Delicious


Online Productivity

15. Create a Dropbox and save, share, or sync your files

16. Explore online collaboration with Google Docs

17. Try out a few other online productivity tools

18. Discover online presentations


Podcasting

19. Learn about podcasting

20. Locate and subscribe to podcasts


Wikis

21. Learn about Wikis and discover ways they're being used

22. Create a wiki


Wrap Up

23. Reflect on your journey


24. Thing(Thingfinity) means always keep learning and exploring.

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