#4 - Keeping track & more about blogging
If you’ve made it this far, you already have 3 items or “things” completed of the 27 that are required to earn a USB MP3 player.
But how do you qualify? You'll need to register your blog and, each week, record your progress on each of the 27 things.
Where? How?
A Learning 2.0 Progress Log is on the KCLS intranet - you'll submit your information to the Learning 2.0 Team and will receive confirmation emails.
Many many thanks to Lisa at Web Services for setting this up.
The log is extremely easy to use - go the the main log page (this is a staff-only link - it's also been added to the right as part of the Learning 2.0 Link Box), enter your information, check off the 'things' that you've completed, add the URL for your weekly blog posting, and click submit.
Weekly blog posting?
That's right - starting next week you also need to include the URL for the permanent link to your weekly blog posts. Your blog postings should capture your thoughts about what you're learning and responses to any specific questions we ask about the 'things' we'll be looking at.
Permanent link?
Each blog posting has a distinct URL that displays that posting alone (without the rest of your blog postings). Depending upon the Blogger template that you selected, the permanent link for each individual post can be found either through the post’s title or through a link in the post's footer area the contains the date.
For example: The image below shows where you would find the permanent link for this earlier Learning 2.0 blog post - click on the time of posting (but in a real-life blog post, not in the image):
This is the link that you want to use when recording your progress in the Learning 2.0 Progress Log.
You can also, in most blog interfaces, click on the posting title for the permanent URL.
Here's how you would record your blog URLs in the Learning 2.0 Progress Log:
The Learning 2.0 Team will be reading your blog postings and, on occasion, giving you feedback via your blog entry's comments field.
Yes, comments. That's the beauty of blogging - your readers get to respond to what you've written. The Learning 2.0 Team will be commenting for sure, though you never know what your co-workers will have to say - everyone's blog will be posted to the Learning 2.0 KCLS Staff Participants page (but don't worry - we'll be listing these by your anonymous blog name). And don't forget - you can respond to a comment with a comment of your own. Me, I'm not yet sure how to respond to this one...
Comments are all about interacting and collaborating. Leave us a comment today or, better yet, start reading your co-worker's blogs next week and leave comments for them.
But first things first - it's time to take care of today's Discovery Exercise.
Discovery Exercise - record your first 4 completed things.
- Head over to the Learning 2.0 Progress Log
- Record your first 4 completed things (including filling out the log for the first time).
- Click submit.
Next up: Flickr...
22 comments:
I agree... Singing AND a joke would make it much more entertaining!!! :)
Okay, just to clarify: this week we are to register our blog (the main URL), but next week we are to use the log to register a specific post? Will we fill out the entire log each time (name, email, work location)?
Thanks much.
In response to Anglophile's question, yes. This week you submit your blog URL and, starting next week, you'll submit the permanent URL for your weekly posting (which will be about that week's exercises). The form is set up so that you will have to enter your name/email/location each time.
So far so good! I'm Blogging, I'm Blogging and I'm even registerd!! I gotta tell you, as "old" as I am; I'm getting younger by the minute by being a part of the 27things project. I'm proud to say that my entire group (all six of us LT-1's) in the service center has created a blog! We are all at different levels of computer skill yet this project helped to bring us all together on the same playing field. It's been particularly fun helping those who don't use the computer outside of work very often. We have all built new confidence in our skills and are learning something special about each other. It just goes to show we are never too young or too old to learn something new!
Right on! I am one of those "older" LT1s that has accepted this challenge and having a great time learning and experimenting outside my comfort zone. You can teach us new tricks after all!
Does it matter that I have multiple locations? Should I always sign in as the same location regardless of where I am? (I have now forgotten which location I used....... so if I need to use the same location, can you look up to see what location I am registered with?)
I'm proud to say that the "over 40" crowd in our department has taken the initiative in working through the Library 2.0 exercises.
Blogging is slightly more complicated to set up than I had imagined. I'm looking forward to next week.
I love reading all these comments! It also gives me an opportunity to check out the creative blogs. Keep up the good work everyone!!
I just registered I felt very good abhout it! yeye
In response to jecarter's question - try to register with the library you work at most frequently. And don't worry if your first entry is different - we'll make sure to catch it.
Hey, this is one giant leap for an old fogey like me! :)
I'm looking forward to customizing my blog.
Thanks for the opportunity!
I feel so special, I received a comment on my blog!!!
No Love for the Pages???
Could you send out a formal explanation as to why the pages (staff less then 20 hours) can not participate? We are having a revolt over here...
In response to Val's question, the formal explanation (via KCLS Human Resources), is that staff scheduled for fewer than 20 weekly hours would be unable to complete their regular job responsibilities if participating in Learning 2.0. And yet we certainly don't want to discourage those staff members who want to participate on their own time - HR is working on an alternate means of recognizing staff members who fall into this category. Look for a staff email with further details on this subject sometime next week...
How do you make your blog searchable on Google? It doesn't come up if you put in the title.
hobblog,
Actually it can take six months to show up on Google and sometimes a site might never show up...even though the Google crawler may actually visit your site or blog every few weeks.
Here's a site that explains why this can be so:
http://www.free-seo-news.com/newsletter152.htm
I don't know if the fact that Google owns Blogger changes anything. So the real key to getting listed in Google is to have people link to you. If no one else in the world is linking to your blog, or other web site, then Google may not deem your site worthy of indexing even when you search under obscure terms like the title of the blog. So the key to getting listed at all is to get someone to link to you and the key to getting listed quickly and promeniently is to get linked to by lots of other sites, especially other popular sites.
I hope everyone realizes how public a blog is! There's no such thing as privacy in the blogosphere.
Trying to catch up.
I was on vaction so am trying really hard to catch up. What I want to know is,how do you find the time do all this at work when there is so much to do? And you keep getting interrupted??? At least most folks are ahead of me and can help me catch up.Only have 23 more things to do! Yikes!
I'm a new LTA, and am doing this as part of the newer LTA training requirements (2008-2009). I set up my blog some weeks ago, but have not been able to get back to this for some time and am trying to figure this out. I guess I'll just have to email and ask for help, as the progress log I get when clicking on the link is not the same as what is shown in this lesson.
Great step by sep instructions. I just posted my permanent link.
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