Welcome to Week 6 of your program! This week we’re going to closely examine the concept of tags and “tagging” items as well as the broader concept of folksonomies. We’ll also further explore the origin of Library 2.0 as libraries work to incorporate Web 2.0 functionality into their websites, catalogs, and services. Ready? Visit 23 [...]

Welcome to Week 5 and congratulations for sticking with the program! So far we’ve covered a lot of territory in a very short period of time. This week we’re going to take a closer look at using online tools to create custom images, organize your personal book collection and see how to get recommednations from [...]

Welcome to Week 4 of TechLearning 2008! All of us frequently complain about information overload, and the fact is, it’s only going to get worse! Therefore it’s time to start learning about tools and services that will help you to streamline how you consume information. RSS (Really Simple Syndication) has been around for a while [...]

Hi All, and welcome to week 3 of TechLearning 2008! This week we’ll be doing an in-depth overview of Flickr and some of the services that take advantage of Flickr’s API to create “mashups.” You’ll also be asked to continue building your blog (and thanks for all the new registrations, there are some great examples [...]