Week 1: Getting Started
Posted by kabery on December 7, 2009

Refresher Course in Lifelong Learning
Discover the 7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners. This tutorial includes audio, so set the volume on your computer or use headphones.

For consideration: Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century, addresses (p.5) eleven new skills that students need to be fully successful in the social networking environment.

• Play – the capacity to experiment with one’s surroundings as a form of problem-solving
• Performance – the ability to adopt alternative identies for the purpose of improvisation and discovery
• Simulation – the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world processes
• Appropriation - the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content
• Multitasking – the ability to scan one’s enviroment and shift focus as needed to salient details
• Distributed Cognition – the ability to interact meaningfully with with tools that expand mental capacities
• Collective Intelligence – the ability to pool knowledge and compare notes with others toward a common goal
• Judgement – the ability to evaluate the reliability and credibility of different information sources
• Transmedia Navigation – the ability to follow the flow of stories and information across multiple modalities
• Networking – the ability to search for, synthesize, and disseminate information
• Negotiation – the ability to travel across diverse communities, discerning and respecting multiple perspectives, and grasping and following alternative norms
  

Libraries around the world have learned the 23 Things:
http://tametheweb.com/2008/09/22/londonparishamburgrome/

Check out these different perspectives on Library 2.0 from OCLC:
Away from Icebergs
Into a new world of librarianship
To better bibliographic services
To more powerful ways to cooperate
To a temporary place in time

Computer Use 101
The primary vehicle for Web 2.0 is your web browser. How familiar are you with changing the settings in your web browser or even with finding out which version browser you’re running? Review our Browser/Support 101 document for help with these topics.

Learning Activities for Week 1:
1. Watch the 7 1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners
2. Read one or two of the perspectives on Library 2.0 from the list above. Library 2.0 can be many things to many people. What does it mean to you?
3. Use our Browser/Support 101 document to learn about your web browser and get ready to begin.