NELINET Classes for the fall!

I've been following NELINET on Twitter. I don't check it all the time, but today I noticed that there are some classes announced for the fall. I know some people have said they might not finish the "23 Things", and a few others said they might be interested in exploring some of these things in more detail. So I thought this might be of interest to you.

http://www3.nelinet.net/services/education

Thu 09/10 Facebook Privacy Settings: Take Control of Your Profile (online)
Mon 09/14 Learning 2.0: The 23 Things (online)

Wed 09/23 Social Media Monitoring (online)
Thu 09/24 Technical Services Efficiency: Beyond one-by-one OCLC Online Cataloging (online)
Fri 09/25 Twitter Basics (online)

Week 7, Assignment #14 Add an entry to a Wiki, etc.

I am not going to create a Wiki, because I really don't need to. We do have a Wiki at the library that several of us post on and use. I have contributed to this one--
http://wws.library.umass.edu/wikis/acp/doku.php

I did add my blog to the blogroll on the NELINET site, but I didn't post any favorites. Just didn't appeal to me. Not much to say on this since most of the comments about Wikis were on #13.

Here we go!!!

Okay, we're kicking this thing off finally! I know some people are ahead of me, but I haven't seen their blogs yet.

Recently the Staff Training Committee invited Erin L., a consultant from NELINET, to come to the W.E.B. DuBois Library and get us started on learning some Web 2.0 technologies. Erin gave us a presentation last week, and got us all enthused to learn 23 things in 10 weeks. We're due to have this all done just before Labor Day I think.

This blog is part of that. Each participant is required to create a blog, and register it, to keep track of all we are learning, etc. Creating the blog itself and posting this first post is #3 on the list.

If you are reading this, you probably know all that already, and are in the class too. However, I do have it set up right now, that anyone can find this blog on the internet. I have another blog that I use as well. I'm hoping to learn how to make that blog better, and who knows? Maybe I will find a professional use for blogging as well.