OLA-2006-LIRT

Thursday July 03rd, 2008

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LIRT Preconference Workshop: Web 2.0: Understanding social software and what it means for your patrons

Table of contents
1 Preconference outline

1.1 Overview
1.2 What is Web 2.0? Part 1: Technologies, basic definitions
1.3 What is Web 2.0: beyond the technologies?

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Preconference outline

to do

Resource page for small groups

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Overview

Overview of day, introductions

assessment - where is this group coming from?

(have everyone introduce themselves? save that for later as we move through the day? is there some fun web 2.0 way we could have them introduce themselves through out the day -- making wiki entries? blog entries? something with del.icio.us? Myspace? worth thinking about!).

  • Purpose of preconference
  • Basic understanding of what the "Web 2.0" concept is
  • Overview of technologies, how they work, why they are Web 2.0, what they "mean"...
  • Why you should care
  • How you can teach your patrons to use them effectively, etc.


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What is Web 2.0? Part 1: Technologies, basic definitions

[Create a chart? web 1.0 --> 2.0 chart. Or use the logos in a cool way? Or both?] Technologies

  • Encarta --> Wikipedia
  • homepage --> Blog
  • Mapquest --> Google Maps
  • LOEX Clearinghouse --> Library Instruction Wiki
  • Word --> Writely
  • Powells.com? --> Amazon


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What is Web 2.0: beyond the technologies?

This part is tentative on TWO levels! 1. These are qualities that, off the top of my head, we'd want people thinking about. You should add/change anything you want - the categories are also tentative. 2.How to present? Do we want them to try and generate this list themselves, with help, or do we want to present it? I think it would be a good presentation - and shouldn't take too long. But it's also an obvious place for a discussion/interaction

  • Web as platform It's on the web - that's where it lives. The info lives here and the stuff we add to it lives here?
  • Radical Openness It's cooperative, or at least it leaves that door open. It's standards-based. It's connected. Applications work togther, data can be combined. Hyperlinked.
  • Flattened hierarchy It's flexible, it's dynamic and a little bit messy. It is organized, but not hierarchically. Not controlled. The organization can change, it can be hard to see, entry points can be hard to identify.
  • User focused It's user-shaped - throw an idea out there
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