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Personal (or professional) development online:• On my time schedule

• On the topic(s) I select

• At the location I choose

• For as long as I want

• In whatever format available: blog, ning, podcast, video, Twitter, wiki….

• With Pandora playing….

My learning curve took a rapid turn once I completed a “23 things” curriculum

during the summer. I received no CPE credits, no grade…just an introduction to

the world of self-education with online resources.

SLA Learning 2.0 San Jose Public Library K12 Learning

School Library Learning 2.0 CTLS Technology Training Wheels

Learn about RSS and How to Subscribe

Really Simple Syndication: a family of web font formats coded in XML used to provide subscribers frequently updated information. This format allows distributing contents without the need of a navigator by means of an RSS reader, software designed to read RSS (aggregator) contents.

Source: MasterBase.com/www.en.masterbase.com/support/glossary.asp, accessed 10/2/2010.

Find an RSS reader to manage your subscriptions:

Google Reader: An easy-to-learn app

Reeder: for iPhone; for iPad; for Mac

Feedly: based on Google Reader and Twitter

Here is a portion of an iGoogle page with Google Reader:

Add a blog to an RSS reader by locating the RSS tag using the button on the toolbar

or by clicking an available button on the site itself:

The page that opens will allow you to copy the URL

or click a button to subscribe to a specific reader.

Find the blogs that fit you and what you want to learn/explore/discover:

Librarians Blogs Top Fifty Librarian Blogs

100 Best Blogs for Librarians of the Future

10 Librarian Blogs to Read in 2010

100 Best Blogs for School Librarians

School Library Journal Blogs

As you read/skim the blogs you’ve added, you will begin to find sites that you want to bookmark or share with others. Because you may work at

multiple computers, it doesn’t make sense to bookmark the sites on just one

computer. Discover “social bookmarking.”

Seven Things You Should Know about Social Bookmarking: http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf

Social bookmarking: Social bookmarking is the process by which

internet users save links to web pages that they want to remember or share.

Source: http://ezinearticles.com/?Social-Bookmarking-Definition&id=2891381

Social bookmarking sites such as Delicious (http://www.delicious.com) let users tag their favorite sites with

key words and post them for others to see.

Social bookmarking• Get a free account:

Top 15 most popular social bookmarking websites/September 2010: eBiz/MBA: http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-bookmarking-websites

• Add the buttons to your browser.

• Tag sites that you find to add to your collection. The tags allow you to locate items you’ve saved.

• Publish your bookmarks for others to see.

• Search tags of others to find more sites.

Here is a portion of a toolbar with the Delicious button installed for easy

access:To Delicious.com

To your bookmarks To bookmark a site

When you click on the “tag,” your bookmark info will open in a new window over the site. You can add a note and tag the site appropriately so you or others can locate it later.

The user controls which bookmarks to share and which to keep private:

Publish your list to a website or blog:

Search others’ bookmarks for materials:

By using only these two tools, you will find other tools and resources to increase your understanding of

the topics you choose.

Contact C. Trussell