Adding supplemental info

In teaching basic lesson -- maybe add: Areas to explore

in that area add other things a beginner might want to know about - like

blogsite comparisons
having multiple blogs
things you can do with a blog
etc.

Lesson Two - Learn to blog

The learning 2.0 website wants us to set up a blog in blogspot -- see this blog and know that I did. I thought I would also add a second, personal blog and couldn't figure out how to do that in blogspot. I googled trying to find the answer and was overwhelmed with technical, confusing answers. Jill came over and we went through tabs in this blog, but were still unable to find the answer.

So, does this make me a social learner [in that there needs to be a person to speak with about any issues]?

Actually, the assignment was just to get an account and start blogging. That is relatively easy; it is only three steps.

Then I started going down rabbit holes, reading about blogging on wiki, exploring other blog services, e.g. multiply and wordpress. Wordpress actually is easy to add in additional blogs with the same account. Multiply allows you to designate your individual blogs on one account as to who you want to be able to read it.

Maybe for some curious rabbits, lessons need to have more information about common questions that arise after the very first questions -- i.e., the ones that ARE answered. I went to several places, blogs, posts, websites trying to figure out how to have multiple blogs. None of them were very easy to understand. Jill pointed me to wordpress and paging around in it I figured out how to do multiple blogsites under one account.

So next lesson is about flickr. Tune in.

Lesson One observations

Getting started with online learning was interesting. I find I have questions not answered by the lesson and a need to talk to someone about them. At first I had all this excitement about learning, so I shared it with my colleagues at work. That was helpful in that it made taking the class real. "I really am doing this." I kind of wandered around through 2.0 skills without going into any depth on any of them--just filling my curiosity about what they were exactly.

I realized almost immediately I was going to need to learn about digital cameras. The department has one, but I'd like to also post to personal blogs/websites, etc. That led to figuring out which one to get -- I've narrowed it to two.

Learning Web 2.0 Skills

This is week two's assignment: setting up a blog and learning how to use it. So far, so good. sbj