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INFOLINK Exercises:
What we’ll be setting up today are lots of “practice” accounts so that we can achieve a few different goals:
- Make it easy for the group of us to work together in large and small groups
- Make it easy for us to use the accounts we have for practice later
- Nice to be able to “screw up” in a practice area rather than a “real” area
- Make it easy for us to “walk away” from the accounts that we set up w/out any committment
More background info and the working area for this workshop: web2reference.pbwiki.com
I'll be following along/showing (steve's partner will be infolinkw2raa unless...)
Make sure you have a partner...let's go! (9:30-4:00)
- Intro/Base Account - gmail (9:30-10:00)
- Create an account on gmail
- Go to gmail.com
- Create an account
- username: infolinkw2r_ _ (first initial, last initial)
- password: referencerules
- Create an account on gmail
- IM – Yahoo and Meebo (10:00-10:45)
- Steve - IM/Meebo examples
- Create an account on Yahoo Messenger
- Go to messenger.yahoo.com
- Create an account just like the one you created on gmail (same U/P)
- IM Steve
- Go to webmessenger.yahoo.com
- Log-In with the account info that you just set up
- Add infolinkw2rsg as a buddy
- Send me a short message to answer - What do you want to get from this class?
- Log out of webmessenger
- Create a meebo account
- Go to meebo.com (Let's create an account so we can use multiple IM services)
- Create an account just like the one you created on gmail (same U/P)
- Add your Yahoo Account info
- Add your gmail info (when you signed up for the google account you got a gtalk account)
- Buddies/IM your partner
- Find out your partner's Yahoo IM
- Add your partner as a buddy / Add librarysteve as a buddy
- After your buddy(s) appear in your list, one person send an IM to the other by dbl clicking on buddy name
- Blogs - blogger (10:45-11:30)
- Steve - Why blog? Other blog benefits
- Create an account on blogger
- Go to blogger.com
- sign in with your gmail account (Google owns blogger)
- create a blog infolinkw2r_ _ that we can use to post messages, add widgets, and subscribe to when we get to rss
- Add a post to your blog
- Create a post called "My First Post" and add a little bit of text to it with some formatting and a link to: web2reference.pbwiki.com
- Review settings/layout
- Comments, Permissions, Widgets/Page Elements
- Meebo widget
- Go to meebo.com in a new tab/window and sign-in if needed
- Click on meebo me or meebo widget and follow along
- Copy widget code and go back to your blog
- Sign-in if necessary, click on Customize/Dashboard, click on Layout/Template, then Page Elements, then Add Page Element...
- Go to blogger.com
- RSS - Bloglines (11:30-12:15)
- Steve - Explain RSS/Show Examples
- Create an account on Bloglines
- Go to bloglines.com
- Create an account just like the one you created on gmail (same U/P), use your gmail account to verify
- Subscribe to feeds
- Subscribe to feeds by clicking on add and adding URL of site feed
- After you enter the URL you'll be prompted to pick a feed and determine where you want to add it
- Subscribe to Library Garden (librarygarden.blogspot.com)
- Subscribe to lifehack (lifehack.org)
- Subscribe to your own blog
- Subscribe to your partner's blog
- Whenever there are updates you'll get them automatically (but not in real time)
- Add a Feed to your blog
- Go back to Library Garden and copy the feed URL
- Go to your blog URL and sign-in if necessary
- Click on Dashboard, Layout/Template, then Page Element, Add Page Element...Feed
Lunch Break till 1pm
- Recap/Summary/Questions? (1:00-1:15)
- Steve - Summarize what we've done so far
- Questions?
- Social Bookmarking - del.icio.us (1:15-2:15)
- Steve - Show Quick Examples of librarysteve and how to add a bookmark
- Create an account on del.icio.us (or delicious.com)
- Go to del.icio.us or delicious.com
- Create an account just like the one you created on gmail (same U/P)
- Skip the section on browser buttons
- Add bookmarks
- Inside your del.icio.us account click on Post
- Add your personal blog URL with descriptions and tags (use infolinkweb2ref as one tag)
- Add your library's website URL with descriptions and tags (use infolinkweb2ref as one tag)
- Open a new Window or Tab and search for "Social Software in the Workplace" via a search engine and/or technorati.com
- bookmark a few sites that you find interesting (use infolinkweb2ref as one tag)
- Inside your del.icio.us account click on Post
- Review what we've all created/done:
- Go to del.icio.us/tags/infolinkweb2ref to see the bounty of sites we now share
- Create a Network (You'll be able to follow what network members bookmark and can share with each other)
- Inside your account click on Your Network
- add librarysteve and your partner to your network (if time add a few others as well)
- Add Tag Roll/Tag Cloud to your blog
- Inside your account click on Settings
- Click on Tag Roll, adjust settings, and copy code that del.icio.us gives you
- Go to blogger.com and log-in
- Click on Layout/Template, then Page Element, Add Page Element, html/javascript
- Wikis - pbwiki (2:15-3:00)
- Steve - Show quick wiki example, edit, new page, create link (1 person at a time can edit a page)
- Edit web2reference.pbwiki.com
- Go to web2reference.pbwiki.com and log-in with the wiki password
- Add New Page - FirstName_LastName
- On your new page add: your full name, library, a link to your blog, and a note about the "coolest" thing you learned today
- Make sure to Save when you're done
- Review http://web2reference.pbwiki.com/AllPages
- On this page you'll see everyone's page as they make them
- Create your own wiki
- Go to pbwiki.com
- Create an infolinkw2r_ _ wiki, use your gmail address to verify, pick "for education" to get an "ad free" wiki
- Edit your main page and Save (use sizes and formatting)
- If you're stuck for ideas just use some latin from: lipsum.com
- Review possible Plug-Ins
- You can add html elements, chat, calendars, etc.
- Social Networks - ning (3:00-3:45)
- Steve - Why Ning? "Private" Social Networks and Groups
- Join my Ning
- Go to infolinktest1.ning.com
- Create an account just like the one you created on gmail (same u/p)
- Add to the Discussion that I have there
- Create your own Social Network
- It's too easy...I'm not even going to help :-)
- Summary/Questions/Other
- If we have time...you need an avatar, so create one with one of these sites:
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