LIBR 246-12: Web 2.0 and Social Networking Tools (Fall 2008)

Welcome students to your classroom. By now you should hopefully already have an email from me with instructions on creating your account (if not, please email me immediately). Once you've done that, you should feel free to start completing the introductory activities for the course. You have until the end of Week 1 to complete these activities, but eager folks may want to get a jump on it. The introductory activities and instructions can be found on the page Introduction to Class Expectations and Technologies. This page has a lot of important information about the course and will teach you how to use the following:

1. The blog functionality in Drupal.

2. The forum functionality in Drupal

3. The class wiki

4. del.icio.us

5. RSS aggregators - Bloglines and Google Reader

By the end of Week 1, you should have posted two blog posts (the first, an introduction and the second, a response to the content this week) and gotten yourself set up with either Bloglines or Google Reader.

If you have any questions at all, please feel free to ask them in the forums, because it's likely that others in the class might have the same question.

I look forward to working with all of you and I hope you enjoy learning how to use these technologies!