Thing 3 - Registration for Learning 2.0 @ the beach

Registration

Register for the program by filling out the online Training Registration Form on Beachnet --- the City of Virginia Beach’s intranet site. You will find the registration form on the homepage of Training & Development section of the Library’s Beachnet site. The link is located in the related pages box on the right hand side of your computer screen. You must use a city computer to register for the program.

To register for the program, please do the following:

1. Notify your supervisor of your intent to participate in this program.



2. Use a Library staff computer to navigate to the following URL on the Library’s Beachnet site.


3. Select the link in the side navigation for Training & Development.


4. At Training & Development, select the link for the online Training Registration Form in the related pages box on the right hand side of your computer screen.


5. Fill out all the required fields: Name, Agency, Title, Email Address, Telephone Number


6. Submit your registration Form

NOTE: You will receive an email confirmation that you are registered to participate in Learning 2.0 @ the Beach. Your email confirmation will have a number in it. This is your own unique identifier. You will use this number to record your weekly progress in the Learning 2.0 tracking log.

Thinking ahead --- Recording Your Progress

After registering, you will need to register your blog for Thing 8 and the record your weekly progress thereafter. To record your weekly progress, you will need to use a Library staff computer to do the following:

1. Week Three - Register your blog. This will be covered in the directions for the third week; it is Thing 8, Register Your Blog with Learning 2.0 at the Beach.



2. Every Week After - Record your weekly blog post in the tracking log. You will need to check-off the weekly item and enter the permanent link to the individual blog post that covers the exercise or "thing."

To do this, please follow the directions in the Thing 8.

Thing 2 - Discover a few points about life long learning

Lifelong learning is one of the core values of the Virginia Beach Public Library system. So, it makes sense that before we embark on this new online learning and discovery journey, we should take a few minutes to review a few habits that can assist us in creating lifelong learners.

These habits, which the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County calls The 7½ Habits of Highly Successful Lifelong Learners, will provide you with a refresher on what it means to be a lifelong learner.

Discovery exercise:

1. Make sure you have headphones or speakers attached to your computer.




2. Open up the 7½ Habits online tutorial and view the online tutorial. Run time is 14:18.




3. As you watch and listen, write down which habit among the 7½ that is easiest for you and which is hardest. Write these ideas down now and save them. In week three, you will set up a personal blog. You will use your personal blog to post your thoughts about lifelong learning. After you register your blog in Thing 8, your thoughts on here will be your first blog post.

Have fun! If you haven't jumped on board yet, it's never too late to become a lifelong learner.

Thing 1 - Discover has never been so much fun

Are you ready to be heard?



Hear me at WildVoice.com

Welcome to the Virginia Beach Public Library's Learning 2.0 program and blog. Chances are if you've found your way here, you're either:

• a member of the VBPL's staff who's participating in the Learning 2.0 challenge,


• interested in learning about and playing around with some new Web 2.0 tools that will help you expand your information literacy toolbox, or


• are just interested in earning a cool USB MP3 player

Either way, we're glad you're here!

Learning 2.0 is an online learning program that encourages VBPL staff to learn more about emerging technologies on the Web that are changing the way people, society and Librarians access information and communicate with each other.

Over the course of the twelve weeks, this blog will highlight “30 things” - discovery exercises to help you become familiar with blogging, RSS feeds, tagging, wikis, podcasting, online applications, social networking, and video and image hosting sites.

To familiarize yourself with this project, be sure to read the More About this program page. In addition, there is a FAQ page, too. This page should answer most of your questions about this program. If not, then please add your question to the page as a comment. We'll comment back with an answer.

So fasten your seat belts, grab your mouse and get ready for a discovery adventure. And remember, it's OK to play in the library and have fun!

Be sure to tune in on Monday, November 5th for the next set of "things" or discovery items ... or better yet, subscribe to this blog's RSS feed. By doing so, you'll receive instructions for the next "thing" directly in your RSS reader.