Thing #1 (week 1): Read about the program

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Learning 2.0 is an online learning program to learn more about emerging technologies on the web that are changing the way people, society and libraries access information and communicate with each other.

Over the course of the next twelve weeks, this website will highlight “23 Things” with Discovery Exercises to help you become familiar with blogging, RSS news feeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, online applications, and video and image hosting sites.

To familiarize yourself with this project, be sure to read the About This Program (FAQ) page. These FAQs should answer most of your questions about this program. And if you don't see your question answered, just add it to the FAQ page as a blog comment. If you have questions along the way about particular exercises, leave a comment on the blog post for that "Thing". The Learning 2.0 Team will comment back and add a post to the weekly tips blog.

We’ll also be including a short Podcast introduction with many of the lessons. These podcasts are conducted by the Learning 2.0 Team and may include a few words from other UCSC Library colleagues. We'll keep them short, 2 to 3 minutes typically, and we'll be curious to know if you find them helpful – feel free to comment about them on the blog you’ll be setting up next week.

So get ready for a discovery adventure… this should be lots of fun!

We've posted the first five "Things" to give everyone a feel for the types of discovery exercises in the program. This should get us through beginning of week 4. After that, every Monday and Wednesday we'll fill in another "thing" or discovery item on the list below so be sure to check back... or better yet, subscribe to the RSS feed. Don't worry, you'll learn all about feeds at thing #5.

Next Up: Creating your blog so you can begin tracking your journey.