Welcome to the WLS Learns blog.
I hope you are ready to have some fun while learning more about Web 2.0. This learning program is based upon and inspired by The Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County’s Learning 2.0, originally prepared by Helene Bloweres for PLCMC staff in 2006. It has since been replicated in libraries around the world.
WLS Learns is an online learning program that encourages staff of the member libraries of Westchester Library System to explore and experience the emerging technologies on the web that are changing the way people, society, and libraries access information and communicate with each other. Here are a couple of one page articles from the OCLC newsletter that describe Web 2.0 technologies and their implications for libraries:
Where will the next generation Web take libraries?
Away from the icebergs.
Over the course of the next several weeks, I’ll use this website to highlight “a handful of things” and their accompanying Exploration Exercises to help guide you as you become familiar with blogging, RSS news feeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, and video and image hosting sites, to name a few.
So buckle up, grab your mouse, and get ready for an adventure… and, remember, it’s okay to play in the library and have fun. Let’s do it together!
John Sexton (questions : jsexton@wlsmail.org)
THING # 1 :
- To familiarize yourself with this project, and read the About page.
- The FAQs should answer most of your questions about this program. If not, then please add your question to the FAQ page as a comment and we’ll be sure to get you some help. Remember to ask your colleagues if you get stuck on an exercise. We’re all learning and playing together and the more we help each other out, the better our experience will be!
- Lifelong learning is one of those core values of libraries and librarians. So it makes sense that before we embark on this new online learning and discovery journey we should take a few minutes to review some habits that can assist in creating lifelong learners. The following video, created by Lori Reed of the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, examines the 7&1/2 Habits of Lifelong Learners.
- Click this link to open up the 7 & 1/2 Habits online tutorial and view it.
- As you watch and listen, write down which habit among the 7 & 1/2 that is easiest for you and which is hardest. You will use your personal blog (which you will set up in next week’s exercise) to post your thoughts about lifelong learning.
You will find the attachments that go with the video when you open the Resources tab at the top of this blog.
There is no need to register with WLSLearns yet. Registration will happen with next week’s exercise when you create a blog.
Have fun! And if you haven’t jumped on board yet, it’s never too late to become a lifelong learner!
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