Choosing a "23 Things" program

23 Things is a self-guided program for learning 2.0 web technology. As part of an assignment for a Foundations class at USF, I have to pick a particular 23 Things program and try at least 7 of the activities.I decided on the "SLJ Learning 2.0: All Together Now" because it is particularly good for media specialists. The first "thing" to learn about and try are blogs. So after setting my blog up to blog about this experience, the next post will have to do with how school librarians can use blogs to better serve their students and promote their libraries.

Creating a blog

I am creating a blog for a Foundations class that I am taking at USF. I feel very out of my element; but am looking forward to learning a lot of new skills. Creating the blog is the very first "thing" I had to do on the learning web 2.0 list. The object of this exercise is to learn new technology and content and use it in our schools and libraries.The blog was fairly easy to set up. First, you need a goggle account, which is free and just takes a few minutes to set up. It is connected to your blog somehow, so that all the mail from the blog goes into the goggle account. Which is fine with me, because I now have 4 e-mail accounts! The second thing you do is to go to blogger.com and set up your blog. That part was a little tricky. But it's up and I'm ready to blog!