Five Weeks to a Social Library
It's finally here... I'm excited to see what this online (free) conference has to offer. Anything I find "exceptional" I'll be posting here.
http://www.sociallibraries.com/course/
Five Weeks to a Social Library Location: Online
Dates: February 12 - March 17, 2006
Five Weeks to a Social Library, the first free, grassroots, completely online course devoted to teaching librarians about social software and how to use it in their libraries. The course was developed to provide a free, comprehensive, and social online learning opportunity for librarians who do not otherwise have access to conferences or continuing education and who would benefit greatly from learning about social software. The course will take place in Drupal and on a MediaWiki installation, and will also involve a variety of other popular social software tools. The course will make use of synchronous components, with one or two weekly Webcasts and many IM chat sessions being made available to students each week. The course will culminate in each student developing a proposal for implementing a specific social software tool in their library.
The course will take place between February 12 and March 17 and will be limited to forty participants. However, course content will be freely viewable to interested parties and all live Webcasts will be archived for later viewing. The course will cover the following topics:
- Blogs
- RSS
- Wikis
- Social Networking Software and SecondLife
- Flickr
- Social Bookmarking Software
- Selling Social Software @ Your Library
Comments
Posted by: Michelle (Jane)
Posted on: February 16, 2007 12:48 PM
Thanks for keeping an eye on us. I hope you will come over the the blogs and leave comments if you feel so inclined. We welcome participation from everyone.