The 12 Things

Week 1: Introduction (October 1-3)

• Please begin by reading this blog & find out about the program.

Week 2: Blogging (October 6-10)

• Set up your own blog and add your first post. Share your blog with your Primary Source staff colleagues and begin your Learning 2.0 journey.

Week 3: Photos & Images (October 13-17)

• Explore Flickr and learn about this popular image hosting site.
• Have some Flickr fun and discover some Flickr photos/images on the Creative Commons site. Be sure to read the right side bar about what Creative Commons images mean.
• Create a blog post about anything technology related that interests you this week.

Week 4: RSS & Newsreaders (October 20-24)

• Learn about RSS feeds and set up your own Google Reader newsreader account.
• Locate a few useful education/global education/professional development related blogs and/or news feeds.

Week 5: Play Week (October 27-31)

• Explore any site from the Web 2.0 awards list, play with it and write a blog post about your findings.

Week 6: Tagging, Folksonomies & Technorati (November 3-7)

• Learn about tagging and discover Delicious (a social bookmarking site).

Week 7: Wikis (November 10-14)

• Learn about wikis and discover some innovative ways that organizations are using them.

Week 8: Online Applications & Tools (November 17-21)

• Take a look at some online productivity (word processing, spreadsheet) tools.

Catch up and take a break (November 24-28)

Week 9: Social Networking (December 1-5)

• Learn about social networking with Ning.

Week 10: Video (December 8-12)

• Discover YouTube and TeacherTube and a few sites that allow users to upload and share videos.

Week 11: Podcasts & iTunesU (December 15-19)

• Podcasts (You don’t need an iPod!)
• iTunesU

Catch up and take a break (December 22 - January 2)

Week 12: Summary and etc. (January 5-9)

• Summarize your thoughts about this program.

Wikis, Blogs, and CONGRATULATIONS!