Web Quest – Week 3

 

Welcome intrepid Web 2.0 Adventurers!

You have now reached week 3 of your quest – flagging yet? Never fear, this week’s close encouter with tagging and social bookmarking should encourage you to carry on.  

Your challenges this week:

Task 1: Learn more about tagging and how people use it. Explore the world of del.icio.us with this short tutorial. You can also read through the Ultimate Guide to del.icio.us or would you like to watch a podcast tutorial all about del.icio.us instead? 

Task 2: Have a look at the Library’s del.icio.us account. What would you add or delete from the site? Are the categories and headings suitable? What do the red numbers under the headings mean? Do you want to add any of your saved favourites to the site? Leave a request comment on this post to get access.

Task 3: Now that you understand tagging, tag each of your own blog posts with the phrase ‘Web Quest’ (as we have done) from now on.

Don’t forget, you need to record your achievements in your blog!

If you need more help, ask your colleagues by leaving a comment on this post or check out the guides on the Library Moodle page.

Web Quest – Week 2

Welcome intrepid Web 2.0 adventurers!

Congratulations on getting to the next stage of the quest. This week you will be exploring the world of blogging – what it’s used for, how to do it and you’ll also be creating your own blog to start your personal Quest Log.

Your challenges this week:

Task 1 : Take a look at this introduction to blogging and read the short tutorial on setting up your blog.

Task 2: Set up your blog, register your blog address with the programme administrators and post your first messages! Why not write about what you think might be the easiest and hardest things for you to learn or write about something in the news that interests you this week.

You have now achieved your first milestone! This blog will now become a record or log of your learning. Each time you complete a task you need to record it in a post and this will be checked weekly by the quest administrators.

  If you need more help, ask your collegaues by leaving a comment on this post or check out the guides on the Library Moodle page.

As a follow on from last weeks comments- do you have a favourite/interesting blog site that you can share with the group? We suggest best for timewasting, best for library/techie stuff.

Read and Review with TokyoPop – Help to decide what they publish!

Check out this new Tokyopop Pilot Programme, where you get to preview NEW work submitted by authors and help the publishers decide that to issue as full length Manga.

However, not everyone is happy about the contracts that Tokyopop is offering these new authors……see the Beat for more specfic details…..

Web Quest – Week 1

Welcome Intrepid Web 2.0 Adventurers!

This is Week 1 of your eight week self directed learning quest. It’s aim is to help you to beocme more familiar with Web 2.0 in general and the tools that people are using regularly. We hope that by going through each task at your own pace, you will become more confident in using Web 2.0 Tools. It will also help you to better understand and be able to answer questions from staff and students about Web 2.0. But most importantly it gives you the time and permission to play!

Your challenges this week:

Task 1:  Read this email and familiarise yourself with the quest by clicking on the About and the FAQ links.

Task 2: Take the time to have a look at these videos to get a better idea of what Web 2.0 means.  

Video 1 – Tim O’Reilly (51 secs)

Video 2 – The Machine is Using Us (4.51 mins)

Video 3 – Web 2.0 a Brief Introduction (3.07 mins)

Video 4 – What is Web 2.0 (10.11 mins)

RedCross Newsthink! Teenage cancer, prison video links, headscarves debate, divers rescued.

 

News think! brings you the real stories behind recent headlines. Use them as “thought for the day”, to trigger tutor time discussion, or to plan more developed citizenship projects.

 Issue 13th June 2008  

- Young people with cancer are likely to have to wait longer than younger children for their condition to be diagnosed. Teenagers may face significant delays before being referred to a specialist and getting the treatment they need, says Professor Tim Eden, professor of cancer at Manchester University.

- Inmates at a US detention centre at Bagram in Afghanistan are receiving visits from their families by video-telephone link-ups. Conference-call facilities have been set up at the centre at Bagram airbase, which is 35 miles from the capital Kabul.

- Disagreement over whether women should be permitted to wear headscarves in universities has become a major political and legal dispute in Turkey. Turkey’s ruling AK party introduced a law which would have made it legal to wear the headscarf in schools but judges have decided that the law infringed the principles of the secular state.

- Three British divers were rescued after drifting without a boat in tropical Indonesian seas. The three were separated from their support boat by powerful underwater currents. They were stranded for two days on a remote island.

ESDGC Newsletter 5 – June 2008

Focus on: 

ESDGC in Work Based Learning – In-house Conference, May 2008

http://liberace.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/esdgc-news-issue-5-june-20081.doc

Just another day in the ‘hood…….

(photo by M.Jones)

What do you mean you didn’t bring the ladder..????

Encyclopedia Britannica Goes Wiki!

They never thought it would happen – but the Encyclopedia Britannica is opening its pages to everyone -

A redesigned website will allow current expert contributors to have more freedom to add information and advertise their own work, while also allowing the public to add articles under their own names. The encyclopedia will, however, still check that all information provided is correct before publishing. They say :

“The main thrust of this initiative is to promote greater participation by both our expert contributors and readers. Both groups will be invited to play a larger role in expanding, improving, and maintaining the information we publish on the Web under the Encyclopaedia Britannica name as well as in sharing content they create with other Britannica visitors”.

Read more about the changes here or check out the Britannica blog.

You can access the encyclopedia online for free in Wales if you are a member of a Public Library

Internet Resources Newletter – Issue 162

A-Z of new, nice and interesting websites, RSS feeds, blogs and Internet books from the Heriot-Watt University.

RedCross Newsthink! The Beijing Olympics,a Parachuting Archbishop, Teenage Stabbings and Peacekeeping Abuses

News think! brings you a look at the stories behind recent headlines. Use them as “thought for the day”, to trigger tutor time discussion, or to plan more developed citizenship projects.

Issue 30th May 2008

- A guidebook for volunteers at the Beijing Olympics has been criticised for its section on helping paralympic athletes and disabled spectators.A campaigner at the UK Disabled People’s Council told the Times newspaper he was “stunned” at the perception that disabled people are a race apart.

- The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, is preparing to jump from an aeroplane to raise money for charity. The cleric hopes his first parachute jump will raise £50,000 for the Afghanistan Trust, a charity that supports the families of paratroopers who have been killed or injured while serving in Afghanistan.

- The death of actor Robert Knox brought to 14 the number of teenagers who have died violently in London this year. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said parents should be clear with them that carrying a knife outside the home is likely to lead to really serious trouble and tragedy.

- Children abused by peacekeepers and aid workers in emergencies around the world often feel unable to report what happened according to a UK-based charity, Save the Children.  Its researchers say children and their families are not speaking out because of a mix of stigma, fear, ignorance and powerlessness.